Dude, my brother did this to me all the time. “Don’t hit yourself!” while he’d make me slap myself. I’m glad Ukraine can do the same.

All the way

I use one of those coax/Ethernet converters in my house. It’s a 2-story place and running Ethernet was going to be too daunting for a room.

Overall it works very well (I had bad experiences with using network over electrical power). The only thing that will be a downer is the gigabit coax converters seem to be expensive. Since I just had 1 client in an isolated network, 100mbps was fine for me but would hamper your NAS throughout. You’d also need to buy 2 sets of converters for your use case, so that’s potentially not cheap if you’re wanting gigabit from end to end.

Some of the newer wireless standards are very quick, but you’d also need to ensure all NICs are compatible and a newer AP wouldn’t be free.

Perhaps talk to the landlord about splitting the cost of getting Ethernet professionally run in all rooms. It may be the most cost effective solution, but the drawback is you walk away with nothing. The landlord would be able to advertise Ethernet ready infra, so there is some benefit for them to do it.

I have an Aztec death whistle, and that would scare the hell out of people. Might be fun as a slip-on attachment of some sort.

You have the capability to 3d print metal?

I would think the multi-whistle tips would be kinda near an elephant. Not sure how to make the car sound like a car.

Can’t 3d print exhaust components. However, I was wondering what various whistle tips inline would sound like. If each has a different size hole, perhaps they would have slightly different frequencies? The combination might be tie fighter’ish driving by.

Anyone know how the original sound was generated?

Whistles… They go woo woo?

They should ensure he takes a firearm home to protect himself.

The human race

That I’m vegan. They just can’t believe it so I have to tell them about it all night long.

Yep, I’m speaking in generalities. Overall, my point is that a homelab doesn’t need something expensive because it may not be heavily used, so most of those features are not necessary. If the guy had mentioned running a business or customers, that’d be a different story.

You even had to qualify your own statement that one has to modify hard drive power consumption to achieve acceptable noise levels.

I had a SIEM running on a mini-pc like a champ. It cost me fifteen bucks and taught me a lot. Build to requirement, not title.

Bear in mind, a system that is built to be a dedicated server will be meant to crunch data. That means 2 things:

• loud fans

• heavy electricity use

If you just want a lab, I suggest getting a desktop PC and loading a server OS on it. Practical hardware experience isn’t too valuable because platforms change and they usually make them super simple to maintenance with lots of online support. Getting a desktop will also save you some bread on initial investment.

Learn how to mask your IP using VPNs or other open proxies before any of that.

North Korea

To clarify, I’m not looking for hidden gems…

I…I kinda figured that one out

Exactly. The use-case dictates requirements, then you build according to that. Will this work for a camera system? With the right drive(s) added, sure. Would this run something graphics intensive very well? Not particularly.

I hope you’re right

I think I’m seeing something different, although also synthetic in nature.

It seems like companies or brands are in here (and probably on any social media) actively controlling the message about their brand. People make a post or comment about a specific thing (or person) and you get pre-packages responses, similar in nature and argument.

It makes you feel like it’s tin foil hat time, but I’ve seen different accounts proporting the same exact experiences about a product, which are super specific in nature.

I could see that being a part of a company trying to actively “control the message,” but it makes you question the authenticity of a lot of posts or arguments. Is that person really standing up for this thing with a questionable history, or are they a paid shill?

What would be a safe space from this though? A forum small enough to stay under the radar? I enjoy larger platforms like this because of the diversity in content and viewpoints, but not if it’s a haven for corporate messaging or agencies controlling a narrative.

Am I joining the tin foil hat club here, or has anyone else seen similar?

You have servers that provide some kind of resource or service, and clients that use those resources or services (will just say resource from now on).

Servers provide that resource using a port so clients will come ask for it using that port.

Sometimes servers can do multiple things, so they will provide multiple resources…maybe a web server hosting a web page is also an email server that can receive and send email too. They do those things using different ports to distinguish the kind of request it’s getting.

On the client side, clients use source ports to distinguish which app asked for a resource. Think of your browser having 20 tabs open, each has it’s own source port so your computer never gets confused which page goes to which tab.

I’m skipping a lot of things (ports flipping for replies, well known, etc), but that’s the basics.

Carrying over heaps of computer equipment (including the mega CRTs before their demise) to your friends house for an all night LAN party that you guys had been prepping for. Then having a blast while parents look at you funny for being into computers.

Oh, and seeing a new BBS at a bus stop that you’d need to go dial into and check out.

Oh that boot sound and hoping you’d make it past… Mostly on PS1 but I still had some of it on 2.