Yeah, when I said that’s still my best plan, that’s what I was referring to. Currently in the wait and see phase. I really would like to play on launch, but I might be able to wait a month…

I don’t need a raw video older than a day after the video is finished. I also don’t need TBs of legally acquired content. I also don’t need TBs of archived YouTube videos. I don’t really need a NAS. I don’t need a phone. We don’t really need any of this tech stuff actually.

To answer your question more seriously, they’re nice to have sometimes, instead of having to re-edit finished videos to make a compilation or something. I’m also hoping that maybe I’ll see some success some day and be able to hire a more skilled editor (or even just me from the future with improved skills) to turn old media into feature-length films or just better versions of what I released. I dunno. It’s data hoarding, but when I do want it, it’s super nice to have.

I’ve also seen multiple professional creators talk about regretting not keeping the original footage from their old videos, so I’m not making that mistake. It’s just nice to have it if you ever do want it, and I have the skills to archive it myself on the cheap, as compared to paying something like BackBlaze $7/TB/mo.

Just checked and my average video this year is currently at 400GB, so that’s $4*2 for redundancy, so $8 per week aka $35/mo. If it were in BackBlaze, my subscription fee would go up by $12 per month forever, and it’d currently be at $630/mo, with zero redundancy. When I frame it like that, I’d be a fool not to do it!

That’s exactly my plan haha, and yeah, it sucks. Thanks Comcast.

Yeah, I have 40Mbps uploads at my house, that’s the best I can get. I create anywhere from 100GB to 3TB of footage per week. On the high end, it’d take an entire week to sync, sucking up all of my upload bandwidth for that time, meaning I wouldn’t even be able to upload the videos I create to YouTube/PeerTube in a reasonable amount of time. When I get faster upload speeds I’ll definitely have to build a remote NAS for closer to real time backups.

Yeah, I’ve considered doing that, but most of my media is static and doesn’t change and, with my upload speeds, would take literal days to sync. So I just have a set of HDDs that I keep across the state. I’ll loose some if everything fails, but at least I’ll have most of it.

Teaching someone that cheating is a way to get a pass vs a fail isn’t helping anyone, in my opinion, but it could be situational.

Interesting insight of course. I can’t imagine being a teacher right now, having to keep up with these things. You’re basically forced to become a techie in some ways, when before, many teachers really had no reason or need to learn tech stuff. I guess they had other cheating methods to keep up with, but man, these cheating tools are just evolving so fast these days.

Are you living in or willing to move to Spokane, WA? I will say, I might be bias, but it is nice here.

Ahh, that makes a bit more sense I suppose. Innocent until proved guilty and whatnot. I feel like I’d still want to bring them in to confront them about it, to let them know that they didn’t really get away with it. Also, obviously, I’d be banning smart glasses from tests.

It isn’t really an issue of morality imo, it’s a teacher’s job to give grades that reflect the student’s skill level.

The disk isn’t completely useless. It’s a physical license key that is transferable and resellable. I was fully planning to purchase a used console to play GTA 6 with a physical disk, then sell both when it came out on PC. That’s still my best plan I guess.

Unfortunately Amazon has me locked into their ecosystem with their 5% cash back credit card. After I buy a house, I intend to cancel Prime and cancel the credit card, as I’ll be able to weather that hit to my credit score.

Fuck, I hate credit cards.

Honestly, if they were open source and only talked to my own servers, or were completely local, I’d love an instant replay feature eg. Your cat does something cute, you can clip it, like in a video game, and save that video. Of course, this would munch through battery, so I don’t see it happening any time soon, and I don’t really care to have a camera on my face otherwise.

All that said, the hud functionality is definitely what I’m most interested in. There is the worry of basically having your phone on your face all the time, but there are many times when I want to be using my phone, but it’d be more convenient if I didn’t have to hold it. Eg. Watching a video podcast while doing chores. Reading books in the glasses while laying in a hammock sounds awesome, if it doesn’t cause eye strain.

I’m not a teacher, but I dunno if that’s the right response to someone cheating. It is going to be his problem in the future, but as a teacher, isn’t it her job to teach the kid that that’s not OK? Sorta depends on the age, I suppose, but I’d definitely give the kid a 0% instead of a C.

I create videos, and back up all of my raw footage. I make weekly videos, and the size ranges from 50GB up to 500GB or more. I have 105TB available, 90TB used at the moment. I also have a fully redundant set of another 105TB. My employer has unfortunately made it very easy to justify hoarding, as they’ll sell me reputable used commercial drives for $10/TB.

The video archives are 53TB

TubeArchivist is 19TB

Legally acquired movies and TV is 10TB

Immich is 2TB

Those are the main users of data. A bunch of other folders are using anywhere from a gig to 500GB, but those are basically rounding errors.

500MB of 5G is crazy, I use double or quadruple that in a day. Great way to be forced to use your phone less I guess. One of my favorite features of recent mobile plans is truly unlimited data with deprioritization once you hit a certain limit, as I’m almost never in a location where I get deprioritized.

I don’t understand how you don’t feel a kinship with the land. If you mean that it’s fucked up how America came to “own” it then yeah, that’s fucked up, but the land didn’t do that, fucked up people did. I love the beautiful land of America so much and that’s honestly the biggest/only thing I’m proud to be American for right now, and I spend as much time enjoying it as I can.

My work sells commercial tier drives that were used by customers in NVRs for $10/TB. It’s honestly a great perk of the job for a data hoarder like myself with a fully redundant 100TB of stuff (aka 200TB of drives). I also got a dope 16 bay server chassis with slides and a few other components from them. I fully intend to drop like 2 grand on HDDs if/when I move to a new company, assuming they don’t fire me for AI or something first.

I’m kinda surprised they don’t just sell it at cost. We knew they couldn’t subsidize the price with game sales, as anyone could buy this and install a different OS without ever buying a single steam game, but I kinda figured they’d bank on most people not doing that, hence selling at cost.

Maybe it’s just ~$71 margin for component costs to inflate further without the need for them to change the price.

Ahh yes the standard volumetric measurement of dollars.