CouncilOfFriends

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proxmox vs. Debian: Running media server on older hardware⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My server runs Debian VMs in Proxmox on an i7-2600 which has a lower benchmark than the 6600k. I also used the Perfect Media Server guide, and have 2 x 8T data drives pooled with MergerFS and 1 for parity, these are passed through to the main VM from Proxmox with ‘qm set’. One thing I often forget after deleting/restoring this VM is to run qm set again after restore, ensuring it has the flag to not back up those drives or else backups will fail and I have to go uncheck the backup option to fix it. If I need to spin up another VM for tinkering it’s also easy enough to mount the NFS share as a volume with docker compose.

  Proxmox rarely shows CPU usage go above 50%, and this handles the whole *arr stack plus usenet and torrents in a single VM and compose file. I don’t even have GPU passthrough setup because the motherboard on this older rig didn’t support something like IOMMU. Never had issues with Plex or Jellyfin transcoding for Chromecast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In practice the stagnation of IPv6 it seems to be a recognition of the unintended security that NAT with IPv4 adds. From a security perspective, having every device use a public IP and trying to prevent malicious software from simply opening whatever ports it needs per device would be another attack vector.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In the internet age where scammers across the globe can and will use personal information to target you for social engineering scams, it is better from a privacy perspective to have phone numbers be information you volunteer to people. Before widespread internet it made sense to give out numbers in the White Pages because physical mail forwarding was the other option to find people when their phone number changed. If a scammer can simply go down a list of most common names and a number string they can more easily make it appear they have a fake Amazon delivery, PayPal transaction, or other fake alert customized with their name. Most people will not use their critical thinking and it’s a big enough problem already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just today I was listening to Peter F. Hamilton’s “Exodus: The Archimedes Engine” and the mention of attack dogs with diamond-tipped teeth sounded a little wacky for sci-fi. Sometimes life can be stranger than fiction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar panels between railway tracks?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was about to comment that it makes more sense to put panels in open space, but looking into it does appear some numbers crunchers did the math on efficiency gain from being able to swap old panels with a dedicated machine on the rails, versus the other option.