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Yes, however in this case, actual objective reality seems to support the idea that there is no evidence for a Biden impeachment instead of the made up alternate reality those conservatives were living in.

Yeah, I went a little more overkill. I got a rack for free, and I have a Dell CS24 (that's probably due to upgrade just for power savings at this point) that connects to a Rackable 3016. This runs unRAID, so I end up with the same thing roughly you have - JBOD with parity that I can bring any disk to, and 16 bays to fill before I have to start cycling drives out. So I check disk prices, when something tickles my fancy, I buy a new disk and shove it in there and it just keeps growing. If I had to do it today, I'd probably do it a bit differently just because the drive density, but it's been going strong for 7-8 years now.

Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.

Well, at least he's right about the ego thing. He's going to get traded for a handful of batteries within the first week lol.

12tb is literally $100 right now new. also my fellow hoarders, save a bookmark to that site it's great.

If you want to hit eBay and buy used disks, you can probably build something with redundancy and 20tb+ for around $300. If you've got a machine laying around and don't plan on downloading everything on every service, you can grab 16tb used for $100, use one drive for parity, and the spend $50 when you run out of space for another 8tb.

It is, and IIRC you don't even "own" a movie even if you physically have it. You own the physical disc, not the content on it. Granted, it's a lot harder for Sony or Discovery to come kick down your door and take your copy of Ice Road Truckers so you have to rebuy it...

I already did this one elsewhere. $150k is a decent middle class life barely in lower cost of living areas. Probably shouldn't be paycheck to paycheck, but it wouldn't hard to be either.

I think a lot of people who grew up in the 90s and early 00s working class kind of saw $100k/year something to aspire to

Oh absolutely. Looking at median home prices by state and even then choosing a lowball estimate for a mortgage ($275k, 0 down) at today's rates (7-8%) you're looking at nearly a $3k/mo house payment. So, like 30-40% of your income. This doesn't include taxes/insurance, so that $3k is probably $3500 being again extremely generous, so that's just about half of your income. And that's for a house with no heat, water, electric...

I have a family of 6-8, and make just over this amount between our incomes, and it's tricky. Absolutely wouldn't be possible for us if we hadn't bought our home 6-8 years ago.

I don't disagree, but $150k is just not that much money any more for a household. My wife and I make probably around $110 or so. I got lucky and bought a house 6-8 years ago (I'd never be able to afford interest rates or what that house appraises at now) we have a couple of <$20k used cars with good rates, and a household of 6-8 depending on which of my kid's friends basically live with us this week.

if I were buying my house today, we'd need to make much closer to the 150 just to maintain our current middle class lifestyle, and trust me, it's not like we're eating steak every night (or probably even every month.) I mean, sure, there are things we can do to make that money go further, and we will likely have to do as my kids get older/more expensive.

I have seriously thought about buying a second air fryer because there are quite a few things that it's completely better for, the problem I run into is trying to do larger meals (5+ people.) You either have to do batches which means more time actually engaged in cooking, or you have to break some things into the oven, and some into the air fryer.

Also got a Ninja one, but we got the thing with dual baskets so you can optionally cook two foods at different temps. Really makes getting those tendies and fries much easier.

I mean, Kissinger can have a layover on his way to hell to get his ass beat by Bourdain. This sounds like heaven to me.

oh, absolutely. I've never really lived in a proper city (bigger towns, maybe) so it's still possible now, but the culture has def moved on. I mean, I see the occasional kids on bikes, but when I was a kid (80's - 90's) pretty much every kid had a bike and this was just the default.