No lol

quieter, and uses way less power.

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I too am tired of thirst traps, no matter how sexy they are

This is a question of, what agency do you have over your communications and what kind of communication would express a character trait of yours that you would like to be attributed to you.

If you have high agency, and using emojis expresses genuineness or what you would prefer to be expressed, go for it.

I swear in meetings, drink at lunches, and generally wear my feelings on my sleeve. This works for me because I have useful feedback on projects, clearly define choices effected by policy and what have you. I say those unsaid things, and either it’s novel contribution or it’s falling on the sword of the things people don’t want to say. This is fine for consultation. It does piss off colleagues when I just do what I want, to effect some result or uncover some relevant fact that I assume is required.

If you have low agency, and/or you feel that informal communications would be detrimental, find a communication strategy that lets you express some individuality, novelty in some other way.

I’d pay more just to cut out corps.

My buddy’s sister is a cheese monger. 10/10

Chili farmers are the real heroes

I think it has to do with women being trafficked into cam service.

I started reading before I went to bed, mistake.

Yes

Do you think this person will sign off on raises or promotions, or any other benefits?

Dump them. In your exit interview say, “manager has declined to comment on my performance, but has shared criticisms with other people. Understanding and improving the quality of my work is important, and I do not believe I am able to do that when facts are concealed from me.”

they never used a period

Your asrock option should be good, you are concerned about power draw but the manual asks for 90w adaptor with 2 HDDs.

The Odroid has a more specific ask

– DC 19V/7A power adapter is recommended if you use more than one 3.5” SATA HDDs together

Your 90w may be underpowered in either case hard to tell.

Proxmox would still be useful for container management.

Does your budget include the drives you mentioned, or do you already own those? Do you have an esata dock or something already?

Magic.

Blasphemy.

Oh I never looked at the two bay specs, good idea.

Synology specifically can run a bunch of services. Plex server is in the package manager. I use WebDAV and added it as a media source on the VLC app on my nvidia shields

The thing that you will struggle with, doing a roll your own NAS is that rolling your own is only going to be as reliable as you are.

I had a seadrive Linux server set up and I had a bunch of issues with accessibility and software upgrades because it stretched the bounds of what I was capable of. If I went back to that solution now, I would not struggle nearly as much and I would probably run two concurrent instances and transfer files between them instead of trying to upgrade the one live instance.

But I need something consistent for my wife and friends, so I did pick up a Synology 4 bay and loaded it with 4x 8tb drives.

With this thing, extra services beyond the Synology apps are much more simple to configure. Authentication is more consistent, even though I am not using the Synology sign in service.

The server hardware that was hosting Seadrive still has containers and VMs for a web proxy, pihole, my security camera server, qbittorrent-nox. I have a mikrotik router that feeds traffic back and forth.

If none of those things make sense to you even if you look them up, you should use a prebuilt. If you can make a guess how I’m using the things, you might be able to roll your own.

“hot shit” used to be a compliment. The people that made up that phrase are currently in charge of the planet.

Good.

Pfff current I was brain-dead, yes.

There’s smart plugs that measure current, I have some Emporia plugs at home.

You mean parallel right