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It would seem that the sweet spot for HDDs is as high as 16 to 24 TB at the moment (at least here in the Netherlands).
You can get a 24TB Seagate Barracuda for €479,- right now, which comes out to about €20 / TB.

If you specifically want a NAS drive though the best “bang for the buck” appears to be a 28TB Seagate IronWolf Pro for €688,- coming out to about €25 / TB.

Edit: Personally I run 8TB drives in my server, which are currently €209,- (€26 / TB) for a regular Seagate Barracuda, and €289 (€36 / TB) for a Seagate IronWolf Pro. Funnily enough 4TB drives would actually be better for NAS drives at €132,90 (€33 / TB) for a WD Red Plus.

There is no real clarification what that budget is, so I will assume that the budget is tight.
My advise is assuming that you are looking for the best bang for the buck.

The case looks like a good option, assuming that those are 3.5 inch bays.
It should give you plenty of space for expansion in the future if you want to do that

RAM prices are pretty nuts right now, so I would definitely not go balls to the wall with 128 GB of RAM.
16 GB of RAM should be more than plenty for a NAS server. Maybe you can even get away with 8GB?
I’m using 16 GB of DDR3 RAM in my own NAS server (which is also running Jellyfin and Nextcloud) and it’s running fine.

Speaking of DDR3… Have you considered buying your CPU, motherboard and RAM second hand?
From what I hear the prices of DDR3 RAM are not nearly as elevated as those of DDR4 and DDR5 RAM, and DDR3 is plenty sufficient for a simple NAS.

Be sure not to skimp on the power supply. Most consumer power supplies are not built for running a NAS worth’s of HDDs.
I’m running a Corsair RM550x in my server, which is capable of supplying 130W on the 5V rail.

Good luck with your server build!

The military wants the best equipment, and currently in terms of specs that is the F-35.

That comes with a dependence on the United States, which at the time of purchasing these jets was not considered to be a particular concern because America is a good ally and a part of NATO.

Following Trump’s re-election and antics over Greenland, that calculation is now different. It might not be worth it to buy new F-35s at this point (though Germany seems to be considering it still), but the Dutch army has pre-existing F-35s which we should be able to use even if America doesn’t want us to for whatever reason.

At this point for the purchase of new jets we really should be looking at the new Eurofighter though, imo

It’s not an explicit law. But if the majority of people follow the rule implicitely it still works quite well.

Here in the Netherlands walking flows in long corridors also usually tend to sort themselves to right-hand walking. It’s more efficient than walking against the flow of traffic.

It is not disabled yet, but they will be resticting age gated channels by the end of the month to anyone who hasn’t provided them with a copy of their ID

Worth noting that Discord had a pretty bad data leak a few months back, where it turned out the ID verification company they hired was not deleting the IDs after they were checked

Edit: I’m not completely against the idea of age checks for adult content, but it needs to be implemented in a transpatent manner, and the verification should be non-traceable.

The EU appears to be working on a pretty solid solution as part of their digital wallet.
But that is not what Discord is using.

Edit 2: Added some relevant links

Streaming is progress in terms of convenience, but the trade-off is a lower image quality and forgoing ownership of the media you buy/consume.

These days I buy Blurays and rip them to my Jellyfin server. Worth it for me, but I would hardly call that process convenient.

I think that is incorrect. They discontinued the model X and model S, meaning they are only going to focus on the model 3 and model Y (which are their better selling models)

Probably best to make a report, that way they see it.

Clearly there is places where pump theft is not that common or tackled in some other way, because there are countries where post-pay is still the default.

I do know that at some post-pay pumps the cashier has the ability to lock and unlock the pumps from inside

Unmanned stations have existed for quite some time here, they are just not the only way to fuel up.
Manned stations are still very common, if not the default, and if a station is manned it is usually not prepaid.

In the Netherlands it’s a mix of both these days.

During the daytime you pump, and then walk inside to pay afterwards. At night, when the building itself is closed, you pay using the terminal and only then are you allowed to start fueling up

There is also unmanned stations without a shop. They are pre-paid all day by default.

If you can’t have sex with the sex-machine making machine, what even is the point?

There is a difference between human-scale and humanoid.

Human-scale just means the robot needs to fit in a space where humans should also fit, while humanoid means it is supposed to resemble a humans not just in size, but also in shape. A humanoid robot would generally have a torso, two arms, two legs, and probably a head.

As an example, a roomba fits in a human environment but is not humanoid. You could hypothetically make a humanoid robot that is capable of using an ordinary vacuum to vacuum the same space, but it would be significantly more complex and more expensive to do that. A purpose-built roomba is a much more cost-effective solution for cleaning up after humans.

Given that it’s a humanoid robot, I suspect that this is more of a marketing stunt than any practical deployment of robots.

Humanoid robots don’t make a ton of sense in manufacturing. Why mimic the sub-optimal anatomy of a human when you can make your robotic work slave have any appendage you want, which are designed to be optinal for their task along the assembly line?

Humanoid robots mostly only make sense in spaces that need to be designed for humans (like homes or hospitals) where the robot needs to regularly interact with human infrastructure.

Hypothetically the police could come with a warrant and force you to hand over the footage you recorded. It’s a higher barrier than if footage is being uploaded to the cloud, but it can still happen.

And even if the cameras are not uploading their footage to the cloud, it still wouldn’t sit well with me if every other house has a camera pointed at the public street

Where I live it is technically illegal to record the public street with an automated camera, but it’s not really being enforced. So there is Ring cameras everywhere.

Would you think other countries are just idiots that don’t know burning garbage to generate power is better than just burying them?

Yes, and garbage incineration to generate power or other forms of energy is a thing that happens in many countries

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Waste-incineration-capacities-by-EU-MS-Medarac-et-al-2014_fig37_304917594

The green dots represent electricity-generation plants, and the red dots represent plants that are used to generate both electricity and (presumably district) heating. Figure is from a paper from 2014, which I found after a quick Google.

The greenhouse emissions problem depends on where that garbage would otherwise end up, and what would happen with it.

If the garbage would otherwise be recycled fully then incineration would seem like a worse option. But if the garbage would otherwise end up in a landfill, it leads to decomposition and methane production. Methane is one of the worst greenhouse gasses out there, so incineration might be preferable to just leaving it be.

I’m no expert whatsoever, so take my comment with a grain of salt… I may be misinformed

With that line of reasoning there is nothing the Chinese state can do that would ever get your approval.
My comment was also not in reference to China burning garbage, but your blanket statement that burning garbage isn’t eco.

I’m no fan of the CCP, but I prefer to at least engage with the point rather than automatically dismissing anything they do as bad.

From my understanding it can be done relatively cleanly with filtration, and its much better for the environment than letting it sit on a landfill generating methane

(Not an expert, so I might be incorrect)