What could possibly go wrong?

…also can you imagine the off-center torque you’d get if you actually fired one of those turret guns?

…and what happens if one of those big turbines fails? Everybody just dies? No way that thing is staying level with only 3 fans running.

everything about this design is stupid

Yeah but the current build of libvegs has some conflicts with libfruit, so if you need to use both you have to build libvegs in a different directory and then simlink it in /lib.

pics or it didn’t happen

however, i know nothing about self hosting. My knowledge is absolutely zero […] I dont understand nothing

This is going to be a problem, unfortunately. You’ll need to define your use case first:

• How much music do you want to have access to? Hundreds, thousands, millions of files? How large is your collection?
• Do you have downloaded copies of all the music you want to listen to? Are they all in one place, well organized and tagged? If you just have downloads in the Spotify app, you won’t be able to use those files, you don’t actually own that music. You’ll need DRM-free audio files.
• Where and how do you want to be able to access them? Just from one device like your phone? Many devices? Is having access at home good enough, or do you want to be able to access your collection while you’re away from home?
• Will you be the only user?
• What kind of budget do you have to work with?

An old PC might be enough to act as a server, but there’s more involved and the answer to what you need depends on what exactly you want to do. You will not be able to build a personal version of Spotify with just an old PC, for instance.

gotta update your book OS to v2.0.EB

Better to put them on show than put them to use, but also yes there’s something vulgar in celebrating weapons.

Fine weapons of war augur evil.
Even things seem to hate them.
Therefore, a man of Tao does not set his heart upon them.

Tao The Ching #31

What another has taught let me repeat:
“A man of violence will come to a violent end.”
Whoever said this can be my teacher and my father.

Tao The Ching #42

Never use a spreadsheet to do a database job.

Nope, you have to make an appearance in court and provide documentation of your death.

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”

A long wire is an antenna that will gather electromagnetic noise from the air and turn it into random signal on the line. Shorter wires will be less responsive and therefore less noisy, and you can also mitigate the problem by grounding everything properly. It’s also possible that with the wires in that parallel ribbon, they may induce crosstalk on each other. If you want to be really careful, you could replace that big ribbon cable with an STP cable and ground the shielding jacket.

Also, a noisy/low quality power input to the Pi will produce noise in its circuits and ultimately the output. If you can, supply the power from something better than a wall wart.

“A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client”

Ah yes, the evil government system that gets in the way of good people trying to run digital Ponzi schemes and collect ransomware payments.

Bad gubmint.

Sort of… but saying that the government can issue as much new currency as they want is disingenuous and this is addressed later in the video, but it literally says that the tax money is “destroyed”… this is not really correct.

The value of a government currency like the dollar comes ultimately from confidence in the US economy. If the economy produces value, then the dollar represents a piece of that value. If the economy is unproductive (less value is produced) then tax revenue is lower, and less new money can be issued.

So to close the circle, your taxes do pay for something… the government’s capacity to issue new money, which it then uses to pay for government services &etc. Saying that “your taxes pay for nothing” is kind of a pointless argument over semantics, because without the tax collection the government would not be able to pay for anything.

🎶 the love bug is a little old car that we can ride together 🎵

You could always try Red Star OS

Ah, I didn’t actually look at the Aoostar device you mentioned in your post… yeah you probably don’t want to run TrueNAS on that, something lighter would be more appropriate.

I do want to point out that in this price range you can get a used PowerEdge tower that will be more capable, reliable, repairable and upgradeable long-term. You can add more drives, more RAM, and even a second processor as your needs grow, plus it has a proper backplane with a physical RAID controller and redundant PSUs. If any of the electronics in that R1N100 fail you have to replace the whole device.

Of course it’s a lot bulkier, so it might not fit your use.

Of course English is spoken in other countries, and other countries have high numbers of internet users, but it does not follow that English is a commonly used language for internet users in other countries. Most Chinese are probably speaking Chinese, most Indians are probably speaking Hindi.

The IPv6 graph you linked shows that adoption is still less than 50%, and I’m not clear on their methodology… does “users that access Google” mean users with Google accounts? or individual users that use google.com? or does it include all of their cloud services? do web servers linking content from Google Ads count? does this data represent mostly end users, or also infrastructure connections?

These graphs do not give an indication of how many users per country there are. There are in fact statistics on that which expectedly show China and India on top.

Well sure, but people from those countries are far less likely to be speaking English, which is why I said:

It is entirely rational to assume that an English-speaking person on the Internet is from the US, given no other information.

The prevalence of internet use in countries with primary languages other than English has no bearing on this statement.

The point of using the IP address statistics is to show that the vast majority of websites on the Internet were created in the US for the US market, and that is still true today.

On a side note, the distribution of addresses is unbalanced but it isn’t “bad”. It is a consequence of a system growing over time. Communications infrastructure cannot pop into existence everywhere all at once, and realistically not many people outside the US had any interest in the internet in 1983.

I would love to see a more recent source if you have one.

Regardless, possession of IP addresses doesn’t change all that much. In the early days a company could buy an entire Class A (1.X.X.X) address space comprising 16million+ addresses for their private use. There are still many companies holding large blocks of addresses, and most of those companies are in the US, and they don’t just give up those addresses.

The point being, there’s significant resistance to redistributing addresses once they’ve been allocated. They don’t change hands terribly often (and keep in mind we’re talking about actual internet addresses, not local network addresses that are being dynamically assigned and NATed across router domains).

My priorities are ease of installation and administration, as well as reliability.

How much of a priority is reliability? How many drives are you running, and how many of them are mirrored or hot spares? or are you running one of the striped RAID levels?

Hard drives are consumables and should be expected to fail. Data redundancy is a fundamental requirement for reliability. Probably everything else in the server is disposable/replaceable, but the data isn’t.

TrueNAS makes management of mirrored drive pools easy, and frankly 1:1 mirroring is the most sane way to handle redundancy (vs. parity striping), and you should always have at least one hot spare in the pool as well. For instance, I have five 8TB drives in a TrueNAS server - two mirrored pairs, and the fifth is a hot spare. I have 40TB of drive space but only 16TB of storage, but when an active drive fails then TrueNAS will automatically bring the hot spare online and copy the data from the mirror of the failed drive onto it and alert me that a replacement drive is needed. This is easy to set up, and TrueNAS also automates SMART testing and will attempt to load balance read & write cycles based on drive age and performance.