“Video rentals” is a common term in English for the act of renting video, or even as a noun phrase, so you’ve got it, we know what you mean.
I’ve never heard it as a term for the building, though I imagine there were a few businesses so named.
A sharp knife helps, but there’s only so much you can do.
My smeller isn’t that sensitive.
One thing not mentioned: California has 4 grow seasons a year, instead of 1 (or 2 at most) in other regions.
So starting in the early 20th century they started taking advantage of this.
Over time this made it hard to compete with California growers for many things - there was a continual grow and distribution cycle. At one time the East Coast had orchards of peaches, pears, and apples everywhere.
Then add political motivations.
He’s to the right of the fence post, second photo is from farther along the street, changing the angle. Note the lack of a gap from post to garbage cans in the second shot.
He would be hidden because of that angle change.
I like the shot you chose of your dog for the last image, his head tilted like he’s confused, hahaha.
Yea, the Broadcom crap really sucks. I feel bad for businesses being held ransom by them.
Hyper-V just isn’t an option for small businesses, unfortunately (it’s really designed for Enterprise where internal expertise is the norm).
I can ignore their nonsense for my home setup., fortunately.
Have you tried XCP-NG or Proxmox?
More popular than what? What metric are you using?
Also, comedy isn’t science.
A coffee shop is still going to have a regular espresso machine running all the time.
Why the fuck would I want a room-temp espresso?
Generally a consumer router only needs 2 interfaces - local and external.
Most consuner devices are a combination router, switch, and access point - the switch requires the multiple ports.
I don’t think laptops are much of a concern - virtually every laptop on the planet spends 90% of it’s time plugged in.
All of mine have since the mid-90’s (back then that really shortened NiCd life).
Since they’ve gone lithium I’ve had probably 20 laptops (with multiple running since 2019 as hosts) and seen one spicy pillow - and that was on a year old machine.
My newest machines have charge limit on by default in the hardware. I assume they all do these days as it would reduce support/warranty calls.
Good to keep an eye on them because it can happen to any battery, I just don’t think it’s a huge concern.
I pay far less for my used Pixels than a new phone - I refuse to buy new when a 2 year old phone is $150
Apparently there are stupid questions
Oh, I’m sorry. Lol.
Hyper-V is just so bad. Decided to run it for a while as a test, I couldn’t get back to ESXi fast enough, haha. And I come from the Enterprise world where Hyper-V is common.
My ESXi box draws 20 watts at idle with 3 Windows VMs and 3 Linux VMs.
Guess which of those VMs draws the most power (hint: it’s not Windows).
Power draw depends on more than the base OS, what it does matters so much more. Which is why my one Linux VM draws the most power - it gets used for some intense tasks with ffmpeg.
Interestingly, I’ve found little power draw difference using ffmpeg on Windows or Linux. Both will max CPU while converting and take a similar amount of time.
Don’t worry, they’ll just build elsewhere that wants the tax basis.
I’ve rented a movie for $2.99, knowing it was an ephemeral purchase. I look at it like going to the movies but for a lot less.
If I were to “buy” a season, it would be so I could rip the stream and save it.
I do have a couple subscriptions through Amazon, as distasteful as it is. But I’m also building my own video collection and get my own copies of stuff as much as I can.
My local libraries have an astounding array of fairly new stuff and classics, in addition to good media from The Great Courses, and books on CD. So I check them out and rip them, converting video to much smaller MKV files since what’s on DVD isn’t high resolution anyway.
I also download stuff from YouTube that I find interesting (Technology Connections, Animagrafs) and financially support those creators.