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Yea that was silly.

I spent some time there for work in different places and seasons.

Fall/Winter on the gulf coast is freakin beautiful. You can go running then.

I've played a fair amount of golf in different seasons, even summer isn't too bad if you're by the coast to get the coastal breeze. But fuck running that time of year, haha.

Dang, even has Princess Ardala in it (forget the actress' name). She's awesome in some other comedic roles from the era, and later (80's).

Freak-a-you, freak-a-me, Freakazoid!

Sports, go sports!

Haven't thought of that in a long time.

Pihole.

I thought all browsers on iOS were just wrappers for the same engine (webkit?), so they really can't do much there.

And there will be another currency after that.

Again, I'm not spending my time bartering the chickens my boss gave me for some crabs, for some iron, for some gas, just to trade that with the person that has the thing I need, because thats what they wanted.

If you come up with any argument about "well my simplifies that by making the trades for you", then you've just re-engineered currency.

Currency isn't the issue, it's money lenders (you know, the table Jesus supposedly threw over at the synagogue), because it's the generation of debt to make profit at the expense of others, while not contributing anything tangible, that's the problem according to the parable.

You could still have debtors in a barter system, and that would still be problematic. It would still be debtors preying on people with little to start with, like payday loan places. "We'll loan you 2 chickens today, but you'll owe us 3 on pay day". See, no difference.

Now if you want to make a local barter system just because, that's different. But acting like you're going to replace currency is naive, at best. Currency has been with mankind for thousands of years, because it simplifies trading.

Using money is just a simplification of barter. I don't have time to play barter with 12 people to get the 1 thing I need. Instead I trade dollars/coins/gold/whatever mutually agreed upon token of value.

Also, my boss doesn't pay me in chickens that I can't use

The argument against money is just silly.

Hubcap? That's a wire wheel baby!

It's Florida - OP was sweating like this in the first meter

I'm using the same, Dell OptiPlex SFF.

Has an M2 for the OS, put a full size 8TB drive in for data. I run multiple VMs in VMware on Windows (yep, I know, not the best approach).

It has 32GB of RAM, and it does fine simultaneously converting video and streaming it via Jellyfin. My data is locally replicated to two other systems: a NAS that's too slow to actually host anything, and a low power machine just for replication.

What I would do differently: run Linux and use KVM of some sort.

Currently it idles at about 15w, peaks at 80w when converting. It's practically silent at idle.

Paid next to nothing for the box (~$50), most costs are in the ram and drive upgrade.

And why I use UBlock origin to block most stuff by default. Yea, some sites don't work initially, just tells me this site sucks