But if everyone else is down too, you don’t look so bad 🧠

It just needed the AMD compatibility plugin, lots of time wasted until someone pointed that out though.

Good point. I got 1 year of ultimate, with the plan to upgrade to perpetual if it was good (it is!).

The cost of that is still less than the cost would have been to buy new matching drives.

Has a nice UI, let’s me mix and match disks, let’s me host docker containers plus a VM with gpu pass through.

All basically out of the box. (Ok - Pass through was a bastard) All for a one off price.

I don’t know if there are other options that let me do all of that, unraid has always been the one mentioned.

I get the boards, they are meant to be cheap!

Something g like this should should be better?

So apparently the usb-C power input doesn’t work as a display out?

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Going to have to try some of those… Can you actually register emojis as a domain, or is that just the email validation that allows them?

Edit: most TLDs don’t. Smaller ones do sometimes.

It has some level of additional security I think? some remote access apps have issues with them.

The idea is that while it punishes the citizens of the country doing the tariffs, it makes their local industry more competitive in the country. This can be used fairly or unfairly.

Take steel for example. Most countries consider it a strategic resource, the want/need to be producing it to guarantee a supply in case of war, supply issues etc. Another country might be able to sell it cheaper, but you want to ensure your country still produces it; put a tariff on it, so foreign steel costs as much as the local stuff, keeping them in business.

Europe put a tariff on Chinese cars, because China was subsidising their companies so they could flood Europe with unfairly cheap cars. (Although local companies dropped the ball too)

Trumps tariffs won’t work as no one trusts that they will remain - he changes them on a whim, so no one can build out manufacturing to take advantage of them.

You don’t have an open banking requirement for banks?

Depends on the ISP, my old one just handed out Fritz box routers with nothing locked down. Still using it now with the new ISP!

Having two could be useful - allows you to separate anything that virtual you wants to host from anything real life you wants to host.

(Without having two domains pointing at the same IP)

Is there an alternative app that offers a centralised account service but with user hosted servers?

Their problem is probably that they actually took too long to monetise it.

Before Discord, groups were often paying for hosted team speak, ventrilo or mumble servers. Then along came discord with it’s VC money and did what they did and more for free. Now most people probably are not willing to pay for what used to be a paid service.

BBC (pre launch): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55463366

After launch: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/05/style/japan-wooden-satellite-hnk-intl/index.html

Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LignoSat

Things fall into the thicker parts of the atmosphere because drag from the tiny amounts of air up there. if that is shrinking, then you can get lower before you have the same amount of drag? Therefore lower orbits might be more feasible?

Lower orbit means faster though, so it may not be linear? Would be interesting to see (someone else do) the maths.

Doesn’t that just mean that lower orbits can be used? Less air resistance?

With the obvious disclaimer that it will hike your electricity bill.

That’s a lot of useful info, thanks!

What do you want to run in a VM that can’t run in Docker?

a VM with torrent client and a killswitched VPN was the easiest way to get a secure setup. also meant if it ever got virused I could just roll it back. I need to look more into what docker can actually do by the looks of it.

You are the second person to suggest unraid - is it ok to sit on the perpetual license (for a few years at a time), or are the updates really required? It supports GPU passthrough right, so I can have a ‘normal’ linux desktop for gaming while running the other stuff in the background?

TY for the response!