My guess is a low cost, thin cast iron pan

Today I have a huge bottleneck in unpacking and moving. I’ve got 1gb fiber and can saturate it, getting a complete iso in just a few minutes, but then it’s another 30min plus waiting for that to actually be usable.

Are you doing this all manually or using the *arr suite? For me, this process takes a minute or two depending on the size of the files with Proxmox and ZFS but even previously on Windows 10 with SnapRAID it was quick.

Its honestly pretty small for what you can pack inside but they do have smaller options like the Node series. The 304 is around 8"x10"x14" with room for 6 drives.

The third alternative (and best IMO) is to buy a PC case with lots of drive slots and transfer everything into it. With a NAS you’re going to pay a ton of money for the NAS itself which is just laptop-equivalent hardware and a fixed number of drive bays meaning you can’t expand it when it fills up without buying more expensive hardware, and you’ll also be forced into buying matched drives. With an HDD enclosure, you’re spending less money but again fixed on the number of drives while also being somewhat unreliable due to the USB connection.

I use a Fractal Design Define 6 midtower case which can hold around 12 HDDs. For hardware I bought a mobo with the most SATA ports I could get and began slowly buying drives as my storage pool filled up, eventually needing an LSI HBA card to expand the number of SATA connections. This is the best value IMO as the cost is comparable to buying a NAS, you can add drives as you go with a much higher drive capacity, the connection is rock solid, and you can run real PC hardware.

It was definitely not fun stringing Cat6 through the attic, but knowing myself, I probably wouldn’t have stayed on top of battery changes and I also wanted 24/7 recording since a battery powered camera can miss movement and start recording late or not at all. I also need a doorbell camera still but I’ve had trouble finding one that checks all the boxes.

It sounds like a fun project but I dont know if I’d rely on it for security purposes. Plus with the cost of Pis now you might as well but a full fledged camera.

I have Amcrest PoE cameras hooked to an Amcrest NVR for 24/7 recording and also Frigate running separately tied to Home Assistant to record clips and send notifications when people are out front/back of my house. It all works really well thus far after about a year of use.

Im talking about face to face. When you speak to someone online it becomes a lot blurrier but I would err on the side of an LLM until proven otherwise.

Because as far as we know currently only humans have sentience so if you’re talking to a human you know it does, and if you’re talking to anything else, you know it doesn’t.

Same. For most people in our space, a Dell Optiplex micro is more than enough horsepower (except few expansion ports). There’s no reason to be running a legacy server consuming 2.5kW just to host some movies or store your camera footage.

“Favorite” as in “entertaining” is definitely the Boston accent because it makes you sound wicked smahht.

Comcast recently upgraded their internet in our area to give us better upload speeds (from 16mbps to 200mbps) but I’d previously been sharing Linux ISOs with friends and family with a bitrate cap on Plex of 3mbps. With this, I was sometimes able to have 5 concurrent remote streams. Quality certainly wasn’t the best but nobody really even seemed to notice when I asked about it and I’d explained to everyone that due to the shitty upload speed I was limited on how many people could watch at the same time.

I don’t charge anyone for anything but several have offered money or bribes of beer or food over the years. As others have mentioned, with payments comes and expectations of priority or uptime and I can’t guarantee that stuff.

You want to host a PvP game server but not if it requires an internet connection? Who would you be playing against without an internet connection?

Consider any future clients you might have or if you decide to share with other people the clients they have. I personally think it’s worth spending a few extra bucks now to ensure compatibility in the future.

I don’t think this is a problem unique to reddit. This can affect anyone who gains the tiniest bit of power over others. I remember pissing a mod off who then went on to delete my stuff and ban me in an old forum for a local offroading group way back around the year 2000.

Ive been watching a lot of public freakout videos lately and the number of people who call police over their fast food order being wrong is quite astounding.

Im running a similar setup (ZFS pool, Cockpit, portainer x2, and a few LXCs for Plex, Frigate, etc) and it’s been great. Before building it early this year, I’d been running everything on Windows for the decade prior because I was unfamiliar with Linux and struggled like OP when problems arose, but after following a guide to get everything setup it’s been rock solid and if I screw anything up I can just load a backup. I’d also looked into TrueNAS and Unraid but this gives me a more flexible setup without any extra cost and the ability to tinker without affecting anything else like you said.

Quarter after quarter of expected growth in an industry that only works with cheap prices.

As others have said, get a manual for your car if its available (typically Haynes or even a factory service manual if its cheap). Aside from this i think ChrisFix on YouTube does one of the absolute best jobs of explaining tasks such as replacing your brakes in a way that even someone without any knowledge can follow along and using basic hand tools. A lot of other channels can show you similar tasks but he can explain it all without leaving knowledge gaps as many others assume you already know how to turn wrenches.

I learn similar to you and do almost all my own services on my vehicles and have quite a bit of experience working on cars, but even still I like to Google to find specific videos on services that I haven’t done before and watch them several times in the days leading up to performing the service. This helps me absorb all the steps, so I feel more confident that I’m not going to miss something or get overwhelmed and put myself into a bad situation (like breaking some ancillary part or getting halfway into something it turns out I don’t have the skills/tools for).

I would pay special attention to how things work so that you can transfer and reuse what you’ve learned across different makes and models even if they’re put together differently as well as helping you with future repairs that might share similar components.

Is it rusted over the paint or rusted under the paint? For the former they make iron decontaminate spray to remove iron particles embedded in the paint. For the latter, you’d want to sand it down to clean metal and then prime and paint.