Yes, but since it runs automatically every day and emails my team the results, I don’t have to remember to do it on my own. I don’t even have to be working that day. Taking “my ADHD memory” out of the system is always a win.

This is a long-term problem that will require a long-term solution.

Ahh, right. I’ve made the classic mistake of thinking my usage was normative.

Interesting. We don’t upload many pictures, either; though admittedly I hadn’t thought about it, and that probably doubles my total.

I’ll have to check my math again. But are people uploading more than that? On my friend server, with 50 people, we’ve had about a dozen uploads all year, and they’re all pretty small PDFs and images. Everything else is rich links.

“Storage management is expensive”

It’s really not, though.

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ETA: I stick by my premise and my conclusion (storage management isn’t expensive, and it’s probably a Nitro thing), but my math may be wrong and my usage is apparently not normative. The costs are probably not so negligible, but I would still assume they aren’t as low as they want us to think.

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Discord has 200,000,000 MAU. If every single one of them uploaded a file every month (of pretty much any size) and Discord tossed it into an AWS S3 IA bucket, it would cost them $500 to store that data. Their total S3 bill for storage would be five hundred US dollars. Storage is dirt cheap. AWS doesn’t even charge per gigabyte on that storage type, it’s so cheap; they charge for downloads.

So, ok. Let’s talk downloads. If each of those files were 25GB and downloaded twice (probably an underestimate, but not everyone is uploading files, so I’m going to make the completely unfounded assumption that it’ll all shake out), it would cost them a couple hundred thousand dollars. Which, ok, that’s much more significant than $500. But Discord made $575 million last year—so the S3 download costs would be 0.03% of their total revenue. They probably spend 2-3 times more on coffee.

Storage management is emphatically not expensive.

My guess? They just saw that the higher upload limit was eating into their Nitro subscriptions.

Do it, Donald.

Call Richard Bruce Cheney a RINO.

I need the laugh today.

You don’t need to add the layer of separation:

When you’re not able to denounce people who promote actual Nazis you’re way outside the realm of what’s acceptable.

If you promote a Nazi, you’re a Nazi. I call it the transitive property of Naziism.

Ok Donny, you got this. All you have to do is come up with the most natural and least bizarre reason that Vance (ugh!) isn’t weird. Just come up with it now and you can say it over and over again for the next two months no problem. Ok ok ok here comes the moment, what are you going to say?

“so straight…”

What happened? I wasn’t paying attention. Covfefe. Hamberder.

I think the bigger issue is that IP rights can be held by corporations at all. Yes, it should be shorter, but it should also only be able to be owned by individuals.

Copyright and patents, at least. I guess trademarks make sense to be owned by companies.

It’s one of Taylor Swift’s song titles.

“Well yes, but actually no”

Yeah, that’s pretty standard for the Y, but that’s the cost for everything–weights, track, courts, swimming pools, most classes, personal training, childcare. As opposed to Peloton, which is $50 for just the spinning class.

Most YMCA locations have cycle classes included with the membership.

Trying to be the change I want to see in the world.

Whoops, I just assumed that since I used the web version on Windows, that was the only version available for windows. I had never even checked. Thanks!

That’s a good point. I didn’t think about that.

That’s web, though. OP says they don’t want web.

I take it back.

Pretty sure it’s black on transparent. Not the most visible, especially if your client makes the background black.

I just installed Linux Mint on a 15-year-old desktop that has never been upgraded and was middle-of-the-road when I got it. It shipped with Windows 7, and I tried a couple of times to upgrade to 10 (it failed every time, either losing core hardware functionality, running so slowly as to be unusable, or just refusing to boot altogether). But it runs Linux like a dream. Seriously—it’s easily running the latest version of Mint better than it ran an 11-year-old service pack of Windows 7.

What’s even crazier is that I installed VirtualBox on it, and put Windows 10 on that, to use some work programs. And that runs Windows 10 a bit slowly, but otherwise more or less flawlessly!

That’s right: I’m having a better Windows experience in Linux than I’ve ever had on baremetal Windows on this box.

I can’t believe I didn’t do this…well, 15 years ago.