Hah, if you are near Cincinnati, I have a system with 6 SATA ports I just rebuilt for $30.

Look, if you were looking to have more options handed to you, you are in the right place!

TrueNAS is a great diy option. I have it running on an old box of mine. The one real caveat is that you will need enough hard drive slots (don’t just hang them unless you go full SSD), 4+ SATA ports or add in a SAS card, enough PSU to handle all your drives, and enough memory.

I am running one SAS card and 16 GB of DDR 3. Since the attached image I have taken pics of the serial numbers and labeled the drives.

Pretty sure that gps is a plaintext broadcast. It’s nice because it’s universally accessible, but it’s a target now that people rely on it.

Back in the 90s my head was full of maps of my region because I drove a lot for work. Mobile online GPS is a game changer, since you get traffic updates in real time. While I suppose you could review your route ahead of time, there is not a known way to get relevant traffic updates unless you have a radio station just to that effect.

My real concern for you would be a sudden information blackout.

It’s available in the software catalog with a click of the button in Linux. Also, it makes running mods simple.

Ah, Cheaphotel.

Wow, this is a GameStop ad dressed up as news.

Also, buy 2 get one is fine, I guess.

CS 2026. Comes with the latest dossiers on real operators. Features American terrorists.

I hoped this was going to be direct air capture. Then I realized that all the excess gasses would be valuable, and the system would oxidize faster pulling in atmosphere.

Yeah, I still opt for the ‘lower-cost’ options when buying appliances. There is always the used market, so by the time I must but one I’ll probably have a strategy ready to go.

Maybe I’ll have an old phone I’ll put on a separate vlan WiFi with a special account just for that. A service account, if you will.

App-controlled appliances are absolutely one of my pet peeves. I would much rather prefer an analog knob.

I was debating just now burning a DBAN disk just to use the ancient HP I recovered to wipe old IDE hard disks.

That idea broke down when when I realized that the ribbon connector was actual floppy and there was no IDE connector.

It broke down further when I tested the optical drive with another disk to see if I could stubbornly use it with a USB IDE adapter. The drive didn’t seem to spin up and I’m not wasting my time burning a drive when I have other options.

I finally grabbed a Linux Mint live USB and another computer. I’m supposedly running shred on the drive, but I forgot to include output so I’ll just know when I get back in to work Monday. Top does say shred is using processor cycles, so I guess it’s fine.

It’s any unfinished project that I can probably finish in about 20 minutes. Just 20 more minutes. Don’t worry, I’m almost done.

I absolutely agree that attempting to regenerate 30k lines of code into another language is incredibly overconfident. I’m sure you could probably generate a few hundred lines of code that function as expected. To generate that much code, I expect constant maintenance of the output and a moderate up deep understanding of both the old and new code.

Chewing up decades of careful work and spitting it out with a gaggle of coding agents is disrespectful to the craft.

I spent weeks casually trying to replicate what took years to build. My inability to assess the complexity of the source material was matched by the inability of the models to understand what it was generating.

This was the bias I entered with.

I think you identified the issue, in a way. I don’t blame you for wanting to manually install and configure it for understanding purposes, but I can say that hopping straight in to Fedora it seems (mostly) fine. I have had a few weird lockups, but it is far between. Also, as others have griped, drag and drop sucks right now.

I have never seen this one before but I have to disagree.

My bet is that Windows kernel will eventually start embracing Linux components.

I saw you fixed it, but the typo brightened my morning.

It depends.

If it’s your own sister, then you learn to deal with her. If anything, adding a sister is fine as long as you have the resources. Removing a sister has legal proceedings upfront or after the fact, depending on your method.

Switching between romantic partners who happen to be sisters with each other can be risky! Lingering affection, jealousy, and inadequacy may all come into play here.

Personally, I dated one sister only to find that the younger one fancied me after well after we broke up. I found it difficult to separate the relationships and never pursued it. My brother-in-law dated my other sister-in-law first, and moved to his wife after a mutual understanding.

Finally, romantic entanglements with your own sister is discouraged. Not only is it illegal in many countries, having a child with your sister invites genetic disorders.

It’s early for me and it took me a couple paragraphs to understand that nobody was trying to take EVs together.