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I would only ever buy new HDDs tbh. But also, I bought a stack of 8TB HDDs in 2023 for €180 a piece and those same models are now €300… Thanks, Obama.

Anyway, I have 4 of those, 1 is parity, so 24TB of actual space. I started with a 2TB collection from my laptop harddrive and I’m now at 7TB used. I used to be more cautious with my space and I still have my *arrs set to stingy profiles now, to make downloads faster, but I also download and keep a lot more.

I do sometimes go through and delete stuff that I won’t watch (either watched and didn’t like or never watched). But that’s more so I won’t get tempted to watch it than for the space currently.

I think Angel Beats lost some of its cultural momentum when every following Maeda Jun project turned out to be a flop.

Valid point, but solar got much cheaper to make in the last 10 years and production capacity has increased a lot. Even recycling broken solar panels is fairly economical, because the components are so easy to melt down and separate out. So yes, we’re currently gaining solar capacity a lot because we haven’t hit the phase of upkeep and replacement yet, but we can go a lot higher before upkeep becomes an actual problem.

• Azumanga Daioh: gag comedy about high school, the dub is pretty good and the humor translates well (except for Blue Three/Bruce Lee, don’t know how the dub did that)
• Non non biyori: slice-of-life about elementary schoolers in a small town, lots of nature exploring and small adventures
• Ika Musume: squid girl comes to the surface to take revenge on the humans who destroyed her home, but she gets caught up in human affairs instead

For the English dub, yes. I even found Italian, French, German, Spanish and Russian. But none of the pirates set their VPN to Netherlands to get the Dutch dub.

And then you have me, who’s so hardcore I was forced to sign up for Netflix so I could watch the Dutch dub of Tonari no Totoro . If I was any more hardcore, I’d figure out how to rip it from there, because it’s the only home release it ever got, as far as I can tell. Can’t even find a second-hand VHS (wouldn’t be acceptable quality anyway).