It was the worst cheesy bread I’ve ever experienced. And that was after triple checking to make sure it was mozzarella. I can’t remember where on the packaging it finally said that it was vegan, but it was anything but prominent.

Ever since, I get downvoted in threads like these, because I know from experience how much making the distinction matters to consumers.

If it says “cheese”, it should be cheese, end of story.

I mean, I usually do, but when I’m hosting for like 15 people it’s much faster to just buy a Costco 20-pack. Also, I think “just don’t buy burgers then” is a pretty dumb take in response to the topic at hand.

Yeah, good call. How fast/reliable/cheap are USB drive enclosures? Maybe I should just go that direction instead of buying a whole new system for it. As long as the NAS software doesn’t require much overhead, I’ve got an old laptop that should be able to handle things well enough if that would work.

Plus, then I could still grab one of these cheap Win 10 machine as a server box to run all of the services to go along with the NAS.

Edit: tons of great info here - thanks so much!

This is amazing info - thanks so much! I’ll probably end up putting the server in the basement, so sound hopefully won’t be much of an issue.

I completely agree, but one issue at a time, eh? (Not to mention that for stuff like burgers a bit more fat is often a good thing!)

I’m perfectly fine with the vegan market growing - the more the better!

I’m just tired of accidentally buying congealed vegetable oil when I’m trying to buy cheese, and compressed bean patty when I’m trying to buy burgers. Making it more clear on the packaging will mean I don’t have to spend an extra five minutes triple-checking the fine print all over the package to make sure I’m not being tricked into buying something I don’t want. I can just grab the ones that say “burgers” and “cheese” with no worries and go.

Not to mention that this will also make it easier for those who are looking for congealed vegetable oil and compressed bean patty, meaning they’ll be less likely to accidentally buy something they’re morally or ethically opposed to.

Gotcha, yeah, physical space was the main thing I was worried about picking up one of these used corpo boxes.

Would something like the HP DeskMini mentioned in another comment be a good enough choice for a service hosting machine? I suppose I could get one of the win-10 boxes for the hosting machine and then find a bigger case for a separate NAS.

I have an old, pretty big Antec tower from like 10 years ago that should have plenty of space for drives - I suppose I could reuse that for the NAS and just upgrade my main PC case to something more modern like I already wanted to do anyway.

I just wonder how necessary it is to add two full machines like this. Are there any specific reasons to separate the NAS from the hosting machine other than cost/size considerations? Like, would the systems interfere with each other?

Could I use one of these machines to double as an HTPC for my main TV as well, or does that need to be a separate third machine, for stability/etc. reasons?

Sorry for all of the questions!

Great news! Do milk and cheese next!

Thanks so much! I expected it to be more complicated for some reason.

Great recommendation - I’ll keep my eye out for one!

They definitely do similar things though. I was out at dinner with some of my Japanese coworkers and one of them was having steak (suteeki in Japanese). I asked him if it was suteki (“great, wonderful, attractive”) and they all groaned and said I was telling “oyaji gyagu” (old man/dad jokes).

Yup, that’s why we still don’t have any clocks to this day.

There isn’t “feminist dogma”

I think we’re done here.

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Lots of good comments here pointing out problems with feminism, but one that I think hasn’t been mentioned enough in this thread that’s also directly relevant to the OP is the harmful idea that “if you believe in gender equality, then you’re a feminist by definition”.

While the term “feminist” does signify a person who, at least ostensibly, is in favor of equal rights among genders, using that term also, necessarily, implies belief in the core dogma that is inseparable from the term itself (patriarchy theory, etc.). This creates a false dichotomy in which people feel that in order to support equal rights they must also buy into feminist dogma, and that’s not at all the case.

Luckily, though, feminism doesn’t have a monopoly on gender equality, and it’s important to let people know that fact, both because of how incredibly misleading “feminism just means gender equality” is and because there are more useful, more egalitarian frameworks through which to view the push for equality.

it just signifies you are in favor of equal rights among genders

It doesn’t “just signify that” though, as much as feminists act like it does. The term “feminist” does signify a person who, at least ostensibly, is in favor of equal rights among genders, but using that term also, necessarily, implies belief in the harmful dogma that is inseparable from the term itself (patriarchy theory, etc.). This creates a false dichotomy that makes people feel that in order to support equal rights they must also buy into feminist dogma, and that’s not at all the case.

Luckily, though, feminism doesn’t have a monopoly on gender equality, and it’s important to let people know that fact, both because of how incredibly misleading “feminism just means gender equality” is and because there are plenty of other more useful, more egalitarian frameworks through which to view the push for equality.

Specifically, the process by which cucaracha became cockroach is called folk etymology, whereby words that people have trouble making sense of in their native language can be remade with pieces they are familiar with.

Other examples of folk etymology include Key West from Spanish Cayo Hueso (Bone Key), crayfish from French creviche, Alzheimer’s Disease being called Old Timer’s Disease, and many, many others.

grammer

Turns out we were living on the Bionis after all