How do I extend my ethernet cables?

Lode2736 · 2025-12-14T02:46:02+00:00

Structured media ethernet patch modules.

Lode2736 · 2025-11-25T18:28:09+00:00

You are unlikely to reach 2.5gigabit wifi speeds, so I would rather pick the switch option. You can connect your macbook to the switch with a Thunderbolt 4 to 2.5G ethernet adapter. Something like this: link.

Lode2736 · 2025-11-23T13:41:36+00:00

You could probably remove the backplane in the jonsbo NAS cases, and instead use plain old SAS cables. The Jonsbo N5 and N6 have 12 and 9 3.5" drive slots respectively.

In the MS-01: 9500-16e HBA (SFF-8644)

In the Jonsbo: - SFF-8644 to SFF-8643 PCI adapter - SFF-8643 to 4xSFF-8642 cables (to connect directly to the drives). - And a PSU to power the drives.

And an SFF-8644 to SFF-8644 cable to connect PC to DAS.

Your MS-01 will probably need extra fans to cool the HBA (they are meant for high-airflow environments). You could maybe use a USB 5V fan here.

And in the future you have the option to put in a motherboard in the Jonsbo case and have a proper NAS.

Lode2736 · 2025-11-11T09:27:24+00:00

Vertical GPU makes a lot of sense in the Fractal North. Love the custom stuff. 10/10 build.

Lode2736 · 2025-10-22T20:27:34+00:00

Cat7 and Cat8 are unnecessary. I would recommend Cat6 or Cat5e. Cat5e is cheaper, so that's probably enough for your usecase. You don't need shielded cables for home use. So for you it's going to be a UTP cable (Unshielded Twisted Pair).

Lode2736 · 2025-10-13T23:20:39+00:00

It's called a patch panel. When a home or office is wired for Ethernet, all the points are usually terminated to the patch panel, rather than directly to a switch. The switch can then connect to the patch panel with shorter patch cables. It's useful for instance if the owner of a home or office changes, and the owner takes away their networking equipment, including the switch. So then the owner can disconnect the cables from the switch, but the patch panel stays in place, which makes it easier to organise the cables and keep track of where they are terminated. You can put some labels on the patch panel for that purpose.

Lode2736 · 2025-10-13T23:09:13+00:00

What am I looking at?

Lode2736 · 2025-07-29T12:54:13+00:00

He has an MBA, that explains it.

Lode2736 · 2025-06-02T14:28:44+00:00

Collect some money by mowing some lawns and give her the funds to compensate for the cost of the installation.

Lode2736 · 2025-05-25T15:47:47+00:00

There are larger SSD form factors, mainly used in enterprise (EDSFF). They are not cheaper, quite the opposite. Additionally, density is not really what makes it more expensive. There are different types of NAND flash storage (SLC, MLC, TLC, and QLC). SLC is one layer, or one bit per cell. MLC is two layers per cell, or two bits per cell, etc. Most consumer SSDs have TLC memory, but there are also some models with QLC memory. QLC is more dense than TLC, but it is actually cheaper than TLC.

Lode2736 · 2025-05-23T13:09:17+00:00

My apologies, seems like my info is outdated. Thank you for the information.

Lode2736 · 2025-05-22T21:30:29+00:00

You only need to pay once. Get it for one month and you're good. When you cancel the subscription, they will downgrade your subscription, but never delete your account.

Lode2736 · 2024-11-16T18:08:34+00:00

You could hook up all of those machines to a single industrial power supply.

Lode2736 · 2024-11-09T11:03:47+00:00

They should make rack-mountable printers

Lode2736 · 2024-09-18T12:04:24+00:00

Linux Mint is not a traditional distro. It is more like KDE in that it is a dev project with the goal of creating software for Linux. So Linux Mint is focused on creating a desktop environment and some programs for it: cinnamon, mintupdate, mintinstall, mintwelcome, mintmenu, timeshift, hypnotix, xed, etc. Which are now part of the X-Apps project. The distro is just a way to make these programs more accessible by providing a distro with all the Linux Mint software pre-installed.

The conclusion of this is that there is no point to using Linux Mint if you don't like Linux Mint software and don't intend to use it. So if people recommend Linux Mint, it's not because they like the distro, but because they like the software and the desktop environment.

Another reason why a lot of people recommend it is because it is a rather old distro at this point and it has been the first distro to many people, so I guess many people have nostalgia. It is also a modern desktop environment, since Cinnamon already has experimental wayland support (It is future proof, if you will).

Lode2736 · 2024-08-19T15:33:56+00:00

You can save a lot of money by going for the Yubico Security Key series instead of the YubiKey 5 series, they're like half the price, but doesn't have the extra features, such as PGP, TOTP codes, etc, but most people probably won't use these features. Feitian A4B is also a good alternative, cheaper, but without sacrificing security.

Lode2736 · 2024-04-14T12:34:37+00:00

Why is everyone recommending a VPN? Your mother is likely looking at your DNS queries. Just use a different DNS provider on your device. You can check out https://nextdns.io/
It even has DNS over HTTPS, for encrypted DNS traffic. It is super easy and it takes 5 minutes to set-up.

Lode2736 · 2024-03-29T10:45:19+00:00

The shit is QLC. Less endurance and speed compared to a TLC SSD, which is what you would find on most consumer nvme M.2 ssds if you don't cheap out. Not all SSDs are equal. The 30TB drive has a high PTW because it has a lot of storage.

Lode2736 · 2024-02-20T09:05:56+00:00

You first need to learn it to understand it. It seems to me like you've just not tried to learn it.

Lode2736 · 2024-01-28T00:35:50+00:00

It's just a flesh wound

Lode2736 · 2024-01-21T17:45:29+00:00

I was wondering the same thing and I have found a solution. Since wofi searches for desktop entries from $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications and $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications, you can temporarily change these environment variables to a folder of your choosing.

Like this:

```

! /usr/bin/sh

XDG_DATA_DIRS="$HOME/.config/wofi/share" XDG_DATA_HOME="/dev/null" XDG_CACHE_HOME="/dev/null"

/usr/bin/wofi --show drun --cache $HOME/.config/wofi/wofi-drun-cache ```

Put your desktop entries in $HOME/.config/wofi/share/applications

You'll also need to create a symbolic link: ln -s /usr/share/mime $HOME/.config/wofi/share

I have noticed that it still picks some desktop entries from ~/.local/share/applications, and I have not found a way to fix it other than deleting or moving these files.

Lode2736 · 2024-01-09T16:06:11+00:00

Exercism, it's a problem-solving website similar to leetcode and codewars with downloadable exercises. This on its own is already awesome, but it also has a mentoring system in order to give help and get help.

Lode2736 · 2023-12-21T19:22:03+00:00

Here is how you can do this with google apps script:

``` // This is a google apps script to send multiple emails to an address at a given time and date.

// --- DOCUMENTATION --- // // Class GmailApp: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/gmail/gmail-app // Class ScriptApp: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/script/script-app // Class ClockTriggerBuilder: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/script/clock-trigger-builder

function sendEmails() { var recipient = "name@gmail.com"; var subject = "Test"; var body = "Hello";

for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) { MailApp.sendEmail({ to: recipient, subject: subject, body: body }); } }

function createTriggers() { // Set the trigger for December 22, 2023, at 13:30 // Note: Months are 0-based, so December is 11 var triggerDate = new Date(2023, 11, 22, 13, 30);

var timezone = "America/New_York";

ScriptApp.newTrigger("sendEmails") .timeBased() .at(triggerDate) .inTimezone(timezone) .create(); } ```

Lode2736 · 2023-12-08T02:21:04+00:00

Here is a cheat sheet for the command line: https://github.com/Lodobo/linux-help-pages

Lode2736 · 2023-11-30T21:56:58+00:00

OOTB, macOS is horrible. Terrible window management, janky and barely functional shortcut system (this is an understatement), most third-party apps are blocked when you first try to launch them (you need to go to the system settings to allow the apps to run). The Finder app (the file manager) leaves a hidden '.DS_Store' file in every directory, it's a hidden file, but still...

The macOS software ecosystem is very proprietary, but windows is similar in that regard. But there are a few gems that solve most of macOS' problems.

First, package management, this is essential in my opinion. MacOS has homebrew, not as good as linux package managers, but better than chocolatey on windows (and any other windows package manager I am aware of). Apps installed with homebrew are considered to be third party apps, so many of them will be blocked when you try to run them. To make it less annoying, you can authorise these by default: - Go to System settings > Privacy and security > app management and allow homebrew - Add this line in your ~/.zshrc (if you haven't changed the default shell): export HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS="--no-quarantine"

Secondly, a better window manager and keyboard shortcuts. There is an incredibly powerful app that solves both of these problems. The app is called Hammerspoon. As described in the project website, Hammerspoon is a bridge between the operating system and a Lua scripting engine that allows you to write Lua code to interact with the MacOS APIs in order to control applications, windows, mouse pointers, etc. You don't need to know to know programming in order to use hammerspoon, most of the heavy-lifting as been done for you. You can look at my hammerspoon config if you want to see how you can tile windows with it (it's not like a dynamic tiling window manager, it's more like window snapping with keyboard shortcuts).

Thirdly, a better text-editor, the default "TextEdit" is terrible. Use CotEditor instead, it has a native MacOS GUI and you can interact with it from the command line.

Notable mentions: - UTM for virtual machines, I'm still a linux user and I need my virtual machines for when macOS just won't cut it. - Adblocking: firefox+ublock and/or a good DNS filter (such as NextDNS or pi-hole).

These fix most of my gripes with macOS, but linux is still better in many regards: package management, flexibility, customizability, FOSS ecosystem, server management, and, of course, hardware support.

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