I have 3 separate machines:

1. That fat home server with NAS and VM’s etc.

2. A Pi serving my smart home.

3. A plastic router with OpenWrt doing DNS and (I like to believe) some security, and giving WiFi to many small devices.

They all run 24/7 but I just don’t want everything to be dead and dark when one machine is down for whatever reason.

Only touch the screw that is also shown in the Amazon picture. Then the water is safe from you.

It could simply be a loose connection. It will go out again.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Caleffi-Ecocal-Replacement-Thermostatic-Radiator/dp/B07VGY3J6P/

Look here, just as an example.

You can easily replace it, but pay attention to the size of the thread (after you have unscrewed it). M30x1.5 is the most common, but there are other sizes, too.

Trolling. And I have seen it so much better.

I love Europe. It’s my favourite country.

Is your one in the southern or northern parts of England?

This will be the spec for my next server. The current one is smaller, and several years old

I have several different requirements for my server, for example, my son does video editing and needs lots of storage. I want to experiment with more VM’s and containers, therefore RAM and threads.

Do you think people just beginning could get buy on 4 cores and 8 GB RAM for a while?

For most people I think they just want to have some NAS and a reliable machine. But please grant them 16 GB, otherwise they would ask why their laptop has so much more than their server :-)

I would absolutely want the extra router because most people have one from their service provider. For self hosting, you want an additional router with your own software.

The hypothesis is that $150 of equipment to avoid dozens of hours of software configuration

OK fair try, but you also need to sell me 20-25 TB of disk space on 5 spindles (plus a SSD for the bootdisk), 64 GB RAM (with a chance to go up to 128) and the CPU must have 16 threads or more.

Because the information necessary for that is already available from the subnet mask WITHOUT the bitwise AND, e.g., with 255.255.255.0 or 1111 1111.1111 1111.1111 1111.0000 0000, you count the amount of 1s, which in this case is 24 and corresponds to that appendix in the CIDR notation. At this point, you already know that you only need to consider those first 24 bits from the IP address, making the subsequent bitwise AND redundant.

On a technical level, the bitwise operation is all that is needed. It is one calculation of the simplest kind. A CPU can do it in 1 tick. That’s why they invented it this way.

The other way that you described is the super extra ultra lengthy complicated - and maybe redundant - thing.

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No weapons, just you and the squirrels.

My teeth are terrifying weapons, chrrrr!!

😄

In a fight to death, my only problem would be that I get tired from the fighting, sooner or later. And then they could do some real harm.

On the other hand, I assume that they are not smart enough to apply any special tactics that make use of this, or of their large number (coordinated action etc.)

So I would trust myself against maybe 50 of them.

ive never heard of holy books on airplanes!

I guess the airplane companies don’t like it.

Just imagine a passenger stands up and loudly asks: “Do you want me to read all this? Are we having a 2 hour flight or a 200 hour flight?” :)

running an LLM chat bot to deceive the enemy in their own language

It engages the enemy into inescapable, endless, useless chatter, which is, as we all know, the most terrible and effective weapon on earth, stronger than all social media combined.

It explains itself when you have it in your hand :)

we can have 5~10 photos which are basically duplicates

Have any of you guys handled a similar situation?

I decide which one is the best and then delete the others. Sometimes I keep 2, but that’s an exception. I do that as early as possible.

I don’t mind about storage space at all (still many TB free), but keeping (near-)duplicates costs valuable time of my life. Therefore I avoid it.

Put a cover on it like this (look for the right size, there are 2 - 3 different sizes)

https://www.bauhaus.at/schalterdosen/federdeckel-klein/p/12148379

even allowed in Germany?

Yes.

works well on my LAN network, but when I try to make the server accessible via a DynDNS service

I guess your Fritzbox does NAT for your LAN. Then the dyndns address works only when the client is outside.

Just click on the instance name in the app.

all that data would become inaccessible to my OMV.

Why?

Nothing gets destroyed unless your OMV actively destroys things (which is very unlikely)

A zpool is easily portable to a new machine/VM.