You can do almost everything with excel. Should you do almost everything with excel? Definitely not.

I gather that you’re not in Europe. Here they would have bee sent packing with their shitty hardware (in both cases).

Cowon made some amazing hardware at one point.

And they were helping others getting some exercise. A true saint.

There are tiny earbuds that one can wear where an AI can murmur sweet little nothings.

Especially for large sizes. Also speed isn’t really much of an issue on a domestic network.

I’m about to build a home server with a lot of storage (relatively, around 6 or 8 times 12 TB as a ballpark), and I didn’t even consider anything other than spinning drives so far.

Fourty minutes? Yeah, no. How about an equivalent text that can be parsed in five?

It’s not a real hard disk unless you can get it to walk across the server room anyway.

That’s a WORM medium though, so really purely for storage. Which is still extremely useful of course.

That’s good to know. I’m using digikam, but I’m always interested in options

We stealthed your keyboard thingy. No need to thank us.

Only criminals use VPNs. Well known fact.

That’s great when your photos have faces. Mine mostly don’t. Also they don’t come from my phone. So Google is also fairly useless.

My only currently active machine is a laptop named buttwarmer as per my cat’s suggestion.

It’s a WIMP system. They all work the same way. Worst case you have to click around a bit.

[…] in reality they just know how it works

In my experience, they know how a few utilities and how a handful of programs work, but have no idea how Windows works. Not that many people actually know how Windows works.
Roughly figuring out the boot sequence of Linux is relatively easy once you’ve used it for a year or two. What happens when Windows boots? Who knows? kernel32 probably is involved at some point.

Linux/Unix is actually relatively simple and logical once you’ve figured it out. Windows is a messy dark maze with grues waiting at every corner to eat you.

Install Linux on…

Never mind, carry on.

Braaains!

Maybe. I’m fine with my Linux machines though.