MalReynolds

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[–] MalReynolds 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I was here to say the same as pezhore, separating storage and compute is almost as important as separating church and state. Muck around, break things, have fun, all the while your data is safe (don't forget offline backups though). The MS-01 is a fine looking box, but any old NUC / SFF will do for your purposes (modern AMD cpu or a graphics card if you need / want plex transcode).

Edit to add, old laptops are great compute nodes (maybe moreso from my ex corporate thinkpad laptop bias, but still)...

[–] MalReynolds 1 points 3 months ago

Or... install bazzite on one or both... and use an Arch distrobox to get all the Arch/AUR goodness with none of the system breaking risks. I was on Arch for a few years, learned a lot, but as a first distro ? Your funeral...

[–] MalReynolds 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Way too many moving parts for only two gears. Also, only two gears, so no.

[–] MalReynolds 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

So, by way of answering my own question, I found this map, which lets you work it out for yourself. Interesting stuff.

Which brings me to the question of how to benchmark now that I can make good guesses. Speedtest to US and Europe?

ETA: For those that follow, what I did was spin up multiple gluetun instances, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, hook them to firefox with FoxyProxy (different ports, duh) and compare speeds on https://librespeed.org/. Bottom line was the bottleneck was my ISP (surprise!!)

Still, I suspect there are ways to leverage crap internet to useful torrenting.

[–] MalReynolds 3 points 3 months ago

I'd be going through Singapore to get to Japan, so I doubt that'd be better... Hmm maybe, after looking at the map, it might actually work out better, depends on how saturated the direct cable is I guess.

[–] MalReynolds 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] MalReynolds 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Time Bandits is great so far and does justice to the original.

Umbrella Academy final season just dropped, wacky fun, also time travel among other stuff.

The Dragon Prince also dropped a new season, beautiful (in multiple ways) animated story.

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End : Slice of life anime with interesting thoughts on immortality and a great feel.

Exploding Kittens pulled it together by the end.

If you missed Scavengers Reign, how 'bout don't :)

[–] MalReynolds 2 points 3 months ago

If you do this (and it's a good idea) also record it, replay and make notes later. The more forms you learn in, the better the recall and understanding.

[–] MalReynolds 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Investigate tailscale, run your phone's internet thru your pihole when you're out and about, or set your phone's dns to dns.adguard-dns.com. No-one should have to live with that crap.

[–] MalReynolds 8 points 3 months ago

Heh, welcome, look around, think a bit, you might find something useful to do.

[–] MalReynolds 3 points 3 months ago

Truthfully, I usually double-check with Strava heat maps to see where people are actually riding...

[–] MalReynolds 3 points 3 months ago

Yup, the proof of the strong version (the full Reimann hypothesis) very likely lets you brute force large prime factors. This is a slightly stronger weak version, but has lots of interesting new bits in a field that has been stagnant for a long time. Those functions were going away on Q-day anyway, and we already have functions that are resistant to both, but now there are two Damoclean swords hanging over all that encrypted data the NSA and others have been hoovering up for years.

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