And that’s assuming that all the boxes are the same size. There could be many more than 51 if they’re “hiding” in the middle.

Gotta have that ^w _o ^b _b ^l _e

It’s okay, I’ll still take it.

Weird looks: +200%

Strangers attempting to lick ears: +3000%

I believe this is called a “stand up”. That is, you’re standing up your real work for an hour so a useless middle manager scrum master can feel like they’re contributing.

The brain does what it must to survive. We normalize things that are insane to keep us from going insane. It’s… weird.

Strong 7 over here

Related xkcd:

The answer also depends on your level of experience and how much you want to learn doing this. You mentioned you haven’t done this before, but are you otherwise comfortable using computers and figuring things out? Are you familiar with Linux and/or the command line? In addition, are you hoping to tinker around and learn a lot from this, or are you more concerned with just setting it up so you can use it?

There are options for all levels of expertise and technical interest, but I recommend starting with any hardware you already have or can aquire for cheap/free (especially if you’re hoping to tinker and learn more). As another commenter suggested, finding an old desktop or laptop and putting a NAS operating system on it would be a great starting project. Then once you play around with it, you’ll know if/where you want to spend some cash on something better. If you don’t have old PCs laying around, check on whatever you use for local buy & sell listings, you can probably pick up something for pretty cheap.

If you’re mostly looking to play around and you don’t have any extra hardware, you can also try things out in a virtual machine (download VirtualBox), which will let you learn without any monetary investment.

I’m using my old desktop from 2010. There’s no such thing as a server that can “do it all”, but any computer from the last 10 years would probably be a fine place to start. The more you do, the more likely you’ll be to hit some sort of performance limit, and by that time you’ll know more about what you actually want.

In short, find old cheap/free hardware and start playing around.

Chaotic stupid: bread is stapled to various trees

Nobody said it would be easy

Inkscape is one of my favorite applications out there. I use it almost daily, both for my day job and hobbies. Thanks Martin!

Looks like a tetrahedron to me.

It’s chaotic in that it doesn’t ascribe to needing the provided mechanism for closure. It also is not as great if you need to move it around, as it can come untucked easily.

That being said, twist and tuck is definitely Chaotic Good. The bottle hack belongs on the evil row.

I feel like this alignment chart doesn’t consider how evil you could get. Leaving the bag open seems pretty tame for CE. I suggest the following:

• Lawful Good: bread box w/ the bag
• Neutral Good: bag clip
• Chaotic Good: twist and tuck
• Lawful Neutral: bread box w/o the bag
• True Neutral: original bread clip
• Chaotic Neutral: twist or tuck, not both
• Lawful Evil: bag is tied shut
• Neutral Evil: bag is left open
• Chaotic Evil: bag is torn open in the middle

Also worth noting: a bread box generally isn’t sealed that well, I would still recommend keeping the bread in a bag (depending on what type it is and how quickly you plan to eat it).

HELL YEAH BROTHER

I came here to eat jeans and wear beans

and I’m all out of jeans