Exactly.

He’s a serial offender and the crimes he is most recently convicted for were so egregious and extensive they had to be partitioned into 34 charges.

Plural.

Behind bars and fingers crossed, without any way to use social media for the entire duration.

This is going to change so much for so many people, avoid lots of headaches too.

Over here, online and automated tax returns have been a thing for over a decade.

You can opt to get it on paper or online, but they supply you with a pre-filled return most people can usually directly file without a single alteration. And you don’t even have to actually file the pre-filled return if it’s complete, just ignore it and it is automatically regarded as filed.

And if you have anything to add, on the website it’s as simple as hitting some checkboxes for the appropriate tax codes (which all have extensive explanations and automated inclusion/exclusion rules so that if you check a specific box that also requires you to add other information, it won’t file without adding the other information) and adding the numbers (if there’s any specific numbers attached) and hit recalculate.

Even my tech illiterate and phobic dad can work with it.

Solar also doesn’t do heat well.

Looks like this one except that it is sealed on one end and the caddies for the two drives have a cover plate that screws in over a gasket and rubber ring.

I got it in a shop in Hong Kong when I was there for a convention earlier this year. No idea if you can find it online, maybe somewhere like Alibaba.

I have a dual NVMe USB3 caddy that’s smaller than most 2.5 HDD housings with currently 2 2TB drives, you can buy 4 and 8TB nvme drives these days too. I can throw that thing out a car and it won’t care.

And the drives are easily swappable and so are the electronics in the casing.

So no, 2.5" HDD’s still are an utterly dead end of technology.

Especially with these and some other vendors, the USB interface is part of the drive (there’s no SATA port on them), so you can’t swap them or take them out for data recovery. They are HDD tech, which doesn’t do shocks or any other sort of roughhousing, they are slow as shit and use far more power than any NVMe drive.

Because you flex and replug the interface often.

The thing you use to plug your phone, tablet, drives and other things with is very often the failure point unless you break screens or get water in them.

Normally you simply have a HDD drive with a SATA interface in there, so if the USB connector fails, you can still easily recover your data.

With these things, you’re lucky if they even offer the possibility of repairing or recovering the drive.

The more they push to train AI on our shitpostings on social networks, the more I’m certain we’re fucking doomed if their AI ever reaches consciousness.

Is closing to be replaced by something more gaudy.

He feels like falling to his death from a fifth floor window while having tea in his countryside garden.

I haven’t bought an EA game since they pulled the “here’s the core alien to this whole epic saga, you can get it as paid day-1 DLC” with Mass Effect,

I suggest ya’ll do the same.

Thing is, looking at some games, Horizon and Elden Ring being a prime examples, we can have both great games with great graphics.

You don’t really want better games with worse graphics, you want better games that don’t use great graphics as an excuse to bad gameplay.

Those astronaunts that are supposed to go up with a Boeing launch must be having severe anxiety by now.

I see this womans face all over right now, all commenting on her book and shit she said.

Ya’ll know that posting this shit and responding to it beyond calling out the blatant attention whoring through deliberately inflammatory and controversial statements is just giving them what they want, right?

The threat needs to be there and real, otherwise Putin and Russia will never stop.

THAT is the insanity.

We’ve tried the economic approach, we’ve tried talking, we’ve tried not doing more than sending weapons to Ukraine.

It clearly doesn’t work and Putin will just keep repeating what he has been doing until there’s actual repercussions to what he’s doing.

That’s why, although I’m in no way a fan of Macron, I love that he has put the idea out of at the very least starting to put boots on the ground.

At the end of that war, we can not permit it to be in the form of Ukraine losing even an inch of landmass. Because then in 5-10 years, Putin will just do the same thing again, maybe not in Ukraine, but elsewhere.

The only way to stop Putins madness is by making every thing he does cost him dearly.

So they seem to be the good kind of insular. Live and Let Live.

My work often takes me to the Antwerp diamond quarter (especially the vault buildings) and the sentiment I see there is that your general Jewish person facepalms every time they hear Israel is in the news again and they aren’t happy this makes life more difficult for them by simple association. Most of these people just want to live their lives and have no association, fealty or favor for the country of Israel, beyond the area it resides in hosting holy sites.

Dunno about the traditionally dressed Hasidic Jews in Antwerp though, I’ve been in and around the Diamond Quarter for 25 years now and I don’t think I’ve ever even got as much as a hello or acknowledgement of existence from any of them walking down the street. They seem to be a rather insular bunch.

You have people like this saying actual antisemitic shit over and over and over again and they are elected to office.

And then it’s people that want the country of Israel, to at least pretend to try to not kill scores of civilians and they get called antisemitic.