I’m a big fan of automating as much as I can.

• Lights automatically turn on when someone enters the room, but only if it’s dark enough to need lights in that room at that moment. Turn them off automatically when presence is no longer detected (not just IR based motion detection).
• My old washer and dryer alert me when they’re done thanks to vibration sensors.
• Media downloads when added to a watchlist.
• Regular backups locally and to the cloud.
• My phone enables/disables rotation lock based on the app I’m currently using.
• Phone also opens various playlists when connecting to my car stereo based on date/time.
• Various “scenes” to turn devices on and off, control brightness, volume levels, etc. This includes controlling devices that are IR, RF, Bluetooth, and Zigbee based.
• Game servers that update when new versions are released, but only when no players are connected. If anyone is connected, sends a message to a discord server (that is also connected to Matrix) alerting everyone to the available update and asking players to log off at their earliest convenience. Players can also check on game server status with bot commands in the game’s channel on that server.

Everything runs locally and has a manual backup so I can still control everything the old fashioned way if my phone is dead or if my non tech savvy parents are over and need to operate any of it.

Didn’t you get any meat?

This is bound to kill something.

Thank you very much for the detailed response! Very informative and interesting.

I’ve seen many of his videos and haven’t noticed any obvious errors. Could you please link to the specific video(s) that you are referencing in regards to errors he has made, especially those related to the distributive law and what you reference to as “1917,” as well as any explanation as to what is incorrect/misleading/lying?

Haha no worries, enjoy your coffee!

16 is absolutely not turn based, I’m not sure where you got that idea.

I recently set up something similar to this. I can’t comment on your specific hardware, but I was very frustrated with the limitations of TrueNAS and ended up using Debian and Cockpit with BTRFS for the drives.

I started with two 18TB drives with no RAID, and have since added two 26TB drives with everything using RAID1 and ~45TB of usable storage. Converting and adding drives was very simple, but also time consuming of course.

Put the cookie down!

I would absolutely believe that this was coincidence or unintentional “borrowing” or “inspiration” if the name of the location wasn’t literally “Azura Deluxe Hotels.” At that point it’s pretty blatent.

Edit response to parent edit: I can’t find any iconography that represents the religious Azura (or Ishtar) with both the Sun and Moon, especially as depicted in this statue, outside of the Elder Scrolls universe. Happy to be proven wrong, but I think it’s clear which party was influenced by the other.

Yippie Ki-Yay Mr. Falcon.

I’ve had it with these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!

“Let’s go eat, huh?”

Or for one that has more or less pierced the cultural zeitgeist:

“Oh hi Mark”

I’m pretty sure any distro using GNU software would be disqualified, so maybe Alpine?

I personally use btrbk with a custom built systemd service and timer. Right now it’s very specific to my infrastructure, but if enough people request it and I have time and opportunity, I’ll post a generic solution here as soon as I can

Look into BTRFS. I’ve been using it for a few months now and it’s awesome. Live disk images with delta changes (saving on consumed space and backup time), even with encrypted drives, and it’s used extensively by Google and Amazon so it will very likely be supported and maintained for a long time to come.

Reading through this thread I’m starting to feel like I’ve probably been overly paranoid.

I have:

• Multiple mobile devices on two different carriers, including computers, phones, and tablets with 5/4G and some with satellite service.
• A high speed wired primary network (2+Gb/300+Mb DOCSIS).
• A robust wireless network (Wi-Fi 7) with multiple access points secured with WPA3 and 802.1X.
• A 24U Server infrastructure for games, networking, media, and Linux ISOs.
• Battle tested 3-2-1+ backup solution, including on site backup with redundancy, as well as two off site backups with redundancy.
• Dual UPS units connected to independent 20A circuits.
• Dual Gasoline and Propane powered backup generators connected to the UPS units to kick in automatically.
• Edit: I forgot to mention that my internal network is running at 10Gb.

Some of that infrastructure was necessary for my line of work during the worst of the covid pandemic, but now it’s more “nice to have in case of apocalypse” equipment.

That’s awesome, you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000.

It supposedly had something to do with calculus and the ratio between the diameter of the inner most groove to the diameter of the outermost groove being optimal at that size, but I’m not sure how much of that is genuine or just marketing. I’ve also heard that the larger hole is better for the mechanisms in jukeboxes.

The adapter does not affect the speed of the turntable, and you would still need to flip the switch on the record player to 45 RPM. These physically smaller (7") records were commonly referred to as singles because they would hold a single song per side.

The larger (12") 33 1/3 RPM records had a smaller spindle than 45s, which meant you would need to use an adapter like the one pictured to play a 45, as demonstrated in the video shared by @thermal_shock.

Since 33s were physically larger and played at a slower speed, you could fit much more music on each side of the disc. That’s why those discs would be used for entire albums, and were also commonly referred to as LPs (Long Plays).

Let it rip!

That’s not really all that special or unique. There are lots of things that many people would instantly recognize that others would have never seen before.

45/33 1/3 RPM records might be well within your wheelhouse, but would you recognize a 78 RPM record, or an Edison wax cylinder at first glance? How about the image below?