I plan to start working on my small setup for personal use. While I'm already pretty on certain on what I'll use on the software side (2 different server with CEPH in network, with an erasure coding (k=2 and k+m=4))

I plan to start with 4 4TiB HDD (plus maybe a small SSD for cache). I already have two laptops with broken screen laying around, and would like, to minimize initial investement, reuse them, and just them into the USB's connection (and connect them with a switch via Ethernet, plus maybe an overlay network if it work well)

I would like to know if someone have recommandation for getting these hard drive? For tax avoidance reason, it is important for them to be internal HDD (as they are considerably less taxed than USB HDD for stupid reason)

So... It happened that I work with the ponies, and there was that funny animated image "oooooo you like mares? ur a marekisser" that was commonly shared around the Discord server we use for organisation.

So, I worked on a pixel art version of this (a good training experience), and it was decided to put it near the small one. And here it is.

(the small was here before us, but it looks nice too)

I have subscribed to a bunch of communities, some more active than other. It seems the front page, with all subscribed community appears qorted by active/hot, only show a few of the most active communities, making other less active ones not appear here, even yhought there are content posted. (mostly visible with ![email protected] and ![email protected]).

I there a way to somehow reduce the ranking of these communities so more niche content have more chance to appear in the front page?

Thanks.