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It's weird that this post called it by the short name. The full name, as you typically see in articles, is "X (formerly Twitter)".

It's kinda like "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince". A few places tried to call him "The Artist", but no one ever knew what that meant.

Not sure where you live, but any big city is likely to have (as a whole) more than enough hotel capacity that a single big event won't cause that much demand. You just won't be able to find a room nearby. Add a 20 minute (or 60, depending) Lyft to the suburbs and they're barely aware that the event is happening.

Also, to get that price you need to look at extended stay hotels. These blur the lines between a hotel and a short-term rental apartment. They do not offer a stay for a single night. They are often sold by the week, or at least with a 1-week minimum

Drywall isn't load bearing, though. Heavy also implies that it's stable, although that really depends on if it's top-heavy or bottom-heavy.

IOW, if my dresser is going to tip over, drywall anchors are not going to be doing much to stop it. Same for the couch, and the bed goes without saying.

How do you define gouging? Last I checked, even with these high ticket prices, most of her shows are sold out. How does that differ from basic supply and demand?

That's not so unreasonable. An extended stay hotel near me is $539/week, and that was just the first result. That leaves $120 for food, or $17/day. While it won't be living the high life, it can be done.

Given that many tell you how easy it is to cancel when it's not, those are scams.

To prove the charges. There have been enough cases of "she looks too young to be 18" where they were, in fact, 18. This database (which I thought was actually run by the FBI, but whatever) let's them show that the images were of Jane Roe, born May 5 1996, and the images/material were produced between 2008-2010.

IOW, to provide proof beyond a reasonable doubt that they were underage.

What do you mean by "last"? I know it's a common term, but when you dig deeper, you'll see why it doesn't really make sense. For this discussion, I'm assuming you mean "How long until I need to buy a newer model?"

First, consider the reasons you might have for buying a newer model. The first is hardware failure. Second is obsolescence - the device cannot keep up with newer needs, such as speed, capacity, or interface. The third is insecurity/unsupported from the vendor.

The last one is easy enough to check from a vendor's product lifecycle page. I'll assume this isn't what you're concerned about. Up next is obsolescence. Obviously it meets your needs today, but only you can predict your future needs. Maybe it's fine for a single 1080p* stream today, and that's all you use it for. It will continue to serve that purpose forever. But if your household grows and suddenly you need 3x 4k streams, it might not keep up. Or maybe you'll only need that single 1080p stream for the next 20 years. Maybe you'll hit drive capacity limits, or maybe you won't. We can't answer any of that for you.

That leaves hardware failure. But electronics don't wear out (mechanical drives do, to an extent, but you asked about the NAS). They don't really have an expected life span in the same way as a car battery or an appliance. Instead, they have a failure rate. XX% fail in a given time frame. Even if we assume a bathtub curve (which is a very bold assumption), the point where failures climb is going to be very unclear. The odds are actually very good that it will keep working well beyond that.

Also of note, very few electronics fail before they are obsolete.

*Technically it's about bitrate, but let's just ignore that detail for simplicity. We'll assume that 4k uses 4x as much space as 1080p

TL;DR: It could fail at any moment from the day it was manufactured, or it could outlast all of us. Prepare for that scenario with a decent backup strategy, but don't actually replace it until needed.

That the market buying internal drives is generally willing to pay more for the product vs the people buying an external drive? Because cost of the parts (AKA Bill of Materials, or BOM) is only a small part of what determines the price on the shelf.

The fact the WD has a whole thing about refusing to honor the warranty (likely in violation of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act) should tell you what you really need to know.

I think you're being down voted because IP and encryption serve very different purposes in different ways. Look into the OSI model, which is the standard for modern network connectivity. IP lives at layer 3, network. TCP lives at layer 4. Encryption, such as SSL, lives at layer 6. I'm not even really sure how the IP layer would even have security, short of a VPN, which itself breaks the mesh network model.

Also, the Internet and many of its standard protocols were created a very long time ago. TCP/IP was created in 1974. The "Internet" at that point was acoustic couplers and directly dialing your destination, typically a university or major research company.

I agree that all websites should be HTTPS these days. It's why Google has been pushing it (and punishing those that don't) since 2017. But it's built on ancient designs.

Please stop using Express. Snowden (yes, that one) called out why a while back. It's pretty wild.

Mullvad is definitely the favorite among those that I would expect to have experience. Honorable mentions to Proton and IVPN. There's a big difference in ethics among providers. Given the entire point of a VPN (as a proxy to the external Internet), this is a critical point that can't be ignored. Otherwise you're just trading Comcast's spying for Kape's spying.

I recently switched to AirVPN, since it's one of the few to still support port forwarding.

TL;DR: It's about the warez "scene", specifically about music pre-releases. A decent read, but one you may have seen before.