Given they’ve had 1800 recent infiltration attempts, I understand their suspicion.

Even if they were live streaming that they were smuggling drugs with their exact location, the US doesn’t get to play judge jury and executioner in international waters.

So like Beneath A Steel Sky but reverse Uno card.

Since it sounds like you’ll be using it for more than just a NAS, I’d go with TrueNAS, Proxmox or Debian headless (in order of easiest to hardest to install and maintain).

If you have the room, why not go full ATX? More compatibility with available parts and room for future upgrades! Drives, GPUs, NICs, HBAs etc.

Worth pointing out that they added the ability to pay a Myki fine on the spot from anywhere with a credit card over a decade ago. Priorities and all that.

It’s a sign of the times that the effects of rapid weight loss are attributed to a drug since most people don’t know what it looks like!

In my experience it always goes wrong at the least opportune time. Before an important zoom call, as you’re about to leave for the airport etc. My NAS and services (especially Home Assistant) are so mission critical now that I like to have a warm backup ready to go, even if it’s a stop-gap measure.

https://youtu.be/fOVHb4-4ry4

This, except it’s the CEO being questioned

IMHO RPi is still a good choice for HA. SD cards are cheap enough now that you can have a spare handy with Home Assistant OS already flashed on it, then if/when your current SD card dies, just swap it out and restore HA from last backup. Only takes a few minutes and happens about as often as a hard drive dies.

All depends on how much you value separation of concerns with a proxmox setup.

I DIY’d a PIKVM from an old Raspberry Pi 4 I had lying around for use in a homelab server. It’s been great, no complaints here, very handy if you need BIOS or direct console access from a phone or laptop. I especially like that you can hook up the PC power buttons to allow hard power cycling via the web interface. Though if you’re looking for something portable you’d probably skip that part.

The way they capitalise and use “Homeland” in that announcement is very reminiscent of Nazi Germany using “Vaterland” (Fatherland) to drum up nationalism. Fucking disgusting.

Nice try Satya.

I bet the journalist sat on the headline for a while… Missing Linknus… Missing Linusk… oh forget it.

Am interesting idea - I wonder if this would be beneficial for injury recovery, in the same way pedal assist can be.

Please drink a verification can.

And it’s getting worse. Locking down bootloaders, priority firmware, “safety” checks on devices for banking apps, inability to repair/replace hardware components. The industry is actively hostile to competition, especially open platforms.

If personal computers were invented today, there’s no way we’d end up with open standards like ATX. Every company would have their own lock-in ecosystem that prevented DIY assembly and repairs. And they’d probably throw a subscription on it too.

At some point tech companies stopped focusing on what customers want/need, and started chasing their own delusions on what the next big thing is that will make them money. Solutions in search of problems, with billions of dollars of hype and marketing behind them. Crypto, NFTs, the metaverse, AI… it’s sad to see.

At least this massive data breach is adorable.

Wow, thanks so much for the detailed rundown of your setup, I really appreciate it! That’s given me a lot to think about.

One area that took me by surprise a little bit with the HBA/SAS drive approach I’ve taken (and it sounds like you’re considering) is the power draw. I just built my new server PC (i5-8500T, 64GB RAM, Adaptec HBA + 8x 6TB 12GB SAS drives) and initial tests show on its own it idles at ~150W.

I’m fairly sure most of that is the HBA and drives, though I need to do a little more testing. That’s higher than I was expecting, especially since my entire previous setup (Synology 4-bay NAS + 4x SATA drives, external 8TB drive, Raspberry Pi, switch, Mikrotik router, UPS) idles at around 80W!

I’m wondering if it may have been overkill going for the SAS drives, and a proxmox cluster of lower spec machines might have been more efficient.

Food for thought anyway… I can tell this will be a setup I’m constantly tinkering with.