Sometimes, quite often actually, I’m being asked – „How are you?”. Some thoughts on how to answer this?
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There is no free lunch
I found three solutions to enjoy various media online:
- For free courses, you can use free online courses. The catch? You need to visit the web site pretty much every day, and it takes a while to join the courses.
- For free games, you can visit daily: 🎮 Games on Sale – Save money with GG.deals. The downside? You need to visit the web site often.
- For free, downloadable, classical music, you can see YourClassical. An issue? Once a week, you need to visit the web site and download, you can’t download music older than around 10 days. Miss one week? Miss one week’s worth of songs.
Yes, all of the above are free, but if you pay for courses, you don’t need to wait. A similar thing applies to the other elements.
On games: StarCraft vs. Good-old chess
Tattoos and courage
I recently read on a web site about a person’s who’s friends were having tattoos, while that person didn’t.
And that person said that he had a bit more creativity, a white canvas (the skin), which left some room to creativity.
And I wondered – why do people have tattoos? One reason would be for aesthetics, but yet another one could be courage.
It might look like a person proves courage by having a tattoo.
But what if there is also courage in not having a tattoo? What if the courage was soft, calm, and relaxing, rather than all-powerful?
What if courage meant you do the right thing, you choose a path to you that gives you flexibility for the future (what will you do with your skin when you’re 10 years older?).
Sure, having a tattoo proves you have courage. But, to me, not having one proves this even more.
Also, there’s this: “Confidence is Silent. Insecurities are Loud!“ „Încrederea în sine e tăcută. Nesiguranța de sine e vocală!” – Blog de Olivian Breda.
“Răul poate să-l facă oricine, cât de nevolnic ar fi. Binele însă e numai pentru sufletele tari şi firile călite. Răul: lapte pentru copii; binele: carne pentru adulţi.” (Nicolae Steinhardt »)
There was once a conversation on TV between Andrei Pleșu and Andrei Gheorghe, and Andrei Pleșu said he doesn’t generally swear because he prefers the liberty of swearing from time to time, but not once every two sentences.
How do you know what hard-drive to buy?
For buying hard-drives, there are a few factors to consider:
- How much hard-drive size do you actually need right now? Do you need, as a minimum, 1 TB, or 2, or 10? Do note that for hard drive 1 GB = 1000 MB (as opposed to 1024), 1 TB = 1000 GB (as opposed to 1024), so if you buy a 1 TB hard drive, it will be around 10% smaller than you expect it to be. If you buy a large hard drive, even if you plan to buy a 10 TB hard drive, you might notice you got a 900+ GB hard drive.
- How much capacity you’ll need in the next period of time until you’ll buy another drive? Will you need another 1 TB, or 2, or 3?
- What’s the cost per GB/TB for a specific drive? This is one good way of comparing drives?
- Which drives are most reliable? You can Google „hard drive reliability statistics” and find recent data such as this one ».
- How fast do you need the drive to be? Do you need 5400 RPM (rotations per minute; 5400 is slower) or 7200 RPM (a bit faster)?
- How will you back-up the data? It might be a good idea to save the day-to-day, very important files and projects you work on a Cloud Drive syncing solution (Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive are fine solutions). For extra data, you might need yet another hard drive, internal, external, or in a NAS solution.
- Are you willing to wait for promotions to appear? Currently, Western Digital does from time to time (once every few months) discounts on Amazon.com. Currently, the 10 TB, 5400 RPM, internal, NAS hard drive from Western Digital is a good deal that appears on Amazon.com from time to time. Prime Day will be in October 2020 this year, as opposed to July, in previous years.
- Generally, I prefer to buy hard drives from Amazon.com, delivered from the US, rather than buying them from Romania, for price discounts.
Better than X? But what’s X’s minimum level?
There’s this quote:
„For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?
(Matthew 16:25-26, NIV; Source »)”
This means that every person on this planet has a soul that values more than the whole world. Do you think you’re better than X? That may be, but that person has enormous inner value. Just by existing.
