Discord: Hold my beer

Oh that’s good to know. I took a look at notesnook a bit ago and immediately noped out when it appeared I’d have to get a subscription to do basic stuff.

In college we had to take a certain number of bible classes. Senior year took one on the history of the old testament or something like that. Course compared the texts to older texts from nearby regions and it’s all basically plagiarized. This was somehow supposed to bring us closer to god, but for me it did the obvious and was the straw that broke that particular camel’s back.

While I would be open to a trade, I’d be more looking for something like the Synology that I already have, just not so walled garden. I currently have a number of 2.5 and 3.5 inch disks that I’d like to keep using, and I think the Optiplex is more of just a regular desktop than a server?

Huh, I’m also in the PNW. This could work out. I think it’s a bit too much for my needs, and I really don’t have the space for it. That said, I do want to learn how to use it, and get it up and running, etc. But after that I would definitely be looking to get something more practical. And quiet if it’s as loud as people are saying.

Uff, I wouldn’t even know how to ship that without it costing an arm and a leg

Ugh that’s unfortunate, because I do not have an out of the way place to put it. It didn’t make any noise when I plugged it in, but I imagine that comes from the drives when I insert them

Hey, thanks for your advice, and honestly the permission to be okay with not using it. I lost sight of that and it’s a good reminder. I am a little concerned for the noise and power consumption that everyone is talking about, especially since I don’t have an out of the way place to stick it.

That said, while I might ultimately not use it, I will at least learn enough to get it running. And like you said, fail a lot. But if I don’t have anything on it, failure won’t be so painful when I inevitability have to start over.

I’ll have to get some sort of adapter for VGA, and thanks for the talking about idrac. I had seen that mentioned on the server and had no idea what it was. So is the idrac website I’m connecting to like the website on routers used for configuration?

Hey thanks for the advice! Proxmox and TrueNAS seem to be what I should be looking into. Flashing with Rufus I’m familiar enough with, so that I can do. The one thing I don’t have is an out of the way place to put it 🫤 without any drives it didn’t make any noise, but I imagine that all comes from the drives doing their thing.

Thanks for the encouragement! To be honest, while it was a good place to start from its hand holding, I don’t love synology for how walled garden it is. I’ll definitely take a look at TrueNAS and see what that’s like.

There are dozens of us!

It’s gotten so much better since 2008. Ubuntu is good for servers, but probably not what you’re looking for on a desktop. And you really don’t need to have a coding background to use it, though it also depends on your use case.

The further NE you go in the US the more non-rhotic the dialect becomes, more or less.

I also have this controller (and the one that is SNES style) and both work well with my steam deck.

Oh I didn’t even thinking about using wildcard addresses on the fly. I’ve been using the masked email addresses, but that obviously requires forethought.

I moved over to fastmail and have been enjoying it, but I’m sure there are plenty of people who will tell me why it was the wrong choice.

That’s different, at least in the US. Stalls are accessible, not reserved. Parking is reserved for handicap identified vehicles only.

This. Antifa was never a thing except in the minds of the fascists trying to rebrand antifascism as something bad. Like the migrant caravans of 2018, once it was no longer convenient they moved on to the next boogie man.

Apparently Elon hates it when you call them swasticars, so definitely do not do that.

Curiosity question, is it common where you’re from for people to ask how you’re doing as a form of greeting? I had always heard it was such an American thing to do.