Trying to think when was the last time I watched the Oscars. More than a decade ago, that’s for sure.

10 commodity SSDs through a powered USB hub forming a poor man’s NAS with snapraid + mergerfs

How did you end up with this setup? Did you just already have a bunch of SSDs from over the years? That’d be cool af if you posted a photo of it.

For the NAS, what do you use for storage? Do you have an external drive hooked up via USB or something else?

Thanks for clarifying. If I understand correctly, you’re saying that in terms of energy usage, a thin client + external docking station for HDDs might have a smaller footprint than an ITX build, but at the expense of future upgradeability. On the other hand, an ITX build would likely draw more power than the thin client + external HDDs, but enables me to upgrade individual components down the road. Did I get that right?

I would only consider those thinclients if AI is something you are planning to run.

Do you mean b/c AI would require a beefy host for the thin client to connect to?

Thanks for clarifying that. One last question if you don’t mind – some listings (such as this one) say “no OS,” and “You must reload the unit to gain original factory functionality.” Are they just talking about installing my own OS or does “reloading” mean something else in the context of these thin clients that I’m not aware of?

Gotcha, although I’m in the US, so would something like this DELL WYSE 5070 THIN CLIENT Intel Celeron J4105 1.50GHZ 8GB RAM 64GB SSD No OS ($34 w/ free shipping) be comparable?

Gotcha, the one you linked is sold out, but what about this one?

it being ARM based will cause various headaches when learning compared to something x86

Hmm, this is just enough to give me pause. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll have to think on this some more and maybe do a little more research.

What made you want to switch from docker to podman?

Beelink ME Mini

Would something like this be suitable as a NAS + Jellyfin + Home Assistant box?

That’s pretty slick.

What are the HDDs plugged into? Would you mind posting some photos of the back?

How might cat and/or tee fit into one’s coding workflow? Is it basically cat for displaying what’s been saved and tee for writing changes to a file?

One thing stack exchange moderators got right is they required posts with links to include at least a snippet of info from the linked page for exactly this reason.

This funniness only affects market orders, right? I reckon most retail orders are market orders, just wondering if I understand correctly. If I place a limit order, then I don’t have to worry about the $5 I saved on a $0 fee transaction being made up elsewhere, although I suppose the tradeoff is that my order may not be filled at all.

try to sneakily make me register passcodes

Can you expand on this? I’m not sure what this means. Is it like instead of a full fledged password, just a four digit PIN or something? Thanks.

How does one find such retired laptops? As an individual hobbyist in the US, would I just monitor eBay, Craigslist, or Facebook?

I was about to ask, wasn’t Mullvad discontinued a few months ago? But I’m thinking of the Mull browser, right?

Update - using Distrobox, I confirmed the Window Capture option is missing from the Sources menu in OBS Studio v31 (Fedora 41):

It is there in OBS Studio v29 (Debian 12):

You might be right. The OBS kb says Game Capture is for Windows users only and that Linux users should use Window Capture. In my version, I have Game Capture, but not Window Capture. I fiddled with Game Capture, but after a few minutes I couldn’t get it to show anything other than a black screen, so I went back to what I use now, Screen Capture (Pipewire).