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Back from gro*RAIN!*cery sh*RAIN!*opping. And *RAIN!*. Prices are going through the roof for some household accessories. Did I mention *RAIN!*?

As I mostly don't use the car.. there results direct frontal contact with *RAIN!*. :ROFLMAO:

Welcome to the counting madness! I hereby wish the big devil, caboose and ManuMare the best experiences in this (at the moment) six-digit-confusion! ❤️

(Don't worry, caboose. All is fine as long as you don't stop to exist.)

By the way: Carmageddon II was hell of a funny game. There exists actually an uncut and a cut variant, I loved playing the uncut one. Unfortunately there were as well dogs (if I remember correctly) which somehow ended in the gory mess.. even if you tried to "just" eradicate humanity, haha.

Mjum, some Yuki and Yasu sushi, lots of salad, cheddar-filled meatballs.. well, well. A good start in the evening.
 
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Had a very rich variety of food today evening, now I'm quite "full" and preparing to work further on my Li-battery project which I need for a mobility concept. (y)

Ah, beforehand brushing teeth - important! ? ?

Else all is acceptable, as usual. Life's a bitch, unfortunately not a canidae one. ?‍♂️

And how are you, my good mountainfloofer?
 
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I finally got to take a breath from work. Also, yay! The 4TB hard drive came to my door today! I'll install it into my gaming rig once I get off of work. Fingers crossed that it isn't DOA. It was not shipped with a lot of bubble wrapping, although the box doesn't look damaged at all.
 
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Yeah, I figured it was smarter to only pay $83 for a 4TB HDD instead of like $200 for a 4TB SSD. My OS, Windows 10, is on an SSD, but pretty much most of the programs, games, and porn are on an HHD and they all run fine. I figured that would be the smarter way to go for external storage.
 
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I got two 500gb m.2 drives in a raid 0. They hold my OS as well as my most played games that take some time to load. I then got another 500gb SSD and a 1TB SSD that holds the rest of my games and stuff. I do have an external drive, either 500GB or 1Tb I forget, that holds a bunch of pirated moves / shows and maybe a lot of porn
 
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My setup is pretty simple, 1 master 500GB SSD for the OS, Save data, pictures, documents and, odds n' ends, and 1 slave 1TB HDD for pretty much everything else. Although now I'll have a 4TB drive pretty much exclusively for games, shows, and porn. It just needs to be another slave drive.

Out of the two drives installed now I have 200GBs left to play around with. But RDR2 alone is going to be 120GBs, so it was definitely time for an upgrade in storage.
 
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I probably won't need all of that. But then again I still do plan on eventually configuring my Cisco Router and Switch for my network, although I'll probably need to brush up on the Cisco CLI as I haven't really messed with it since college. Why would I need all that for a home network you may ask.... err... BECAUSE! That's why! Lol
 
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A NAS or a small energy-saving computer system with remote wake-up on LAN packets (often faster and with more possibilities in regards of OS and file system, as example ZFS / RAIDZ(2)) is always a nice idea. Best would be to store it somewhere in a safe cellar / basement, where a burning house and water from below / top wouldn't be able to destroy it, tho.

Should include full disk encryption standards, free-choice redundancy for specific folder / storage endpoints and so on. Then it is quite the hassle-free setup.

Remote access should include only read-only access for not write-relevant aspects and there should be protected folders (which only one or a few logins have write access to). I would do this as "only local users have write access to those", as it's easy to transfer new folders to such important endpoints locally over as example USB storage media. This all prevents remote corruption.

Advantage of this solution standard would be as example that you could attach 3 disks initially and expand it later on without having to fully redo and externalize the RAID (and stored media).

Too specifically for most people, I assume. Most use a HDD or SSD, maybe even a flash storage media and plug it in if they need to incrementally (or manually..) add backup files. ?
 
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Nuuu - stay, my good Mountaindogfloof! ❤️

That's just an analytic, nothing which most people actually need. It's "the most compromise-less solution" with the disadvantage of being very complex to set-up. Aside this it offers almost everything which people search for: encryption, accounts, individual remote access ways from telnet over ftp up to media transfer protocols.. even live streaming to TV or comparable.

But it's complex.. that's for sure. And not that "cheap", tho. As such overpowered for most uses.
 
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Haha I was just joking. I'm a pretty big tech nerd myself. I did have a position for a bit working with tech to an extent where I did learn some networking stuff. Also had a chance to go to comptia A+ and few other courses and get certifications paid for by my work but I didn't see myself working professionally in the tech area so I chose not to go to them.
 
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For me it's just "a hobby" nowadays, as well. I don't want to work in information technology departments anymore, Floofy posted the fitting image beforehand. But the knowledge comes in handy if one develops industrial laser! hardware as example - which costs a lot - and is dependent on IT / software. You can select the right people for their individual jobs if you know which steps and tasks they have to fulfill exactly.

Most personal managers have not the slightest of idea of the tech field they actually hire people for, as such how would they know if those are just faking knowledge or are actually "home boys, but with years of experience and ways undervalued".

Ah, regarding my NAS solution:

The main reason why I am planning on setting such a thing up in each of my basecamps is another one:

You can set it up as a home automation central. Including DVR, digital video recording (station) over PoE linked cameras, which are rugged against all WiFi / BT / WWAN communication jammers, which are used quite often nowadays on thefts.. (costs 100-400$, such a device - and does exactly what the name says: it blocks everything in a specific frequency range by outputting high power scrambled mess).

As such you can add automatic alarms, a whole sensor network (over one of the home automation connectivity standards) and so on. This makes it - as whole solution - very energy efficient.

The main system with some PoE cameras would not take more than a few dozen watts, if the cameras are efficient. And it would as well record, allow full control over the whole home automation, you could even add termination scripts and set up remote fuses (explosives) as response to a push message. Such features are hard to set up with a "buyable" system. And those take mostly 150+W with just 3-4 cameras.. that's a lot for a few features.
 
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I just like learning how things work, especially on the small scale. I was never satisfied with the hand waving and just saying the overall picture of what this object does and well just pretend it works without explanation. So I really loved the crash course computer series because they start out with, here is how a transistor works. Then combine a bunch of transistors together, this is how a logic gate works. Combine the logic gates together in this way, this is how we get the starting workings of a CPU, RAM, memory etc. Started on the smallest fundamental unit and worked all the way up.

I'm the same way when it came to biology as well. I hated, "the mitochondria is the power house of the cell" without no explanation. Once I hit my AP Biology class and learning the krebs cycle and how molecules are actually manipulated to create ATP and what not.
 
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Hehe, we have a lot in common. I as well was never satisfied with "dumb" explanations. Instead I informed myself and then asked the "teaching" ones complicated but not "google'able" questions which would represent a specific experience level and "own" thoughts on their side, without being hard-linked to a text book.

This works wonderfully. They spontaneous understand that they are missing the basics in many regards and as such don't want / being able to teach about those in detail. But only for a few of them this brought the idea of do-it-yourself autodidact learning as so they could teach better, more interesting and with the fundamentals explained.

For most this was basically just a switch which made me invisible for them (in terms of "not getting participated anymore"), because they didn't want to experience situations which brought too much thoughts on their side with it.. that's unfortunate, really.

At the end most of the stuff I learned on autodidact ways in detail, as it's hard to find well-teaching people which are actually as fascinated by a topic as they would need to dive into it's complex structures enough to teach about those.. experience counts..
 
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