As opposed to random people who wrote their opinion on a webpage or something? These groups are great for crowdsourcing lots of ideas you may have never even considered, and its not as if saving for a car is some niche topic. Can you point to any comments here that seem like bad advice?
If the 2028 election was happening tomorrow I think the Democrats would lose again.
Absolutely. They’d probably try to court Mitt Romney to run under their ticket.
Democrats have shown time and time again that they don’t give a shit what voters think which is why they keep losing elections. Biden and Harris wouldn’t even turn their back on Netanyahu even when it meant Trump would get reelected as all tbe polling showed. Progressives don’t bother with it because they’ll be ignored either way and you can only be ignored so many times before giving up on them listening. Blaming the voters for the actions of the party is just giving them cover for their ineptitude. Voters don’t decide their policy.
At this point they do little else than act as controlled opposition for the Republican party, so this is just our reality for the foreseeable future. Maybe if the leadership gets ousted, we’ll have a chance but it looks more like a new party will need to be formed and the Democrats go the way of the Whigs.
I think this is what I’m leaning towards as I have very briefly played around with Proxmox on an Optiplex micro and was impressed with it.
After some more research I realized that TrueNAS probably won’t work as I have drives of various sizes pooled together so maybe UnRAID, OMV, or something else. Do you know if Proxmox’s native NAS can handle that or does it also require you to have multiples of the same drive?
“unemployedclaquer”
Their username is “unemployedclaquer”
Bud, if you got hired, you’d have to delete this account, so I think you really need to ask yourself what is most important in life.
And your Thanksgiving turkey will never look at you the same way again.
Yeah cause then you can fire her for drug use and you don’t have to pay any unemployment!
I would (read: does) keep it that way. When your server inevitably goes belly up because of a misconfigured firewall or whatever you’ll thank yourself when the lights still turn on and your robot vacuum keeps going.
I have considered that and am not 100% decided either way but would love the convenience of having everything in one place though this can also he a drawback like you mentioned and “in one place” is just a matter of opening a new browser tab even if it’s on a separate machine, so maybe not really worth it. The Pi actually boots off a SSD since I’ve been burned by faulty SD cards in the past so it should be solid.
What’s wrong with keeping your old hardware?
I would actually love to reuse as much as possible since a primarily media server doesn’t need a lot of horsepower. I am wanting to go to an Intel CPU with an iGPU so that I could ditch the 1080TI and I can get them for a discounted price, but another user suggested the 5700g which would allow me to keep the mobo and RAM. The case is actually fantastic for being quiet, and the PSU is a decent platinum grade from when it was originally built. So all is looking good here except for the data transfer aspect since I need an intermediary machine to transfer from but I do have a few SFF PCs, micro PCs and laptops sitting around collecting dust that might be up to the task.
As for the OS. “Not Windows” is probably a bit intimidating at first but you seem to be pretty technical so it isn’t really an issue as long as you can read and process information.
This is going to be another challenge as I have played around with Ubuntu in the past and have a basic understanding of CLI, but struggled with random issues and getting myself into trouble and not knowing how to get back out of it. “You don’t know what you don’t know” was really in play after stuff like an update would cause everything to come crashing down and not knowing why. With my hobbies, it seems like something I really should learn but have really struggled with. I’m sure a lot was hidden with editing magic but the video I watched on TrueNAS made it look easy to pick up with a nice GUI so that I’m not spending all my time pasting esoteric commands into a terminal.
I wouldn’t mind a mini rack but don’t have anywhere to put it. Maybe when we move to a new house someday, that’ll be one of the first things I get.
How’s transcoding on the 5700g? I know Intel is praised for their iGPU and recall AMDs being less universally compatible but this was with discrete GPUs and may be several years out of date.
I actually do have a couple Optiplex micro PCs sitting around so maybe I’ll try one of those out for my general PC needs. I had considered using them as the brains of a server in the past but there’s no logical HDD storage option outside of a NAS and I’m not going to drop $2k on a box to hold and control some HDDs. DAS boxes and other external drive enclosures just seem pretty risky and unreliable.
You’re right that the migration is going to be the biggest hurdle, especially without adding some new machine in the mix. If anyone wants to volunteer to come hold my hand while I fumble through it, let me know 😅
-I don’t have a set budget, but like I said, would prefer to spend the least amount while meeting my needs (I understand this is ambiguous). That could be $500 or $2k, but I don’t want to buy something like a Synology as I feel they’re a big waste of money especially with how many drives I have.
-Possibly. I have thought of hosting a Minecraft server for my daughter, Frigate as mentioned, and who knows what else. I think I have ADHD and pick up new projects left and right
-Physical space is actually a huge issue. I currently have my Fractal Define 6 sitting on my desk but my office is already jam packed with stuff and I can’t think of any other practical space in the house to keep an entire server plus all my networking stuff is in the office. The Define is actually quite silent for having 11 drives, a GPU and 6 fans inside of it.
-Electricity isn’t terribly expensive. I think it’s around $0.12KWh, though conserving energy would be a good thing, so I don’t think an old Xeon server would be a good fit.
-I think I have somewhere around 15TB free still. My storage is JBOD so some are only 8TB while the larger ones are 14TB (currently for parity). I plan on buying at least two more 14TB when I get this going so that I have plenty of space to condense things and form the new pool, and to phase out some of the smaller HDDs so that I can better utilize the storage and not waste TBs of space.
Pretty much. The system isn’t designed to run 24/7 and I wind up with lots of glitchyness, programs freezing, and just generally weird behavior as of late. I want something I can just tuck away and ignore for the most part.
You shouldn’t have had to pay anything. I just put a “thaw” on mine two nights ago, which is a temporary unfreeze, and it was free with all three bureaus.
Not sure how this would work as most corporations aren’t isolated to a single state and they’re the ones sending your tax dollars to the feds via payroll deductions. I see this as being similar to banks who won’t allow dispensaries to have bank accounts since they’re still illegal federally even if it’s perfectly legal within the state.
There’s also just the denial phase.
As evidenced in The Big Short when it was very clear to banks and regulators that the whole mortgage shell game was falling apart and they all refused to act on it.
What’s special about Blackberry keyboards that every early slider phone didn’t have?
I would love to have something like my HTC G1 again with modern hardware and screen.
Haptic feedback maxed out plus the tap sounds with the volume turned up to 100% is the way to go.
As if voter turnout is the end-all-be-all metric for determining what people want. The DNC got up to quite a bit of fuckery in both 2016 and 2024. They had no issue sidelining Bernie from debates and news coverage, creating super delegates, and just plainly putting their thumb on the scales. In 2024, we didn’t even get a primary because old Joe went back on his “one term” promise and ran against every sane person’s advice, dropped out, and then a new equally unappealing candidate was hand picked for us. Who gives a shit what most centrists want when it’s clear that all they’re doing is choosing the “safe bet.” It’s no different from the person whose favorite music is whatever they’re currently playing on the radio. These people aren’t choosing anything. They’re just doing what they’re told.
So does losing election after election because the DNC keeps backing the absolute worst candidates.