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Who cares? It's over and done. Too late.

You are not done with this disease. It can happen to you again.

The obvious conclusion is: Get the vax.

Nearly as unbelievable, the other way to distribute software was to publish in gaming magazines.

Yes, all the code was printed onto the pages of a magazine. And then young nerds bought these magazines and spent days or weeks manually typing in and debugging the hundreds of lines of BASIC to run some game. And then the magazine would be passed onto the next nerd, like comics and pornography.

My own miserable system was a TI 99/4a with a cassette player for data storage. It sounded like a dial-up modem. I typed in a lot of programs and stored them on tapes. Then I started tearing the developed work apart and building my own stuff. It was years before I could call myself a programmer. (I was twelve.) Line-number BASIC sorta ruined me, actually. Learning about object-oriented functions was quite difficult after starting out with GOTO and GOSUB.

They don't mention it here, but there appears to be a similar broad positive effect from pretty much any vaccination. It seems that firing up the immune system is generally good for you, and the benefits spread to areas seemingly unrelated to the shot itself. This is relatively new info to me. I've never done the seasonal flu vaccine, but I'm going to start, for exactly this reason. Well, that and I'll be there anyway for covid shots ...

I'll go farther and say that its wrong. Evolution may be a random walk, but random walk is a method of getting places. Evolution random walks to the next needed feature. Evolution is not at all blind.

A final note. Was it worthwhile?

My main enclosure has 8 x 1.2 TB 10k rpm spinners.
SAS, so they are 12gb link speed. Six of them came with the server. Adding two more, and sleds cost me about $120 on Ebay. Assembled in ZFS RAID10. That's 4 mirror sets striped together in a fairly classic software raid. 4.7 TB final usable space. Its gorgeous watching all those spinners flicker and whir. Zero regrets.

The new solo SSD mounted in the replacement DVD-to-SATA kit connects at SATA III 6gb link speed. The drive was about $180 and the dvd bay drop in was $7. ZFS single disk raid on the drive. I wish it was redundant. 4 TB usable space. There's a comforting steady blue light on the bezel to indicate that its working.

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When I tested this setup, the results first confused me. The 12gb raid vs the solo 6gb ssd produced nearly identical results. A VM (Proxmox 8.3) mounted on either storage gets read speeds of about 200-250 M. It looks like the SSD has the edge, but spinner performance is erratic enough that it needs more testing. Write speeds on raid are 35 M and ssd is the consistent clear winner at 45 M.

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Was it worth it? Absolutely. Lotta research and testing. Frustration. Knowledge aquisition. Its good to work your brain. I doubled the storage on the server. Repurposed an unused part. Cheap. While the new storage is not redundant, so I don't want to add it as a ZFS fusion/special vdev, I can carve out a small partition and use it as ARC cache. If an ARC drive defaults, the zpool just picks up and runs, so its a safe bet.

Hey thanks for providing a place to hang out and attending to the maintenance.

I don't see any mention of how you fund this other than it shares space with something else you host. It wouldn't kill me to kick out $20 every now and then to help out. Particularly if it helps pay for bandwidth.

But I hear ya. The freakin AI bots are hell. I'd block all the bots.
Seen some creative ways of doing that recently.
Other people and sites share this AI pain, and they are coming up with answers.

I figured this out! There's another (white) SATA port on the motherboard next to (blue) where the DVD player plugs in. I switched to the white port. Presto. It works.

I know that sounds really simple.
It took days of testing to get that far. Over the course of two machine builds. So months, really. And a lot of cursing.

================== Things to know if you follow my breadcrumbs.

Perhaps the blue port only supports the DVD? Ipso facto. Nothing else works there. The white port works normally.

The SAS and SATA mixing prohibition described in the manual only applies to stuff inside the main drive enclosure. This is an onboard SATA not addressed by the RAID controller restriction.

In the BIOS setup screens, under SATA, all the SAS ports show as UNKNOWN device, whereas the DVD or added SSD show up in the last two (Ports I and J))

You can use the existing cables and routing. Leave them where they are! Just move the plug on the motherboard over to the empty SATA socket.

I have one keyboard with its own display, an old G15. I went through all the work to set it up. Used it to track system stats for a week. Went back to my Unicomp and the 'fancy' G15 has sat in my junk pile since.

Keyboards to not need displays. They are for typing. You shouldn't even look at your fingers, let alone a display.

Do it. Jump in. Just start with whatever you can assemble.
It's a great way to keep your room warm.

I don't know about the Ubuntu LCX. I don't container much.

I'd do this with a virtual machine and TrueNAS. Those are just the tools I like to use. The TrueNAS Scale ISO will install qemu-guest-agent, so you don't need to worry about drivers. Make sure to build it with Virtio SCSI Single disk controllers. Use one 50gb OS disk for the install. Add huge data disk(s) after the install.
Promox Disk options ... SSD emulation, Discard, IO Thread, No cache ... and I use Write Back (unsafe). Use the Virtio NIC.

And try it again. Hopefully faster this time.

Gotta give them credit for being willing to release it at all, but that was the rawest alpha I've ever seen. There are still patches released for it daily. I love the prominently displayed Documentation link at the top that gives you a "Coming Soon" popup.

This app brings some needed cross-cluster migration features, but at this time its so shady as to be unusable. Really. Like if you want to use it, you have to patch the hosts on both side, to match whatever level the PDM is at, and there's no patch level compatibility chart to guide you in that process.

Honestly, I just asked the devs and other forum users for the latest directions in order to get it running, and if you want to try it, that's what you should do too. Because there are no directions. Because this will all change in a week anyway.

Been working on a jukebox VM. This seems like it will mesh well. Got LMS installed. Muddling through the rest. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/how-to-build-a-lms-based-whole-house-audio-system/436016