I just sort by Artist and Album.

“If it gets out what gets into the sausage we make, we’ll get into a place we won’t get out anymore.”

Remember the time when railroaders went on strike because they wanted to be treated like pigs?

Because pigs were treated better than railroaders. Pigs were valuable freight and deserved a long rest after being on a train for 12 hours. No similar regulation existed for the people who ran a train…

No more wars were needed after humans were extinct…

Is any Chrome based browser left that supports proper ad blocking, anyway?

Firefox might not be as good as it was, but at least it makes the internet usable with the right addons.

That math problem did not scale well…

Of course they know. Do you think that was an accident? Whoever did that knew those things and did it on purpose.

In the US? You never know…

WTF is “Packet Protection”? Insurance? Extra padding? Or “Without it we just slap an address sticker on the original packaging”?

Apart from being rather sparse helpings, are you sure there are actually cooks on the galley? Because any halfway decent cook can still produce decent meals even from substandard produce.

I once had issues with the internet not moving. Our phone and internet is from one provider, and we told them we were moving. Their slogan was basically that they would move everything in one go.

The day came, telephone worked, DSL worked after a call, and everything was fine… until my wife called me at work a few months(!) later that the internet did not work. The usual things did not fix it, so we called the provider.

They told us that we had no DSL at the new location, and as they needed a free DSLAM, they simply unplugged us. Our DSL was still “located” at our old address in their files! So I asked when they will give us our DSL back. They told us they can’t. We should just cancel our old connection, and order a new one at our current location. They would add more capacity in a few months(!) and we could get our internet back then.

Luckily, our company used the same provider with a big contract, so I complained to my sales contact on their side. She promised me to fix things. Two hours later, my wife got a call from the provider: we would get our DSL back at the next opportunity, I.e. the next morning. And we got it back.

Best so far was a Supermarket in Berlin last year. They had Christmas stuff in store in the first half of July.

They had a good reason, though. The stuff had been ordered for photo-shootings for ads and catalogues. Instead of throwing the leftovers away, they simply sold them.

One place to look at are web sites dealing with company bankruptcies. They are good for purchasing electronics and tools.

Back when windows and office licenses were bound to a sticker with a key number, I bought a stack of broken laptops for 10€. They were leftovers from an auction - nobody wanted them. I removed and tested RAM and harddisks, and then cut out the bottom of those laptops where the license stickers were. I sold each set of licenses, Windows and Office, for 10€ each, making a good profit. And kept the RAM and HDs that worked for my own use.

A bit pricy for home use with 8-10k bucks…

If you have a RPi, install Mozillla Firefox, and Ublock. The only way to watch YT without going nuts.

The “faucet” was water literally streaming in through the broken window during a thunderstorm. One of my coworkers went outside and shielded the window with a wooden board to reduce the flow.

Not selfhosting, but I remember standing in a server room with a hands’ width of water on the ground (and rising), and hastily shutting down servers where the water was already in the case. It were big towers (Compaq Proliant, if anyone remembers), and luckily the board, drives, and PSU were in the top part of the big tower cases, the drive bays at the bottom were empty.

We got all equipment out safely, and we did not get electrocuted, either. We left with the last equipment when the water level was approaching the knees.

If the amount of [something] per serving size is below 0.5g, they can legally claim that the food is [something]-free.

At least with fat, protein, or sugar. Although the food industry would probably lobby for this to apply to lead or cadmium, too. Or any other chemical used in UHP foods.

I don’t use spray, but those that use it normally do four or five sprays. Or sometimes even more.

Like Europe uses?