Ross, if our lives ever go sideways and you find yourself needing a roommate, I think we would get along just fine.

Half my visits to Wikipedia are because I need to copy and paste a Unicode character and that’s always the highest search result with a page I can easily copy and paste the exact character from.

They have (had?) a fairly generous free tier that works well for people starting out.

I ended up buying a license after evaluation because the UI provides everything I reasonably want to do, it’s fundamentally a Linux server so I can change things I need, and it requires virtually zero fucking around to get started and keep running.

I guess the short answer is: it ticks a lot of boxes.

If you need some historical context, look up the recording industry anti-piracy panic that began when cassette recorders came onto the consumer market (early 80s?). Similarly the VHS panic when video could suddenly be recorded.

I haven’t kept any sources, but I recall a few studies over the years that showed the industry concerns were comically overblown and didn’t impact their bottom lines.

Well, I can’t remember exactly where but I know it’s in there somewhere.

These fucking guys. They think their tip should be worth the effort they put in, and I’m looking at my ice cold order that looks like it’s been banging around in a clothes dryer for an hour. I appreciate the effort but, fuck, I wouldn’t have ordered anything if I knew it was going to be this way.

White cables also transmit slower in the dark. As soon as the cabinet is closed the data is going to slow way down with only the dim glow of the LEDs of the equipment acting to accelerate packets.

And at 2:15am it became depressed and would only shitpost from that point on.