[<$] I have no official connection with them, but have been a very happy customer of <http://eshop.macsales.com> (et.al.) for decades – they sell this model for a few hundred dollars, with a short-term warranty (to determine stability) – don't get the D700s, they reputation is flakeyAF – if I hadn't been gifted this phenomenal & "obsolete" machine, I would now purchase one
[0] e.g. native USB3 support (via Thunderbolt2/3 adapter); no OCLP hackintoshing (neat_but_cobbled.gif)
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Of course having spinning HDDs isn't possible inside of this "trashcan" MacPro, but adding an external 4-bay Terramaster (hotswappable) has given me the 24TB fileserver I've always dreamed of... which allowed me to finally retire my MacPro5,1 [•] entirely from the macintosh ecosystem (now a Linux cryptominer/node, only when heating is otherwise on).
[•] The MacPro6,1 with an external hard disk is infinitely more usable than a MacPro5,1 – doesn't require any OCLP and is very very stable/interactive. In my usagecase, I have used four networked spinning platters to replace eight (and removed two other machines entirely from network). This is approximately a 250W continuous load removed from a residential environment, equivalent to your refrigerator running (all the time)
While I'll readily admit to remembering nothing from her class, I took physical chemistry [πchem] from one of the co-inventors [2] of white LEDs. This is where my own limited fleshtelligence began searching for Heisenberg's god...
[πchem] e.g: how metals behave when struck with electron[-like thing]s)
[2] ONE of two known-methods, then
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But yes, once any process exists, it's usually only a matter of heat management to keep it working full wall-slam-ed-ly [ƒpu]
[ƒpu] which is why to run GPU fanspeeds high enough to keep <65°C – don't care about the noisiness if they'll then last forever; change your car's oil (and keep topped-up)
>give me an option to actually run it without having to manually go into System Settings
I've run several PiHoles for several years, primarily on latest versions (up to v5; current is v6.4.x) – recently updating to v6 has been extremely frustrating [0], e.g: realizing that even when you tell the pi's/en0 ("internet") interface to use a specific DNS server (in GUI/network settings), it still uses the DNS-server recommended by your local DHCP server [1].
[0] I am aware that this is a joint-issue between RaspbianOS and Pi-Hole teams
[1] which requires TWO sudo nmcli which newbs have no business configuring – what happened to -simple- ?
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If you ever want to consider how crazy DNS-capture is getting, realize that Firefox/&c are all dark-patterning the abilities to turn off "secure"-DNS. The latest Raspian/Pi-Hole defaults are terrifying... [2]
[2] another example: why doesn't v6 enable HTTPS localhost web-access, by default (like all previous versions?!)? Do the developers really expect us commoners to know how to generate localhost certificates – this is obviously behavior due to how the pihole useraccount behaves differently then the previously-root-blessed v5-behavior
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Thankfully, I've kept a local copy of my favorite distro of Pihole v5, and it is readily-cloneable.
When I attempted to pass a --version tag during a freshinstall (requesting v5 from remote installer), it went ahead and installed latest v6 (so why even.?!).
I live in Chattanooga; it's wild to me that the City of Dalton maintain$ thousands of acres of public land simply to spray above-surface "treated" [PFS-containing] effluent "water," primarily generated by their carpeters. Why doesn't (e.g.) Shaw Manufacturing do this, directly (they do all the usual tax offsetting to not just answer "they pay taxes!" IMHO).
This "treatment land" is literally adjacent to a river, which flows into Alabama... and becomes multiple other MSA's drinking supply. This interstate conflict is what first brought PFAs to national attention. Thank god it doesn't flow to my watersource, but that's naïve thinking it doesn't carryover in the winds, waters, fauna.
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>The scale of manufacturing there is wild.
It's primarily due to two things: lack of regulations (see: PFAs), subpar compensation (our "right to work" Southern Pride). There are practically no local IT jobs (handful of poorly-compensated churners), and most of the tech-elite around here work from home (25gbps fiber, asynch, to your door).
Volkswagon has silo'd their third-shift as we brace for the inevitable economy we deserve.
The even more frustrating thing here is that after auto-updates everything new [including AI "features"] is turned ON by default.
I do like how Firefox now has a "prevent future AI integrations" checkbox[0], but I just don't believe it anymore (i.e. that it won't magically `uncheck` itself and then enable features I've not requested/authorized).
Which is why I just used an LLM to help me create a local network admin rule to disable the update engine entirely (this SHOULD. NOT. BE. NECESSARY).
>more and more web services requiring a phone is a step in the wrong direction
Absolutely. My bank began requiring a text-to-login, so I just stopped logging in. A branch location is walking distance from my house, so I bother them all the time with simple account information requests (and state every time "when can I use a Yubikey instead of phone for login?").
I legitimately have never scanned a QR code, have never Zoomed, don't even own a phone anymore, and stopped using email many years ago.
Really hoping Yubikey becomes widely accepted at US banks/CUs, soon.
Curious about email though - do you mean you don't use it for signups/logins etc or you don't use it in any capacity? You send a lot of letters I guess?
Sounds like one of those things which sounds impossible to give up but it isn't really
My stockbroker hates my chosen distance. So does my lawyer. So does most family. For most, letters suffice.
In my neighborhood I am well respected and known. Everybody else can come visit... or else fuck off.
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There should be an email/phone platform where you have to pay to contact — and then the receiver can choose to refund payment, if desired.
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>sounds impossible to give up but it isn't really
I am among the free-est persons I know. Definitely the luckiest. Requires a huge amount of sacrifice and disconnection, but I am rewarded immensely with both.
Not really related, but annoying primitive banking authentication flows is why am bullish on stablecoins. I don't need a bank, I'd rather have an open protocol where everybody can design the software and open up competition for wallet implementations.
Same – if you've not yet red Confederacy of Dunces it's as applicable as ever.
The bedsheet protest scene is embarassingly relatable and ... I think my pyloric is aching up again.
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I've only ever started one Pulitzer (non-fiction) that absolutely could not be finished: The Killer Angels (although it was recommended to me by a former soldier who loved it).
And then that Its newer RAM is even several <more> orders of magnitude faster[-than-new.SSD]
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I now run a fulltime MacPro6,1 – with dozens of gigabytes of RAMdisk – as an integrated swapdisk on my localnetwork.
[RAM_is_cool.bmp]
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