Yep, I understand that. I didn’t know if RAID 6, having parity bits, would be able to repair a file from that data. I figured being RAID would protect it from corruption but apparently not. I didn’t overwrite the file with a bad one, it just stopped working.

What are your thoughts on TrueNAS Core or Unraid instead of Synology? I could still run Plex on the same hardware that handles the storage while maintaining the freedom and flexibility that my current home lab server provides. There appears to be plenty of decommissioned enterprise-grade hardware being sold on FB all the time.

Again, pardon my ignorance when it comes to Kubernetes. Why would I use something like k0s instead of just regular old Docker? I suspect PCIe passthrough will have similar challenges on both k0s and Docker, whereas on Proxmox it’s been relatively painless.

This might be better suited for a different community, in which case I’ll make a post where appropriate. I’m not familiar with some of the Kubernetes terminology - batteries, pod/manifest (is this similar to stacks/docker compose?), NodePort?

I apologize for my ignorance when it comes to Kubernetes - I sort of wrote it off as complete overkill for a home lab when my very basic understanding was that it was essentially a load balancer. After some light research, I’m beginning to understand that it could be a better solution than a full-blown hypervisor.

If I understand your comment correctly, you’re suggesting to simply run a lightweight distro and install k0s or k3s to run containers? What would be an ideal bare metal OS for this? What would be pros/cons to k0s vs k3s in a home lab environment, or is that simply a matter of personal preference? What would be the best way to connect to my media - SMB, NFS, something else? Or are the differences here irrelevant? Any concerns (permissions, IO latency) when passing an NFS mount from host into a container, or is there an even better way to do something like that entirely within the container?

First you have to convince him that the earth is more than 8000 years old.

The Fn and Carl keys can be switched in software. I have a work-issued Lenovo with a similar layout. They can be soft-swapped in the BIOS. There’s also a desktop utility to do the same but I don’t know if they have a Linux version of it. I totally agree, the physical layout is annoying but it has a simple fix.

Then this is false advertising and a class-action lawsuit that should have already happened.

This Arstechnica article seems to confirm that they can’t decrypt without user intervention and that they have only ever supplied metadata to law enforcement. I’m no fan of Meta but do you have sources that they have in fact decrypted actual message content at the request of law enforcement?

No disagreement there. I could have clarified, my comment was in regard to message content only. I didn’t realize that about metadata and certainly am not defending Meta. I’d prefer Signal over anything else but as others have mentioned, getting friends and family to adopt is painful.

It’s still E2EE, as far as I know. Meta could always remove that feature but until they do, I’d consider it a safe and private messaging platform.

I thought I had read, several years ago, that Apple dumps a bunch of money into R&D of new tech in exchange for exclusive use of that tech for a period of time after it hits the market (e.g. ultra high-res displays on the iPhone 4). Seems like they haven’t done that as much in recent years but I’ve been patiently waiting for graphene batteries. Maybe this is the year 🤞

I thought I had read, several years ago, that Apple dumps a bunch of money into R&D of new tech in exchange for exclusive use of that tech for a period of time after it hits the market (e.g. ultra high-res displays on the iPhone 4). Seems like they haven’t done that as much in recent years but I’ve been patiently waiting for graphene batteries. Maybe this is the year 🤞

Short answer: no

Long answer: the percentage of drivers that are outrageously bad at driving is probably a fraction of a percent. This still equates to a very large number of drivers, but there is also very much a bias at play. You only ever see videos of shitty drivers and probably never see videos of good drivers which skews your view of how good or bad the general population is at driving.

All this to say, yes there are a very large number of lethally dangerous drivers, but several orders of magnitude more drivers who are not. You just don’t notice them because they aren’t bad drivers.

This is fantastic news. I’m currently using HomeKit + Homebridge for all my smarthome stuff but I have HA Core running on a Proxmox host in the event I need/want to migrate. Apple continues to let me down year after year with their minimal Home updates but convincing my family to switch is a hurdle I’m not ready to tackle yet.

Neither is Firefox. That’s the joke…