Ceph is... fine. I feel like I don't know it enough to properly maintain it. I only went with 10gbe because I was basically told on a homelab reddit that Ceph will fail in unpredictable ways unless you give it crazy speeds for it's storage and network. And yet, it has perpetually complained about too many placement groups.

1 pools have too many placement groups

Pool tank has 128 placement groups, should have 32

Aside from that and the occasional falling over of monitors it's been relatively quiet? I'm tempted to use use the Synology for all the storage and let the 10GbE network be carved up into VM traffic instead. Right now I'm using bonded USB 1GbE copper and it's kind of sketchy.

And Prince. Two god aliens that kept reality sane.

I've been working on the homelab. Just added a kubernetes cluster on some proxmox systems and the next step is to try and migrate/clone my physical raspberry pi based Vault cluster to pods.

To be fair - both synologies are running big spinny NAS drives - I could reduce my capacity and my power usage by going with SSDs, but shockingly, I can't seem to figure out what to cull in the 35TB combined storage.

I am debating moving my Vault cluster from a Clusterhat to pods on my fresh kubes deployment - and if I virtualize Pihole, that would also reduce some power consumption. Admittedly, I'm going overboard on my "homelab" - it's more of a full blown SMB at this point with Palo firewall and brocade 48p switch. I do infosec for a living though, and there's reason to most of my madness.

Unfortunately, no - not specifically. I want to get a kilawatt monitor at one point. The best I can do is share my UPS's reported power output - currently at around 202-216W, but that includes both my DS1618 and the DS415+ along with my Ubiquiti NVR and two of my Lenovo M920Qs.

I should probably look at what adding the 5 bay external expansion would take power wise and maybe decommission the very aged 415

Edit: this is also my annual reminder to finally hook up the USB port on my UPSs to... something. I really wanted to get some smart - "Oh shit there's a power outage and we're running low on reserves, intelligently and gracefully shut things off in this order", but I never got around to it.

This is basically my homelab. Synology 1618 + 3x Lenovo M920Q systems with 1TB names. I upgraded to a 10gb fibre switch so they run Proxmox + Ceph, with the Synology offering additional fibre storage with the add on 10gb fibre card.

That's probably a few steps up from what the OP is asking for.

Splitting out storage and computer is definitely good first step to increase optimization and increase failure resiliency.

Look at maybe a game pad + portable mouse? I use a Planck ortholonear kb for my steam deck, but you probably don't need a 45%kb.

Back in the day I used a nostromo game pad. This looks similar? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B84QHPDW

Here's the full pdf: https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

First off, having been through IVF (unsuccessfully unfortunately) I wish you and your wife the best. I've found people who haven't gone through it tend to minimize the process and it can feel isolating and frustrating. If you want someone to chat about it - dm me on Mastodon (@[email protected]ge).

Secondly, I wouldn't look as much at the bodily autonomy but more at the "life begins at inception" / fetal personhood stuff. That's the stuff that significantly impacts IVF and how non-viable eggs/zygotes are handled. Of course bodily autonomy is important for if the process works but complications occur after implantation.

That's why I googled it as a Harris voter. I've read the high level talking points, listened to the podcasts calling out the big bads - but it's like 900 pages. I was hoping for a pdf that would give me some roadmap of the utter shit storm heading my way.

I don't think he'll stumble over anything - if he gets a trifecta, he'll sign whatever the fuck is put in front of him, and this time he won't have establishment Republicans to keep him from completely going off the rails. Instead he'll have Elon in charge of budgeting, RFK Jr doing "medical" stuff, and Bannon pushing fucking insane shit.

The guard rails are down and we're flying off the cliff.

I don't think he'll stumble over anything - if he gets a trifecta, he'll sign whatever the fuck is put in front of him, and this time he won't have establishment Republicans to keep him from completely going off the rails. Instead he'll have Elon in charge of budgeting, RFK Jr doing "medical" stuff, and Bannon pushing fucking insane shit.

The guard rails are down and we're flying off the cliff.

I don't think he'll stumble over anything - if he gets a trifecta, he'll sign whatever the fuck is put in front of him, and this time he won't have establishment Republicans to keep him from completely going off the rails. Instead he'll have Elon in charge of budgeting, RFK Jr doing "medical" stuff, and Bannon pushing fucking insane shit.

The guard rails are down and we're flying off the cliff.

I would have thought there's some law against it, but they were up for over a month without any sign of coming down.

In Missouri opponents to Amendment 3 (which would add abortion rights to the constitution) are plastering billboards with bald faced lies like:

• It will prevent you from suing any doctors for malpractice
• It will give gender reassignment surgery to minors
• It will let children get said surgery without parental consent
• It will require tax payer funded gender reassignment surgery
• It will require tax payer funded abortions
• It will allow abortions for any reason up until the minute of birth (heavily implying it may go after birth)

None of those are in the actual amendment. None. Even the late term abortion shit is only carved out for life of the mother in the amendment.

Holy shit, I haven't thought of Pirpshky Pirpshky in a long time. They were the best!

What's your definition of cheap? eBay has NIB for $300.

You'll hear responses like general strikes or large scale protests. I'm cynical, but I have a hard time believing anything can be done aside from voting and hoping it works.

The US is too spread out, patches of humanity too separated to make a general strike work. (what are people in rural Montana going to think when their one grocery store clerk doesn't show up for work?)

Almost half of Americans actually want a coup so that the "right" people will be punished in a righteous fury - they don't give a shit about reality or democracy (or even the hope of democracy).

I'm so fed up and broken down by it all.

Not OP, but I think they're referring to this.

I've read (not sure how true) that it's not necessarily undecided between Harris and Trump - more undecided about even showing up to vote.

I honestly don't know what's worse.