I’ve had two QNAP NAS fail on me, never again. The first failed shortly after the 3-year warranty expired and was MSRP $600. The second failed right before warranty expiration with MSRP $1200 thinking a better unit would be less prone to fail, but alas.

Thankfully I was able to RMA to get my data back (proprietary RAID), and while waiting on RMA to return, built a custom TrueNAS server I can service all parts on myself for around the same cost of a new NAS. Sold the RMA unit on eBay to recoup some cost as well. All I ever ran on those units was Plex and Samba\NFS file shares. Never again.

Wondering the same myself. I assume Bachelor’s but we all know assuming makes an ASS of U and ME

As a parent with kids who are starting to dip their roles into the digital age, I would also say this is mainly a parenting issue, but the economic “squeeze” is the other part.

There are so many tools available to manage the content your kids consume - ad blockers, family accounts with monitoring and management, ect. I may be biased as I’m in the IT profession, but if you live in this digital age and claim ignorance on anything technology related then it’s no wonder we are on the state we are in.

Many of the responsibilities the US government agencies used to take on themselves have been eroded to be handled by the individual, coupled with a subscription society for the or day to day appliances and tools we use. After working a full time job M-F, and if I don’t have after hours tasks to handle I get maybe 1 hour worth of family before it’s time to pack it up for the night. Weekends are typically house work or chores. I consider myself fortunate to have that much. Squeeze in management of my kids content intake and that’s just more time taken away from everything else on the list.

I’ll do it though because I’ll be damned if my kids grow up like these kids are now.

Unfortunately, the dudes probably dead already. Happened to that American student years ago in South Korea too. He was on a trip and got sentenced to a slave camp for “defacing a poster” if I recall, and as the family was fighting for his release, oops he’s in a body bag now. At least they sent his body back for the family.

About as well as Jan. 6th. I can’t believe the country just forgot about that too.

So you’re telling me Harvard may be home base for a modern day revolution when it comes. Noted!

I like the way you think sir.

FOR NOW… My wife had to have them every year from 21-23, then every three years until she was 29. Then 5 years which she’s approaching now. If you have a medical history of needing them, you will likely need them again at some point.

Less known band, but I head banged hard to Accept in my teen years for a short spell. Balls to the Wall was their big single but I remember liking most their stuff short a short time.

I have also been “the first human” as my wife puts it my entire life. Never had an animal act aggressive towards me and they typically gravitate to me during public events without even showing them attention.

If you think steam deck is walled garden, I have news for you!

It felt really bad during the third party showcase for games like Elden Ring and Hogwarts that have been available on the steam deck since launch.

I just bought a refurbished steam deck last year for less than the price of the Switch 2 and will have a hard time justifying the purchase. I do love Nintendo though and typically buy a good chunk of their first party games. The new 3D DK looks amazing and I loved the BotW Warriors title, so I have high hopes for the new as well.

Proton is amazing though. I got Lego LotR working on my steam deck by installing some DirectX 9 dependency to fix a graphical glitch with the game. Runs like a dream.