Asked my GF who’s an aspiring crazy cat lady:

It’s because (proper) cat food is engineered to contain all the nutrients they need. While it looks like a bland mush of only one thing, it’s more like the cat equivalent of having several full nutricious meals run through a blender. The required variety is built in.

My knee-jerk reaction would be “if you’re happy”, but I had an epiphany a while back:
I was chitchatting with a coworker over way too many beers and he asked me something along the lines of “were you happy growing up (insert background here)”, and after weighing my words I responded that “I would’ve been, except I’m generally not near happy as a baseline”.

So am I satisfied with my life? Yes.
Do I have worries? Yes, like anyone else on this planet. Mine are pretty minor and not debilitating.
Do I consider myself happy now? See above.

But yet, I’d conclude that I’m living a good life, even if I’m generally a grumpy guy.

You might want to edit that post title, lest you attract “yes”-replies from people who don’t bother reading the post body.

Yes. With a screwdriver.

Without cheating improvising? Nope.

I’m in a couple of community-specific mod chats on matrix. Also, the matrix room for NonCredibleDefense is fairly active.

I’ve been meaning to set up a matrix chat for CasualConversation, I just haven’t gotten around to it yet.

I travel a lot, so I have a bunch of stuff downloaded onto my laptop. And a lot of that stuff I have mirrored onto my phone. And on top of that I have additional stuff loaded onto a tiny USB C drive that I can plug into both for when I want to store stuff for later loading onto my phone.

I often find myself watching an ep on my phone in an airport lounge, and doing the next ep on my laptop on the plane.

Generally, I’m not that picky in terms of screen size, I usually go for the biggest screen conveniently available. And my laptop has the additional benefit of allowing me to use my Roland headset.

EDIT: Splelign is hrad.

Considering how the US is doing these days, I don’t entirely disagree with you.

Glay - Kanojo

I have no idea where I first got that song, but I’ve had it as an mp3 for at least 20 years at this point.

I’ll probably regret asking this but… cumbox?

Makes sense. I have a full set of torx, hex, Philips and flathead keyrings with me, because whatever server rack I have been summoned to molest - You can bet that it’s a random mix of head types.

I happen to have a handheld maritime emergency radio around, mostly because I got my hands on it for free* a few years back. It could serve the same function, provided someone else is using the same frequencies. I live in a coastal environment, so there’s always someone around that are legally required to listen on Ch16.

*: I used to work with maritime electronics, and one day we had a recall order from one of our suppliers. Turned out one batch of this one particular handheld radio had a potential minor problem with the squelch, so they were no longer IMO approved for emergency use. We were to throw them away and a refund would be issued. I took one home and just paid for a battery and charger. It’s now sitting in my kitchen.

I might as well go first:

Scalpels!

They have a myriad of uses. And since they’re sterile, they can be used for cooking. I use them for slicing the skin on pork bellys for that nicely diced crackling - It’s almost like they were made for cutting skin, or something. Besides that, they’re excellent for cleaning up 3d prints. Just remember that they’re supposed to be single use. While your 3d print doesn’t care, your food definitely does care about how much you use the same one.

I always make sure I have a 10 pack in my kitchen.

I tried, but I gave up. I find that mobile screens (at least the ones I’ve used) are the wrong dimensions for books. Either the linebreaks are way off, or I have to use zoom levels that are cumbersome.

Plus sometimes I like to jump back and forth, and that’s much faster and easier when you can use physical bookmarks.

I find that good Ole books are the superior format. The only thing missing is the ability to ctrl+f

If you’re going for software RAID, I recommend taking it a step further and go for ZFS: If set up correctly you get all the advantages of raid6, while remaining very flexible.

Reducing everything to a single left-right axis is a very americanized view. This is a result of what is effectively a two-party system that somehow ended up being considered left and right, and all their political standpoints are then placed on the same axis.

Sunny side up, if you combine it with something (bacon, bread, shrooms, kaviar, for example).

Hard boiled id you’re eating the eggs with nothing else.

Used/refurb SAS drives aren’t that expensive. Can someone with better memory than I please link to that site for second hand server components?

The reason why SAS drives are usually more expensive isn’t because the tech itself is more expensive (It’s largelt just a different kind of interface), but rather that “enterprise grade” hardware have a few additional Q&A steps, such as running a break-in cycle at the factory to weed out defective units.

While a server such as the one you described is slightly power hungry, it’s not that bad. Plus, if you wanna get into servers long term, it could serve as a useful way to get used to the hardware involved.
Server hardware is at its core not that different from consumer hardware, but it does often come with some nice and useful additions, such as:

• Botswana drive bays (I tried to write “hotswap”, but autocorrect is probably correct.
• IPMI/iDRAC or equivalent for headless management
• Dual PSUs
• Rack mount capability
• Easy maintenance access to most hardware
• A ridiculous amount of sensors with automated warnings.

RAID is entirely optional. I seem to be the only one in here who actually like hardware RAID, as software RAID is more popular in the self hosting community. Using it is entirely optional and depends on your use case, though. If you wanna live without, use JBOD mode, and access each drive normally. Alternatively, pool as many disks as you want into RAID6 and you have one large storage device with built-in redundancy. RAIDs can either be managed from the BIOS, or from the OS using tools such as storcli.