Did this idiot believe Elon’s remark that it can function as a boat for short periods?

They bought the bamboozle. They’re in too deep and they can admit they were wrong. So they just double down.

Supply Side Jesus would. And let’s be honest that’s the Jesus they pretend to follow.

And even heavier than regular CRTs.

Ha, mines an old Dell too. Not running Scale on mine though.

My NAS is a 10+ year old Dell XPS I had laying unused. ~16TB of storage in RAIDZ1 and I still have SATA ports free. Like you said though my limiting factor is space for 3.5HDD.

And the weakest link in most chains, the people.

Is that better model “exposure”?

I used Dvorak for a couple months but every time I sat down I had to force myself not to revert to muscle memory. Also, at the time at least, I had to remap they keys in every game I played so they were spread all around the keyboard. Just wasn’t with it.

I’m debating precious metals or possible even Bitcoin since that’ll probably get pumped by the admin announcing the government buying it. Problem is they might try and sell off gold to do it which would probably drive down the price of that.

But I’m sure there won’t be any insider trading of those before it happens /s

Tell me about it. I just purchased 2 Dell R740s I had been mulling over. Figure tariffs are going to jack their price so better pull the trigger now.

I sold some bonds 3 days ago. I just don’t trust this administration won’t default on something in the next 6 months. Or do something else to drop out AAA rating.

Yeah, how about we wait till we are back to pre panic before you start taking “victory” laps.

I’m pretty sure the fabs making the chips for datacenter cards could be making more consumer grade cards but those are less profitable. And since fabs aren’t infinite the price of datacenter cards is still going to affect consumer ones.

It’s not that either.

Ringing endorsement of Starlink. Can’t wait till the FFA relies on it.

I have no confirmation but I’ve heard phone banks are being set up reach out to removed voters.

Just to give an idea of how you don’t need really expensive stuff to get into the hobby this is an early shot I did of M42 (Orion Nebula). Nikon D3200 200mm f5.6 ISO1600. It’s a set of 200 images (light frames) stacked using Deep Sky Stacker with 30 bias, 60 dark, and 0 flat frames. This was shot in my bark yard, from a cheap aluminum tripod with no tracker and a lot of sodium street lights in the area so the seeing conditions were fairly poor. https://i.imgur.com/OboEruo.jpeg

Huge recommendation for taking notes. Especial of any camera settings that don’t get captured in metadata. And if you not a data hoarder and don’t keep all your frames after processing then notes on how may you took of each, etc. Weather / seeing conditions. That way you can go back and see what works and what doesn’t work for you.

Also a good rule of thumb you can always subtract data and make your shots darker as long as they’re not blown out, but you can’t recover lost data if your shots are too dark. So take photos that are as bright as you can without blowing them out and without having a ton of noise from super high ISO. Stacker software helps with the noise but it’s still something that’ll probably require trial and error.

Oddly the nuclear reactor has more in common with a steam locomotive than a diesel since they both generate power via steam.

*edit: just looked at the Messier catalog and some of them probably are going to be hard to resolve without at least a small telescope. But there are a lot of options that should be fine at 300mm.