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I don't encrypt my personal devices. If something goes wrong, I'd rather have a chance of data recovery. I do encrypt my work computer because work policy. And I encrypt my budget hosting drive because those guys are clowns and I don't trust them to wipe my drives when I'm done (but they're...

Last August.

Cat5e also tends to work for 10G-BaseT. If you're doing new wiring, it's reasonable to use something better, but if you've already got Cat5e in the walls, it's worth a try. The specs are for 100 meter runs, with most of that in dense conduit, and all of the cables running the same speed; most...

I think resilver follows the usual pattern of ZFS deprioritizing non-interactive use. If you're doing any sort of real reads and writes, the resilver will pause or at least limit concurrency while those are in progress (more or less). Scrub and resilver also got a big improvement in OpenZFS...

Well, there's always wired ethernet. Or usb wireless, maybe.

It depends on the generator. Mine is pretty big, so it's not that bad, but you can see the lights flicker, and when the HVAC kicks in, the output changes a bunch. But my little single cylinder portable generator would be much worse for a PC. Either way, maybe it makes the power supplies work a...

Cummings 35kW based on a Ford v6 with a 500 gallon propane tank. It's configured to start a few seconds after utility failure (because most of the time it comes right back on) and warm up a bit (but it's got a coolant heater so it starts fairly warm), and then takes over the load. One minute is...

I wish they'd make products specifically targetted for 1 minute. My utility outages are either a couple seconds (auto-recloser found the short was transitory), or long (tree on line is persistent or severed the line). And I've got a automatic generator for the last one. So I really just need to...

I got the fever to finally do a f***ing spinning pile driver a couple years ago, on a ps2 (dual shock). Finally got it, but also got a nasty blister and couldn't play for a week plus.

You're looking at probably 20-30 ms to go to Canada from the southern parts of the US. If it matters a lot or not, I dunno. Cloud vendors have stuff in Canada, but they've also got stuff all over the place. No big deal to have a couple datacenters in Canada when you have like 10 in the US. GCP...

Free cooling is nice, but extra latency to where the people are is kind of meh. And access to major existing networking. (Which is self reinforcing, but oh well)

You're gonna need to find a good auction source for your solar array... 1.7 MW is a lot of power.

Yeah, I buy way too much stupid stuff at my local auction. Not gonna go to Wyoming, thanks. Plus I don't do watercooling.

Historical interest. Newer would probably be more interesting, but they've released older stuff before. Microsoft has never been slow to license other people's code to use in their OS, and all that needs to be cleared or scrubbed, and it takes time. Older versions are smaller, and then you can...

I'm not sure if getting it hooked up to wifi will help if it doesn't work when wired. If you've got any spare access points, I'd do what everyone else says, give it a dedicated access point with wep/wpa1/no auth and see... If you don't gave any spare access points, congrats on not being a horder...