Or Biden is showing his age and needs to let someone else take the helm. Being left doesn’t mean yes-manning everything the party does.

It’s good they are continuing to stamp down on corruption. It is what you want to see.

Note how we are talking about how large of douchebags the activists are and just how much they damaged a cultural heritage site.

Fuck these people.

Ah, crap, that I do. I should look at a map whenever I talk about them. It’s stored in my head in this fashion:

• Russia’s buddy is in the west and gets disputed land taken by guy in the east.
• Both countries start with ‘A’ and are near Turkey.

The fun part is Russia leads the CSTO, which is the same type of organization as NATO. However, three members have left it, including Azerbaijan Armenia just this year as Russia failed to hold up their commitment when Article 4 (equivalent to NATO’s Article 5) was called when Armenia Azerbaijan took land Russia considered Azerbaijan’s Armenia’s in late 2022.

Edit: Flipped the names. They are now correct.

Americans wave to the Russians

indoor AC or two

Yeah, these also work pretty well, OP. Just make sure you get the ones with two hoses, not just one for exhaust. The single hose ones create a vacuum in your house that sucks in outside air making them significantly less efficient.

Install a mini-split upstairs, it will keep that zone the correct temperature using it’s own thermometer. It can be downsized a bit as the main HVAC unit will help it out using your existing ducting.

For exact design, I would say have one per bedroom or a multi-zone mini-split that can cover each bedroom.

Many (most?) mini-splits are DIY friendly as well, if you want to save a bunch of money and install it yourself.

Russia continues their nuke threats, Putin just in the last day made another. It is only natural others respond.

Pentium D processors are pretty power hungry, so factor that into your thoughts. Also make sure you put a modern OS on it that is getting security updates. It probably has Win XP or Vista installed which isn’t safe to connect to any network.

It should work fine as a router as long as you don’t enable any of the packet inspection features. For basic routing and firewalling for a home network it should be plenty powerful. I would personally put a small SATA SSD in it as the main drive and ditch the 90GB HDD.

As an additional idea, if you put a larger SATA drive or two into it you could make it a NAS.

This was Russia’s final warning. This time they will use the nukes!

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China’s_final_warning

At that point Russia is using foreign weapons in a country they invaded. Therefore there is absolutely no reason left Ukraine should be banned from using foreign weapons against the country invading them.

There should never have been such a ban preventing Ukraine from defending themselves. Even if you believe it made sense, at the latest it should have been lifted the day we confirmed Russia was using Iranian weapons in Ukraine.

Russia’s 254th red line.

Not that I’m aware of. However they are in ‘any month now’ status. I’m expecting to hear about them arriving after they preformed a few strikes.

Quite happy we continue to destroy the Houthis and the Houthi’s ability to attack global shipping.

Though, I find it quite funny the latest Houthi victim was a boat transporting food to their benefactor.

The factory will soon turn out about 30,000 steel shells every month for the 155-millimeter howitzers

Love it. Ukraine needs the artillery shells, and that is one place the US and Europe are vastly short on production.

Good. The time to stop is when Russia leaves Ukraine.

I have not personally experienced a dropout with a SMR drive. That is from the reporting I saw when WD was shipping out SMR drives in their Red (NAS) lineup and people were having all kinds of issues with them. According to the article (below), it sounds like ZFS has the worst time with them. WD also lost a class action suit over marketing these as NAS drives, while failing to disclose they were SMR drives (which don’t work well in a NAS).

We want to be very clear: we agree with Seagate’s Greg Belloni, who stated on the company’s behalf that they “do not recommend SMR for NAS applications.” At absolute best, SMR disks underperform significantly in comparison to CMR disks; at their worst, they can fall flat on their face so badly that they may be mistakenly detected as failed hardware. Source

As you are looking for bulk data storage, the drive’s speed isn’t of too much concern. A 5400RPM drive is plenty.

If you are looking to put this drive into an array with other drives, make sure you get a CMR drive as SMR drives can drop out of arrays due to controllers finding them unresponsive. If a drive does not list it is CMR, it’s best to assume it isn’t. Seagate has a handy CMR chart, for example.

Additionally, if there are multiple spinning drives in the same enclosure, getting drives with vibration resistance is a good bonus. Most drives listed for NAS use will have this extra vibration resistance.