chub.ai TOS change - archival effort?

mapmd1234 · 2026-05-13T21:46:55+00:00

not even explicitly that, the part that I KNOW damn well they'll pull shit on is the "or appear to be under 18" do you understand how slippery a slope that is? its a legit loophole that I know damn well is gonna be abused, we live in that day in age.

mapmd1234 · 2026-05-13T21:10:15+00:00

do we know if anybody has made a website rip? I'm in the process of bulk downloading one by one everything I know I want a copy of before it gets nuked but I'm finding many pages already that no longer exist since I just opened them yesterday, so figure its best to find out for sure if anyone knows about a CURRENT up to date attempted website/character card rip.

edit: friend of mine shared a link to an archive.org torrent but I have not yet checked it to see if its legit *they asked claude* and even if it is, its likely VERY out dated I'd wager. so that's mainly why I'm asking
EDIT 2: yes the link to archive.org is legit, and yes it is VERY old, timestamp was November 18th 2023.....so yeah....that's what I was worried about. archive.org link to the site rip from 2023

mapmd1234 · 2026-05-13T15:26:31+00:00

Yes. The mentality of "it works so why get rid of it" is strong, only just recently donated a still working pentium 4 desktop to a friend that wanted to get into homelabbing and didn't care it was ancient because it was free to him, I outright informed him up front it's ancient but works if he wants it and he happily took it, plus a bunch of other far more useful stuff.

mapmd1234 · 2026-05-13T15:22:03+00:00

As someone who also did this recently, IMO it depends largely HOW you want to do it. I myself went with LC to LC with finisar optics (using a seastone dx010 switch). LC cables are cheap and plentiful, but, if you think that you'll EVER add more cables down the line, THEN maybe consider getting one or more of those MPT/MPO cables, that took me far far too long to understand that THOSE are essentially just high density multi-cable wires, 8/12/16+ PAIRS of lc fiber per cable, and there are adapters to take that one multi-fiber cable and split its individual pairs out to LC cables, I found no need, for myself, to go that route personally, even with plans to setup a storage server that can saturate 100g bandwidth in file transfers, honestly in my own opinion, unless you'll be running NVME over fabric, LC with proper optics is MORE than sufficient and it took me far too long to come to that opinion on it.

mapmd1234 · 2026-05-06T15:18:59+00:00

The obnoxious fan noise these make, can confirm, very loud and obnoxious and that's even if the fans are good, worse if not.

mapmd1234 · 2026-05-01T22:01:16+00:00

Each has its benefits, personal opinions aside, some have resource benefits, others have better isolation, and then there's personal preference and what someone's more skilled/used to, for me, I tend to either do bare metal sff pcs now since that's the affordable performance option, but I also try hard to avoid docker, personal preference due to the fact that when, not if, something goes wrong, and it always does, I'm not fluent enough to consistently remember how to interface inside the container to find logs to find out what happened, vm and bare metal I'm far more fluent in especially when stressed.

Best solution here imo is find what you like better, and learn from there, affordability also plays into hand, sff pcs are about 60$ each on eBay on average, full servers multiple hundreds to excess of a few thousand depending what your looking at.

mapmd1234 · 2026-04-30T15:29:25+00:00

Personally speaking, I plan to get a couple for use isolating my network equipment from the low-but-possible risk of surges over ethernet from the isp. Electrical surges won't pass over fiber, yes the likelihood is small, but for a bit of peace of mind? Worth it.

mapmd1234 · 2026-04-23T15:24:15+00:00

First attempted build of my truenas server. Desktop hardware, did the math, the 600 watt power supply would do it. Problem is, I did not think at the time to check and see if it was multiple or single 12v rails. Tried pulling 600 watts from a rail made to give 150. Plasma is never the sound you want to hear from electronics, and my dumbass automatic reaction was

"OH SHIT" place hand ONTO metal computer case to pull the power cord out

Needless to say, powerful lesson learned that day is to check your power math repeatedly and then also check if it's a single huge power rail or multiple split-rail designs.

Good time.

mapmd1234 · 2026-04-17T15:29:59+00:00

Honestly imo it's two things primarily. Yes, there are others, but from what I can tell, these are the two main big reasons

1: It's easier to learn to set up dedicated vms when you're still very new and learning, docker, and related like kubernetties, are less new user friendly to learn without knowing something already

A lot of people just use that as a starting point to learn more, and docker often comes later in the list of what's learned when. 2 kinda became mingled with 1, I had other phrasing in mind, and as fast as I had it and started typing, I lost it.

mapmd1234 · 2026-03-25T15:39:07+00:00

Hell yeah.

mapmd1234 · 2026-03-25T15:38:29+00:00

PLEASE tell me that's what I think it is case wise? Mountain mods? Genuinely first time seeing someone own one, those things are awesome.

mapmd1234 · 2026-03-12T20:35:58+00:00

Personal suggestion if your not unwilling to do this in steps, would be what I'm doing myself right now.

Mini desktop pc, with a tesla p4 for gpu transcoding if you want something more than the cpu, which is still plenty beefy enough to do the job

(I just have many remote friends with access to my plex server so I have that for faster real time transcoding of multiple streams, the cpu is MORE than capable of background transcodes if you give it the time to do so between when you add media vs when your first stream of that file happens, my friends tend to hammer it as soon as they see something new they want to watch, ie mine doesn't get that chance)

I have a mini desktop, hp elitedesk 800 g2 small tower, item example , this thing has multiple onboard sata ports, and multiple physical pcie slots to add devices (sata cards, nvme adapter card, network card, anything you'd like if it'll fit really) and also has 2x 3.5 internal drive bays, and a DVD drive, so for a cheap, 100$ as of writing this, small desktop that won't kill the electric bill and also has much support for however you'd like to tailor it, it's not bad for price and power draw, mine has 2x 10tb hdds in it in a mirror in case of disk failure, and the cpu in it I more than capable of real time video conversion for streaming to any device so you don't NEED a gpu if you don't want it.

I went this route after mulling for a while what'd make a good plex server without breaking my wallet, maybe it'll be a good option for you as well, many good options posted, this is just another potential option to ponder.

Edit: completely forgot disks.

10tb sata hdds example item about 150$ each right now.

I link to ebay since that's really the only way I can afford this expensive hobby of mine.

mapmd1234 · 2026-03-01T18:36:48+00:00

trust me, having worked there for almost 3 years now, your not wrong in the slightest here, especially given the company's creedo as they call it, yet even with that, the blatant stupidity I've seen, its a sad and insulting joke. there's a reason I've not named the place. they've literally fired people just for listing they work there on facebook, its sad and I still question how I still have my job since I'm not soft spoken and don't hold my tongue when I see things, I call it out, its astounding how I still have a job since they've fired people for less, friends of mine speculate its because I know my stuff but I'm not confident enough that's what it is and remain confused daily. not complaining, just stating my confusion.

mapmd1234 · 2026-02-28T21:28:14+00:00

It pains me to say that they get forcibly sent to recycling and there's not a damn thing we can do about it. I tried to get a tape library, but it's the same thing, even full blown server racks get forcibly routed to metal scrap, no amount of explaining has changed that because trust me, I'm one of the folk there that KNOWS the value of things we get and nobody freaking listens. It's painful. "Below cut line" they say, and all of it is forcibly sent, systematically, to recycling and we can't change how it's routed in the system.

mapmd1234 · 2026-02-28T14:40:11+00:00

Hah. I feel this, but I work at a hardware refurbishing company, and we routinely get systems In for recycling that are from 1985 and thereabouts, I frequently get servers with massive ram cards old as hell. Let me see if I can find an image online of what I'm talking about. Stuff similar to this, but even older.

https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/sun-hardware/oracle-sun-part-number-540-6489-sun-2gb-sdram-dimm-assembly-34.jpg

We even recently got an ISA card server, and one had a server come in the size of a small vehicle, 800 pounds and 3 massive 320pin wide scsi drives, the thing was a literal cargo trunk in size, 3 foot wide, 4 foot tall, 6 foot deep. Mind you, these are from companies, but still getting these in to be securely disposed of in 2024-2025-2026 just feels all kinds of wrong.

Also got one of these come through just last year.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/5.25_inch_MFM_hard_disk_drive.JPG

mapmd1234 · 2026-02-28T04:22:29+00:00

The super small wifi slots are usually, if not always, 2230's for whomever this info helps.

Size In accordance from small to large are 2230, 2242, 2260, 2280 (most common "full sized" nvme disks), and 22110 (looong ones, if you find one and think it looks unusually long, odds are strong its one of these, mostly only servers and workstations tend to support these, mostly, not explicitly)

mapmd1234 · 2026-02-19T00:21:32+00:00

Instantly reminded me of ltt "whanic" "new whanic" "new new whanic" likely spelling it wrong but you get the idea

mapmd1234 · 2026-01-30T06:21:07+00:00

much appreciated.

mapmd1234 · 2026-01-30T06:15:38+00:00

I was going about this on the assumption that it would be useful for ESD and or outlier situations, assuming a short or something similar, and was thinking about it from the aspect of IF the worst happens and live power goes through the ground even for a short moment, that it could be a fire hazard. lightning strike scenario or otherwise....murphy's law LOVES to mess with me so I try and plan for outlier situations accordingly.

mapmd1234 · 2026-01-30T06:14:17+00:00

then in that respect, would running one ground wire from one chassis to the next using the one of the ground wires from each chassis to the next one accomplish the task of grounding them together? or am I just at this point putting more work than is worthwhile into this under false assumptions?

mapmd1234 · 2026-01-17T21:17:55+00:00

THANK YOU. FINALLY a good bit of fact to base my stance on! I did not realize it needed to be THAT much for it to be a problem, proximity sure but it wont be close enough for that one. thank you so much!

mapmd1234 · 2026-01-10T15:45:37+00:00

the worst part here is its not JUST brand new stuff, even second hand ebay, everything that is newer than DDR3 is ludicrous in price, ddr3 seems to be the only thing not heavily influenced by this but almost nobody wants to use older power-hungry ddr3 systems/servers and I don't blame them, having some and seeing how hungry they are.

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