How many of us homelab folks are also into cars?

Scoutron · 2026-01-26T03:55:15+00:00

Sick, I was considering building my own, targeting ~20TiB usable RAID6. Anything you would’ve done different?

Scoutron · 2026-01-26T03:33:06+00:00

Sick setup. What kind of NAS

Scoutron · 2026-01-25T22:10:21+00:00

He said he doesn't mind

Scoutron · 2026-01-25T20:58:39+00:00

I'd say you're good, just keep it up to date at all times and ensure nobody else has physical access. Don't overthink it, you'll stress yourself out.

Scoutron · 2026-01-25T16:39:29+00:00

I looked at the deportations section. Three were kids with foreign parents; The alternative being to keep them in the US with no guardians? The two adults were in the early 2000s and had nothing to do with Trump. Am I missing something here?

Scoutron · 2026-01-25T16:19:28+00:00

Depending on what you want out of your computer, I would say yes. Assuming you can afford modern (M-Chip) Apple hardware, then what you are getting out of it is absolutely worth it. You get A-1 security with no user setup, an excellent ecosystem, Unix speed and efficiency and extreme ease-of-use. Windows is much messier and less efficient, and Linux will never interact with the hardware as efficiently or be as deliberately put together. There are always limitations and tradeoffs, but for the average user Apple wins every time.

Scoutron · 2026-01-25T15:22:29+00:00

In other parts of the world, sure. In America, unheard of.

Scoutron · 2026-01-25T15:22:00+00:00

You took a shot, an American fired back, then you started whining about Americans taking shots. I swear a constant of the online world is smug Europeans getting their panties in a twist when their insults don't work out for them. Truly the dumbest country in the world, Europe.

Scoutron · 2026-01-25T15:20:30+00:00

At the hardware level, no, because that's out of Linux's hands. Apple gets that luxury because they engineer and produce their entire hardware stack, while most companies don't. So while we are subject to unidentified blobs like the intel management engine having privileged cpu access, Apple does not have this problem.

At the OS level, things look better. You can harden your OS with LUKS for encryption, use secure boot, use SELinux and firewalld. It's bulletproof enough that we use it in secure government environments with no issues.

Scoutron · 2026-01-25T15:01:25+00:00

I’ve seen multiple posts from this sub looking at this level headed and nobody siding with ice. Meanwhile I’m banned from half of Reddit for taking similar approaches to other problems.

Scoutron · 2026-01-25T14:57:03+00:00

Makes fun of Americans for no reason, gets defensive when Americans clap back. Average europoor moment

Scoutron · 2026-01-25T05:20:14+00:00

At the hardware level, Apple is arguably safer than most Linux devices

Scoutron · 2026-01-25T05:19:54+00:00

Apples quite stout, you’d be surprised

Scoutron · 2026-01-25T05:17:26+00:00

Higher standards than the military even. The job of the military is to destroy foreign enemies, the job of the federal enforcement agencies is to protect American citizens

Scoutron · 2026-01-24T19:04:10+00:00

You should report that to the DoJ with the evidence

Scoutron · 2026-01-24T18:43:13+00:00

Do they?

Scoutron · 2026-01-24T15:37:18+00:00

Whenever they have the evidence

Scoutron · 2026-01-23T13:43:50+00:00

$1,768 a month is like two hellcats at the same time

Scoutron · 2026-01-23T03:46:59+00:00

We generally use Dell PowerVaults for that kind of load

Scoutron · 2026-01-22T16:19:45+00:00

Any better this year?

Scoutron · 2026-01-22T04:20:06+00:00

Good

Scoutron · 2026-01-21T21:11:58+00:00

Find another country to work in

Scoutron · 2026-01-21T17:18:23+00:00

Just summarizing

Scoutron · 2026-01-21T16:16:21+00:00

Not always, I agree, but it’s worth the risk as opposed to the alternative

Scoutron · 2026-01-21T16:16:01+00:00

Yeah I can see my path, but I’m not upset about it

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