Techdirt has been killing it since they decided to start covering politics.

I’m a fan of pfSense, myself. But other suggestions here for OSes have been reasonable. I have a netgate router feeding an eero wap with a second wap creating a bridged wifi network. Future-proofing with 10GB on a wired switch if a good idea. I got a pair of Unifi 2.5GB switches with 10GB uplink for that. The difference in performance moving large data around is massive. I have 10GB between my primary machine, the one that I run as my always-on server, and my NAS. It’s awesome. Everything else is 2.5GB.

Edit: made one bit plural

12.8TB. Mostly uncompressed rips from Blu-rays, some DVDs, some from iTunes Store. Some from the high seas, but not in a long time because the market solved that problem with streaming.

That’s an ok mistake to make that has zero chance of then ruining someone’s life and reputation. /s

Go sucky? All right, rascist dev. Me love you long time! /s

This is the true answer, hence I don’t need to sarcastically form my own.

Mod kids and punk kids used to hang out. So you could ask a punk to put you in touch. At least, that’s what I gather after watching SLC Punk (which is really good, btw).

I don’t have opensource solutions, but CloudFlare had some news about a system that I didn’t read about (saw two headlines) last week. Dunno if it works or not.

Cool, more power to you.

My Synology is compatible with an expansion unit and can support two of them. Check if yours can do the same for the storage aspect.

If you get a NAS with 10G (it’s such a nice upgrade, I made the jump last year), there’s no reason a nice NUC can’t do the job. I went that route after previously running significantly overpowered server hardware ten years ago. We have an embarrassment of riches with modern hardware.

A+

Time to implement a couple forms of backups.

I had a tower that generated so much heat that during a particularly hot summer, I had to stop using it around 1-2pm every day. The room just got too hot to occupy. I’m a computer nerd, so this was particularly heinous for me.

You’re pretty rad, y’know that?

I work for a state agency and that’s going well because the state’s values and my own overlap enough for me to be ok being part of the machine. This is in California. I would never have a state job in Texas. But I would never find myself living in Texas to being with.

I moved to 10Gbps and 5Gbps on some of my devices and it’s been glorious. Future-proof by having either built-in.

All my extra RAM was super old and I let it get offed when I hired a junk hauling company clear out my last place when I moved (I’d been there for like 15 years, so there was a lot of worn out furniture and stuff).

Books on early christianity (first two-hundred years) have been super engaging for the past 20 months. I’m an atheist, so this was a surprising topic to be of such interest.

For mainstream opinions, Bart Ehrman has a bunch of books. “How Jesus Became God,” was especially good, as Jesus only preached that he was the Mesiah.

For stuff that’s a bit edgier, there’s the theory that Jesus was an ahistorical figure (three books into that topic and I believe this to be true), you could try Robert M. Price or Earl Doherty.

You could also check out random wikipedia articles. Plus podcasts:

Noble Blood focuses on historical events through the lenses of nobility (I’m a history nerd).

Stuff the British Stole is a seasonal show that deep-dives stolen museum items and their legacy.

(Are you detecting a trend?)

The Fall of Civilizations podcast deep-dives ancient civilizations. Phenomenal.

(Spoiler: I’m a history nerd.)

History of Rome is a long series of short episodes from a historian. It’s very amateur at the beginning.

(There it is again!)

We used it to read old Outlook backups at my previous employer. Haven’t used it as an active client.