QuiEgo

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   by QuiEgo 11mo ago

   I really want to want Unifi, but my experience with one of their products (UDM + mesh) was that it was a ton of effort to get something working that ended up being slower and more fiddly than a consumer focused router. When I get home, I do
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   by QuiEgo 11mo ago

   Making no statement about the value or lack of value in AI itself: When people talk about it like this (this author is hardly the only example) they sound like an evangelist proselytizing and it feels so weird to me. This thing could basica
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   by QuiEgo 11mo ago

   I’ve always thought of this like being at University and studying for finals or doing labs. You could basically do them wherever you wanted for the most part. Some people thrived in an actual lab. Some people worked from their dorm/apa
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   by QuiEgo 11mo ago

   Body doubling is a thing! The crux of this is the way everyone is at their best is different per person. Work from office is the brute force solution - if it’s the hammer, flexible work is the scalple. Not every org has managers capable of
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   by QuiEgo 11mo ago

   I love the idea of FIRE as a life goal and driving financial strategy. The core principal is you save enough money up that the dividends from your investment returns (the FI part of FIRE) is enough to live off forever. If you hit FIRE, awes
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   by QuiEgo 11mo ago

   Good points as well :)
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   by QuiEgo 11mo ago

   Let’s hypothetically say we’re all doomed. Say our jobs are going the way of manufacturing in the 70s-80s. What’s the play then? If I was a new college grad I’d stay away from programming, but that’s been true for a while regardless of offs
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   by QuiEgo 11mo ago

   Sorry that happened to you :(
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   by QuiEgo 11mo ago

   My personal experience, YMMV: I was told that once video conferencing got good and internet and infrastructure became better in other places, "this time it will be different." I was told once universities in other countries starte
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    by QuiEgo 11mo ago

    I’ve been told for 20 years that in 5 years my job is going to be offshored. If they could have they would have long ago. My theory: We had a crazy bubble of hiring during zero rate interest. We are living through a nasty correction. AI is
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    by QuiEgo 11mo ago

    I think the Terramaster NASes are about as close to this as you can get, they even have an internal USB header that seems purpose-added for the Unraid boot disk. That said, I prefer straight Debain to Unraid. I feel Unraid saves you a weeke
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    by QuiEgo 11mo ago

    Another use case is hobby photography. Video storage (e.x. drone footage), or keeping a big pile of RAW photos. The cloud stuff becomes impractical quickly.
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    by QuiEgo 11mo ago

    Adding to the chorus of responses here: I did what this article suggested for a time, but found a purpose-built NAS was way nicer than repurposing an old gaming PC. Using an old gaming PC for a NAS is kind of like trying to use an old track
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    by QuiEgo 11mo ago

    I use mergerfs + snapraid on my HDDs for “cold” storage for the same reason: noise. Snapraid sync and scrub runs at 4am when I am not in the same room as the NAS. The drives stay spun down 99% of the time, because I also use a ZFS mirrored
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    by QuiEgo 11mo ago

    Md is great, but does not detect bit rot. Consider mergerfs + snapraid. Id also argue if you can setup md you can probably figure out how to setup zfs. It looks scary on the RAM, because it uses “idle” ram, but it will immediately release i
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    by QuiEgo 11mo ago

    I have had good experiences with SnapRAID as well. I use this script to run it (in a Chron job), which is highly configurable: https://github.com/auanasgheps/snapraid-aio-script
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    by QuiEgo 11mo ago

    ZFS, Btrfs, or SnapRAID in a chron job (not a file system, but accomplishes something similar). ZFS is the “gold standard” here
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    by QuiEgo 11mo ago

    The front ones seem easy enough, the rear ones are a lot harder https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/2020_2024_modely/en_us/GU...
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    by QuiEgo 11mo ago

    I work in firmware. Firmware build times can be comically bad. Most firmware builds are heavily optimized and you often build the same codebase dozens of times with each build optimized for one particular hardware configuration of many. You
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    by QuiEgo 11mo ago

    I think laptop of your choice as a thin client to Linux box in a data center is super common. Most people seem to pick a Mac as their thin client, since ssh works well natively on it, it runs MS office, and the Windows laptop options are ne
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    by QuiEgo 11mo ago

    I put straight Debian on it, but it was pretty easy. Go to the bios, turn off secure boot, change default boot device, prosper. It's just an x86 computer that boots a custom Linux distro (TOS), no reason any other Linux distro can&#x27
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    by QuiEgo 11mo ago

    I’ve been pretty happy with taking a Terramsater F4-425 Plus and putting Linux on it. I feel like the mini ITX market for motherboards is just too niche. If you want something small, buy an off the shelf NAS. If size is not an issue, buy a
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    by QuiEgo 11mo ago

    Tesla has its problems (between 2019 and 2024 the auto headlights and auto wipers were borderline unusable, now they are merely tolerable, and autopilot is a whole story on it's own), but maintenance is not one of Tesla's issues.
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    by QuiEgo 11mo ago

    My experience in low-level stuff has been a mirror of the Linux kernel trying to take up Rust. Some people love it and fight hard for it, some hate it and fight hard against it, but most just see it as another tool in the toolbox and don&#x
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    by QuiEgo 11mo ago

    Good on you for recognizing what you enjoy and going for it. I like hardware, always have :). FWIW, I’ve done embedded at multiple mag 7 companies, and if levels.fyi is to be believed I’m getting paid the same as my peers doing other types
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    by QuiEgo 11mo ago

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'd like to lean into that "YMMV" in my post, I'm coming from low level C that interacts with hardware, can't really speak to higher-level C++. Some things in Rust just don't translate to the way
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    by QuiEgo 11mo ago

    > Not a fact. Particularly in the embedded world, crashing is preferable to malfunctioning, as many embedded devices control things that might hurt people, directly or indirectly. Strong agree on this one, usually embedded systems are de
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    by QuiEgo 11mo ago

    Thank you for the clarification, that's exactly what I was trying to say :). Perhaps another way to phrase this: in Rust, you spend more time telling the compiler how your code is expected to work (making the borrow checker happy, addi
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    by QuiEgo 11mo ago

    It's already happening: https://cyberpress.org/malicious-rust-packages/ My personal experience (YMMV): Rust code takes 2x or 3x longer to write than what came before it (C in my case), but in the end you usually g
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    by QuiEgo 11mo ago

    Random example: I once worked on a debug where you were not allowed to send zero length packets due to a known HW bug. Okay fine, work around in SW. Turns out there was an HW eviction timer that was disabled. It was connected to a counter t