Always wanted to be a pilot - like my dad. But lacked the hand-eye coord needed.
Fortunately in 1973 with all the pilots returning from SEA, USAF decided they needed engineers more than pilots.
On track to get an MSEE, I got an educational delay, and after my MSEE was assigned as a research engineer on a teeny tiny project called NAVSTAR GPS. As a critically important feature of my military career I managed to stay one step ahead of the assignment folks (for all 26 years) and was selected for a USAF medical school scholarship program in the FIRST year of its existance (Ref HPSP). Had I NOT been selected for this, I would have been transfered as a most eligible young bachelor to the desert wasteland of El Centro, CA. Along the way I met my bride, whom I certainly don't deserve, and live happily ever after, now 22 years retired.

Capt (MD) Merlin & Bride - 1983

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FASCINATING Stuff! We've all seen AI cloning voices, videos - - just about all media available in the world. AI is even trying to clone works of art and imitate the artistic styles of well known / famous talent. Well THAT may come to an end - real soon now. There are several platforms that offer FREE digital image encoding such that if many such encoded images are entered into an AI database, that database will become corrupted to the point that requesting the AI produce an image of a Cat produces a Dog, Snail, or something totally uninterpretable. Artists that distribute their works in digital format (we used to call them 'comic books') would do well to encode each page using this technology to prevent their characters and styles from being stolen/replicated. Please see the attached article from MIT Tech Review, Vol 137, Jan/Feb 2024

Nightshade - Poison for AI Image Cloners
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USAF 1974-2002, Col USAF MC CFS, GPS Developer, Flight Surgeon, Surgeon General Consultant Clinical Hyperbaric Medicine.

1Lt Merlin with his GPS enabled Jet - 1978

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Col Merlin - Hyperbaric Medicine Expert - 1998

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If it won't line their pockets - politicians won't vote for it.
Numerous studies have linked an increase in traffic deaths to the DST time shift where an hour of sleep is lost.
Politicians don't care - or they'd agree on the simple bill to just Kill DST.
I wonder why more states just don't follow Arizonas lead and lock their clocks.

OK - - What was it ???

KerryGold (salted or unsalted), vs Plugra. Neither will disapoint.

Can't do RAID-5 with less than 3 drives. A 2-drive RAID Mirror protects against a single drive failure at a 100% storage space penalty (2 x 4TB drives = only 4 TB storage space). A 3-drive x 2TB each RAID-5 box gives a 4TB box with a single drive failure recovery. You can get Multi-drive RAID boxes for much less than a NAS.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003YFHEAC/
I have one of the above which backs up my 12 TB NAS

AI version definitely looks 'photoshopped' as textures and hues don't quite match - - HOWEVER:
IMHO the AI face seems much less abrupt and more appealing than the original.

The Speed of Dark? 29 thousand Furlongs per Night Fortnight

Great Story - - it's a shame the OP hasn't returned to the thread.
Beautiful puppy - will be yours for life. I suspect OP meant 75 Kg (100#)
Yep - they get big fast, and will eat you out of house and home.
And the Good Lord will be needed for anyone who messes with you.

Pronoun Police Alert !!!
And of course neither is correct if she is Filipino.

My first was in 1985 - an IBM-PC knock-off made by a company called Corona (I chose an Orange rather than a Green screen). My first upgrade was to add a second 160KB floppy. THEN upgraded to a HUGE 80MB HDD, added an 80286 math co-processor AND put in a Whopping 1MB RAM !! SHAZAM !!

We have 3 cats - all of which have taken to sharing our bed. Waking up in the morning we frequently find ourselves "catted" and can't move. Oh Well - another hour of sleep

Charles: The problem with your solution is if a virus or some other corrupts your 20TB cluster, BOTH drives will lose their data - for example - ransomware. The SAFEST solution is to have an external back-up solution that ONLY runs after the end of your day when you have no reason to suspect any problems.
I have TWO NAS (both by Q-Nap) one a 12TB RAID-5 (4x4TB) and the other a 24TB RAID-5 (3x12TB). I can access either from anywhere in the world over the Internet with a user ID and password known only to me. I use back-up software by EaseUS (TODO Backup) to do complete backups of my system drive every 2 days, and do a makeshift Grandfather (monthly full)/Father(weekly differential)/Son (daily incremental) backup of my data drive. It's makeshift because the program won't automatically delete the files once they become irrelevant - such as the interrim incrementals after a weekly differential has been done, etc. I have to go delete them manually - usually about once per month.
We have replaceable Varactor based whole-house surge suppression (installed when we put in Solar and Generac). Both NAS are powered by UPS which also have surge suppression.
Cloud-Based backup is NOT a choice for me - as I have over 3.5TB on my data drive and stuff on the cloud is Slow Slow Slow, and more than a couple of hundred MB becomes unwieldy AND Expensive!

LOL Nahhh - I have a habit of naming things so everyone knows Which Thing I'm talking about.
My last 4 computers have been (oldest) Colossus, Lightning, Mjolnir, Thanos (newest).
Cars: Electra (Fusion Plug-in Hybrid), Brutus (Expedition Ltd w/ towing package) and Joulee (Tucson Hybrid).