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  • Considering your application of the rules, I really dont think thats what you want. Unless you want me to go ahead and restore posts that (like other users per this thread) seem relevant enough to be here.

    Quite a response to “here’s a way this could work better for everyone”, too.

    But if its what you want, sure, I’ll do it.

    Edit: to be clear, I’d like you to confirm this is really what you want.


  • @[email protected] Just to add, I would say working to the detriment of the community through the deletions.

    Locking would make more sense, along with redirecting to specific communities that you feel would be more relevant.

    As I see it, I think people post here for what could be considered tangential because it is more popular than similar communities. I think this very post shows that the users have been perfectly fine with the posts being made, and are bothered by the information (effectively) disappearing with deletions.

    If the mod team does not want those sort of posts here, of course thats fine. But it is kind of shitty to delete them, especially with so much interaction already there. I’d encourage locking them and redirecting through a mod comment instead. If you can’t think of a more appropriate community for them, its likely they can’t either, which is why they posted here in the first place.

    Just my 2¢.







  • I’ll knock it.

    It continues the process. You got a pittance, and used it to extend a subscription to a company that will continue to mistreat both its employees and you as a customer, and are considering it money well spent.

    As a result, from their perspective:

    • Its profitable because its only an issue if they get caught and successfully sued
    • Its profitable because the payout doesnt change, the more people involved the less each person gets.
    • its profitable because you’re probably still buying the same things, giving the money they “paid out” right back, and then more on top
    • in the 6 years they held onto that money, they absolutely used it to further profit, making the “cost” of the suit effectively nothing for them.

    Its not a good system, its one that reinforces the same practices.





  • I was actually pointing out she’s pretty old compared to other Disney princesses, I think you may be mixing me and someone else’s comment. I’m just pointing out her age from what we know.

    As far as the birthday bit, it was discussed in a making of and in interviews, specifically there was one with Linda Woolverton who got brought in for a complete rewrite after it was initially presented in the late 80s. She also wrote for The Lion King and Mulan, and the screenplay for Maleficent. She specifically was responsible for the love of books by Belle, actually as part of a direct response to Ariel being… Well, kind of dull as a character.

    Regardless of 17 or early 20s, provincial life would have had her - from a societal perspective - looking for suitors beginning around 17. She was considered an adult, and that was the reason for the birthday scene/reference (which got tossed). Given she had been saying no to everyone and there were whispers, that also leans toward her being juuust past that acceptable age, which would have been over 19.

    So as I said, anywhere from 17 to early 20s but not a hard definition in the movie.


  • Just to mention, early drafts had her just passing her 17th birthday at the start of the movie. By the time production came around, there were no references to her age, and both the voice actor and animator have said they based off early 20s. In part because of her clear emotional intelligence, which isnt really teen level.

    I’d say the lowest she could be considered at the start of the film would be 17, but I’d agree on early 20s personally.

    My sister is younger than me by a decent margin and was prime age for the late 80s/early 90s world of Disney. I watched a lot of Disney with her.





  • Pretty much anything I do is Debian, ive said it quite a bit before so this may be a repeat of previous comments, but…

    Its solid, stable, easy to deploy with incredible flexibility and just about everything out there supports it. I do have a few boxes with arch, and they are also just fine - I wouldn’t use it as a server, personally, but its perfectly good for a “very current” approach to desktops/laptops.



  • Not without changing the charge controller as others mentioned, you’ll basically be diy’ing a whole new ups.

    Which you can do, and this is a great example (from a few years ago):

    https://static.xtremeownage.com/blog/2021/portable-24kwh-power-supply--ups/

    You’ve also got options like Eaton for lithium-ion UPSs, keep in mind that they are generally better than APC or CyberPower units and will cost more. As far as your batteries go today, thats (my opinion) the likely reason for the short life - you should get 5 years out of them unless your power is really unreliable. The charge controllers in the small UPSs from APC IMO aren’t great.

    I’ve got all lead-acid, but most of my UPSs ive done some degree of work on (just used the casing and swapped the guts, full diy, and a better rack-mount unit I made my own external battery pack for), and they all have gotten 5 years or better so far (about 12ish years in at this point).