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@lemmy.blahaj.zoneCorrect, Backblaze is their own host and post on their blog often about their tech and processes. They've got a lot of good info on how they designed their server storage racks and stats on drive failures by brand etc
Auto injected context-aware ads are becoming increasingly common these days. Lots of podcast providers will use your IP or user information (if available) to select ads for your area or personal data and and they'll splice it into your download. It almost always interrupts the flow of discussions but the ones I've heard are at least usually good enough to happen at the end of sentences and not mid sentence or mid word.
You are correct but many workers in the US (tech and otherwise) are only aware of unions as historical tools of organized crime/corruption, or are libertarian (which gets higher representation in tech circles) and believe the free market will provide for them and/or that unions excessively harm companies. There are likely other reasons but these are what I've heard from people I know.
These views are reinforced by corporate and libertarian (which is of course funded by corporate) propaganda.
There is a comfort mode setting for the ED rover that keeps your view level to the horizon while the rover moves around you.
New people are born every day and still have the opportunity to see Trek for the first time.
There were a couple questions about that here where the admin said they disabled it because they expected people to chat on Matrix instead. I imagine that's easier to moderate etc but it would've definitely been more user friendly to have the built in one.
Much fun, thanks for starting it! I doubt I would've added much if you hadn't opened with the delta.
You may be interested in the Fallout: London conversion mod, which is planned to release later this year.