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That seems excessive, maybe let's make it 25. :p

To be fair I don't know that I want to be clearly conscious for this election cycle, or for what come after.

We probably should help them half as much as we are.

This is the correct answer. Dell, and other oems, have stored their windows keys in firmware on motherboards for years now. You could literally install on a fresh drive and it should auto activate. Typically at most you have to go to click activate yourself.

This is all assuming the machine came with a pro license and wasn't upgraded of course. It should have a sticker on it.

Also thank you for pointing this out. Not sure how I missed this. I already looked in the passwd file to make sure it was an actual user account, they're right next to exciter and had the same uid. You saved me a boat load of time trying to figure that one out. Thanks for sharing your wisdom.

This was the issue. I did an update recently of truenas and apparently the polkitd user took over the uid for my plex account. Unfortunately it looks like this also caused some level of corruption since even changing the uid and gid haven't fixed the issue and plex is borked.

Luckily I have backups, so not all is lost, and even if it was, I could probably just regenerate that data.

I'd also argue here that psn charges the same for a digital copy they can can whenever they want and there isn't anything you can do about it. Even if you own the game they can it, they can potentially even nuke it from your hdd. Where as physics copies you can keep and not worry about them canning it in totality. maybe you lose access to updates, but at least the game is still accessible and in your possession.

Artificial scents make me break out, dry my skin out (in a bad way), gives me headaches, cause rashes, and/or cause excessive itching. Nickle, which is in many deodorants, causes rashes and chemical burns, literally had my neck bleed from a shit nickle necklace. Most deodorants will literally hurt me. Sure there are more "natural" ones, but they always feel gross or smell gross.

Sorry if it bothers you, but I'd rather not bleed from my arm pits.

Also people that use axe spray in small spaces, e.g. elevators, can get fucked.

Oh man free advertising for vermin Supreme.

Don't forget to use a drip loop. https://blog.solidsignal.com/tutorials/what-is-a-drip-loop/

I started with truenas core, then moved to truenas scale. I tried a couple others but ultimately truenas had an easier and cleaner ui and i wanted an easy way to use nextcloud without having to do too much work.

Turns out nextcloud doesn't seem to work right now, probably a user error in the container deployment, so I've not done that again. Most of the containers I've tried using I end up just building vms for because it's more flexible. Right now I have 2 720xd one is truenas storage, the other is proxmox. They're both on 10g network to a switch so using truenas to store data for the vms on my proxmox isn't a big deal at all.

In any case like I said I don't really use the truenas box for much other than storage which is a shame, there's a boat load of memory and like 32 cores. Currently I backup to USB drives. Not great, but I also don't want to burn my money on cloud storage or hefty external raid enclosures. Tape would be cool, but again I'm a cheap boi.

When it comes down to it, this is what is recommend. Write down a list of what you're requirements are and what you'd like to see. Compare the filer oses and pick ones that meet the requirements and what you like. Then just install them and see what the look and feel is.

Don't forget backups, people will preach gospel about needing 1x2x3 or some sort of other potentially expensive backup solution. If this is a home lab, do what fits your budget, skill, comfort levels. You can always improve from there. External drives work fine for me, will they both fail at some point sure, but nothings perfect and more important data is backed up to encrypted blobs in free cloud storage.

Also remember to take your time. It's easy to Leroy Jenkins some shit and just go in guns a blazing, but if you take your time and read and make sure you understand the important stuff before you implement, you'll save a ton of time. Unlike me who had to blow out my zfs impingement once after 5 tb were uploaded and kept screwing up my backups. Glad I didn't loose data, but easily could have happened.

No dome, just one of those sheet metal roofs that are stupid loud when it rains.