Using FTP (I assume you mean SFTP) will buy you some performance, as would other protocols that are faster and requiring less compute than SMB.

I predict whatever solution you use will only buy you time. Usage is bound to increase so you’ll still hit the performance limits for the hardware platform at some point, unless you can constrain the simultaneous connections. File sizes will impact scalability a lot as well.

You can’t guess this one. You need to test.

tl;dr - I suspect you can’t win.

This was always what he intended. Get people to quit instead of paying redundancy when he has to reduce the work force. Classic stuff done by many big orgs over the years. Make the place shit to work at and people quit for you.

You know, there was a much shorter range version of this that was predominantly used in offices and college computer rooms. It was called FrisbeeNet.

Damn it. Beat me to it. I’ll be first ext time.

Ok so I just watched that with the audio off cos I’m in a waiting room. I was confused by the commentary. The words sort of fit, then I realised the subs were song lyrics. Arguably made it even more fun to watch.

Just from an environmental standpoint anything that reduces the expansion of AI farms is desirable.

Giving LLMs a free pass on abusing copyright and fair use rules is such a double standard. YouTubers who use a snippet of music get the earnings from their video stolen by rights trolls.

For me, the dream is every AI result coming with a citation list showing what sources were used.

Essentially we just did a copy / paste. There have been some tweaks but nothing huge so far.

Power is only part of it. Concrete production is a huge greenhouse gas source.

Congratulations. Tell you what, I’ll send you pictures next time I use a bidet.

I don’t think it is less effective. I tthink it is more efficient but isn’t perfect.

Your tight pants

I have. A bunch of times. They are in most of the hotel rooms I stay in.

Would you only use water or would you also wipe it, use soap as well?

Thanks. That’s a reasonable review. I hate that people claim bidets to be magic.

Only if you have a solid one. If your poo is sticky it leaves a smear and even high pressure water won’t shift, and that’s when you need a wipe.

There are people who always have super solid movements that don’t leave a trail. Many of us have a variety of textures that smear as they exit. A bidet removes the majority of it but never all, and wiping reveals what is left behind.

You still have to wipe though, right? Using just water to clean it off your arm would still leave a stain. You have to make contact to rub away what remains somehow.

I’ve used a few bidets and while it was fun and they did an ok job there was no soap involved and I still had to wipe. I don’t hate them, they make some sense, but a bidet is not magic.

My 3 kids all use iPhone and we have a bunch of chrome casts. The only practical way to avoid the ads in YTP.

I’m at the point of looking to pay for a good usenet service. I’ll definitely probably start looking next week.