Mine is my dad’s old 2014 Mac mini with a bunch of USB hard drives hanging out of it.

Ideal? Probably not.

But it mostly works pretty well. All I’ve bought specifically for it are the NVME adapter so I could drop my wife’s old 256gb M.2 drive in, a 1tb SATA SSD for the internal bay, and a 3.5" enclosure for a 2tb HDD I had knocking about.

And she’s rock solid. Mostly.

People buy home servers? They don’t just find them lying about and say to themselves “I’ll put Debian on this old piece of shit and see what I can get away with running”?

Huh.

My home server is 100% up, because I never check it and that’s how it works, right?

People in these parts will throw shade at macOS, and I get it. But whatever you think of Apple, they’ve traditionally done a pretty good job of making their OS such that you don’t really need a manual unless you start doing more complex stuff. Someone who’s not particularly computer literate can buy a cheap Mac and have it up and running in no time, without ever really needing to seek help.

And those binaries are to fix the black box shit that is subject to alteration at any time, rendering them useless.

I’ve got Nebula. Took 'em up on a deal on an annual sub when Tom Scott started his new series on there.

It’s…fine.

It’s nice to watch channels like Mr Mobile without adverts, but channels like Not Just Bikes and Mustard already run on YT without ads. Sure, there’s an ad for Nebula at the end their episodes, but it’s right at the end, so is easily skipped.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s loads of stuff on there, but discovery isn’t particularly easy, and most of it is USA-centric, which doesn’t really interest me.

Debian for everything I need to not fall over, CachyOS for computers I want to fiddle with.

You’ve posted this right as I’m about to begin setting up an OpenWrt router. Thanks!

This is the result of dmidecode

root@OpenWrt:~# dmidecode -t slot
# dmidecode 3.5
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 3.1.1 present.

Handle 0x0026, DMI type 9, 17 bytes
System Slot Information
       Designation: SLOT1_M.2
       Type: x4 M.2 Socket 3
       Current Usage: Available
       Length: Long
       Characteristics:
               3.3 V is provided
               PME signal is supported
       Bus Address: 0000:ff:1f.7

Handle 0x0027, DMI type 9, 17 bytes
System Slot Information
       Designation: SLOT2_M.2
       Type: x1 M.2 Socket 1-SD
       Current Usage: In Use
       Length: Short
       Characteristics:
               3.3 V is provided
               PME signal is supported
       Bus Address: 0000:ff:00.0

As far as I can tell, the top one is the M.2 in question, so it’s a 4 channel PCIe slot. Running -t connector doesn’t show that slot at all, presumably because it’s not got anything connected to it currently.

I’ve order a cheap(ish) adapter that should arrive today, so I’ll bung it in and report back.

Truly these are glorious days.

There’s a Hannah Montana Linux? Wild.

She’s a Hannah Montana girl.

This is the output of dmidecode

Handle 0x0026, DMI type 9, 17 bytes System Slot Information Designation: SLOT1_M.2 Type: x4 M.2 Socket 3 Current Usage: Available Length: Long Characteristics: 3.3 V is provided PME signal is supported Bus Address: 0000:ff:1f.7

Handle 0x0027, DMI type 9, 17 bytes System Slot Information Designation: SLOT2_M.2 Type: x1 M.2 Socket 1-SD Current Usage: In Use Length: Short Characteristics: 3.3 V is provided PME signal is supported Bus Address: 0000:ff:00.0

I’m guessing the top one is the M.2 in question, on account of it saying “Available”. And from what I understand having searched for some of the info on that, it should work, assuming the firmware allows for it.

So the currently unused slot won’t work with an ethernet adapter? It’s purely for storage?

Almost too good, I find.

I tend to have safe search off, because I’m a grown up. But it can be kind of annoying to search for a completely innocuous term, only for the image results to somehow be rammed full of people getting rammed full.

Sarah really took the wheel in that moment.

At times while watching this, I chose to view it through the lens that Nikki was just fucking with Bear, which made it even funnier.

shivers with antici… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …pation

no don’t stop

edit: hang on, will you make sure all the drivers are installed properly?

What do you mean?