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Definitely, totally, for sure it’s real this time guys. Absolutely, positively, 100%. No doubt, practically a guarantee. I’m betting my firstborn, my house and my bank account on HL3 Confirmed. This is definitely not cope. No sir. Nothing but hope.

it’s worth mentioning mine is over 10 years old and was that cheap when I bought it. If you can find a fanless design, these will last ages since there’s a few simple non-moving components that do the same kind of work all day every day and don’t take a ton of abuse. Even after all these years, the CPU on mine sits mostly idle even with heavy traffic. Modern software is just very efficient.

Another reason the router/firewall lasts is because I use a dedicated WiFi antenna. This is another part that gets the same work every day. I’ve upgraded mine twice, but it was almost double the speed each time, and I didn’t have to spend extra money on routing hardware that was still plenty powerful.

My setup consists of an x86 “network appliance”. They’re low-cost, low-power, sometime headless units that can run most any open-source software solution. Even with RAM as bad as it is, you can find these for less than $200 from multiple sources if you’re okay with 1Gbps. If you did need that, you’d have to build something custom likely, unless it’s a small-business class device.

If you’re just getting into the network software side of things, I recommend experimenting off-Internet for a while with a few different operating systems. Find which one has a user-interface you enjoy and can wrap your head around since in a personal homelab, they almost all meet the requirements. My personal choice for software ended up being OPNSense.

I run all of my other services that aren’t network related on separate hardware via a managed switch just to keep things isolated and the rest is up to you.

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Right there with you. I’m left with only two games on the PS4 that I wish they had ported to PC: CTR: Nitro-Fueled and DriveClub. I’ve always been sad about the death of DriveClub.

When I got my first PEI bed and was manually leveling, I had the nozzle hot and left it there for too long as I was doing something else and had a big burn mark. Thankfully only had to replace the PEI sheet, but I learned by lesson.

I might try it again, but last time I tried using it, it would just kernel panic my whole system when I opened the software.

I have been having excellent luck with MkDocs Material. It’s very lightweight and static and has a ton of extensibility. Their documentation itself is written using their own software and gives you a great idea of what it has to offer: squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/

I use it both at work and for a game squadron wiki. It’s entirely written in Markdown so syntax is pretty quick to learn as well. Not sure if this is exactly what you’re looking for, but it’s become my new go to for documentation.

Really, you have the opportunity to recreate the past and I’m stuck with AIM? I’ll stick to XMPP and IRC thanks.

The product might be real though. The image looks legit to my eyes at least. I agree that the artwork looks generated if not low-effort at the very least.

Unrealistic body standards at it again

For the thrill of the fight, of course.

Haven’t had to do a full OS upgrade yet, but standard packages can be updated and installed right in the web UI as well.

Very happy with OMV. It’s not crazy customizable, so if you have something specialized, you might run into quirks trying to stick to the Web UI, but it’s just Debian under the hood, so it’s pretty manageable. 4x1TB drives RAID 5 for media/critical data, OS drive, and a Service data drive (databases, etc). Then an external 4TB for the incremental and another external 4TB for the disconnected backup.

After many failures, I eventually landed on OMV + Docker. It has a plugin that puts the Docker management into a web UI and for the few simple services I need, it’s very straightforward to maintain. I don’t cloud host because I want complete control of my data and I keep an automatic incremental backup alongside a physically disconnected one that I manually update.