You have to get people hooked on your product, though.

If they and every other AI company just evaporated no one would really be bothered.

You can’t capitalize a market that doesn’t really exist.

As others have said, running out of motherboard SATA slots doesn’t mean you need a new machine to support expansion.

You can get m2 adapter slots for more SATA drives.

If you think you’ll be building a NAS in the future, and are cheap like I am, you might consider getting a pci-e expansion card for SAS rather than SATA drives. They’re backwards compatibile with SATA drives, but open you up to being able to use SAS drives which are common in enterprise data centers. You can get used lots of those drives on eBay WAY cheaper per TB when the data centers hour them out.

I’ve got a machine with 16 SAS drives running the unRaid OS, and I’m very happy with it for data hoarding and media serving. The drives (with shipping) cost $5/TB.

Well ooh la we dah

Anyone using 3 syllables may as well be the queen of England.

Grow-shree

A lot of our interns and fresh-from-school say S.Q.L. but everyone else is calling it sequel. Usually after a few years even the youth start calling it sequel, in my experience.

Url and at-at are solidly initialisms. SQL has a solid enough argument for being an acronym that I’ll accept either.

Garage.

GraJ

Catch shit for it all the time, but at this point I think it’s more like a harmless Easter egg.

My grandma rolls the R in “Three”, and it’s become a game to get her to say it. She handles it with great humor.

I’m cool to have my own version of that.

The internet has always been a grand stage, though. We’re like 40 years into this reality at this point.

I think people who came-of-age during Facebook missed that memo, though. It was standard, even explicitly recommended to never use your real name or post identifying information on the internet. Facebook kinda beat that out of people under the guise of “only people you know can access your content, so it’s ok”. People were trained into complacency, but that doesn’t mean the nature of the beast had ever changed.

People maybe deluded themselves that posting on the internet was closer to walking their dog in their neighbourhood than it was to broadcasting live in front of international film crews, but they were (and always have been) dead wrong.