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I don’t know if I have an answer on Chinese tourists beyond I think most East Asian tour groups following the person with the flag is kind of funny.

That said, China and Chinese people are wonderful. Many of the cultural standards are just different but even more may be more civilized than the west. For example, putting family before all else, a love for cleanliness, home and person hygiene, shared meals, always willing to pay for your friends, taking care of those who take care of you (guanxi), etc.

Thank you so much for sharing this! One I have never learned this before and never understand the eastern front. Two, many Americans still view manifest destiny as a positive American culture. This really sheds light on how it’s not.

$200 bucks is definitely worth trying to find the owner. That could be someone’s week of grocery money

I’d say 50-100 or less don’t even try.

What sort of media?

https://serverpartdeals.com/ Is frequently recommended as reliable and with a good warranty. When I first started I got my from a local electronics recycler with only a 30 day warranty. I was only caring about price. Now I’m just using bigger used ones. My only warranty is them being cheap to free and backing up data multiple places.

I agree it’s a bigger step. I currently only have one at my office and it took me forever to get around to setting it up.

I mean just plug them in to your computer or server then move your data. If it was me I would rsync-avz source destination the data :)

An Optiplex only has one maybe two bays. But the low power and cost are worth it!

I think it really doesn’t matter what hardware you have as long as it won’t randomly break.

Maybe I’ll give my specific example. I have a QNAP 1u server that was given to me so I decided to use it as a cold backup. I turn it on once a week and then ssh into my main servers and rsync important data into their respective locations on the QNAP.

If I was making a new system I would make a fedora server 41 usb, install that to a new system using the gui, restart it and ssh in to setup my folder structure, then rsync ally stuff there and be done :) Would probably take less than 30-60 minutes to setup

I originally got my used drives from an electronic recycling company. They were selling them around 3-5$ per TB.

Then I got a ton of my sysadmin family member.

That’s about what I pay too :)

Seems you got more out of the horrible link than me :) It is bad.

Having been to many a Chinese Internet cafe 网吧 in China and Japan, they have all run windows. I think steam keeps getting blocked or something by the gov as well. You’re right that piracy is very commonplace in China too. I bet it’s a decrease on steam use not windows.

Still, what a weird way to say less Chinese users. Also simplified Chinese is a written language, why don’t they just say mainland Chinese?

Don’t forget this one https://www.recipeninja.ai/recipe/r_8BgaWXawuyhycB/cum-sandwich/show

Dissociative identity disorder for the confused or OP reading this from outside the body that typed it

I very much think so

China, Taiwan, and just EA Chinese people in general are beyond nice. This past trip made me see how straight forward and warm hearted they really are and such strong family values.