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nagaram

@ nagaram @startrek.website

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  • What is the most important non-physical trait you need in a spouse?

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  • 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.

  • What is your opinion on ghosting?

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  • What's crazy is that, personally, I seem to know just as many "Can't this guy take a hint" women as I know "I'm not good enough for him so I should block him" type women.

    I legitimately know two women who had that concern, blocked the guy on everything, and he either made an alt or found an obscure social to DM them on.

    Both are happily married and medicated for their anxiety now.

  • In hindsight, how much did you like your younger self? If present-you met your younger self (say, age 10) from an alternate timeline, do you think you could be friends?

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  • This feels like propaganda to get me to want kids.

    I would take care of alt timeline me because I know what I would have wanted and how that gets me to here.

  • Mini pc for home server?

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  • 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

  • Not Looking for a recipe or a how to guide. But when meth rolled thru my town they called it either redneck speed or bathtub speed. With all chemicals did people really do it in a bathtub??

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  • I knew a guy who did actually make method in his apartment bathtub.

    It was in part to make clean up easier and also had ventilation!

    Although that guys was an odd duck and chemistry genius. He's a PHd student now and was actually making them meth so he could try meth he "trusted"

    I doubt your average method manufacturer cares that much about safety though.

  • Mini rack bod

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  • 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

  • Mini rack bod

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  • That's basically what I'm going for.

    How are you connecting the mini PC via SATA and how are you powering the BOD?

  • Documenting the descent into madness

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  • The classic

    offers to recycle

    actually installs esoteric Linux distros

    Classic!

  • Fire memes as I help my friends move to Linux

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  • Do you fear technology

    Oh yes! Greatly!

    Windows

    Ah, a different kind of fear was meant....

  • I still haven't forgotten that scene

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  • Since no one else answered

    "Signs" (2002) by M. Night Shyamalan

  • Is the concept of a classless society even conceivable?

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  • 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.

  • Using dark mode might be more energy-intensive if the screen is an LCD.

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  • Yeah I'm not doing it for the energy savings I'm doing it for personal comfort.

    If I was really concerned about energy use at that scale I would simply not use a computer.

  • Is it so hard to get Nvidia GPUs working with Linux?

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  • 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!

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • Magic: The Gathering to Honor 60th Anniversary of Star Trek with Special Tribute Set

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  • I stopped playing when they crossed over with Dungeons and Dragons then did a Harry Potter knock off set.

    It really ruined the vibe for me knowing this was going to be cardboard funkopops

  • The Ubuntu experience:

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  • Apparently you can turn those off but I haven't bothered.

  • Would you buy a Smart Glass in the foreseeable future?

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  • 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.