Excuse me, it’s “uh, uhhh, finds a way.”

Apologies for being pedantic.

But really, this is my favorite post so far today. Ending my personal break on a high note and resuming chores with a smile.

Proxmox is available free. You pay for support and maybe other things with a license, but you can download it and give it a spin at no cost. I just switched to Proxmox around 1m ago when I restarted my homelab project after years on hiatus. I used to use Esxi before Broadcom bought VMware and decided to suck. I like it so far.

It might be overkill for your needs. I’m running it because I want to play with setting up and managing Win Server (I only have experience managing existing servers on Win), so there’s a distinct reason for me to be on Proxmox even though I’m a Mac and Linux person. I agree that it might be overkill for your i5 if you only plan to run one Ubuntu instance on it. However, a lot of homelabbing is about having an environment to try out and learn new skills. If that’s something that’s interesting to you, it might be worthwhile.

Keep in mind that you could also run KVM for virtualization if you find reason for VMs. You’re not limited to Proxmox. And if you see no need for VMs, you already have three devices to do the things you bought them to do.

Try following some of the advice in this thread. Hardware tests if the BIOS supports it. Maybe try underclocking or undervolting the CPU is BIOS supports that. If you can pull a RAM chip and test with just one, then test the chips individually in each slot, that’d be something worth trying. I’m shooting from the hip, but these are things that could help isolate a possible hardware issue.

Sparing loved ones of financial hardship is one of the noblest reasons to die. What a fucked up sentence.

Norm Finkelstein took this position, arguing that NATO encroaching on the Russian border was provocation. I didn’t agree or disagree because I don’t know enough about geopolitics to consider myself informed on the matter. His case was persuasive, however, if not at least interesting. I generally consider him pretty level-headed, so it was worth the listen.

Ok, I liked this more than I should. Pointless in the best way.

Linda always brought those awful jello molds to family events, so maybe there’s a silver lining.

Housing the homeless would also cost less than policing them. But statistics can’t address truthiness.

I’m sorry, do you think it’s a good thing that we funnel huge amounts of money into the bank accounts of the people at the top of huge corporations making devices for destruction? I don’t.

I had a similar experience when paying out of pocket when a former employer offered really shitty healthcare. Turned an outrageous price into something minuscule just by them entering in some info on my behalf.

You might also be able to replace the firmware with something like DD-WRT or OpenWRT or Tomato or other third-party firmware.

By resigning, there’s nothing on his record to prevent getting a job in another department. Hooray! The system works. /s

I’ve been saying that each country should disenfranchise the elderly by the national average life expectancy minus the same number of years you have to be to register to vote. We accept that young people aren’t fully developed and shouldn’t be allowed to participate until they reach a minimum age. Time to do the same with people who are at higher risk of dementia and who won’t have to live with the consequences of long-term changes.

I realize that this will unfairly disenfranchise able-minded people. They still shouldn’t get a say in our long-term future.

Apple’s guy in charge of those systems called “hallucinations” exactly that last night in an on-stage interview with John Gruber.

I ordered a BananaPi board years ago but then life took me places where I didn’t have time or energy to follow up. I’ve recently rejoined the hobbyist homelab market, so I’ve quite interested. I’d read that drivers could be an issue with non-Pi boards but haven’t ever found out. Which boards / companies are recommendation-worthy at the moment?

Asking twice because two people had similar replies and I’m looking for feedback, not because I want to spam the thread.

I ordered a BananaPi board years ago but then life took me places where I didn’t have time or energy to follow up. I’ve recently rejoined the hobbyist homelab market, so I’ve quite interested. I’d read that drivers could be an issue with non-Pi boards but haven’t ever found out. Which boards / companies are recommendation-worthy at the moment?

Asking twice because two people had similar replies and I’m looking for feedback, not because I want to spam the thread.

I hope this isn’t the prelude to a decline. I just ordered my third Pi over the weekend. It should arrive today. I’d hate to see the platform squandered by “make number go up” types.

I knew this still existed as a port, but I didn’t realize it seems to be actively maintained. Has anyone experience with the project to be able to confirm if they think that donations are spent judiciously? I already support a couple of other open-source projects and would love to kick a few bucks this way. In fact I just bought a couple of shirts from them, but that’s benefitting me as much as (or more than) them, so it’s a different calculus.

Ok, that made me laugh more than it should have. Cheers!

We’re at the end-times for western capitalism, where rent-seeking has become the primary driver of markets. It’s happening all around us.