This.

I look for corporate desktops that are off-lease or EoL. Big fan of Lenovo M series. 6th/7th gen still have lots of life left in them and plenty of power for most homelab tasks.

Anything much newer than that will consume less power per core (usually) but will cost more up front and probably be more expensive to put upgrades into (i.e. DDR5). Anything much older than that won’t be worth the performance per watt. By the time you put a 7th gen through its paces, you’ll be ready to upgrade and have a much clearer look at what you want/need.

Right now I’ve got 3x M710s forming a kubernetes cluster, and another running opnsense only.

Kubernetes was built on top of VMs in proxmox, but I’m thinking I will move them to metal.

I also have what was my PC down in the basement, with proxmox, running a TrueNAS VM and a Bazzite VM for GPU passthrough and Sunshine, but I’m gonna reclaim those guts, put a spare 6th gen with DDR3 and run TrueNAS on metal. Then I’ll have my PC back.

You mean to tell me that a white apartheid South African billionaire got a bit of political power and used it to stimulate pain and suffering in Africa?

Surprised Pikachu.

The idea of literally re-writing history in real-time seemed absurd back when I first read it,maybe like 15 years ago.

Nowadays, between media conglomerates (social and legacy), search engines, and now LLMs (as the next tier), being owned by a handful of extremely rich people who have shown time and time again that they want nothing more than to exert control over people…it’s entirely possible.

Easy, even.

Federated platforms aren’t immune to it. Bot army’s swarm reddit and lemmy alike, just as they do mastodon and X. Federated platforms have a bit more capability and interest to fight it, but it really is an arms race at this point.

And also spez (fuck u/spez) would love to suck Dons tiny scarred and pruney cock. If only spez weren’t like 30+ years too old for him.

especially because it seems very unlikely they’re storing the media exclusively locally.

Oh like hell they are.

Remember in “The Dark Knight”, when Fox and Wayne Enterprises made the high-frequency generator that turned everybody’s cellphones into an echolocation device?

I kinda feel like Zuck has a room in one of his houses with a big wall of monitors just like Fox had. And he just sits there, channel-surfing, with a 50gal drum of lotion by his side.

Except Zuck’s don’t self-destruct. Sadly. A small bomb wrapped around the brains of anybody who bought one of these things would come in quite handy.

White western women need to adopt the niqab. It’s the only way.

Did you see what she was wearing? You could see her eyebrows, she was practically asking for it

By all means, ladies, please, keep boycotting sex. These assholes only have an inch, don’t give them another.

Go ahead and check out what shows up on the Edge start page when you first launch it on a new profile/fresh Windows install. Pay close attention to specifically which shortcuts and news stories they present to you by default.

Isn’t that the point?

When you don’t have access to a doctor, due to lack of insurance and/or lack of time (off from work), urgent care is closed, the ER will probably cost well over $1000 (if you are lucky enough to have insurance) that you may not have to tell you that it’s “just an(other) anxiety attack”…

The system is built to kill people. Not this system…the system. Google is finally getting their cut.

I don’t disagree.

But.

People like you make it sound like sustained weight loss is easy.

It is not. And acting like it is exacerbates the problem.

It is a lifetime of awareness and shutting out signals. It’s maintaining willpower for as long as you can eat solid food. And possibly longer.

Getting weight loss advice from somebody who has never been fat is like taking tax advice from a toddler. Or if MLK were white. You don’t know. You do not understand. That’s fine.

If you’re one of the lucky < 1% who manage to lose weight permanently, great, good for you. You are an exception, not the norm. But you don’t know that yet. Give it a few years. A seemingly small lifestyle change can start setting you back on old habits.

And that’s the next problem, because when it does, it’s a personal failure. And that puts fuel on the fire.

Very, very few people successfully break out of that cycle forever. And they never will without everyone else understanding that obesity is a symptom of a larger issue.

Science is finally starting to look at that, and GLP-1s are a great place to look…because your body also creates GLP-1s to control appetite and regulate digestion. However, the synthetic form tends to stick around longer.

Perhaps, then, one cause of the overeating that leads to obesity is either a deficiency, or a malabsorption of the natural GLP-1s.

In which case, trying to fight that without medication sounds like a losing battle, without first understanding what is causing that. And in which case, saying that people should avoid GLP-1s sounds an awful lot like telling diabetics that they need to stop taking insulin.

What is so different about this than a doctor telling you that this statin will help to lower cholesterol, but if you stop taking it, the cholesterol will come back?

Or a doctor saying that this PDE5 will make your dick hard, but if you stop taking it, you’ll go back to having a limp dick?

I kinda get what you’re saying…but what doctor in their right mind would use that as a reasoning against statins and boner pills?

I think a couple of important things need to be realized…one being that there are a ton of factors that play into obesity.

If you want to cure obesity, it needs to be done at a societal level. You have to be Socratic about it. Nobody ever gets past the first easy “but why” to “what causes obesity.”

Doctors realize this about statins, and they prescribe diet and lifestyle in tandem with statins. Why they can’t apply the same methods to obesity baffles me.

The difference is the social understanding.

Nobody gets thyroid-shamed. People understand hyper-/hypo-thyroidism as an objective symptom of a physiological problem.

Obesity is not viewed the same, though it really should be.

This is how you drove down probability.

The risks of Steve getting fatally hit by a bus are, statistically, very low.

However, there are even fewer busses getting fatally hit by other busses.

Ipsp facto, lower risk, extra 9s.

That’s risk tolerance 101.

Best part about doing this is you can get 4 files to a DD 5.25". That, alone, quadruples the speed of performing off-site backups.

Unsolicited dieting advice. Cool. Thanks.

You know I’ve managed to go 41 years without ever hearing any of this, or incorporating any of it into my daily life.

Hard to believe, but I’ve spent all that time under a rock, eating pasta and donuts. A very large rock.

Who the fuck are you? Who the fuck do you think you’re talking to? Did you read a fucking word I said, or any of the parents above this?

Or do you just come here to fat shame under the guise of providing “advice” to people who have been hearing it from literally everybody in their life? Does that make you feel better about fat shaming? By thinking you’re doing a good thing?

You know what’s really fucked is I’ve talked the same way you do, when I’m at my lows. Goes to show how much self-loathing is involved in being fat.

Eat less, move more. It’s so simple. Why didn’t I think of that.

And?

Beats the shit out of having to weigh and track every calorie for the rest of your life.

People act like willpower is an infinite resource.

I don’t say this often…that was a great article. Thanks for sharing.

Do you know any chronically obese people?

Like, seriously. I’m not joking. What your parent described is something that is entirely true to a lot of people.

Losing weight is “easy”, in the sense that how to do it is pretty obvious and well known.

The hard part is keeping it off.

Think of alcoholism. It’s easy to just stop being an alcoholic right? I mean, conceptually…just stop drinking alcohol. Simple.

Now stop drinking alcohol for the rest of your life. You can never touch it again.

Not so easy.

Now imagine you need a small amount of alcohol every day or else you will die, but if you ever start to think “oh well I worked hard today I can have a second beer”, then before you know it you’re a full blown alcoholic again.

That’s chronic obesity.

My weight has dropped and rebounded countless times over my life. I know what to do, I know how to do it, I’ve done it countless times. I’m fucking tired. The idea of having to weigh my food and track my calories for the rest of my life honestly makes me anxious, because I know that as soon as I stop, I’m going to lose all that I’ve worked for. Because it’s happened so many times before.

GLP-1s are different. It’s honestly like a light switch. Like “oh, this is how I’m supposed to feel”. There is no more thinking about food. Even when starting to feel hungry, it’s not “I have to eat right now”, it’s “I’ll get to it when I get to it”. It’s not all-consuming.

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Lobbying would be great if money weren’t involved and it didn’t come down to who has the deeper pockets.

It makes perfect sense for both industry and advocacy groups to plead their case to the government and their representatives…that’s kinda the point of a representative democracy. But as soon as money/gifts/favors are introduced, it’s automatically an uneven playing field.

This really makes me wonder if they are planning IPv6 blocks specifically for lunar or extraterrestrial use…or if NASA and other agencies would just use their own ranges on the moon.

Who would be in charge? Like here, ARIN/RIPE/APNIC handle their own global regions. Would there be another agency in charge of the whole moon? Or would the existing agencies just have jurisdiction over the lunar regions colonized by their member states?

1888888888 is like 4.5 years away, and then 1999999999 isn’t until 2033. But the cool thing is, 2000000000 will be shortly after.