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Cake day: January 16th, 2024

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  • Oh for sure.

    I would argue that anybody could find themselves deficient of various nutrients. Not exclusively a vegan thing…but B12 is definitely difficult to get from vegan sources. Omega 3s, as well.

    There’s also the question of how strict a vegan is. A very strict vegan wouldn’t drink most wines (due to isinglass, gelatin, egg whites used in processing), eat most mass-produced bread (diglycerides), or many sweets that contain confectioners glaze (shellac) and refuse many medications (gelatin, at the very least).

    Likely such a person would also avoid otherwise non-animal foods fortified with b12, because it’s uncertain where that b12 came from.

    But, at the same time, vegans are also typically more aware of what they are eating and what they need to supplement. Vegans have a lot of community. At least around here. And community means awareness.






  • So universal healthcare, except not universal (only people employed by a company with more than 10 employees)…

    Gotta keep the means checking. If you can’t work because you’re sick with cancer, where is your employer funded insurance?

    Fucking idiots can’t see the whole picture. Don’t understand economies of scale. Probably don’t know how much of their employers total compensation package is your insurance (my employer splits costs 60/40. They pay 30k/yr and I pay 20k, family plan).

    They just want to set up benefits so that the indigent don’t get any support. How very Christian of them.


  • Yeah the SFFs and uSFFs are great for consuming low power.

    I’ve got a couple m910q’s that I bought for htpc purposes but honestly I might be better off putting the thick ones on htpc duty. Just gotta work out some kinks with how they handle suspend when hooked up to a TV.

    They’ve really shot up in price…I bought two for 130 shipped (total) with i5-7500T and 16gb back around last Halloween. I’m seeing singles not specced as well for the same price

    The tough thing about uSFF is that they usually don’t have any PCIe slots…so if you need a second NIC, or want to upgrade to mGig, you can’t, or they have to be over USB 3.


  • This.

    I look for corporate desktops that are off-lease or EoL. Big fan of Lenovo M series. 6th/7th gen still have lots of life left in them and plenty of power for most homelab tasks.

    Anything much newer than that will consume less power per core (usually) but will cost more up front and probably be more expensive to put upgrades into (i.e. DDR5). Anything much older than that won’t be worth the performance per watt. By the time you put a 7th gen through its paces, you’ll be ready to upgrade and have a much clearer look at what you want/need.

    Right now I’ve got 3x M710s forming a kubernetes cluster, and another running opnsense only.

    Kubernetes was built on top of VMs in proxmox, but I’m thinking I will move them to metal.

    I also have what was my PC down in the basement, with proxmox, running a TrueNAS VM and a Bazzite VM for GPU passthrough and Sunshine, but I’m gonna reclaim those guts, put a spare 6th gen with DDR3 and run TrueNAS on metal. Then I’ll have my PC back.



  • The idea of literally re-writing history in real-time seemed absurd back when I first read it,maybe like 15 years ago.

    Nowadays, between media conglomerates (social and legacy), search engines, and now LLMs (as the next tier), being owned by a handful of extremely rich people who have shown time and time again that they want nothing more than to exert control over people…it’s entirely possible.

    Easy, even.

    Federated platforms aren’t immune to it. Bot army’s swarm reddit and lemmy alike, just as they do mastodon and X. Federated platforms have a bit more capability and interest to fight it, but it really is an arms race at this point.

    And also spez (fuck u/spez) would love to suck Dons tiny scarred and pruney cock. If only spez weren’t like 30+ years too old for him.


  • especially because it seems very unlikely they’re storing the media exclusively locally.

    Oh like hell they are.

    Remember in “The Dark Knight”, when Fox and Wayne Enterprises made the high-frequency generator that turned everybody’s cellphones into an echolocation device?

    I kinda feel like Zuck has a room in one of his houses with a big wall of monitors just like Fox had. And he just sits there, channel-surfing, with a 50gal drum of lotion by his side.

    Except Zuck’s don’t self-destruct. Sadly. A small bomb wrapped around the brains of anybody who bought one of these things would come in quite handy.