neidu3
@neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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- Comment on Thoughts about my (potential) first server? 6 hours ago:
If you’re going for software RAID, I recommend taking it a step further and go for ZFS: If set up correctly you get all the advantages of raid6, while remaining very flexible.
- Comment on What does the process of disobeying illegal military orders look like? [US] 1 day ago:
I read up on this recently, and my understanding is that the solider is supposed to presume the order is legal and carry it out(otherwise, a CO should not have given it in the first place). However, they can refuse, but will face consequences in that they better have a buttload of proof.
In effect, they will get in trouble for disobeying an order, but if it is proven that the order was demonstrably illegal to begin with, then they will probably be in the clear.
- Comment on Thoughts about my (potential) first server? 1 day ago:
Used/refurb SAS drives aren’t that expensive. Can someone with better memory than I please link to that site for second hand server components?
The reason why SAS drives are usually more expensive isn’t because the tech itself is more expensive (It’s largelt just a different kind of interface), but rather that “enterprise grade” hardware have a few additional Q&A steps, such as running a break-in cycle at the factory to weed out defective units.
While a server such as the one you described is slightly power hungry, it’s not that bad. Plus, if you wanna get into servers long term, it could serve as a useful way to get used to the hardware involved.
Server hardware is at its core not that different from consumer hardware, but it does often come with some nice and useful additions, such as:- Botswana drive bays (I tried to write “hotswap”, but autocorrect is probably correct.
- IPMI/iDRAC or equivalent for headless management
- Dual PSUs
- Rack mount capability
- Easy maintenance access to most hardware
- A ridiculous amount of sensors with automated warnings.
- Comment on There's the army, there should be the legy 1 day ago:
Ex wife, maybe?
- Comment on Do you think people from more "privilaged" backgrounds have a right to complain about the struggle and/or abuse that they went through? (eg: "Middle Class" or "Rich" family) 3 days ago:
Every complaint about any struggle is valid.
But nobody is entitled to anyone giving a fuck, and there’s not a lot of fucks around reserved for someone whose main complaint is that their private school cafeteria had too few butlers.
- Comment on YSK that if you hesitate between Ketchup and Mustard, you should pick Mustard. It's healthier. 3 days ago:
I was more referring to OP; If you like ketchup, put it on. If you like mustard, put that on too.
The way it’s phrased gives off a connotation of having to pretend two completely different things as mutually exclusive when they’re clearly not, judging from how many eat their hotdogs.
- Comment on YSK that if you hesitate between Ketchup and Mustard, you should pick Mustard. It's healthier. 4 days ago:
Between riding a bicycle and eating salad, choose the bicycle
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Yes-ISH.
If you use it as a tool, it can help you make money in a job like any other tool could.
As the money-making platform it gets a lot more iffy. If you self hosted a model and have a good idea then maybe.
Related question: I haven’t seen anyone claim to be a prompt engineer in ages. Did these people move on to other hype-titles?
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 4 days ago:
Yup. Failed spectacularly, which is why they went for mixing boards as a backup solution instead.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 4 days ago:
Makes sense. As long as the transfer medium isn’t highly capacitive or inductive, it doesn’t matter as long as you compensate for the loss in signal strength.
…and now I fell into a research rabbit hole regarding mud capacitance.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 4 days ago:
Additional reivia: The term “banana republic” originates from countries best known for exporting high-end audio equipment back in the day.
- Comment on "I am going to punch you" WHAT A BOSS! 4 days ago:
My hips don’t lie: I don’t have the physique I once used to. It’s up to Gen Z to keep doing what this kid did, even if he didn’t know how to properly throw a punch.
- Comment on I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it? 6 days ago:
Connect an Adagruit BNO055 to it and an Adafruit PCA9685 to it, find some cheap servos, and build a robot you can control over wifi.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 week ago:
Didn’t have much of an aim beyond trying to cook it up from scratch as a personal research project. That includes the protocol, since I’m handling keys in a creative way to facilitate both encryption and user “authentication”.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 week ago:
I did start a projects aiming to be a more decentralized/federated discord more akin to how IRC was back in the day. Time to revisit it, it seems.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 week ago:
They’ll have a “retina” scan of a brown-eyed cyclops.
- Comment on VLAN’s and Subnets For Home Networks 1 week ago:
Some VLAN-related nuggets that you may find useful for your post/blog:
- 99% of the time when people refer to VLAN, they’re talking about 802.1Q (VLAN tagging). There are others, so it’s up whether you want to cover those as well.
- The word “Trunk” can mean different things, depending on vendor. In the Cisco world, it means a line/port carrying multiple VLANs. With many other vendors, such as Aruba/HPE, it refers to link aggregation which isn’t necessarily relevant to VLANs
- A lot of hardware still use VLANs even none have been configured. For example, defaulting all switch ports to have an Access tag of 1 makes it behave like a dumb switch. This can cause issues later if you’re configuring VLANs elsewhere
- Anything connected to a VLAN-enabled switch will have to be connected to a port with a default VLAN tag. This is usually referred to as an “Access port” or an “Untagged port”
- “How do I configure the switch to allow units on VLAN 123 to talk to VLAN 321?”. You don’t. Connect both VLANs to a router which will route between them. Either connect the router to both VLANs individually and skip the tagging on the router, or you can run a single trunk between the switch and the router which carries both VLANs. The latter requires you to configure VLANs on your router accordingly.
- It might make sense in many cases to have the VLAN tag the same as the last octet in the IPv4 subnet. Makes it easier to keep track of.
- A PC can implement VLANs on its network port, allowing you to connect to a trunk port and access several VLANs with one cable.
Source: VLANs have been an integral part of my career for 20ish years.
- Comment on How did Pakistan defeat India in air battle? 1 week ago:
“Defeated” might be overstating it, but Pakistan generally overperformed compared to expectations, as they have significantly AWACS capabilities (Saab 340, I think?), whereas India is more limited. In this age with BVR capabilities and standoff munitions, airborne radar and intelligence is key to operational success, and Pakistan knows this, whereas I diagnostic has taken more of a brute force approach to modern aerial warfare, something that was obsolete 40 years ago, if not before.
- Comment on Do other female mammals smell like fish down there or is that exclusive to women? 1 week ago:
Oh, you specified mammals… I was about to reply “Fish probably do”.
I’ve been extensively around female mammals, both human and bovine, and I’d say the smell is more of a meme than actual truth.
- Comment on what does your "workshop" look like? 1 week ago:
My knee-jerk reaction is to answer “Like shit”. Mostly stemming from the fact that I Don have a proper workshop. However, what I do have:
- A “printer room” in the basement. When we were remodeling the bathroom upstairs, this ancient dungeonesque bathroom in the basement was used temporarily. It had a bathtub, a washing machine, and misc other things you’d associate with a bathroom. (Note: Not toilet. That’s a different room). When the upstairs bathroom was completed, the basement one was no longer needed. The bathtub ended up cut in half as I needed to test my new angle grinder, and other than that it was mostly left as is until I figured I could temporarily keep my printer there. Temporary became permanent, and the old unused washing machine is now a “printer pedestal”. One of the first things I printed was a cover for the drain, and then I put in a huge dehumidifier so that the room is nice and dry, despite its original function.
- A halway with a large storage furniture. Its height happened to be the perfect height for standing up kind of work, so I’ve annexed the top, which now holds a PSU, a soldering iron, a bunch of things I’m working on, and a 5x5 gridfinity storage shelf with drawers. A substantial amount of Digikeys overseas revenue is in that hallway.
- Comment on Files 1 week ago:
Either I make them myself, or I grab something from printable.com
- Comment on I am looking for a Linux OS 1 week ago:
After distro hopping for decades, I’ve ended up just running Mint for almost all desktop use cases. This includes gaming via steam.
- Comment on What digital indie games would you like to see at libraries? 1 week ago:
FTL. Runs on “any” PC.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 1 week ago:
Possible, but highly unlikely.
For starters, if that many were killed, I think it’d be really hard to keep a lid on it these days.Secondly, I’ve done a lot of reading on the atrocities of WW2, and two immediate constraints come to mind:
- Bodies. While possible, disposing of that many bodies without anyone noticing will be really hard.
- The gas chambers of ww2 were only planned during the Wannsee conference in 1942, long after the holocaust actually started. The gas chambers were built because the original plan was not sustainable: People killing other people at an industrial scale. No matter how vile a person is, the human mind was not built to deal with having to mow down swathes of humans with a gun. Even the worst SS troops largely couldn’t deal with killing that many defenseless people, even if they were convinced it was “for the greater good”. The amount of SS troops who ended up unable to continue due to the mental after effects is staggering.
- Comment on Should I be using Debian? 1 week ago:
If it works on mint, it’ll most likely work on debian. And depending on your setup, debian might be a better choice for you, as Mint is desktop oriented.
But don’t fix something that already works. If there’s no issues with your Mint setup, I’d say keep it. Next time you set up a server, you can go for debian instead.
Source: I use both extensively. Mint on desktop, debian on headless stuff.
- Comment on YSK facts about renewable vs fossil, and more 2 weeks ago:
It’s worth the wait. He starts with solar, and ends up going nuclear.
- Comment on justgalsbeingchicks 2 weeks ago:
Peoply
- Comment on Supermicro iKVM BIOS keyboard input issue 2 weeks ago:
Noted. I’m mostly an X11 kind of guy. A few X12s.
- Comment on Supermicro iKVM BIOS keyboard input issue 2 weeks ago:
Are yoy able to switxh to HTML5 instead of Java? I never managed to get that Java applet to run properly without issues, and it sucks that older supermicro machines default to it. But many (most? All?) Have an HTML5 option you can use instead.
- Comment on How long does it take for pregnancy to become noticeable? 2 weeks ago:
4-5 months, depending on body shape and clothing style