HiTekRedNek

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Did... You just call my teenager a bitch?

I mean, I do that, too at times, but still......

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

They don't if you're constantly taking them off to put stuff inside them between the phone and the black.

She refuses to carry a purse or even a wallet and just shoves her ID and her teen-limited cashapp card in. And sometimes even spare cash if she has any.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

If I can't own it, I'm not buying it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

So if you use a *buntu based distro, but prefer kde, why not KDE neon?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

My kid does.

And I wish she wouldn't. To clarify, we've bought her cases and she destroys the case in days.

She's more careful with her bare phone than she is with it in a case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I use a case to add magsafe to my android phone, because I like the magnetic holder/charger idea ,na swish all phones had it built in.

I have a cheap, clear magsafe case for my Pixel 9.

I also have a screen protector, and when I have the phone out of the case, it feels weird in my hand when I brush the edge of the screen protector.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Golden Child.

I I I I I want the knife...

Please...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

As someone who used to download C64 games in the 1980s, from a BBS, trust me. Pirating existed decades before BitTorrent.

Decades.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Don't forget to include the hacked controller firmware that reports the drive size as triple what it actually is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Then that's changed since the last time I toyed with the idea. Which, granted, was probably 20 years ago...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There. Was that at hard?

It's apparently easier than you not being a jackass, at least.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

The big issue is that your network provider is also the physical provider, and there's no real competition as a result.

When most people got their Internet service over telephone lines, your ISP didn't need to also own the telephone lines, they just needed some telephone numbers.

When the telcos themselves got into the business of providing internet access, they pushed out the competition.

The 1996 Telecommunications Act, written by a Republican Congress, and signed into law by a Democratic president (Clinton) is largely responsible for the current state of affairs.

The "Information Superhighway" is a toll road, built by taxes, but owned by private corporations.

What's crazy is that the government paid these corporations to build this infrastructure.

When your government pays, say, a road building company to build roads, one doesn't then grant the ownership of those roads to that company.

But that is EXACTLY what we did with our communications infrastructure.

 

I am currently running a FreeBSD system on an old Dell Optiplex 790 (i3 2100) that has been upgraded a bit.

It has 16G of ram, and 5 hard drives: 1TiB SATA SSD, where the OS itself is installed, using UFS+/FFS filesystem.

The other 4 are 3TiB SAS drives, connected to an LSI 9300 HBA, and are in a ZFS raidz1 configuration.

I would prefer to stick with FreeBSD, but would also consider TrueNAS Core (also FreeBSD based).

Here's the problem. The 5 hard drives don't quite fit into the case. The side panel won't close completely due to the SAS connectors being slightly larger than the original SATA connectors the case was designed for.

My budget is sub $300.

I've seen a few 2U and 4U servers on eBay that seem to fit the bill. My concern is that energy usage would be significantly higher than it is now.

Any suggestions for alternative ideas that keep my existing storage would be much appreciated.

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