WA state allows you to print your ballot if it doesn't arrive in time.

Oh yeah, I mean, religion is everywhere, including in those governments. But the Mormon church quite literally is the government in Utah. The vast majority of the state government are temple-recommend card carrying members of the church, and also went on missions. These aren't just practicing christians, most of them are bishops or high ranking members of the church.

I think that it's a difficult thing to understand from the outside, but if you lived there for more than a year, you'd definitely understand what I mean. Utah is a huge bubble. They turn their noses up at anyone perceived as an outsider (in practice, this meant "not Mormon"), including Atheists, people who were agnostic, Christians, Catholics, and people practicing Judaism. The way this was done was very insidious as well, because to your face, they'd be all nice, but then you'd hear their disapproval and judgement through the grapevine.

Anyway, I'm rambling/venting now, but my point is that Utah is about as close as you can get to a fully theocratic state in the US, it's much closer to something like the Vatican than anywhere else that I've lived or visited. Idaho is the way it is because of Utah - it has an extremely high Mormon population as well.

I mean, one or two, yes. But there are thousands of them, and now they have improved fire resistance because of those fires.

Ha, I thought theocratic government would narrow it down. It's Utah.

Yeah, I'm guessing it's a Supermicro thing for sure, and maybe they've changed that now that TPM is completely commonplace, because my Epyc does support TPM, 100%.

Yeah, YMMV on the USB drive. While running Unraid for a little more than a decade, my main server chewed through around 2-3 drives causing crashes each time. It could have been bad luck with the flash lottery, though.

I assume this means I'd need another drive to boot it from?

That is correct. You'd need a drive just for booting, outside of any array or pool that you might have. I bought a tiny 32GB Samsung mSATA SSD for $15 (new) for my transcoding server, and I somehow scored a brand new Micron 250gb 2.5 SSD for ~$25 for my main server (both from ebay) which I use for this purpose.

"You'll agree more with republicans as you age" was always something I heard from right wing nut jobs when I became voting age. In fact, the opposite has happened.

Yeah, that's absolutely understandable. It was definitely a much needed option for far too long.

My Epyc 7702 does have onboard TPM, but my supermicro H11DSi-NT doesn't pass it through to the OS, for some reason. It seems like it's a common thing for supermicro boards - the enterprise ones like mine have TPM headers instead. I do wish that weren't the case, though.

On my second Unraid server (which I use for transcoding), the i9-12900T's TPM does pass through properly and I was able to use it, no external TPM needed.

It uses an individual drive for it - so your cache and array are separate and you'll need to install a drive for boot purposes. It does support pooling though, so you can have multiple boot drives in the boot pool, for example. In that case, it will fail over to the secondary drive if your primary dies.

Yep! Your license would be tied to your TPM GUID and not your flash drive after migration. You might have to activate your license if it's a fresh install, but it should be read from your TPM.

It happens, I'm sure. Constant exposure to propaganda and an increase in money can do that to you. But it didn't happen to my parents (who are seniors now) and it didn't happen to me, yet.

My point is, it won't happen to everyone like I was told by people in the town I grew up and first voted in. I grew up in a conservative hellhole, one that may or may not have one of the most corrupt and theocratic governments of any state, if that gives you any hints.

Fucking scum.

Use ballot drop boxes instead.

Oh yeah, that makes sense.

Damn, your state doesn't even have drop boxes?

It's another brand new account posting a slop code project without any mention, yay

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit about 160km west of Caracas and it was followed less than a minute later by a magnitude 7.5 tremor, the US Geological Survey said, adding that the death toll would most likely exceed 10,000.

Fuck. That's horrible.

Love more features for quadlets. Quadlets are slick as hell.

The 10% rule is a perfect approach, in my opinion. It would stop the people creating accounts to only promote their projects while also promoting community engagement.

I haven't seen a hat man, but I get migraine with aura and sometimes "see" a moving shadow sort of shaped like a person out of the corner of my eye. Of course, if I try to look directly, there's nothing there.