I’m just an idiot that tinkers with things. I’ve got a TrueNAS Scale system up and running as network storage and Plex storage. There’s about 44TB of raw capacity in there right now, connected via a server SAS card. I just follow tutorials if I don’t know what I’m supposed to do.

Any of Marty O’Donnell’s Halo soundtracks

They creep me the fuck out. I know they’re harmless and beneficial to have but when I turn on my bathroom light and see one on the wall above my toilet I have to get rid of it. They’re literally the only bug that freaks me out, even roaches aren’t that bad to me.

I used to have this exact issue with what was essentially porn on Instagram reels (Meta is evil yeah I know but it’s better than shorts and tiktok). I’d report those e-thots videos but it kept showing them because it considered it engagement. Eventually I got the algorithm to show me what I’m actually there for, memes, funny cat videos and the occasional car videos.

Just scrolling past them quickly eventually got it to stop.

Nice! I keep meaning to order a clear shell for my 5.5 Gen, but have done a battery and flash swap on it. My 4th Gen and my 2nd Gen mini are also flashed and they’ve been amazing too.

My raid is software as well, through TrueNAS Scale.

Yes, it breaks off to 4 SATA connectors, here’s a link on Amazon for an example.

I see a lot of drives there, all presumably connected via SATA. If you’re looking to add more drives in the future I recommend a SAS card or two, specifically a Dell PERC H310 flashed in IT mode. I picked one up on eBay for $20 a while back and it gives me 8 drive connectivity. Also snag some mini SAS to SATA cables to connect the drives.

I’ve got 44TB running in my Plex server using it and have had 0 issues with the card. Even had a friend 3D print a fan housing and attached a small Noctua fan to the heatsink for some peace of mind when doing large data transfers to make sure the card doesn’t overheat.

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Not sure this falls under the community History’s guidelines but I’ll give you my guess.

Probably in better shape than England, but that’s not saying much. I’d guess if they got nuked at all it would be Dublin and Cork, maybe Belfast in the North but likely not. Food and clean water would still be an issue like anywhere else during a post nuclear wartime.

Bravo six, going dark.

This ends badly for the Precursors, we become corrupted after creating our 2 potential replacements for holding the Mantle. Our own children, the Forerunners, nearly wipe us out and we have to flee the galaxy. We come back with a vengeance and manifest as the Flood and get our revenge in the end.

We would’ve gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for those pesky Halo rings

Music slav on divolt. Plop in the link to the playlist/album into the download request then wait for it to download and zip it and you download from there. Max 100 tracks per playlist however.

It’s how I get my liked Spotify songs downloaded in mp3 with no DRM and throw them on my iPods.

Obviously a VPN is recommended

Works with FLACs off Deezer, Qobuz and Tidal as well

Edit: hmm looks like they’ve moved to discord now