Let’s say you have 2 districts (A & B) that border each other. And let’s say each district has 100 voters:
A. 90 R & 10 D
B. 45 R & 55 D
R & D tied. 1 district each.
If R wants to win both, they redraw the line to give district B some of district A’s voters:
A. 70 R & 30 D
B. 65 R & 35 D
R just won both districts due to gerrymandering
Oh got it. Thanks!
How does Hetzner work? I just looked at their storage box prices, and it seems too good to be true? €40/mo for 20TB. And they break it down to €0.0651/hr. Does that mean I could run the backups only when needed and pay less than €40/mo?
I have a NAS with a couple of SSDs configured in a ZFS mirror that backs up to a Raid Z2 storage pool on the same NAS. Again, on that NAS, I run Paperless-ngx in a docker container. Finally, I use the iOS app Swift Paperless to upload documents to Paperless-ngx. All done over Tailscale.
My load bearing NAS has a lot of redundancy but no offsite backups so I still keep some important documents in the cloud. I’m saving up for another NAS that I can keep at a family members house but prices are insane right now :/
If you can follow the 3-2-1 storage rule without using the cloud, that’s awesome. However, the upfront cost can be expensive depending on how much you are storing. Just do the best you can using whatever you have available to you, even if that means using iCloud as part of your setup.
I agree. I’ve got a 9060XT 16GB card running some version of gpt-oss:20b. I understand how to program more or less but I do it so infrequently that I forget the syntax of whatever language I’m working in. It’s ability to spit out boiler plate code that I can edit for my needs has been a huge time saver and I’m extremely happy with my setup.
Who ever is in power at the time unfortunately. California and Texas have both been in the news over redrawing their districts recently to give themselves an advantage. Each side gerrymanders so they won’t agree to abolish it.
There’s a bunch of factors but if I had to choose one reason, it boils down to low voter turnout. In the example I gave above, imagine that the 100 voters in each district was less than half of the eligible registered voters in each district.
Gerrymandering doesn’t mean you automatically win, it just means you have an advantage. If a district has a lot of swing voters or higher voter turnout than usual, it can work against the party in power that redrew the lines.