Thanks for the correction.

Regardless, an impartial third party does it, and that’s the key part in making you less likely to be scammed.

Yes it will.

When you sell your house “normally” through a real estate company it is the real-estate company who acts as an intermediary in the transaction. They collect money from the buyer, then pay you, and the transaction completes.

The real estate agent takes a cut for their services, but there is less potential for fraud than if the buyer sends you money direct. The real estate company has a vested interest in making sure the sale goes through properly, because they won’t get their cut otherwise.

And if you could afford private legal counsel you wouldn’t be considering selling to this kind of scummy service in the first place.

They know exactly who their “customers” are.

Boobs like PS1 Lara Croft

What kind of major project is this where you’re days behind and nobody has noticed or asked about it? That means either there’s a lot of trust in you, or it’s perhaps not as critical to other people as it seems to you. If it’s the latter, you might have a pleasant surprise and find there is more time on the table.

Regardless of all that, the only thing you can do is to be honest and let your boss know what’s up.

For future projects, even if you aren’t asked for updates I’d still suggest giving them honestly. Even if you’re behind - no in fact, especially if you are behind.

Admitting you’re behind might feel bad, but it’s also sharing responsibility. If your boss knows the project is behind then they also have to help do something about it, be that reprioritising or finding help or extending - and if they can’t do that then they’re also failing at being a competent boss.

There’s nowhere convenient. As you correctly identified, AI has pushed the price of drives through the roof.

Your only real chance is to find a one-off on auction sites from someone who hasn’t noticed what’s going on or what the current market is asking for drives.

You might still be able to find bargains in charity stuff or on Marketplace sites etc but these are unlikely to be sufficient capacity for NAS builds unless you get super lucky.

There isn’t a single right answer to that and I’m not going to suggest there is.

How any organisation operates, be that public or private, is down to the culture of the organisation, and culture comes from people, process, motivation, legislation, and a whole bunch of factors.

If an organisation has a clear mission, is held organisationally accountable in appropriate ways to that mission and makes people feel professionally enriched and valuable, it will attract competent people. And importantly, an organisation full of competent and principled individuals will attract other competent individuals.

On the flip side, if an organisation is subject to decades of mismanagement, has very poor oversight, doesn’t reward people for being good at their jobs and in fact rewards the wrong behaviours then exactly the opposite will happen. People who are competent at what they do will either leave or be crushed down, while those who know how to play the bootlicking game will be raised up, and this type of organisation again becomes self-perpetuating.

None of this happens overnight, in either direction. Failure can take years or decades, and so can the reverse.

In a sane world, by ability and competence

I love the passive-aggressive move of Ēostre intentionally getting Becky’s name wrong in return

One thing to try may be switching your CPU power profile from power saving to performance (or visa-versa) as this may have an effect on your CPU frequency and therefore the whine.

(I don’t know exactly what the power profile is called on openSUSE or how it’s managed so I offer it only as a general suggestion to try)

Cursed sword of smile absorbtion (but he keeps it because it has really good stats)

URGE

“Hey human wake up, something smells like ass in this house and I need you to fix it so I can get back to sleeping”

The mechanical failure category of crashes happen when the flying parts of a plane become less good at flying than they used to be.

Things like rudder hardovers, hydraulic failure, uncontrolled engine fire, engine detachment and similar are all things which can make the plane unflyable, and if flying isn’t possible anymore then all the previously useful fly-parts become huge and unpredictable liabilities that get in the way and make your problem worse - the forces that once kept you in the air now spiralling your plane out of control.

I’m not saying this crazy idea is a good one, but the theory is that you can just throw away all the problem parts and become a dumb capsule, which in that scenario would be desirable because it returns things to a predictable state.

Any complicated system with a long history is going to have quirks, be that a game or any other.

A change which appears simple at first glance like adding ‘unarmed’ as a basic category might end up introducing more complication than it solves, due to knock-on effects in other parts of the mechanics.

My thoughts:

“This seems wrong”

“Oh, maybe we’re going manga-style on this one”

“Nope that’s still wrong”

What we think of as normal and obvious is only that way through decades of experimentation.

If all you had to do in a game was move and nothing else, then it would seem desirable to choose four keys where you could use four fingers all at the same time. An arrow shape like WASD doesn’t do that because your middle finger does double duty for both up and down.

So, having decided on one fingrer for each direction it makes sense to use two hands. And using two hands it makes sense to spread the keys out so your hands can be apart on the board, not cramping each other.

It seems terrible in retrospect, but you can appreciate there must have been some logic behind the choice at the time.

Don’t give them any ideas.

Bro, don’t hit goats either

I’m not even going to beat around the bush, it’s straight up the opposite of an appropriate choice.

Made me absolutely confused reading the comic, to the extent I couldn’t understand what it was telling me until I forced my brain to override the meaning of that icon.

You can only intuitively use a battery bar to represent a good thing where the full state is desirable (mood, energy etc) not a bad thing where the full state isn’t.