This has been posted before, but it’s still very very relevant.

I’ll note that a bricklayer isn’t “unskilled” to anyone. Apart from that, I think this is fairly accurate overall.

In addition, I’ll note that “class” is also a myth. “Upper”/“middle”/“lower” classes don’t actually exist. It’s just a term to refer to people who are seen to be more/less affluent, and has no bearing on reality.

The only “class” I care about is the bottom 90%, struggling to make ends meet. The top 1% can go fuck themselves. As far as I’m concerned, it’s not a class war, it’s a 90% vs 1% war, and we have the numbers.

One thing that was recommended to me by someone a while ago, is that, unless you need it for something specific, mount your media in Plex as read only.

Plex has functions where you can delete content from the library from their UI. If you need that for some reason, obviously don’t make it read only. If you’re hoarding the data, and therefore never delete it, or use an external system for deleting files, then RO all the way.

The only caveat to this is if you’re using a local disk on the Plex system, which then shares out the drive/folder for adding new content, in which case, you’re screwed. It has to be rw so the OS can add/remove data.

In my case, as I think may be common (or at least, not rare), my back end data for Plex Media is on a NAS, so it’s easy to simply have the system running Plex, mount that network share as RO, and you’re done. The data on the NAS can be accessed and managed by other systems RW, direct to the NAS.

Since Plex is exposed to the internet, if anyone with sufficient rights is compromised, in theory, an attacker could delete the entire contents of your media folder with it. If you limit RW access to internal systems only, then that risk can be effectively mitigated.

In a nutshell, it’s capitalism at its worst.

Long story short, because giving students lunch on taxpayer money would be socialist, the USA decided to charge children to eat food made by the school cafeteria.

In theory this is good if you want to send your kid to school with food to eat, you don’t have to pay for lunches that your kid won’t eat, whether directly, or indirectly, through taxes.

In reality, kids, or more accurately, their parents, either can’t or won’t pay for the food that their kids eat from the school cafeteria, most notably the former.

Instead of simply not feeding the kids, they just accrue debt for eating the food prepared by the school for them.

Thus, school lunch debt represents the worst of capitalism. The kids, and/or their parents are being billed for the children eating food.

It’s weird to me because I didn’t go to a school with a working cafeteria (one that makes food) until highschool, and it was basically just a cafe in the school, you paid for what you wanted when you bought it from the cafeteria. No money, no food.

I was always sent to school from grade 1, with a lunch in hand because of this. I understand the convenience of having a school able to prepare and serve lunch to the kids, but I’m not aware of any where I am that do that. To be fair, I haven’t been in school that wasn’t a college/uni, for over 25 years. Maybe things have changed here? IDK.

Depends on the UPS. Many cheap offline UPS units don’t. Anything line interactive or online will.

APC makes low end offline UPS units, which are cheap garbage.

They also make line interactive and online ups units, which are decidedly not completely garbage.

I pick up line interactive APC units from used locations like eBay, and go buy off label replacement batteries. Haven’t had any problems with them so far.

To date, over the last ~10 years of running a homelab, I have used mainly SMT 1500 units, one was a rack mount. I’ve recently upgraded to an SMX2000. I’ve replaced batteries, but never a UPS, and never any server components due to power issues. I’ve run servers ranging from a Dell PE 2950, to a full c6100 chassis, plus several networking devices, including firewalls, routers and PoE switches. Not a single power related issue with any of them.

Fair enough. Local admin is generally not something that I would want to restrict from people, especially those that are, or at least, should be, more knowledge than most.

I’ll fight for that right for people most of the time.

Some users I would say should not have it, but generally developers are not those people. You know the ones.

I try to be understanding with my software brethren. We’re different sides to the whole. Ying and yang, so to speak.

That said, I’ve gotten some brain-dead requests from you developer types.

I’m not saying all of you are the problem, but there’s definitely some of you that need to learn how things work.

As IT/network/security, using a well known port for something that’s not what is supposed to run on that port, is inviting all kinds of problems.

Especially the very well known ones, like ftp, ssh, SMTP, http, HTTPS, etc (to name a few). People make it their mission to find and exploit open FTP systems. I opened up FTP on a system once to the internet as kind of a honeypot, and within a week or so, there was someone uploading data to it.

No bueno. Don’t use well known ports for things unless the thing that well known port is known for, is what you want to do.

Traitor.

Ipmi is your friend.

Is that the same database my user couldn’t connect to today?

There’s always backups… Right?

… Right?

At this point, “centrist” is slang for, “I want to argue for what I believe in under the guise of being the ‘Devils advocate’”.

I made this decision when I purchased a house… Or rather, the bank purchased it, I just live here and pay them instead of a landlord.

I went with DeWalt and I don’t really have any regrets. I had one of the really basic 12v drills from them for like 10+ years. It mostly rattled around my car’s trunk during that time. I’ve purchased two additional batteries for it, one was shortly after I bought it, so I’d always have a charged battery on hand, the other to keep on the drill. When I needed to swap, I’d just take the dead battery into my home at the end of the day and charge it overnight, then dump it back in the car the next day.

I used it mainly for computer stuff, since I work in that industry… Racking equipment in server racks, opening computers, etc. Rarely did I need to actually make holes or anything with it… The third battery was purchased when the original battery that came with it, stopped working. The drill and two remaining batteries still work fine, though I don’t really need/use them anymore.

I might “donate” it to a young relative someday, for now it collects dust in my basement.

When I replaced it, I got all 20v DeWalt everything. I bought a pack of tools that came with a couple of fairly basic battery chargers, a couple batteries, a hammer drill, impact driver, reciprocating saw, oscillating tool, a circular saw, and a portable light… It even came with a carry bag, which was promptly tossed in a corner and hasn’t been touched since, except to kick it further into the corner.

After a short while of owning the house, we added a small (additional) set of batteries… I think 3 more? And picked up lawn equipment that’s also 20v from DeWalt. A string trimmer (aka a “whipper snipper”), and a hedge trimmer. I feel like I’m forgetting something… Oh well.

The odd man out, so to speak, is the lawnmower, we ended up picking up a DeWalt mower, but it’s 20v/60v, so it will take either pack. We had all 20v so we just stuck with that.

Then, I think last year? DeWalt released a snowblower, but it’s 60v only. So we had to get specific batteries just for that. The 60v ones are compatible with the 20v tools, but the blower will only take the 60v packs, so we have two 60v packs for it (and the lawnmower, I suppose, since they can take advantage of the extra juice), and 20v packs for everything else.

Everything is cross compatible, with the one exception of the snowblower, so we’re all set.

My experience with the 12v drill heavily biased me towards sticking with DeWalt.

I won’t tell anyone to buy DeWalt or Milwaukee, or any other brand. You’ll have to make that decision got yourself. I don’t have any strong feelings about other brands because I simply don’t have the experience with them to have an opinion… Except Ryobi. Fuck Ryobi. My brother used Ryobi for a long time, and he had nothing good to say about them besides the fact that their tools are cheap. They’re cheap in every way. You’ll spend more trying to keep them working than you’ll spend simply by buying better tools. Don’t do it.

You don’t already?

I guess.

But he said to comb it!

This message is approved of by corporations everywhere!

I’m on it… Only because it seems to be demanded of me.

I spend nearly zero time on it.

He said to comb it.