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This lines up with my completely unscientific observation that the people who have started relying heavily on AI are dumbasses.

Indeed, how did they fuck that up so badly? I feel like you have to be trying these days to embed a map and address picker and not have it support global addresses.

What about lasers?

Honestly, the only way I see is by staying under the radar. Right now Lemmy feels like early-days Reddit - most people haven’t heard of it, and the content is skewed heavily towards privacy-focused tech nerds. As soon as it becomes mainstream and everyone has a Lemmy account, that’s when the corporate trolling and bots arrive.

The one good thing about Lemmy is its distributed nature. Like we used to have private or invite-only forums back in the day, perhaps some servers could implement this kind of approach and only federate carefully with other servers. Would require a lot of coordination. But there’s definitely more hope here than on a commercial and centralised platform!

This seems especially handy for anyone who wants a snapshot of Reddit from pre-enshittification and AI era, where content was more authentic and less driven by bots and commercial manipulation of opinion. Just choose the cutoff date you want and stick with that dataset.

I really hate late stage capitalism for this. Any useful invention is quickly captured and enshittified for profit. If this came out 20-30 years ago I doubt anyone would have reservations.

Neither did Sony, lol.

Definitely the former. Most people have just hung onto their PCs for longer. Steam’s userbase keeps climbing.

Since it sounds like you’ll be using it for more than just a NAS, I’d go with TrueNAS, Proxmox or Debian headless (in order of easiest to hardest to install and maintain).

If you have the room, why not go full ATX? More compatibility with available parts and room for future upgrades! Drives, GPUs, NICs, HBAs etc.

It’s a sign of the times that the effects of rapid weight loss are attributed to a drug since most people don’t know what it looks like!

In my experience it always goes wrong at the least opportune time. Before an important zoom call, as you’re about to leave for the airport etc. My NAS and services (especially Home Assistant) are so mission critical now that I like to have a warm backup ready to go, even if it’s a stop-gap measure.

https://youtu.be/fOVHb4-4ry4

This, except it’s the CEO being questioned

I DIY’d a PIKVM from an old Raspberry Pi 4 I had lying around for use in a homelab server. It’s been great, no complaints here, very handy if you need BIOS or direct console access from a phone or laptop. I especially like that you can hook up the PC power buttons to allow hard power cycling via the web interface. Though if you’re looking for something portable you’d probably skip that part.

Used enterprise drives are amazing value though. With enough redundancy in a RAID array it’s a great way to get storage in bulk.

Please drink a verification can.

At some point tech companies stopped focusing on what customers want/need, and started chasing their own delusions on what the next big thing is that will make them money. Solutions in search of problems, with billions of dollars of hype and marketing behind them. Crypto, NFTs, the metaverse, AI… it’s sad to see.

Wow, thanks so much for the detailed rundown of your setup, I really appreciate it! That’s given me a lot to think about.

One area that took me by surprise a little bit with the HBA/SAS drive approach I’ve taken (and it sounds like you’re considering) is the power draw. I just built my new server PC (i5-8500T, 64GB RAM, Adaptec HBA + 8x 6TB 12GB SAS drives) and initial tests show on its own it idles at ~150W.

I’m fairly sure most of that is the HBA and drives, though I need to do a little more testing. That’s higher than I was expecting, especially since my entire previous setup (Synology 4-bay NAS + 4x SATA drives, external 8TB drive, Raspberry Pi, switch, Mikrotik router, UPS) idles at around 80W!

I’m wondering if it may have been overkill going for the SAS drives, and a proxmox cluster of lower spec machines might have been more efficient.

Food for thought anyway… I can tell this will be a setup I’m constantly tinkering with.

I’m curious why you feel these are easier to run on bare metal? I only ask as I’ve just built my first proxmox PC with the intent to run TrueNAS and Home Assistant OS as VMs, with 8x SAS enterprise drives on an HBA passed through to the TrueNAS VM.

Is it mostly about separation of concerns, or is there some other dragon awaiting me (aside from the power bills after I switch over)?

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Hopefully this resource is handy for you - I’m going through the same process at the moment.