A Christmas Thread - Because Santa appeared on the front page.

root · December 20

Besides Christmas offers have already started to appear.

pCloud has an usual Christmas offer.

AuroraZero · December 20

Da fuq is Christmas?

havoc · December 20

Can't picture myself spending over a 1000GBP+ for online storage. I get that it's 10TB for "life" but nope.

I did order a 10TB actual hdd for xmas though lol

backtogeek · December 20

@havoc said:
Can't picture myself spending over a 1000GBP+ for online storage. I get that it's 10TB for "life" but nope.

I did order a 10TB actual hdd for xmas though lol

That's insane haha, fair play if anyone buys it but that seems crazy to me, you would get 10TB for about 35 years at TH for that price, not lifetime but I suspect 10TB might be funny in 2060.

DataRecovery · December 20

@havoc said:
Can't picture myself spending over a 1000GBP+ for online storage. I get that it's 10TB for "life" but nope.

Hm...
Pcloud shows 5 TB lifetime storage for 800 eur (!!) to me.

imok · 2:32AM

imok · 2:34AM

imok · 2:35AM

@imok said:

Is this @Ian_Dot_Tech racking some giveaways this Christmas?

imok · 2:38AM

@imok said:

Is this @AuroraZero? Next to Santa.

imok · 2:39AM

Did you know Santa Claus in Spanish is Papá Noel?

havoc · 3:34AM

@DataRecovery said:

@havoc said:
Can't picture myself spending over a 1000GBP+ for online storage. I get that it's 10TB for "life" but nope.

Hm...
Pcloud shows 5 TB lifetime storage for 800 eur (!!) to me.

I selected the 2nd tab. But yeah pretty wild that they're treating GBP and EUR the same. That's a like ~15% diff

somik · 4:05AM

@imok said:
Did you know Santa Claus in Spanish is Papá Noel?

I thought the original guy was called Saint Nicolas?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas

root · 5:09AM

@somik said:

@imok said:
Did you know Santa Claus in Spanish is Papá Noel?

I thought the original guy was called Saint Nicolas?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas

True. The origin of the holiday is religious, Christian to be more precise. However, on LES it is not about Christianity per se; it is more about offers, deals and idling, while also spending time with the loved ones.

bikegremlin · 5:48AM

@root said:

@somik said:

@imok said:
Did you know Santa Claus in Spanish is Papá Noel?

I thought the original guy was called Saint Nicolas?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas

True. The origin of the holiday is religious, Christian to be more precise. However, on LES it is not about Christianity per se; it is more about offers, deals and idling, while also spending time with the loved ones.

In my country it's "Grandpa Frost" ("Deda Mraz").

bikegremlin · 6:01AM

@backtogeek said:

@havoc said:
Can't picture myself spending over a 1000GBP+ for online storage. I get that it's 10TB for "life" but nope.

I did order a 10TB actual hdd for xmas though lol

That's insane haha, fair play if anyone buys it but that seems crazy to me, you would get 10TB for about 35 years at TH for that price, not lifetime but I suspect 10TB might be funny in 2060.

Not arguments, just thoughs:

This depends on what you use it for.
My archive including the music and films I consider worthy saving fits into 1 TB.

That's without stuff I store for family friends and some work crucials.
With that included, it fits under 1.6 TB in total!

This includes website backups and youtube video backups.

That's over 20 years of backups - and apart from the Youtube video storage, its growth is very small.

In my workshop, salvaged used parts and stuff that hasn't been used over the past two years gets thrown out.
Using that algorithm, in theory I should still have stuff piling up, but in practice, it's steady.

Similar goes for the digital stuff, IMO. Some common sense and curration go a long way. Withoug that, even 100 TB can be filled up in no time. Past a certain limit, it's a problem in terms of physical limits along with costs - space and time constraints (unless you are so rich you can take other people's time to do it for you).

somik · 6:59AM

@root said:

@somik said:

@imok said:
Did you know Santa Claus in Spanish is Papá Noel?

I thought the original guy was called Saint Nicolas?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas

True. The origin of the holiday is religious, Christian to be more precise. However, on LES it is not about Christianity per se; it is more about offers, deals and idling, while also spending time with the loved ones.

Eh, no, the origin of the holiday is religious, but Pegan (Roman winter solstice, also called the Yule tradition, celebrating the birthday of the "Unconquered Sun" Sol Invictus), not Christian. The Christian church tried to make Christianity more appealing to pagans and thus changed the tradition of Winter Solstice to "Christmas".

Even the "12 days of Christmas" is originally the "12 days of Yuletide":

Day	Date	12 Days of Christmas (Christian)	12 Days of Yuletide (Pagan / Germanic)
1	Dec 25	Christmas Day – Birth of Jesus	Midwinter / Yule Day – Rebirth of the Sun, return of light
2	Dec 26	St. Stephen’s Day – Charity and martyrdom	Honoring ancestors, household spirits, protection rites
3	Dec 27	St. John the Evangelist – Light and truth	Oaths, truth-speaking, wisdom rituals
4	Dec 28	Holy Innocents – Mourning and protection of children	Protection magic, warding against misfortune
5	Dec 29	Preparation and reflection	Fate and destiny (wyrd), divination
6	Dec 30	Reflection on the Incarnation	Ancestor veneration, remembrance of the dead
7	Dec 31	St. Sylvester’s Day – Year’s transition	Wild Hunt nights, spirits roaming, threshold magic
8	Jan 1	Feast of Mary, Mother of God / New Year	Renewal, rebirth, setting intentions
9	Jan 2	Growth of Christ’s mission	Community bonding, feasting, hospitality
10	Jan 3	Preparation for Epiphany	Prosperity rites, luck for the coming year
11	Jan 4	Anticipation of revelation	Final divination, omen-reading
12	Jan 5	Twelfth Night – Eve of Epiphany	Yule’s End – Closing rituals, burning greens

imok · 12:18PM

@somik said:

@imok said:
Did you know Santa Claus in Spanish is Papá Noel?

I thought the original guy was called Saint Nicolas?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas

Yep it is another name for him. But at least in my side of the earth, we don't use to call it that way, unless in a very religious environment.

Maybe @chievo calls him San Nicolás in his land.

imok · 12:35PM

@somik said:

@root said:

@somik said:

@imok said:
Did you know Santa Claus in Spanish is Papá Noel?

I thought the original guy was called Saint Nicolas?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas

True. The origin of the holiday is religious, Christian to be more precise. However, on LES it is not about Christianity per se; it is more about offers, deals and idling, while also spending time with the loved ones.

Eh, no, the origin of the holiday is religious, but Pegan (Roman winter solstice, also called the Yule tradition, celebrating the birthday of the "Unconquered Sun" Sol Invictus), not Christian. The Christian church tried to make Christianity more appealing to pagans and thus changed the tradition of Winter Solstice to "Christmas".

Even the "12 days of Christmas" is originally the "12 days of Yuletide":

Day Date 12 Days of Christmas (Christian) 12 Days of Yuletide (Pagan / Germanic)

1 Dec 25 Christmas Day – Birth of Jesus Midwinter / Yule Day – Rebirth of the Sun, return of light

2 Dec 26 St. Stephen’s Day – Charity and martyrdom Honoring ancestors, household spirits, protection rites

3 Dec 27 St. John the Evangelist – Light and truth Oaths, truth-speaking, wisdom rituals

4 Dec 28 Holy Innocents – Mourning and protection of children Protection magic, warding against misfortune

5 Dec 29 Preparation and reflection Fate and destiny (wyrd), divination

6 Dec 30 Reflection on the Incarnation Ancestor veneration, remembrance of the dead

7 Dec 31 St. Sylvester’s Day – Year’s transition Wild Hunt nights, spirits roaming, threshold magic

8 Jan 1 Feast of Mary, Mother of God / New Year Renewal, rebirth, setting intentions

9 Jan 2 Growth of Christ’s mission Community bonding, feasting, hospitality

10 Jan 3 Preparation for Epiphany Prosperity rites, luck for the coming year

11 Jan 4 Anticipation of revelation Final divination, omen-reading

12 Jan 5 Twelfth Night – Eve of Epiphany Yule’s End – Closing rituals, burning greens

It looks like something some of my wife's friends would say.

I got flashbacks at the moment @root posted that.

imok · 1:17PM

I love drinking hot chocolate in December, even though it’s 30°C.

But my stomach doesn't like it.

I had chocolate last night.

root · 1:40PM

@imok said:
I love drinking hot chocolate in December, even though it’s 30°C.

But my stomach doesn't like it.

I had chocolate last night.

I live in Ireland. I wish I had 30°C. I also had a hot chocolate last night, but to warm up and sleep well with this cold virus which my kids brought to me from their school.

A Christmas Thread - Because Santa appeared on the front page.

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