Then it's probably time to switch boards. Anything that will expand drive connections will need a PCIe slot. Using an adapter that goes into an m.2 is probably going to have issues. Using USB based devices is asking for trouble.
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Yes I've used them. They are worth it. What the EPA says is safe still has stuff you should probably remove.
Not to mention that treatment plants are not infallible.
Yep. I'm using one myself.
Move, and the further away you can get, the better. Bigger cities have the advantage of letting you get lost in the crowd, smaller towns can be good because it's a lot harder for them to just show up and not stick out plus you can easily be on a first name basis with local officers.
I broke contact with my family years ago, and my mother used to call the local sheriff and police departments claiming I was missing or in danger just to force contact. When you get to your new area, go straight to the local police or sheriff's office. Explain that you are safe, an adult, and actively fleeing an abusive family situation. Ask them to make a note on your name so that if your family files a missing person report or requests a "welfare check," the cops already know the deal and won't give out your location.
If you need help getting away right now, go to a local shelter or domestic violence center. Tell them what is going on and that you need out. They can give you a safe place to stay, help you get your bearings, and can often help set up bus transportation if you have a safe contact in another state.
Since your brother has your full name, DOB, and SSN, here are the exact steps you need to take to protect yourself from a paper trail:
Grab your physical original docs before you leave. Get your actual Social Security card, Birth Certificate, Passport, and State ID. Replacing these without a permanent home address is a massive headache, and leaving them behind gives your family leverage over you.
Lock down IRS.gov and SSA.gov now. Create your official online accounts on IRS.gov and SSA.gov using a brand-new, secure email address before your brother tries to create them under your name. While on the IRS site, sign up for an Identity Protection PIN (IP PIN). This prevents anyone from filing taxes under your SSN, which stops people from using tax records or W-2s to find your new employer.
Freeze your credit reports. Freeze your credit with all three major bureaus (Experian, TransUnion, Equifax). Don't open store cards, and never give out your physical address for mail—use a P.O. Box or a UPS Store box instead. Switch to a completely new bank. Do not just open a new account at your current bank. Go to a brand-new financial institution that your family has zero history with or open up an account with an online only bank. Bank tellers fall for emotional social engineering from crying relatives all the time.
Watch out for public record leaks. Voter registration rolls are public records in almost every state. Don't register to vote at your new physical address right away, or look into your state's Address Confidentiality Program (ACP) for domestic violence survivors, which lets you use a state substitute address on official records like the DMV. Ditch shared phone plans. Get off any shared family plan immediately. Get a cheap prepaid phone under your own name, and check your belongings and vehicle if you have one for things like Apple AirTags or hidden GPS trackers before you make your move.
Stay completely off social media. Delete or abandon your current accounts. Don't post about your new location, new job, or daily routines anywhere online.
Taking that first step out the door is terrifying, but physical distance gives you control back. You are not nearly as trapped as you feel right now.
If you are intending to run software raid then you want something that can be flashed to Initiator Target or IT mode. There is a JBOD function for some RAID cards and you DO NOT want that because it does not send all the same data that software raid wants from the dive. You also do not want to waste money on a card with RAM or Battery Backups since they are really designed for hardware RAID.
A SAS3008 card will really be what you are looking for.
https://www.ebay.com/shop/lsi-sas-3008?_nkw=lsi+sas+3008
With a SAS backplane or expanders you can connect 256 drives.
I have so many irons in the fire I can never quit...
Right now I am tinkering with a local only HomeAssistant AI voice assistant. I have an Ubuntu VM running docker on my TrueNAS which has an ARC A310. The reason I'm running a VM is because I'm using A Dual Edge TPU module for FrigateNVR while using the ARC A310 for video decoding. Ollama is running Qwen2.5 3B. I'm also running Wyoming Whisper and open-webui for the voice AI. I'm using a ESP32-S3 AI Smart Speaker Dev Board for voice control.
I found a project on GitHub that looked really good but was designed to always pull files and so I forked that to create a local only version and setup a small docker container for the audio files. Still working on modifications of the repository but the setup is working OK but I'm trying to work out the bugs.
I'm also working on a Halloween project. I have a plastic pumpkin with a big red arcade button for a nose, LED's for eyes, a speaker, some car horns, proximity sensors, and a temper.... I call it my Doom Pumpkin. It will go outside a week before Halloween and complain about people touching it's buttons or lack there of during the day and stay quiet at night. On Halloween it will keep going till later and when someone presses the button it will randomly honk horns in different ways. When someone steps in front it will say funny things to get them to press the button. If they walk behind it will warn them something bad might happen (like saying it farts fireballs.) It's all setup in ESPHome and will be controlled by HomeAssistant and NodeRed. There is also a theft prevention mode built in that will cause it to just spazz out and blow the horns.
I've still gotta pull another 500 feet or so of ethernet then get those and some others dropped into the server closet and shift some stuff around so it feeds into the rack. I've also got to pull my current camera lines from my POE injector and run them into my POE switch.
This is all on top of building and installing racking for solar, getting the solar installed, pulling a wall in a couple inches at the top where it pulled away during an earthquake before we bought the place, and fixing a bunch of other stuff.
A lot of this comes down to how wildly different the world was when different generations were raised.
People in their 60s and older were raised by parents who lived through extreme hardship and scarcity, where absolute self-reliance and emotional toughness were required just to survive. Empathy wasn't prioritized the same way because survival was the primary goal.
Meanwhile, younger generations were raised in a totally different era - shaped by rapid technological shifts, different parenting styles, and a heavier focus on emotional awareness and participation.
When two groups are forged in completely different environments with different core survival values, they are naturally going to view the world through vastly different lenses. Neither side easily understands the other because their starting points were miles apart.
My thought is if they are shooting a color similar to the surrounding area they probably are not easily visible. A grey color on concrete would likely be overlooked on a glance down.
Supermicro boards go great in Supermicro 4U cases. I'm using an X10DRH-C in a case that holds 36 X 3.5" drives with a SAS backplane. You can grab a CSE-847 for 350 plus tax and shipping on ebay.
A set of cheap rack rails attached to some 2x4's with a couple casters on the bottom and you have a rack you can stick in a closet and pull our when you need it.
The cheap rosewill cases are ok. But it you need to swap a drive (I have the 15 bay version that's about 100 bucks I used for my server to begin with and now use it for a router with only two drives) it's a pain to deal with. You have to pull the top, then remove screws to pull the cage for 5 drives, then pull the drive that you need to swap. It doesn't sound like a big deal til a drive goes bad, or one of the 120mm fans that cool the drives dies.
The Supermicro is the bottom one, the Rosewill is above it.
They also make wall brackets you can hang the chassis on and it can sit on a desk as well.
Probably plastic pellets from an airsoft. They literally come in any color of the rainbow.
PC. It's backwards compatible for many years and often can play older console games as well.
Met an old guy in the 90's who was one of the OG Hells Angels. He said, "Getting old ain't for pussies." He wasn't wrong. All the stupid things you did when you were younger so find you when you get older.
Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world For people who pay extra to buy clothing that features brand logos, why?
Loved my Droid with the slide out keyboard. After that I went to LG and had those for a while I liked being able to easily unlock the bootloader to root, plus the knock code unlock was really nice. Anymore rooting is to much of a pain and custom roms tend to break online banking. With the discount I get on the phones my carrier provides I've been using Samsung because of the software update policy.
If someone was to have something similar to the S26 Ultra with a slide out keyboard and similar specs and support for around 650 I would switch.
Even when I had a physical audio jack I used Bluetooth so not a huge deal to me and hasn't been for years. MicroSD card support would be nice but I've got like 200GB of storage available and when I was in Mexico I transferred video to my 4TB hdd anyway. Not to mention that I could have just left the video on the MicroSD in my camera if I had one large enough but the cost wasn't worth it.
For the junk software I just remove it via adb or Canta with Shizuku. I don't use windows or Microsoft services so those things just go away.
I don't really have any brand loyalty.
Wasn't one thing but had a really expensive meal. It was called Chef's Table. Here is the menu.
https://www.royalcaribbean.com/content/dam/royal/resources/menus/chefs-table-menu-sample.pdf
IMHO the Merlot was awful. But I rarely drink so....
Anyway it was a really nice meal
Probably...
When you have no safety net it's pretty easy to keep going no matter how tough or boring it is. I striped the shingles (4 layers), pulled the nails, fixed the 1x4 slats where needed, sheathed, and reroofed about 2500 sq ft with my own two hands. I had one person as ground support.
I broke it up into sections I could complete in about a week when the weather would cooperate.
The entire house is a major project. I call it a slum lord house. There was zero insulation, the windows suck, the electrical system was still mostly knob and tube, the roof was basically shot, the roof was saddling in one area, the plumbing lines switched randomly between steel, pvc, and cpvc, plus the water heater was plumbed backwards. I've still got to replace the windows, insulate the floor joists, and fix a few other things but it's in a lot better condition than when we moved in.
Simply put, how do you eat an elephant alone? One bite at a time. When you take on a big project you have to keep working at it. You may need breaks but you keep going back for more.
My view is simple: complete personal liberty until your actions impact someone else.
If someone wants to sit at home and use drugs, even severe ones, without harming anyone, that's their business. But the moment you get behind the wheel or cause harm to others while under the influence (whether it's meth, alcohol, or prescriptions), it should act as a major sentencing modifier.
We allow people to destroy their own physical property, like taking a sledgehammer to their own car in their driveway, as long as it doesn't harm neighbors or commit fraud. The government shouldn't treat a person's body with less autonomy than their personal property.
The one built in to Caddy for anything that doesn't really have authentication. Everything else uses its own and i only have a couple services accessible outside the home.
Most everything is only accessible within my home and my guest wifi is on its own vLAN. Even then I'm the only person who actually uses most things that I setup.
I'm not sure if there is an official term for it, but it falls under pure "spitefulness" or a "dog in the manger" mindset.
Everyone did stupid stuff when they were young, but there's a big line between kids making noise out of boredom and people acting with total spite toward total strangers. Doing things that can cause direct physical harm to others and acting indifferent about it seems to be more common these days. The number of hit-and-runs in the news is a simple way to track it, IMHO.
Selfhosted @lemmy.world Google has abandoned the Coral TPU
No problem.
I try to explain things as best as I can so everyone can learn. I've been using TrueNAS since the FreeNAS 9.2 era so about 13 years now. When I started I had already dealt with a ton of issues and was searching for better than multiple single drives. My first real build was a Dual Xeon X5690 setup in an X8DT6-F so learning this about SAS was really important.
Sadly there are so many acronyms out there (and growing all the time) that is getting hard to just read the news let alone anything else without a little help.