Afaik, you can set it up not to have any image, or have any other one.

We’re unlikely to see the grand price fall in the coming year. Can get a bit cheaper, though.

Nice!

Pouring out a gallon of water is an immediately identifiable thing

Yes, as in “you can impress people with that”, no, as in “it gives any sort of accurate perception”

There are plenty of things that consume orders of magnitude more water than AI. You’ll be much better off ecologically by skipping the last few seconds of your shower or eating a tiny slice of meat less every week than by not using these tools.

Besides, many of them can be run on your regular, air-cooled PC.

That’s not to say that AI training in general is not an ecological issue - but most of it actually goes in directions other than LLMs and image generation tools, and for models already trained, the footprint is straight up negligible. You likely wasted more energy reading this than getting an AI to make an image for you.

The expenses are mostly upfront though. I’ve spent like $400 on a relatively fancy NAS and two 3TB WD Red CMR drives five years ago, and since then, there was that.

Of course, depending on your use case, there could be extra expenses as well, some of them recurring:

• Bigger drives
• Backup storage (I already had a place I could back up to)
• Domain name and DNS records (if you expose it to the public Web with a URL; you can otherwise just use a VPN tunnel to access NAS from outside the home network, which is free unless you do anything fancy)
• Some kind of paid software (if you don’t enjoy the perfectly good collection of open-source apps)
• Etc.

Now, for the streaming alternative:

• Netflix Standard: $18/mo
• Spotify: $12/mo
• Total: $30/mo, or $360/yr. Just these two services alone.

Your NAS system will pay off in a little over a year (maybe two years if you go all in with huge drives, fancy NAS configs, extra expenses here and there), and it’s smooth sailing from there.

My unit works for 5 years already with no maintenance, is still fully supported by the manufacturer, and I don’t expect to replace it in a few more years.

Self-hosting allows you to have all your files on all your devices, like many have used to with the streaming services. Also, some smart TVs specifically require to connect to some server to grab movies from.

If you don’t need any of that, regular hard drive will suit you best.

I play wizard and am currently writing a PhD thesis. Checks out!

Sorry to know!

Everyone, let’s make them join a party!

Could you threaten the salt vendor with that?

Which is probably fine since, at this temperature, it will immediately convert to solid salt, albeit maybe with some impurities should some ions react with something else.

You can be a white guy with expensive equipment, and still you’ll have to work since at most the age of 7 to land somewhat decent job.

Where does that leave black folks?..uhm, capitalists don’t care.

I wouldn’t read it that way.

Being instrumental doesn’t mean being the only important factor, and Truthout clearly mentions this is the third most popular reason, not the first.

Jesus Christ the election is long over

Simply accept that out of two outcomes (leftists uniting to vote Democrat/leftists trying to send Democrats a message by not voting them in) both would lead to terrible consequences. It was a matter of time, it just got expedited to now instead of few years later.

You cannot vote democracy in if there’s no fair democracy in the first place. Elections are over, they won’t save you, unite over what you can do instead of wasting everything you have on infighting. It won’t work.

Organize and protest. Join the political organizations in your area and unionize. This is a harder way, and I know it takes time and energy to figure things out and organize and take part in all the actions made, but it is the only way that works.

Please, if you aren’t already part of your local organizing teams, go search for them right now.

I would argue either RAID 5 or ZFS RAIDz1 are inherently unsafe, since recovery would take a lot of read-write operations, and you better pray every one of 4 remaining drives will hold up well even after one clearly failed.

I’ve witnessed many people losing their data this way, even among prominent tech folks (looking at you, LTT).

RAID6/ZFS RAIDz2 is the way. Yes, you’re gonna lose quite a bit more space (leaving 24TB vs 32TB), but added reliability and peace of mind are priceless.

(And, in any case, make backups for anything critical! RAID is not a backup!)

Yay!

Yay!

Can’t it automatically be renewed?

F I N A L L Y

Now tell me it supports IPv6 and I’ll be the happiest man alive

I would be fairly comfortable running a direct WireGuard connection even without Tailscale, but my location and use case simply won’t allow me to.

Your setup is valid, nothing wrong with it, and yes, it is more secure. Just can’t be used in my case.

I mean any connection through these protocols is just not working over the Internet. DPI equipment detects respective packets and cuts the connection, irrespective of the port you assign.