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[–] frank_exchange_of_views@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Kind of hard to see the scale, but the drive that this removable platter would go into, took the full width of a 19" rack.

It once held several megabytes, but now it's a decoration in my office.

[–] frank_exchange_of_views@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I recently made www.timedial.org, using mainly HTML 3.2. I tried HTML 2.0, but the lack of tables, fonts and even text alignment was a bit too much.

I had a few bitcoins back in the day, I remember trying to mine some, but I think someone just gave a bunch.

Either way, I long ago wiped the disks that they were on and I know for sure I would have sold them as soon as they would have been worth a nice pizza or similar anyway.

There is no way I would have believed it would ever become valuable, let alone this insane.

It's not great with a family, each with multiple devices. Years ago I used it with a central MySQL db, but it was a huge pain and frequently broke with updates.

As mentioned by others, Jellyfin is an amazing alternative and I've been using it for a few years already.

It was great to see that after all these years, and countless hours playing it, I still absolutely suck at it.

The opposite also happens to me frequently, I distinctly remember storing it somewhere really smart, so I wouldn't lose it. If only I could remember where...

Worst case of this was traveling solo and finding this really cool hidden pocket in my backpack that fit my passport exactly.

Two weeks later, I was certain I found a great place for it and nearly missed my plane looking for it.

[–] frank_exchange_of_views@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Which country doesn't charge VAT on services?

6ft8 here, with most of my height in my legs. I feel you, even large cars often have absurdly large dashboards and I still won't fit in them.

I've had to ask to swap my rental car several times already.

The subreddit this is posted in was "sinkpissers"

[–] frank_exchange_of_views@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wow, just looked it up, but it didn't quite hit me until I saw one of those things work.

More info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_tactical_vehicles_of_the_Provisional_IRA

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