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Same experience here, I've never been able to use it for anything worthwhile. On one flight I was able to send an email by manually telnetting to an SMTP server and I eventually got an email out with a single line of text but that's been about it.


Just about everything in Australia needs a license to do. Even down to network cabling.


The rule is - if it's going inside the wall, only a licenced electrician can do it. Yes it also extends to things like speaker or HDMI cables. It's mad.


Mad, indeed. It's hard to imagine those rules are followed, especially for speaker wires and HDMI cables.


HDMI cables? Sounds like protectionism. Invent rules to make yourself more work.


Aren't there power delivery versions of HDMI?

I can understand requiring a license for any power wires behind walls.

I could also see the possibility that it's just an old law that doesn't consider data-only cables which don't have the safety issues that wires carrying power do.


While HDMI can provide a tiny bit of power and there are active cables for signal boosting, HDMI was never meant for power delivery. You might be mixing it with HDMI with Ethetnet.


It's definitely an old law that never took data cables into account, but the current interpretation is that any cable that carries electrical current has to be installed and certified by an electrician.


Gene therapy is coming on well. Hopefully it'll help my kid when he's older. From what I'm being told, the gene that effects him is very large and difficult to fit into the viruses they use for gene therapy. My understanding is very limited so I could be very wrong here.


Yeah I keep checking the prices of them to see if they come down but nope. Meanwhile you can get a touch tft 3.5" for like a dollar.


It's deffinately not the perfect file server. From using usb drives, 15 year old atom CPU, 2gb of ram and raid 5 for the drives... Just some of the reasons.


Granted, yes, the author should have chosen a more specific and less clickbaity title. But titles need to be short and pithy when dealing with the goldfish attention spans many people have.

So a better, more accurate title could be,

>“The perfect low-cost/no-cost file server utilizing old/upcycled and possibly obsolete hardware”

Except that doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue with aplomb.


Aren't people already feeding knowledge into stack overflow for free which is a propriety system used to generate cash?


At least before the answers would benefit the whole community, fulfilling the spirit of CC licensing. Once it's fed to a LLM, it's essentially a form of laundering, as it's dubious the output of the models will also be free under CC. The "open" in OpenAI is effectively fake advertising. It's a proprietary enterprise misleading people by pretending open something.


It still does tho. I don't see why "whole community" cannot include open-ai? I mean, I've used knowledge gleaned from SO for the benefit of many large corporations who employed me in the past, that's not new.

"The Whole community" and open-ai are not mutually exclusive, despite what you may feel about it.


Because then open-ai won't honor the licence, once content goes through the LLM information laundering machine.


Yeah, but you get points and badges for feeding it free knowledge, they get the cash, go figure. It's the perfect pre-NFT grift.


This is a Facebook copy and paste that is mostly nonsense for many reasons. https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4818


It's not long gown you're just older and no longer apart of it.


No, resorting to walkthroughs is the most common approach these days.


Everytime I log into my esxi host I wish the storage used zfs. I know proxmox does and I'll probably head that way eventually.


I use Proxmox at home because it has ZFS and built in backups. That was enough of a selling point for me.

ESXi and VSphere not having backups built in feels like classic "create the problem, sell the solution" to me.


PCI passthrough just works on esxi, couple of clicks done. Seems a little more involved in proxmox.


You are correct.

Linux will try to grab and use every piece of hardware you have installed, so you have to whitelist/ignore things

I didn't find it too bad, but I haven't passed hardware to a VM in a number of years


This is the only reason I still know Roman numerals. Still do try and work out what they are if I get that far into the credits.


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