A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I’m usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn’t always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.

I’m into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things, too.

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  • Well if you want a proper upgrade, 40TB plus redundancy and space for a GPU, I’d say you don’t want a mimi PC but a full-blown one. I built my server myself from components. It’s hard to find good numbers on power consumption and that was one of my main concerns. I had a look at some PC magazines and what kind of mainboards they recommend for a home server. Figured I wanted 6 SATA ports and I started from that. Unfortunately said magazine doesn’t have a good article right now, so I don’t know what to recommend. Another way is to look for refurbished PCs. If they’re some brand like Lenovo or Dell, you’ll find the specs online. With a N100 mini pc, I’m not so sure if that’s a big step up from your current setup… I don’t think they have more internal harddrive ports or slots for GPUs than your current laptop.


  • Very good answer. I’ve also spent some time analyzing some red herrings when it was something else like a bad cable or connector. And by the way, you can use the same keys in journalctl as in the usual pager (less(?)) so hit / and search for ‘unmount’, ‘disconnect’, etc. And then scroll through the log and find out what led to the situation.


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    Computer databases are kind of purpose-built to organize a lot of (arbitrary) information. I seriously doubt this kind of chaos is going to make even the slightest difference. It’s probably just giving people some false sense of security while any information that’s stored in any cloud can still be retrieved. And effortlessly be matched to whomever they like to oppress. At least if it’s associated with some account, email or specific phone.










  • Fair enough. Take care. Glad you learned something. That’s the most important bit. I was a bit wary at first. It’s too easy (generally) to just blame someone else, not learn and repeat the same mistake. And I wasn’t sure if you were doing this. The only correct approach is to instead have a good look at ourselves and ask: “What could I have done differently, to prevent a situation like that from happening (or escalating).”

    When doing experiments and handling dangerous stuff, it is of utmost importance to factor in mistakes and even unlikely scenarios. You always need more than one layer of protection/safety. And generally don’t do things unless you have a good grasp of consequences and what might go wrong and how to mitigate for that.

    Stay safe, and a speedy recovery.


  • I really can’t tell if you’re being serious. I strongly suspect this is some rage-bait or excercise in creative writing… In case it isn’t: I’d advise you to re-watch the old Mythbusters episodes. See how they do experiments and treat safety and dangerous things. You generally also don’t look down the barrel of a loaded gun. Sure, it isn’t supposed to go off and blow your head off until someone also pulls the trigger… But: This is how accidents work. It’s literally the definition of it. And accidents do happen. Every single day.

    And you’re constantly begging for more accidents to happen. Your friend wasn’t supposed to print it in PLA… That ABS wasn’t supposed to do more than crack… The design should have worked…

    And then you do the experiments and find out what happens in reality. That’s the scientific approach. Your friend didn’t use ABS, layer decoherence is a thing and even ABS will exhibit catastrophic failure on first try and not just crackle. The whole design might be a failure. I applaud you for learning things… But just don’t have your fingers and limbs in-between you and that learning experience! Idk, clamp it down with a vise and use a rope to pull the trigger. Watch the Youtube videos of lots of other 3d printed guns explode… Hide behind the shed so the fragments won’t hit your eyes.

    And in case this is some creative writing project: I’d recommend you to visit 4chan. That’s more a place to post gore, bait and you’ll find some people who like this kind of stuff.




  • Nah, Those were different times. You can’t directly compare a time when is was perfectly fine to own people, or have them die in large quantities while working in the mines or building the railroads, to modern day neoliberalism and turbo capitalism. I mean a lot of time has passed since then. And we invented social capitalism, workplace safety in the meantime. We kinda agreed that forced labor is to be frowned upon. That is all connected and has it’s roots in industrialization. Yes. But living situations changed massively. The way companies are set up changed. And we’re generally not living in the age of industrialization anymore.

    I’d say it has happened in the latter half of the 1900s, after WW2. At first there was an economic boom in quite some areas of the world, people got wealthier. Way more educated during the early 19th century. Especially in the USA. Wealth was distributed more evenly. And sometime after, things took a turn for the worse. For example the US disconnected from the rest of the western world with life expectancy. Healthcare was made into a rip-off. Education decreased. Newspapers, access to (neutral) information which flourished at times, became the media landscape it is today…

    That all happened within the last 60 years or so.




  • Not really an answer to your question, just wanted to say intelligence isn’t a one-dimensional thing. You can practically be a master on any one field but lack basic abilities in accomplishing what other people do every day. Or the other way around, you’re not particularly good at one thing that’s commonly attributed to intelligence, like chess or maths, but be highly intelligent or skilled in other things. And for me that includes social intelligence, being able to remember a lot of stuff, being handy or having a grasp for music, or anything. I think I’m alright in various things. But I regularly observe people being very good at something. Like scientists and I can barely read what the math even does. Or the lady at the bakery who remembers things about the personal lives of like >200 grandmas and which kind of bread they buy every week. In turn, I know like a 200 facts about Linux networking. But I couldn’t do what she does, even if I tried.