A good reason to learn Finnish. Any downsides I should be aware of?

Well there's probably not enough memory to install Windows on those fans anyways...

Developing hardware also is not free. I still don't want to see ads for the latest cooling system.

Yeah, you still have full control of your local Plex install (for now). I don't mind it, but I would advise against it for new users. It is on the enshittification road

I'm ambivalent about the topic because the goal is for us to own our servers...

Most of the hardware I use is proprietary, but at the end of the day Intel can't come and rob me of the object I paid for. Sure it will become obsolete in 10 or 20 years, but I'm still the owner.

When it comes to software, I want to own it, not just a license. Most proprietary software comes with strings attached, which is why I don't think it fits the self-hosting philosophy.

If a proprietary software was "buy it once and own the binaries forever", I wouldn't mind seeing it discussed here. (Plex with lifetime licenses comes to mind.)

However, I don't want to see advertisement for a proprietary software the same way I don't want to see ads for some specific hardware components.

That's my opinion.

I had to pick a custom port number for a service at work, I usedport 42069. My boss never realized and it's still there.

I received my letters at my door for years, what do you mean It hasn't worked?

Ans balance your mind and your body's rest. Don't just rest the body, rest the mind as well. And if the body is too well rested compared to the mind, you'll have a hard time resting the mind.

Maps without New Zealand

Also: is still open after every other restaurant in town has closed for the night.

Salty water can dissolve and thus destroy a whole bunch of other chemicals... We're lucky we evolved in an environment full of it so much that we are adapted to it!

Today I witnessed a kid skiing through a totally-avoidable puddle of water for fun. My friend commented on how immature the kid was because he got all wet.

Just at that instant, a ski resort employee on a snowmobile went through the exact same (totally avoidable) puddle.

I confess that I would have done the exact same thing! Also, if i was a bird, i would totally slide down roofs for fun.

While there may be a part of it being "different gravity", dark matter cannot 100% be explained by modified gravity of any kind.

Why do we know this? Well there are observable galaxies that survived collisions and have been stripped of their dark matter, and the reverse is also true (galaxy-sized dark matter blobs without baryonic matter in it).

I can refer you to this wonderful PBS Spacetime video about it: https://youtu.be/5t0jaE--l0Y

nothing is real do what you want

That is a fallacious conclusion from this observation. Don't use this philosophy as an excuse to act like an asshole.

While everyone perceives reality slightly differently, apples do have a specific light absorption and reflection spectrum.

Our limited perception of it doesn't make it "not real". Same is true for other senses as well.

This was written by every megafauna we drove to extinction

Same here! The janitor is such a badass, he keeps the whole building ruining and is always around.

The CEO sens like a nice guy, but everytime he's around, it feels like he's just trying to get people to wave at him.

I once was reported by the high school programming class for "plagiarism" because I used visual studio's auto-generated template to start my homework.

The teacher reported it to my parents, he wanted to make me fail. I was also reported for creating a "hidden" chat app that I shared with my friends. (It didn't show in the taskbar.)

Next Christmas, they bought me a visual studio license at home!

We should simply allow European safety standards as equivalent to american ones, allowing every model approved i the EU to be sold in Canada without costly changes and re-certification.

If a car is good enough for German highways and Norwegian mountain roads, then they should be good enough for Canada.

My job is to increase the entropy of the universe faster.

I like that yellow bite marks logo, not sure why people keep asking about bats.