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If one gallon is 3.785 liters, then one gallon is less than 4 liters. So, 4 liters should've been the answer.

The problem is the content being uploaded to these platforms serves a real and meaningful public, community purpose. Reddit has always been a knowledge base for a plethora of different subjects, YouTube has all sorts of content that has historical importance to the internet, as well as a trove of educational content that is unparalleled in size and quality.

I take issue with that, because it's not the company's content, it's just their platform. The content is vastly more important than the platform, but the companies act as if it's theirs. They do everything based off what the community has built on their platforms, it's their true essence and what actually attracts people.

In the specific case of YouTube, I'd say that content is irreplaceable and indispensable. While it's true that it is a privately owned platform and we don't have much of a say on its direction, I truly believe the content is so important that the only viable path forward to prevent its loss, is to take said platform off private hands. I don't believe it'll ever happen, but it is what should happen, as it's literally impossible to back up YouTube, just like it's currently impossible to compete with YouTube.

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Speak for yourself. I read your comment and it still didn't hit me until like 5 minutes later

I don't trust shipping internationally.

It's the only way I can get anything, and it can and will go badly, but it is what it is. Currently dealing with returning the wrong version of a pixel 8 pro via Amazon, all the way from Honduras. Amazon's outsourced CS from India doesn't help one bit, those guys don't read for shit. We have one advantage, though, there's some legal Grey area thingy going on in Honduras and we can import and pay simply based on weight or volume. Like $0.80 per pound if shipped via water. No import fees, even though we should be paying them (and last I checked, they're high). Gotta love third world countries, amirite?

SSDs are only 2 times more expensive [...] and that makes it worth it for me given all the advantages the offer.

Speaking as someone from Honduras, 2-3x the price for the same functionality, specifically if it's going to a NAS, doesn't cut it for me. HDDs are reliable and cheap enough that, if you have the physical space, they make the most sense, and if you need the extra speed, you throw a couple of SSDs in raid 1 for caching. Maybe if you're going for a smaller-sized NAS, and especially if you're going to do stuff like video editing off it, SSDs make sense. For my needs, which is mostly data hoarding/photo editing/content serving through plex or jellyfin, I want the most space and can accept gigabit speeds (although an SSD cache would alleviate speed constraints if I wanted more than gigabit speeds).

Of course, if you're not aiming to build or maintain a NAS, absolutely don't go for an HDD in 2023. That's probably the same advice I'd give anyone if they'd asked me in the past 5 to 8 years, though.

I don't understand why more people don't do this, but if you go to pcpartpicker.com, go to start a build, go to storage, and sort by price per gb, you'll get all the info you need. I've purchased Seagate Exos X20 20TB drives for under $350 us dollars this year. I buy off Amazon US and ship to my country, Honduras. I believe ebay has them at $319 or something.

For reference, that's around $0.016 usd/gb with some smaller drives going for as low as $0.011 usd/gb (you can get a 6tb Seagate enterprise drive for $64 us dollars), whereas the cheapest SSD you can get is still going to cost you at least twice to three times as much, at $0.037 usd/gb for the cheapest SSD on pcpartpicker, which is still a 2TB SSD for $75 us dollars (crucial p3 plus), amazing value for an SSD but still has a hard time competing with HDDs.

5 20tb HDDs in raid5, for about 1.2-1.5k

No doubt in my mind I'd kill myself.

Do you need both eyes for this? One of my eyes is almost useless and also lazy, the other one has... Something, I don't recall what, but it's all blurry from up close and hard to focus. Guessing astigmatism. I don't wear glasses.

There's also what another comment pointed out. It's not so much that most of us are stupid but that we're not really equipped for the internet as a species. We get bombarded with too much crap from all directions, get stuck on echo-chambers, and don't really fact-check, even when we do, because you can't just fact-check everything that's thrown at you 24/7. It's a lot easier to not care, or care too much without substantiating your beliefs.

For example, Covid wasn't the first time the anti-mask, anti-Vax, conspiracy theorist, all-around crazy movement popped out their head. It wasn't the first time money beat forethought. It wasn't the first for much of the negative shit we saw, and yet for me it marked the moment I lost hope for the future of our species, after all, how can we hope to deal with stuff as huge and hard to see as climate change if we can't even believe the existence of a virus that's actively killing us? Are they all stupid for not putting in some effort to prevent this virus from spreading and killing millions? Am I stupid for thinking they would? Am I stupid for losing hope due to listening to all these stories of people fighting masks and vaccines? How many people worldwide actually fought back and resisted? You see it in my own words, I'm sort of convinced the crazies got riled up, and for sure in some parts of the world they did, but the scope of the internet spreads all sentiments on the matter to every corner of our interconnectedness, before we're even aware it's happening. All of a sudden we're seeing conclusions from all sides without checking for how they all got where they did nor how many people actually believe it, we pick one side, maybe skim over another, and decry the rest as insane and sometimes even malevolent. These republicans sure want their voters dead or at the very least are too stupid to understand the dangers of the virus, this bill gates guy sure wants everyone microchipped or at the very least wants the medical world in his hands, these Chinese fellows for sure developed and released the virus or at the very least had it slip from their fingers. How am I supposed to know, or care, for all of it? How is any of us? Is it our personal responsibility to know and clear every fact we can? Spread awareness and fact-check everything? Just shut up and don't get involved? What the fuck do we do, what can we do? Do we fight dissenting voices online? Do we march on the streets over beliefs we might not fully grasp nor could we?

We're just a bit too overloaded with everything to make a good job as a species about anything. At least that's what I think, at least for the individuals that make up our species. Whatever you choose to believe, whatever actions you choose to take in response, someone somewhere will see you and think you're an absolute idiot.... And, I think, there's not much to do about it.

Wait, when did this happen? I've been subscribed for years now and all I've ever seen on his channel are laptop and phone reviews.

I might get flak for this, but isn't this the same idea behind hunting for the sake of conservation? Essentially, you just get a free pass and a karma pass to kill cause you paid an obscene amount of money for the right?

I'm gonna add a thing here about psychedelics being amazing and at the same time horrifying. Don't go looking for them thinking ego death will be anything less than death itself. Even though you come back, the you that goes in doesn't really come back out. There's also lower doses where the worst case scenario is still a bad trip and potentially months of ptsd.

Still the most positively life-changing experience you could ever have on earth IMO, but not necessarily a fun one, at least not always. Now go, meet the light entities.... Hopefully with a trip sitter.