I think you’re missing some key points.

1. Any file hosting service, no matter what, will have to deal with CSAM as long as people are able to upload to it. No matter what. This is an inescapable fact of hosting and the internet in general.

2. Because CSAM is so ubiquitous and constant, one can only do so much to moderate any services, whether they’re a large corporation are someone with a server in their closet. All of the larger platforms like ‘meta’, google, etc., mostly outsource that moderation to workers in developing countries so they don’t have to also provide mental health counselling, but that’s another story.

3. The reason they own their own hardware is because the hosting services can and will disable your account and take down your servers if there’s even a whiff of CSAM. Since it’s a constant threat, it’s better to own your own hardware and host everything from your closet so you don’t have to eat the downtime and wait for some poor bastard in Nigeria to look through your logs and reinstate your account (not sure how that works exactly though).

Iain M. Banks too. ;-; Hydrogen Sonata was so good, and I remember seeing if there was another one in the works but turned out, no. Never will be…

The worst that can happen is the felt falls apart where there are signs of mould and the hat is now two useless pieces or maybe there’s just a bunch of tears above the sweat. The main concern is not the type of hat, but how old it is and mostly how much damage the mould has done.

I imagine (as in I’m not sure) that if you try to do it yourself you might tear it around the area where it looks like some dirt has soaked in and provided a foothold for mould to grow from. I suspect that area is very fragile rn.

Personally, given it’s age, I would ask for advice from a museum on the best ways to clean and care for it and ask them if it’s possible for it to be reshaped to fit you.

Fight not, here, rest your head on my lap pillow. UwU

Unfortunately, the current capitalist system in place for most of the world is incompatible with most people to varying degrees. This leads to people not sleeping as much as they should, which makes people stupid and behave like dicks.

Maybe insects, but donuts is a better description for most mammals.

Land Crab? Sure, why not.

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My jansport backpack is probably almost a decade old by now. Same with some of the t-shirts I have but they can get kind of smelly if I sweat too much.

Same. I’d like to find a replacement for the left foot (or at least the left big toe) but I can’t find any, anywhere.

Defos! It something that really takes YEARS of almost daily practise to get good at. I mostly do it for fun, or if I want cup or something… or if someone I know wants a cup (or something). I can’t hold a candle to people like the lady in the link, or probably anyone that uploads videos of themselves doing pottery lol. So far I can maybe get a good cup or two every 8 hours where-as professionals can make hundreds in the same amount of time. The skill gap is INSANE.

It’s good to know your limits, but IMHO there are virtually no limits to creativity. I took a few pottery courses in uni and the teacher knew a lot of us didn’t really think of ourselves as “creative types” (many enrolled in it as an elective), so she always told is to “fake it till you make it”. I think it’s really awesome that you pretended to make air-dry sculptures, and I think you should keep pretending! It doesn’t matter what they look like, it’s something you made and you should be proud of it (screw anyone who tells you to give up).

I use all the plastic bags I get from the grocery store (fruit & vegg, bread, etc.) to keep my pottery projects from drying out too fast. This is especially important when pieces have really thin parts. They would crack if I just let them to dry without something to cover them.

A) Assimilate with the local people and probably be fine. Eventually use my wide, but mostly shallow knowledge on many subjects to start a scientific revolution and try to repel the Spanish-colonial shithead christo-fascists.

B) Assimilate with the local people and probably be fine. With the help of my smartphone and multi-tool; use my wide, but mostly shallow knowledge on many subjects to start a scientific revolution that will hopefully help repel the Spanish-colonial shithead christo-fascists.

C) Assimilate with the local people and probably be fine. With the help of my smartphone, multi-tool, and various technology examples of the common era, start a scientific revolution that will likely help repel the Spanish-colonial shithead christo-fascists.

In any of these scenarios, I would try to warn people about the Spanish-colonial shithead christo-fascists that are coming to fuck their shit.

HERETIC!

IMO it really depends on if you can upgrade your CPU as well. I have a 12 year old dell precision that maybe (probably not?) could handle a newer CPU (32gb of ram), but there is no way that I know of to upgrade the CPU to a current generation; thus, it is stuck with a CPU that’s too weak even for a 1070Ti.

Look here to find upgrades that will let you get the most out of that old motherboard. IDK if it will be much though. I upgraded the CPU on mine in hopes that ~8% gain in performance would do much… it didn’t.

Here’s a good resource as well. They focus on used systems it seems and helped me find the strongest (yet still shitty) CPU that I could get for my ancient motherboard.

Not reading a book until ~2am. I’m fine today, but I’mma be tired tomorrow when I find myself staring at the ceiling until 2am tonight.

Knowing I won’t feel like shit for the rest of the day.

I thought pocket was okay for finding stuff to read while pooping, but I turned it off when I started getting horoscope and astrology articles in my science feed.