

We go to a buffet by the lake.
Its honestly really nice not having to Cook, but it does feel quintessentially american to make someone else do it.
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We go to a buffet by the lake.
Its honestly really nice not having to Cook, but it does feel quintessentially american to make someone else do it.


I can see how you’d struggle to find youtubers who aren’t sucking Musks toes if you’re watching AI news people and Russell Brand.
But trust me, choosing to simply consume content that isn’t so negative is the quickest way to find rational people.
I personally really like Alex O’Connor right now. He does a lot of engagement with religious and philosophical type people. He’s an atheist who’s just genuinely trying to understand.


Not specifically. I just remember how much Thunderf00t made me an angry atheist for a time and how unpleasant that was mentally.
Looks like he’s on a hyper Musk hate train now. Which while based I’m sure his content is still very toxic to consume.
And I don’t wish that on anyone.


I think a real hobby would help with your mental health…


I want to be called out.
I love philosophy stuff and often I’ll start to form an opinion that’s a scientific or even problematic.
My lovely fiancé will often call out potentially shitty thoughts and I re-evaluate them.
And if you just want a NAS? It is really hard to go wrong with a 4 bay NAS from one of the reputable vendors (which may just be ugreen at this point?) as those tend to still come out cheaper than building it yourself and 4 disks means you can either play with fire with RAID5 or not be stupid and do RAID1.
Actually ASUS started to sell N100 motherboards with the CPU soldered on for $120
That plus a jonsbo N2 or N3, a few extra pieces, and its a few hundred dollars cheaper than the Ugreen options. Sure it will probably run Truenas instead of Ugreens custom truenas or whatever its built on, but that extra $300 is another 24TB hard drive or a HexOS lifetime subscription.
There’s also always the classic buy an old mid sized tower for $100 and slap two massive hard drives in it
Imagine less off a proper BOD and more of a 3D Printable holder for 3.5 inch drives and no actual connections.
I was considering a mini ITX PC with just an external SAS to Sata PCI card. But at the rate of just building that I might end up just building a better tiny nas box with maybe a jonsbo case like the N3
That’s basically what I’m going for.
How are you connecting the mini PC via SATA and how are you powering the BOD?


Do you fear technology
Oh yes! Greatly!
Windows
Ah, a different kind of fear was meant…


I mean if someone can conceive it then yes.
Personally I do think there will always be a “class” of some sort since even among career and financial equals I still view colleagues as a different class of human.
Like I’m a camp in the woods kinda human where my coworker is a take his car to a race track kinda human.
But that’s never the class that is being discussed.
A classless society is specifically one where someone doesn’t have power over you by some financial measure. A true meritocracy as there is no financial incentive to be in those roles since it is also a moneyless society.
Utopian? Maybe. Conceivable? Yeah I can conceive what that would be like and I want to strive for it.
Maybe its not important if its possible and its just important that there are people willing to work towards it or implement something like it in their own controllable way.


A 4060ti has been out long enough that you’re fine with basically any main stream distro.
I think even the 50 series is fine now with most mainstream distros as well.
I still prefer arch based distros now for Nvidia cards and honestly, Fedora is great!
I usually follow the craft computing video whenever I have to set it up. He has a document in the description with all the things you might need to passthrough a GPU but only like half are needed to passthrough an HBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hOBAGKLQkI
Proxmox wiki has a more concise guide IMO
It was really simple to do in Proxmox.
You will find no name brand HBAs in IT mode on eBay for half the price of Intel, Supermicro, Dell, Etc branded ones. Do not buy the no names. I spent a week flashing and reflashing some cheap one, cycling through cables, etc. Nothing.
My supermicro branded one worked absolutely no issue. And I think it was like $40
It probably took a total of 30 minutes to pass it through and build the VM and everything. It took a couple days to rebuild my data from my previous truenas server but I had 10 TB of data on 4 drives.
The only issues I’ve had have been my own reading comprehension in setting up truenas accounts.
Are you using truenas as the entire homelab?
I also love messing with stuff until it breaks and I learn something, but I’ve decided I just want my files to be accessible.
So I actually have truenas virtualized with a passed through HBA so I can run proxmox to host all my breakable VMs while leaving truenas alone.


Great read and good points by you.
That’s a fair read and I had kinda come to that thought process. He’s a friend of Trumps and I guess Musk as well. So he’s okay with fascists.
But I do want to point out that in the linked article, he talks about a guy, Franchi, who received support from Communists and presumably the UK while resisting Mussolini but was a monarchist who fell into right wing activities after the war and was charged for plotting a pro monarchy court d’etat.
Much like how I don’t condemn small African anti colonial governments for taking Russian assistance. I don’t immediately view a struggling Small Pro Capitalist state taking USA assistance as inherently condemn able.
I don’t know Milei’s full views, but I struggle to have “guy who’s rounding up all the racial undesirables and occupying cities with troops” on the same level as “guy who thinks letting companies pay in milk is good”. Both are dangerous and bad ideas, but one is much MUCH worse in my opinion.
If I’m missing something, I’m genuinely down to learn more. These are just my concerns with my limited understanding.


Great read and good points by you.
That’s a fair read and I had kinda come to that thought process. He’s a friend of Trumps and I guess Musk as well. So he’s okay with fascists.
But I do want to point out that in the linked article, he talks about a guy, Franchi, who received support from Communists and presumably the UK while resisting Mussolini but was a monarchist who fell into right wing activities after the war and was charged for plotting a pro monarchy court d’etat.
Much like how I don’t condemn small African anti colonial governments for taking Russian assistance. I don’t immediately view a struggling Small Pro Capitalist state taking USA assistance as inherently condemn able.
I don’t know Milei’s full views, but I struggle to have “guy who’s rounding up all the racial undesirables and occupying cities with troops” on the same level as “guy who thinks letting companies pay in milk is good”. Both are dangerous and bad ideas, but one is much MUCH worse in my opinion.
If I’m missing something, I’m genuinely down to learn more. These are just my concerns with my limited understanding.


Genuine question for an OOTL guy
Is Milei actually a fascist and why?
I just genuinely haven’t kept up with him I knew he was a pretty serious libertarian cut all the government subsidy type, but I didn’t think he was a fascist.


Is it a HUD or just a spy tool?
I gotta wear glasses anyways so it’d be cool if I can get like a pathing over lay with maps and maybe customizable notifications.
But video calling and just taking poorly framed pictures isn’t interesting.


Fair enough.
Opening ports to the network seems to “just work” or be hours of forum diving.
What OS where you using?
Oh man, Teams +Outlook + Office 365 + onedrive +Copilot?
So good for office shit. So bad for hood practices.
“Hey copilot I’m pretty sure I got an email asking if I had an SOP on X. Can you find that email and the SOP?”
“Copilot, using the recording of the teams meeting ‘Training from Vendor X’ and my notes on ‘Tool Y’ can you compile that into a FAQ sheet for us?”
Sure it misses stuff and is only so good because none of the data is private, but man that’s 90% of my work load for SOP making. Worth the $400 a year corporate pays for it.