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Cake day: February 16th, 2024

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  • I have used this card for a couple years.

    Pros:

    • five m.2 sata slots
    • single slot pcie, and short / not extending past top of slot
    • incredibly cheap
    • mine has been reliable
    • no extra power needed
    • no pcie bifurcation or other special motherboard features required (works in anything)
    • the individual drives do show up as individual drives in Debian for me and can be accessed separately (not a hardware raid card)

    Cons:

    • pcie 3.0x2 speed in an x16 slot (2GBps)
    • doesn’t support m.2 pci
    • doesn’t support booting from the installed drives

    If all you’re looking for is cheap, quiet, storage, and you don’t mind losing out on total read/write speeds, thisll actually do great just about anywhere.



  • I was in the army for a couple years, but I dont actually have any particularly impressive numbers from then. They had me doing sleepless night bullshit from day one, and I hate losing sleep with a passion, so I made sure to grab back every hour I could manage.

    The longest I ever stayed up was from 6am to 6pm, the next day, so about 36 hours or a single overnight stay. I hated it everytime it had to happen for work. The morning after staying up all night felt like I was drunk, and my ability to handle people and doing things was completely shot. The only time I ever got in trouble with my boss was when I was tired (up since 2am, actual event happened around 8pm that same day). I’m also quite sure I would’ve got into at least one fight with my commanding officer while sleep deprived if I actually had any inclination towards that sort of thing.

    Sleep deprivation completely kills my long term planning, my sensory management skills, my reflexes, and also deadens my ability to care, about anything.

    Despite all of this, I also hate taking naps. It fucks with my sense of time, and I’m always too worried about ‘missing out’ while trying to ever get any good rest from it. So have to fight for a good sleep schedule to stay sane instead.















  • I don’t buy into the “anyone can build a gun” argument anyway.

    Bullets in america are not tracked, logged, or otherwise managed in any way by the american government. They don’t matter for making a gun because literally anyone can walk up to their local pawn shop and get some without any identity checks or other hassle.

    Guns made by 3d printers are kinda shitty, in the exact same way that jellyfin is kinda shitty compared to Netflix. They both do the job, but one just takes more time and effort to get running.

    Making a untracked 3d-printed glock is entirely doable by the average Joe.