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Yup. Linux + Nvidia is the problem here. I convinced my friend to move to Linux, explaining that all his favorite Steam games work on my Linux machine with no issues, just download and click play, tested it myself. Turns out, I don't have an nvidia gpu, he does, and a lot of the games straight up don't work, and the ones that do need at least one config change, if not more.

I have yet to have any issues on Steam myself when gaming with my Radeon card.

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I2P is basically this

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While I mostly agree with what you are saying here, the problem is with these "features" being opt-out vs opt-in. I don't want ads on my start menu unless I go into my personalization settings and turn them off. I don't want to have to disable copilot. I don't want to have to jump through the hoops of turning off one drive. These things should be something I can turn on, not something I have to turn off. I get that it doesn't take long for someone remotely tech savvy to do, it's not like it's a struggle. The problem is that for most people, these services are extremely predatory.

You say it's much more manageable that people claim, but you're wrong. I know more normies that own computers than I do tech savvy people. All of these people aren't good enough with tech to be able to just go find the setting, so they go to the internet to look it up. The top search results are often predatory ad-riddled sites that pitch their weird middleware software as the only solution to the problem. Oops, now the normie has malware. Their computer chugs because their computer is mining bitcoin or something stupid. They go online to look for help. There's anti malware software available, so they pay for it and install it. It takes up most of their laptop's crappy specs, making it worse than the malware. They go online for help. One of the top search results is a number for a tech support scammer. They pay them, often an aggregious amount of money, hoping for help. The tech support scammer takes their money, but does nothing (or installs malware of their own, or heaven forbid gets the normie's banking details). Rinse and repeat this process.

That doesn't sound manageable at all, and I personally know 4 people who have gone through that entire process, and I can't imagine that I'm unique in that.

And on top of that, even if you turn off all the settings for all of these windows "features" they are still collecting and selling your personal usage info to the highest bidder, it just is slightly less valuable.

My brother in law is a guy who knows pretty much everything about everything. Pretty much any interesting topic you bring up, he'll have a deeper, more interesting conversation ready about that topic. This might sound annoying, but he's got a way of making it seem like you're discussing something you both already understand. Like, he isn't explaining things unless you ask, he'll say things like, "I'm sure you've already seen/heard of this", "Maybe you were the one who told me this, but...", (even when I'm pretty sure he knows I wasn't) etc. By giving you the credit for the information, it removes the feeling of him trying to be superior or condescending. This might still be mansplaining, I don't know. I'm a man, so maybe I have more of an ignorance for being mansplained to since I don't have to constantly put up with it, but this feels a lot more like a man explaining rather than mansplaining

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Fair, I'll try to get my kill-a-watt plugged in to check next time the server powers down and report back. Power is fairly cheap where I live, and I've got solar, so that's never been a huge concern for me. I'd have to check, but I've always assumed it's pulling ~10 watts per drive at normal times, and as far as I know my power bill is pretty much reflecting this. (Due to how my data pool works all drives need to be spinning when in use, and my drives get basically zero down time).

And that's good, when I first got into self hosting I was greedy for storage and didn't have the money to pay for redundancy, and I got bit a few times. Now my media server is running on 2 8-drive pools, each with two drives of parity. Ends up being around 200TB of useable space. I don't have backups on my media pools, as right now I'm using 24TB drives and the cost to back that up just doesn't make sense. I do however have my personal cloud on mirrored drives with a backup at my brother's house, also on mirrored drives, so it'd be pretty unlikely for me to lose the important stuff.

I subscribe to the philosophy that each server should handle one thing. I've got a NAS that stores all data for all other servers other than boot drives. I'm using only spinning rust for data, so the network speed is never the bottleneck for my system. My NAS is a 24 bay chassis with the LSI card in IT mode. I got an LSI card that is powered from the PCIe port itself, and power usage for the card itself seems negligible, but spinning 24 drives takes a decent bit of power. I've got 20 drives in it now and it's pretty loud, but substantially quieter than the dell r720 it replaced. It's in my basement so it doesn't bother me, but if sound is an issue, and you don't need a ton of space, definitely go with SSDs. I've also got a media server that handles all media streaming (movies/TV/audiobooks/music/ebooks/comics/manga/roms). It reads/writes it's data to the NAS. I've got another server running my personal cloud (nextcloud, password manager, testing new SH services). Again, the nextcloud data is on the NAS. Both servers store backups to the NAS, as well as a second local drive. I've also got a handful of raspberry pis running the smart house stuff, and one running the Ubiquiti Controller. All are running the PoE hat with the m.2 port on them for stable boot drives, and store their backups on the NAS. I've kind of stopped running proxmox + virtualization when I switched off of the r720, as I find that running Debian on bare metal with btrfs backups is simpler for me, and I run almost all of my services in Docker. I've had a motherboard go out on my media server, and was able to swap the motherboard and get everything back up and running in a little under 2 hours. Longest part was the motherboard swap itself.

Wait, your name isn't actually Ricky Rigatoni??

Thunder also renders this correctly!

This is what I do as well. Just know that you will still get judged by "real book people" for having a bookshelf of pristine, unread books even though you've read all of them.