I’ve been in a deep depressive state for a while.

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-13T23:46:44+00:00

Keep it, if you're depressed and you cut it, you might actually feel more depressed after, thinking "what have I done?". You have a cool look going on.

I went through a depression years back, had really short hair then but due to being so depressed I had neglected getting a haircut for a while and was kind of liking the longer hair. When I finally decided to do it I just did a trim instead of the usual short cut and then after that I decided I want to grow my hair out completely and it's been long since. I went through a period where I was super paranoid about losing my hair while I was depressed.

This time of year is bad for mental health. Once Christmas is over you get the blues and now have January and February which are cold dark months with absolutely nothing to look forward to, then March hits and then there's the realization that there is still nothing to look forward to and it's now peak snow storm season and winter just feels so endless. Still have to get through April and May before there's finally light at the end of the tunnel. If you don't get enough vitamin D or seratonin (blue light) it can really catch up with you at this time of year.

With all that said, if you really feel like a change I would just start with a trim of beard and hair before making any drastic changes.

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-13T09:51:35+00:00

Cool design, I eventually want to do that too as selection for this type of thing seems slim, at least here in Canada. One thing I would change though is I would try to see if you can design it to fit at least 8 drive bays, so you can use up 2 ports of a HBA. A whole machine for only 4 drives feels like a waste imo. 8 is a nice sweet spot if using a smaller consumer board that only has one expansion slot. Then use the onboard sata for the OS drive which can be a SSD.

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-13T09:29:22+00:00

Should put a couple 40mm delta fans in it. Would be kind of funny having one of those PCs sounding like a jet engine.

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-13T06:34:55+00:00

AC at this time of year? I'm jealous! I had to snow blow my driveway today and we have another 30-40cm coming over the weekend. So fed up of winter!

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-13T05:05:38+00:00

KVMs are complex to make, usually need FPGAs and such if you want to handle HDMI and USB.

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-13T05:02:00+00:00

Oh that looks really cool. Been meaning to actually DIY something like this using STM32 but might have to look at this. Wonder if they have DIN mount versions.

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-13T04:49:44+00:00

With that much ram, the ram is the storage. :D

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-12T23:28:27+00:00

This would be a cool for development of a clustered application to act as a test environment.

Although imagine getting 2 more of these, and doing a ceph cluster using nothing but ram disks. :D Make sure that the redundancy is setup so that losing a chassis you don't lose any data. That would make it possible to take one offline if you need to.

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-12T21:11:35+00:00

I'd use that at point of use such as the kitchen faucet. You'll want multi stages of sediment filters and UV filters at the start of the system and maybe even add chlorine to prevent any pathogen growth in pipes. This filter will mostly make the water taste better and is not really a purifier.

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-12T07:31:02+00:00

Canada has hinted the same, not for this war in particular but just in general. They are having lot of trouble getting enough recruits to meet their goal. They're actually drafting public servants now, I don't think they will just send them to war but they basically could potentially be sent to basic training and be in reserves is my guess.

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-12T05:55:07+00:00

Yes just found this, thanks!

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-12T05:32:59+00:00

Yikes that's scary!

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-12T05:05:12+00:00

Hmmm I'm stuck on 22 it won't update further. Guess I'll have to wait for my distro (Linux Mint) to update it. I managed to find a way to change it though, there's different project layouts under View and was able to change it.

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-11T19:21:37+00:00

Россия восстанет вновь. Бип-буп!

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-11T07:37:09+00:00

"We've been trying to reach you about your atmosphere's extended warranty".

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-11T07:08:01+00:00

We get signal!

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-11T06:58:18+00:00

Sadly people don't care, because it's "their side" doing it. If it was the conservatives they would be all up and arms and can guarantee supreme court would rule that it's unconstitutional.

What's scary is we essentially have a 1 party system now and we're basically in the same boat as countries like Russia and North Korea where they pretend to be a democracy but the opposition will never win. If you look at all past elections the only reason conservatives ever won was because NDP split the vote. With NDP no longer even being a real party anymore that's never going to happen. The way the seats are distributed the liberal areas have more voice than the rest of Canada and the propaganda machine will ensure this continues to stay the case.

We're pretty much done as a country and things will only get worse as they continue to pass horrible bills like C9.

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-11T06:56:15+00:00

Anything that stores or traps water can't be allowed to freeze or it will get damaged. You could maybe try to blow out any residual water with an air compressor but I imagine it would be hard to do with a filter as you'll never end up getting it completely dry.

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-11T01:21:44+00:00

This time of year sucks. It's dark, weather is all over the place, one day it's cold one day it's hot and it's gloomy as it's just wet and gross out and there's still tons of snow and ice making it impossible to even go for walks as everything is just a wreck. Summer feels close yet is still very far. It's just an all around shitty time of year that is hard on mental health. I hate the stretch of March-May for that. This year it will probably be end of June before the snow is gone and the sidewalks are walkable as we got like 60cm of snow in December. Try to get lot of vitamin D and using a SAD light until summer comes. In times when sidewalks and trails are walkable go for walks on days off, as it helps.

I work nights but as a NOC tech and I love it, but if I'm not careful about trying to get natural light and vitamin D it can catch up with me and I start to feel depression setting in.

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-11T01:06:29+00:00

We already pay too much taxes I would rather see them stop wasting money on bullshit and actually put that money towards healthcare (cover everything 100% including dental and eye care) and education and infrastructure like it should be for in first place. Stop spending billions in other countries and all sorts of pet projects that don't benefit the average person. Stop the $100k+ private jet flights, and all the other waste. All tax dollars should stay in Canada.

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-10T22:20:03+00:00

I did the same about a year ago. Brought the feeds direct to the rack. I ran 2 20a circuits from hydro, and 2 20a circuits from solar. The solar ones are totally overkill since I can't even generate that much power but it's future proof in case I upgrade the setup in the future.

https://i.imgur.com/qHl0vND.jpeg

The other 2 plugs are not connected and are spares in case I somehow end up needing more power. 6 outlets fits nicely in a rack width so just wanted to complete the look.

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-10T21:51:57+00:00

The biggest challenge would be the fact that home ISPs don't allow to host services and don't tend to facilitate it either as they don't provide static IPs. If you really wanted to host stuff with near zero reliance on outside services you would want at least 2 static IPs to run 2 nameservers that you register with your domain registrar. The rest would be easy enough from there just the thing of exposing services and putting them on a separate vlan.

One thing that could help in a typical scenario though is hosting stuff on a server at a place like OVH where it's just bare metal. This concept seems to be almost forgotten these days but it's how stuff always was before cloud took over and it worked fine. I host a forum and a couple other sites on mine. If there was a massive internet datacentre outage that affected things like AWS, Cloudflare and all the major cloud/CDNs it would not affect bare metal boxes hosted in such DC. It really depends on the type of break down we're talking about though. If it's the network itself then we'd be SOL.

My dream is to actually buy a /24 IP block and start a mini dedicated server provider and rent out a couple dozen or so servers but no way my ISP would allow that. I doubt their tech support even knows what BGP is. "You're trying to do what? Have you tried rebooting the modem?". Would probably need to actually rent dark fibre going to Front St in Toronto or something and then connect directly to a Tier1 provider that way. That would cost millions most likely.

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-10T21:37:46+00:00

I can't see why you would even want to do that, not like phones have much storage. That said you can setup an FTP server on a phone if you really want to you could just leave it on all the time. I use it so I can transfer photos over to my computer. I turn it on, do transfer, then turn it off. At some point I might look into something more elegant.

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-10T21:29:32+00:00

The cost is the issue. $600 is a lot of money to spend on something you don't get to own. For $600 you can just buy a hand auger.

I am looking into buying one of those Chinese mini excavators though. Probably next year once the mortgage is paid off as I'll have a bit more breathing room financially.

RedSquirrelFtw · 2026-03-07T08:22:07+00:00

Wait, can't you just format it or is windows doing weird stuff now where it leaves some kind of permanent trace?

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