The admin basically ran it as a one man show with only one other admin who had very limited privileges. He then went on a “business trip” or workaction or longterm vacation - there were different stories. Anyway, the database went belly up, the other admin couldn’t do a thing and none could contact the admin. There are some rumours that he wasn’t who he claimed he was and actually was a Chinese national who simply returned home, but who knows that. As a matter of fact none had any meaningful contact with him for months then and it appears he did not return. (But is alive)

A Austrian NGO who amongst others does host some mastodon instances,etc. took over and now feddit.org is on a very productive, professional and transparent level.

Don’t pull a feddit.de on people, alright?

Yeah,the most open source solutions atm. Sadly development slowed down a bit.

Tbh, the current ones are pretty fantastic - and I find 100€ for the B/W verso and 140€ for the colour one still “reasonably cheap”.

So far they have eaten anything I gave them to read, work with calibre web (sadly only for download,not sync, but that’s not PBs fault), support the German Onleihe (public library ebooks… fantastic system getting you hundred thousand of books,often for less than 20€/year or even free) and the battery is rock solid.

So,I don’t really understand the point of the discussion. I am an absolute early adopter with E-readers and can’t remember any cheaper offers on readers that weren’t Amazon’s “bait” ads to sell you kindle unlimited,etc.

In the other news: Meta pays another 3 billion Euro due to not following the DSA and getting banned in Europe.

Just a few considerations:

• For a 12 bay NAS I would strongly consider ZFS - which makes ECC more or less a must.

• Mainboard wise the CWK AMD Board is worth a consideration, and so is the Asrock Live Mixer B850 if you want ECC on AMD5

• A popular build option is using a cheap used or “Chinese” host-build controller as SATA ports are hard to get these days.

• I would personally look at using Proxmox and then TrueNAS as an NAS OS and simply passthrough the HBA.

• Another alternative would be using a Zimbra Board and use their expansion options - but that comes with downsides in terms of CPU power and no ECC.

• For Plex it might be favourable to use a CPU with a built-in GPU for transcoding. Intel is slightly better here, but has other downsides, especially if you want ECC

• Get a Geekworm PiKvm, a original PiKVM, a NanoPi oder JetKVM…or something like that. it’s worth it.

• If you don’t feel like self-building anymore have a look at the Ugreen. They come without the “only approved HDDs” Synology bullshit, allow you to install your own OS and are fairly capable. But sadly they do not support ECC. (And they aren’t really cheaper than self building at least not in central Europe.)

• Self building is absolutely possible and we are here to help you.

Fascist media meets fascist media… well…

Depends on the type of 3D printer.

Fused Deposition Modeling, the standard “filament” 3D printing everyone thinks about when hearing the word 3D printing prints with plastics - of some sort. All of them,to a certain degree.

There are incredibly sturdy options nowadays, which include carbon fibers, but in the end the adhesions between layers will always be an issue. There are also options to print a cast for a mold and some funny techniques where you print a model with a specialised filament that is half plastic,half metal powder and send it to a company which “burn off” the plastic part, replace it with metal and send you back an (almost as sturdy as a cast) part that is fully metal.

Resin based printing is also a thing but not nearly as sturdy as FDM.

Last but not least there is metal powder based SLS(Selective Laser Sintering), but that does not produce those sturdy parts everyone thinks of, is extremely sensitive/requires a lot of knowledge and lastly money - these printers start around 20k for the better models.

In terms of additive manufacturing people are able to print non load bearing gun parts. Maybe even sturdier than before. And easier. (A 400$ printer nowadays does what a 1300$ printer did a year ago and a 15000$ printer did 15 years ago. But for everything load/pressure/shock bearing, like a barrel, spring assembly,firing pin,etc. will still need to be from pure metal. So people would still need to improvise these,most important, parts.

BUT: There are also self-built CNC machines. MPCNC, etc. are a thing, and more advanced projects for around 2500-3000$ omwards can easily achieve a level of precision on steel that is more than sufficient for an all metal ghost gun and close to what industrial guns makers in WW1, maybe even WW2, achieved.

It’s currently really the golden age of home manufacturing.

The good news is not that X and Elmo did lose the case and now have to pay.

It’s about the signal it sends out. It will be far harder and more expensive for any of his companies to rent property somewhere in the future. Also just a drop in the bucket, but a far more substantial one compared to the ruling. And that is a good thing.

The war started in 2014 but somehow half of Europe and all of the US forgot.

Not to mention what happened in Georgia. Or what happened in Chechnya.

Or with people living in Moscow just because Putler wanted to start a war. Or journalists.

Sorry,but Russia never was a beloved uncle. Russia was always the “shady, violent, uncle who can’t keep his hand off his kids but everyone ignores that because some family image they need to uphold and furthermore while he is quite poor he makes great gifts to the rest of the family. So everyone tolerates him.”