That these elements are a greater cause of societal problems today than people living longer.

If anything, living longer will give people better perspective.

Source: At 30 I had a much more nuanced perspective of just about anything than I did at 20. And I bet most people would say the same. Partly just from experience, but also because I was able to read a lot more about any subject, such as things like Studs Terkel’s “Hard Times”, or understand the complexities of WWII better, and how today is very much a result of it.

And I’ve read even more since then. By now I’ve spent more time reading than I had the hours to read, let alone the background, at age 20.

Tasker, Automate,Macrodroid.

Just have them watch for volume changes and reset alarm volume then.

I dunno, I’d say people do things like coke, cheat, etc, because of beliefs.

They have a belief that “it doesn’t matter”.

But yea, our beliefs, our paradigms, are what help us be better people to each other.

Hell, science is founded on the belief that the universe is rational, that “God does not play dice with the universe”.

Studying quantum mechanics makes me wonder otherwise. Nothing about it is rational. Not to say I don’t operate on a day-to-day basis that the underlying framework makes sense, what other choice do we have?

You brought religion into this, and your sophist insults.

Sounds like someone has a belief and is upset it’s being exposed.

Defensive? Now who’s stooping to insults because someone doesn’t believe in your belief?

Well, they are.

They define one’s view of the world, your paradigm.

Let’s be clear, the fine is for using cellular data, which is the harm caused.

All that power was a huge driver for me - my old desktop that I used as a server was pulling 120w constantly.

Now between the SFF and NAS it’s about 35w. That’s a significant difference, plus the office doesn’t get as hot.

And I’d love to run ZFS again, kind of hard to beat it for redundancy and failure resistance. Maybe the next NAS I build will be Proxmox again.

This is an excellent explanation. I’ve always wondered how it all worked, now I see the map data is separate from dynamic data.

Wish these mapping apps would explain that, so people would understand the apps are providing the updated/dynamic data with the map data coming from OSM.

My understanding is it’s also possible as a somewhat random event, though more likely with older people, or with conditions (e.g. Underlying arrythmias, arterial disease, etc).

Not seeing it in FDroid, and I have about 30 repositories setup.

Nevermind, resolved.

Not for a kid it isn’t.

And that’s the point you keep sweeping away.

I don’t think of gaming as socializing - that’s your daughter’s metric.

Not all game players are the same, which is why there are so many different categories of games.

I mean, this guy is an ass, and deserves some stuff punishment. Some places this could cause them to close up shop.

On the side, what kind of business doesn’t have a team doing this stuff with accountability/approvals/controls, and especially for someone being fired.

Oh, I hear ya on the space issue - there’s almost no space in this SFF, but I like it’s form factor so I’m willing to compromise.

Anymore I don’t find RAID very useful, except for mirroring a drive. As I say this, I do have a NAS with 5 drives, but it’s used as one of my replicators as it’s too slow for anything else. I did run Proxmox with RAID for a while, that was pretty cool, I just don’t need all it’s capability.

These days I can get a large enough single drive for a box - I considered getting a 12TB but the price on the 8 was hard to beat and I won’t be filling it anytime soon.

My experience after 35 years in IT: I’ve had 10x more outages caused by automatic updates than everything else combined.

Also after 35 years of running my own stuff at home, and practically never updating anything, I’ve never had an outage caused by a lack of updates.

Let’s not act like auto updates is without risk. Just look at how often Microsoft has to roll out a fix for something an update broke. Inexperienced users are going to be clueless when an update breaks something.

We should be teaching new people how to manage systems, this includes proper update checks on a cycle, with appropriate validation that everything works afterwards, and the ability to roll back if there’s an issue.

This isn’t an Enterprise where you simply can’t manually manage updates across hundreds or thousands of servers, and tens of thousands of workstations - this is a single admin, small environment.

I do monthly update checks, update where I feel it’s warranted, and verify systems afterwards.

Two requirements stand out: Media streaming (jellyfin) and multiple hard drives.

In the video front, Jellyfin has documented what you want to look for if you’re building “new” (that is, not just using what you have lying about). Discrete video card is very much recommended for tranacoding (which will invariably happen). Check their docs here. They also cover which processor to use and why.

Let’s consider drives now: what’s the reasoning for multiple drives? I had this requirement too, then had a Dell OptiPlex SFF (Small Form Factor) fall in my lap. Because it can only handle 2 drives (in addition to the M2 OS drive), it made me rethink things. At first I added a 4 port SATA card and four 2.5" drives I had lying around. It worked, but what I realized was my media server needed enough storage to hold my library, but it didn’t need internal redundancy. So currently it has an 8TB drive for my library, and an M2 drive for the OS (which is how this machine comes anyway). That drive is duplicated to a NAS and two other drives on different machines (to protect against drive failure).

I run a monthly host OS backup to my NAS, just in case (but it’s a simple rebuild as my services/tools run in VM’s).

I had a cooling issue at first, then realized it was an old machine (2017), and the cooler paste was likely hard. Cleaned it off and put on new and the fan now runs quietly, even when converting. At idle it hardly makes any noise at all.

One nice thing is it has a relatively small power supply, so it peaks at 80w while converting, and idles about 15w.

It lacks a discrete video card, so when it does transcoding the quality suffers a little. I’ll need to upgrade the power supply to add a video card.

I’m really impressed with this little box - I’d buy another in a heartbeat.

Not for me it isn’t.

The library.

Tons of books on CD, takes minutes to rip.

They also have audio books via streaming apps and digital players (like an mp3 player with a single book). With either of those you have to do the old school record the audio though, so I avoid them u less I absolutely have to.

I also do mp3 rips of videos that are mostly just lectures, where visual isn’t critical.

Ok, so what “back doors” does it install?

Claims without evidence are just that - claims. I see nothing you’ve posted to be evidentiary.

That said, there is potential for malicious behaviour, but let’s not go off half-cocked on this.