Ask her to explain what’s sexist about saying that.

Is it sexist to say “I’ve never worn wet Billy Bob brand underwear”?

Sounds to me like she has some hangups.

Also, did you mean it to be sexist? No? Then it wasn’t. She’s decided to hear it that way and lay some nonsense on you.

Honestly, had that been me, I would’ve busted out laughing at the inanity.

Can you spin up a VM or a docker image?

I’ve done this when services misbehave, and just migrate the DB over (Syncthing in particular).

It was on the jumbotron - surely one or two of the thousands of people at the show knew who it was. And then we’d have people watching it remotely, or the show appearing on video services, etc.

Assuming this was discovered via “Social Media Surveillance” is a leap, and a weak argument about such surveillance (which is a real problem that I’ve been arguing against since the late 90’s).

Again, this was on the jumbotron. Stuff on the jumbotron has made the media circles since the advent of the jumbotron.

Lol.

Still got the library issue, eh? Gonna have to just turn off services/apps/processes until you find the culprit.

Yea, buts that very different than software VOIP.

I know this first hand by having VOIP-only voice on my phone via a service using Monocles Chat or Cheogram.

Voice calls via my cell plan are much better quality and more consistent than VOIP via an app. I suspect this is because voice calls over 4G/5G are encoded by hardware.

Even Google Voice for calls is pretty awful, which is why I’ve never paid to use it for voice calls.

I’d at least flip the drive on the right so it’s underside is closer to the fan, as that side gets hotter in my experience, so it would have more effective cooling.

RAID 5 is fine, as part of a storage and data management plan. I run it on an older NAS, though It can do RAID 6.

No RAID is reliable in the sense of “it’ll never fail” - fault tolerance has been added to it over the years but it’S still a storage pool from multiple drives.

ZFS adds to it’s fault resistance, but you still better have proper backups/redundancy.

Freak-a-you, freak-a-me, Freakazoid!

And there will be another currency after that.

Again, I’m not spending my time bartering the chickens my boss gave me for some crabs, for some iron, for some gas, just to trade that with the person that has the thing I need, because thats what they wanted.

If you come up with any argument about “well my simplifies that by making the trades for you”, then you’ve just re-engineered currency.

Currency isn’t the issue, it’s money lenders (you know, the table Jesus supposedly threw over at the synagogue), because it’s the generation of debt to make profit at the expense of others, while not contributing anything tangible, that’s the problem according to the parable.

You could still have debtors in a barter system, and that would still be problematic. It would still be debtors preying on people with little to start with, like payday loan places. “We’ll loan you 2 chickens today, but you’ll owe us 3 on pay day”. See, no difference.

Now if you want to make a local barter system just because, that’s different. But acting like you’re going to replace currency is naive, at best. Currency has been with mankind for thousands of years, because it simplifies trading.

Using money is just a simplification of barter. I don’t have time to play barter with 12 people to get the 1 thing I need. Instead I trade dollars/coins/gold/whatever mutually agreed upon token of value.

Also, my boss doesn’t pay me in chickens that I can’t use

The argument against money is just silly.

I’m using the same, Dell OptiPlex SFF.

Has an M2 for the OS, put a full size 8TB drive in for data. I run multiple VMs in VMware on Windows (yep, I know, not the best approach).

It has 32GB of RAM, and it does fine simultaneously converting video and streaming it via Jellyfin. My data is locally replicated to two other systems: a NAS that’s too slow to actually host anything, and a low power machine just for replication.

What I would do differently: run Linux and use KVM of some sort.

Currently it idles at about 15w, peaks at 80w when converting. It’s practically silent at idle.

Paid next to nothing for the box (~$50), most costs are in the ram and drive upgrade.

No one wants the ugliness of a war over NK, but everyone wants their natural resources, estimated to be one of the largest deposit of minerals in the world.

And this goes back to the Cold War, which goes back to WWII, and the politics of the president and military commanders, specifically MacArthur, who wanted to continue north and take North Korea decisively to keep the Soviet Union and China from controlling it before it could be reinforced by Chinese soldiers.

At the time, North Korean soldiers were outnumbered by UN forces 3:1, with far more tanks, etc than NK had.

The UN waffled, and by the time they decided Korea should be reunified, China had shipped in nearly 300,000 troops, and an unknown amount of matériel.

Fuck the UN. It’s their fault this is still going on.

The thing is that with progressive bifocals, and the right size lense, this is rarely an issue, as you choose the focus you need by simply moving your eyes and head. When setup properly I rarely need to move my head at all for normal day-to-day stuff, as we naturally put what we’re viewing in the center of our vision.

For example, when looking far, we tend to look upward more, so naturally use the upper portion of a lense. When on a computer or reading, we tend to look downward. Driving is a great example, we look forward and up while driving, down to see the dash, and progressives cover that with no problem.

The only time I run into “problems” is when doing really close work for an extended period, like stuff inches from my face. But for those times, I just switch to readers only while I’m doing that work. These glasses could maybe work there.

Dietpi.com

They have images for all sorts of devices, and for virtualization platforms (I run mine in VMware).

I ran a different one once before (built a Linux VM, installed Pi), this one was much easier, and it just works.

Oh, Syncthing? It could definitely do this, I’ve had it happen.

Once files are deleted, ST will have the deletion in it’s database. You can recreate the files all you want, ST is going to delete them.

The same problems exist in the fedivwrse, so it’s not because of profit.

Profit makes it worse, but the real problem is humans can be shitty - all of us - at one time or another.

Is the SMB share set read-only?

This is a strange one.

Lol. I feel your pain.

I setup a 2.5TB RAID box in 2011, thought it was going to last a while.

Now my server has a single 8TB data drive, my NAS is 7TB, and I have 2 4TB drives and everything is replicated between them.

Now I need to build another NAS as all this stuff is aging.

Cool, thanks!