Haha yeah, they operate with a “1996 internet” security posture…maybe worse ;)

Thanks, kind people of Italy, for your support.

Recently obtained a free circa-2017 mac mini which I installed Linux on, to create a docker hosting environment. Current have Jellyfin, SearXNG, and Forgejo.

My much older NAS serves as the NFS drive for the Jellyfin media (formerly, I ran Plex directly on the NAS, but this was slow/unreliable as the NAS has only dual 1Ghz ARM cores).

One of the drives in the NAS died Thursday night, but no serious issue as its RAID 1. I wonder if the new load on it pushed it over the edge. (Also, I wonder if I could use the mac minis SSD as a sort of cache in front of the NAS, to reduce wear on it, if that would even help…)

Luckily I had some gift cards from recycling old tablets and phones, so I could get a replacement drive at minimal cost. I went with a cheap WD Blue drive instead of the 2.5x more expensive Seagate IronWolf drives I had used in the past. We will see how that fares over the next few years.

Upon replacing the drive yesterday, I found the one that failed was a 2017 mfg date, so its life was 8 years (from when I initially populated the NAS). The other drive was replaced in 2021 (but it actually failed in 2020, I just left the NAS unused for a year at that time, so it had a life of 3 years). Some insight into the life span of the Iron Wolf drives.

Things I’d like to add soon:

• kiwix instance
• normalize my ebook/magazine collection
• setup to download my youtube subscriptions to Jellyfin’s media directory so I can avoid the youtube app/website
• something for music to ditch that subscription

Ty for your service :)

Yes my cat does this too. The only foods that get a modestly interested reaction are sweets, falafel, and cheese. Very different from our previous cat who loved and tried (or wanted to try) all our foods, except eggs.

Their preferences are so specific, and seem mysterious since I don’t understand them!

That is a lot of bats!

They would love if they can get you hooked on a monthly subscription for human thought

Summary: its a copper ring to provide induction damping to the compass needle (instead of liquid or a metal base which obscures the map)

🤷‍♂️ ironfox exists

Cool! Does it get dizzy? :P

You could try a service like tradingview (paid, but with free trial). They have alerts based on scripts (and a library of user made scripts) that run on historical data like price, volume, etc. You pay, in part, to access this data (with a little time lag–pay more for less lag).

As far as writing such a script, I’m not sure its possible. If you could determine when a price is high/low such that its an advantageous to sell/buy, so could others, and the price would fall/rise to account for that information. But not everyone agrees with me. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis So it may be possible :)

I don’t think he’s giving up. I just think he does not want to file a 13F any more.

Google sheet. It’s not the most “libre” solution but I can easily add items from my phone, share with my SO, and it is exportable to CSV which I view as the actual archival format.

Been doing this since January (tracking every $ we spend) and towards the end of the year I plan to import into a local DB server so I can run some reports and see where we could improve.

Wild what is considered “research”

This particular plane had been in service for 34 years.

The MC-11 is basically a DC-10 with some updates. The DC-10 was designed in the late 1960s.

On one hand, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. On the other hand, infrastructure is crumbling and out of date.

A quick (maybe not elegant) fix is to add stretchers to the bottom, along the short sides. Then add weight (like sandbags) over the stretchers to bring the cg down.

I use Feeder too

Community owned, not nationalized.

I’m very happy with my community owned ISP (fiber to every house in my town)

Isn’t this basically just fracking without the oil?

Part it the other way ;)