Thanks for all your work keeping the lights on, Sal!

!oldpeoplelemmy

Joke’s on you, I play Traveller

(My son’s name is Boon)

Joke’s on you, I play Fate

(My son’s name is Free Aspect Tag)

It’s not that they know their audience, they’re selecting their audience. If you are gullible enough to do the ridiculous thing, then you’re a prime candidate for exploitation. It’s a known cult technique.

What pictures? There’s nothing attached to your post, buddy.

The requirements for a media server mesh well with a NAS and *arr suite and other light loads. Low CPU demand, some RAM demand, integrated GPU if you need transcoding and that’s it.

They are wildly different from generative AI. For good performance, you’ll want a decent GPU with loads of VRAM or brute force with raw CPU power and RAM. If you care about power draw at all, you don’t want this on 24/7/365. Why not build a cool gaming rig and use it for AI? As a bonus, now you have a cool gaming rig with your AI machine!

I am just starting so take this not as a recommendation but as an option. I am familiar with Linux but do not work in IT.

I got myself a used desktop as a starting point. It can handle 2x 3.5” drives, one 2.5”, plus an NVMe. You could buy an adaptor and change the DVD drive for another 2.5” caddy, but more on that later. It came with 8GB of RAM, but it can handle 64. I spent something like $250 including cables, bolts, caddies, but not drives.

If you watched the video, you’ll notice the CPU has video transcoding acceleration and encryption acceleration too. It comes out ahead of modern N100 CPUs being widely used for home NAS these days, and draws a minuscule amount of power while idle. Indeed, most of the idle power draw for my machine comes from the drives.

So pros:

• can host a decent amount of services
• upgradable (PCIe slots and up to 4* spindles)
• the fourth needs you to convert the DVD to a caddy, but then you need to get an expansion card to add another SATA port, but will allow you to go RAID 10 or z2/6.
• small and mostly silent, low power draw
• 2x M.2 slots, one for NVMe and the other for an expansion card (like a Coral TPU or Wi-Fi)
• cheap

Cons:

• 3x onboard SATA ports, 3x drive bays means you’re rather stuck with RAID z1/5
• lower reliability from a used unit
• 1x 1 Gb Ethernet port onboard only

For software, I’m using TrueNAS scale. It’s easy to install and configure, there’s good documentation and a support forum, can run docker containers and VMs. Lots of administration quality of life tools built in that you don’t need to build. Plus it’s Linux and I can tinker with it if the need arises.

To get to what you want, you could install an M.2 A+E to SATA adaptor and a slim DVD to 2.5” caddy to come up to 4 drives, add memory, a multiport multigigabit NIC, an NVMe and 4 drives and you’d be set. VMs for your firewall, VPN, pihole, dockers for the rest.

Hey, stop aging that owl, you monster!

I can’t, on good conscience, upvote a letterboxed image, especially with a white letterbox. Some lines just weren’t meant to be crossed.

Conectiva Linux in late nineties came with Window Maker as default. That’s old school as they come.

I hope he bleeds his supporters dry, and then all this money goes to the victims awaiting the dissolution of his assets to pay his lawsuit.

Therefore, C endures?

That, my fellow sophont, is a Doberman Pinscher. 50% hatred, 50% shakiness.

In Brasil too, on public institutions, as long as there’s vacancies not filled by enrolled students.

Shit.

I’m no entomologist but most usually grow up rather fast.

When two languages love each other very much…

How’s the smell like?

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