Societal collapse? No gold won't save you. Tools and how to use them will.
Maybe during hyperinflation though.
Gods not a terrible investment but it doesn't have a short term ROI just a REALLY long term one.
I hate Bitcoin but its probably a better investment (and just as useful) than gold.
I'm a fudd though and ONLY buy stable stocks that yield reliable dividends though. ETFs, S&P stuff.
There's a few options now, but you can get Intel N100 ITX boards Like this one from ASUS with a soldered on N100 CPU for the cost of a normal motherboard.
If its just a NAS, and I do recommend having a separate Just a NAS, that CPU fucks hard.
I actually just want them to make proton drive work on Linux. That's all I need.
I don't have pride in my government or its actions.
It was actively causing a lot of harm for most of its existence and is now turbo charging its ability to enshittify the world.
The LEAST I can do is make it clear we're not all in support of this shit.
Love the country and people though. Lots of cool forests to roam and lots of people who don't suck.
Another one I didn't know is gay.
Props to msm for not making it a big deal
Odd way to learn altman is gay.
Kinda shocked I've never seen a "worlds richest gay man!" Headline. That feels like low hanging fru-
Not gonna lie. Had me until the Cucker Tarlson and Zodiac Killer cameo.
The only thing I hate more than a leftist news channel using conspiracy theorist language in a 3 hour video
Is copy pasted AI break downs.
You want me to watch this but you didn't even bother to give me your own breakdown?
Is this a not account?
He's a libertarian who is, self admittedly, hard to work with. He's also petty and a pedant.
Great for right to repair and digital sovereignty, but there's a lot more arguably real issues in the world than making sure my tech is upgradable. Like I'm pretty sure he talk about supporting RFK Jr in 24 [citation needed]'. I don't follow him as closely since he made a 20 minute video trying to argue that AOC is wrong about there being no such thing as unskilled labor by explaining the exact point.
I really don't wanna know his thoughts on trans rights or the mass racist deportations.
And if you just want a NAS? It is really hard to go wrong with a 4 bay NAS from one of the reputable vendors (which may just be ugreen at this point?) as those tend to still come out cheaper than building it yourself and 4 disks means you can either play with fire with RAID5 or not be stupid and do RAID1.
Actually ASUS started to sell N100 motherboards with the CPU soldered on for $120
That plus a jonsbo N2 or N3, a few extra pieces, and its a few hundred dollars cheaper than the Ugreen options. Sure it will probably run Truenas instead of Ugreens custom truenas or whatever its built on, but that extra $300 is another 24TB hard drive or a HexOS lifetime subscription.
There's also always the classic buy an old mid sized tower for $100 and slap two massive hard drives in it
I knew a guy who did actually make method in his apartment bathtub.
It was in part to make clean up easier and also had ventilation!
Although that guys was an odd duck and chemistry genius. He's a PHd student now and was actually making them meth so he could try meth he "trusted"
I doubt your average method manufacturer cares that much about safety though.
My rack is finished for now (because I'm out of money).
Last time I posted I had some jank cables going through the rack and now we're using patch panels with color coordinated cables!
But as is tradition, I'm thinking about upgrades and I'm looking at that 1U filler panel. A mini PC with a 5060ti 16gb or maybe a 5070 12gb would be pretty sick to move my AI slop generating into my tiny rack.
I'm also thinking about the PI cluster at the top. Currently that's running a Kubernetes cluster that I'm trying to learn on. They're all PI4 4GB, so I was going to start replacing them with PI5 8/16GB. Would those be better price/performance for mostly coding tasks? Or maybe a discord bot for shitposting.
Thoughts? MiniPC recs? Wanna bully me for using AI? Please do!
So I have rebuilt my Production rack with very little in terms of an actual software plan.
I host mostly docker contained services (Forgejo, Ghost Blog, OpenWebUI, Outline) and I was previously hosting each one in their own Ubuntu Server VM on Proxmox thus defeating the purpose.
So I was going to run a VM on each of these Thinkcentres that worked as a Kubernetes Cluster and then ran everything on that. But that also feels silly since these PCs are already Clustered through Proxmox 9.
I was thinking about using LXC but part of the point of the Kubernetes cluster was to learn a new skill that might be useful in my career and I don't know how this will work with Cloudflared Tunnels which is my preferred means of exposing services to the internet.
I'm willing to take a class or follow a whole bunch of "how-to" videos, but I'm a little frazzled on my options. Any suggestions are welcome.
Okay Kubernetes people. I am about to build my first cluster with 4 Raspberry Pi 4B 4gb models powered over POE.
I was going to host just some basic stuff on it (forgejo, a couple Ghost Blogs) and try hosting a Mastodon instance.
The documentation mentioned that I should not use the SD cards for database stuff. So I was going to get some super short thumb drives.
What is everyone else's set up look like with raspberry pis? And how important is matching hardware?
I'm sure I'll learn more from reading the documents but this is my concern right now.
(I was also required to upload a photo so have my Latitude D630)
Personally, I view it as propaganda still, but I don't view propaganda as bad inherently.
Propaganda to me is just an organized effort to persuade a larger audience of people politically. Its only bad if the aims are harmful unjustly.
So people organizing a take over to reiterate "No fucking Nazis!" Is a propaganda campaign, but its based.