I'm still not convinced most people I speak to at work are sentient.

Don't split up a bonded pair, it's cruel. How would you like it if you got locked away from a life partner and could never see them again?

Given that the other HDD manufacturers lack the tools to even identify the fraud (FARM), but Seagate drives do, this is actually a reason to buy Seagate.

A NAS, an SBC eg a raspberry pi, and NFS shares are the basic setup. Everything else essentially builds on this.

That's the joke.

I miss Baconreader, another refugee from the API purge here

The bigger problem, and this isn't in the mainstream news yet, is that all integrated care boards have been told to reduce head count by 50% in December. I just got off an all hands briefing earlier today.

It's probably good, except there will be no quality oversight and private providers will be able to run riot, as there will be no one there check they are doing what they are paid to do.

That would have been great. We could have got that shit out of the way so we could have had something decent during my childhood.

Just so you know Seagate barracuda 2.5 inch drives are SMR and should not be used with ZFS file systems. https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/products/cmr-smr-list/ https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/can-you-make-smr-drives-work.94552/post-654217

I'm not paying 50 grand for a car that should be 30 grand at best, I'll keep on running what I have now thanks.

It's not like we could offer one to the King of Canada.

If I were doing this all again I'd use Victron inverter kit with the self build batteries (Fogstar do a decent kit), for an entirely self hosted control system, and whatever panels fit the roof space best. But 180W is nothing to worry about. More important to find a second area for another array.

Oh, and you will want a hell of a lot more than 5kWh worth of battery storage. I have 14kWh and run low in winter when the panels make naff all (charge on cheap rate power to last all day)

Do not use a raid controller with Truenas. Use a HBA such as an LSI 9300 or 9207 (old but fine for HDD). Truemas manages the drive itself and any barrier to that (like device managed SMR drives and Rains controllers) means Truenas does not know where the data is, and you are likely to get data corruption at some point.

I'm running a Define 7 XL as a Truenas server. Over 100TB of storage, maximum utility and my wife likes how it looks. It does everything, even the cooling is decent.

I'll only buy Fractal Design cases.

All GP practices are private practice. They are privately owned organisations which hold contracts from NHS England etc.

And what if I was?

LiFePO4 batteries within the house are the correct resolution.

In winter the panels make nothing anyway, and in summer the houses will essentially run themselves for somewhere between 4 to 8 months depending on peak power usage and panel array size.

Essentially it removes residential baseload and flattens the duck curve so the peak 1600 to 1900 peak can disappear, with the obvious knock on effect of reducing the LCOE.

Does retirement planning count as "Thinking of quitting work?"

Is that a condensing dryer? Or vented?

Do you mean one of the intros to malcolm in the middle S03E06 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0