komidee

fair enough ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

trust me, with a good pair of tucking panties you can’t see a thing :)

there is still time, become the debian user you wish to see in the world :)

just trixie, almost every single device in my house runs it :3

okay to be clear i did pay for the hard drives, a bit below market price but i didn’t just find 16 identical 14 TB drives lying around somewhere :P

the trick is not only to re-check e-waste bins at a bunch of different companies/institutions regularly (i normally make the rounds once a week at different points in the week), but also to befriend the IT guys if possible :) sometimes the big stuff (like servers and racks) doesn’t get chucked in the regular ewaste, but if you become enough of a familiar face (be “that person” who’s always rummaging around back) you can start asking if they have other things or even get first dibs on some stuff - the IT department at my local high school now texts me whenever they’re about to throw out something big lol. of course this is predicated on the assumption that the IT guys are friendly, which isn’t always the case.

as for nix: i just did ye olde sudo apt install nix and then for any project i’m working on with dependencies not in the debian repos, i set up a nix config with the necessary libraries and headers and just do all my dev work inside a corresponding nix-shell. can recommend learning how nix works, it’s pretty cool :)

yup! it’s called DisplayPort MST (Multi-Stream Transport), it’s the reason DP hubs exist and the same tech used in high-end DP monitors which support daisy-chaining

btrfs is pretty fun :) definitely a steep learning curve and there are a lot more little performance quirks than something like ZFS, but if you use it right it’s fantastic!

the rack (and most of the stuff on it) is basically refurbished ewaste - i do a LOT of dumpster diving. pretty much the only things i’ve paid for are hard drives and RAM (which is all DDR3 and remains dirt-cheap, i’ve got both T620s up to 768GB now >:D). can recommend looking around at any schools/universities/large company offices near you to see if you can get your hands on some free shit

yeah the shipping thing can be a pain (this is another reason i still don’t have a drive shelf), but there are still a few good deals which work out. i’m in switzerland (also not EU), so it isn’t any easier for me :P

my main pool (in the R520) is 8x16TB drives in btrfs RAID1, and then i have a few smaller btrfs arrays for backups and simply offloading large datasets i’m not actively using from the main server (i don’t have enough SAS bays to have them all connected at once so i plug them into the lower T620 as necessary - drive shelves are all either too long for my rack or too damn expensive). that’s what all the drives piled up on top are, although to be fair they’re normally put away more nicely (have spent the last week or so clearing a whole bunch of old hardware out of my closet and had to get the drives out of the way).

i can advise stalking r/homelabsales for a few months, you can occasionally find some fantastic deals there for refurbed drives, often with practically no use :)

how dare she indulge in yuri without sharing it with us >:(

are you The Trans Name Hater?

there certainly are other notable usernames, but the meme template really only works with two and TotallynotJessica works perfectly

beans

thank you for your continued posting, not Jessica

hmm, best i can offer ya is these 5 tubs of margarine named after lemmy users

okay this is the second time VHS has come up in this thread, did i miss some lore involving the person who isn’t Jessica and a VHS tape?

2/3 of the first few pages of my feed is all Miisha and has been for a couple of days, i figured anyone who sees this is guaranteed to have scrolled past 10 of her posts first :P

that is a good point. perhaps the kosher one is an equal but oppositely charged anti-Miisha, and if the two ever meet they will be instantly annihilated in a burst of energy

the reasoning i’ve heard has nothing to do with conversion to T, but that excessively high E levels will cause your body to attempt to get rid of the excess sex hormones by ramping up SHBG production, and if this reaction is strong enough you end up with less free estradiol than if you were taking a smaller dose. that said, this is just something i’ve overheard from other transfems, i don’t know if this is backed up by research, nor what E levels would be necessary to achieve that.