Isn’t 682 sitting in pure sulfuric acid? That probably tickles.

D O double G

Shork goes nom

Java !

Genuinely helpful advice! Thanks!

It’s C, but the unusual look of having two semicolons is the reason why I prefer it over while (True). It feels more like “here is the weird part”.

Very much needed for embedded systems, but I’m more of a for (;;) guy myself!

Still way better than the best LLMs can do

Maybe trying with some Raspberry Pis for your services (takes up less space, low power) and building a dedicated machine for the NAS, as suggested by @hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip, but that’s a whole different budget.

Otherwise, maybe going for some mini-pcs, more recent second-hand PCs (stronger CPU for video encoding) or just more RAM and more disks.

I guess the final price will depend on what exact machine you can get your hands on.

Nice project!

Given the tight budget, here is what I would do, especially if you are not too constraint by space and don’t mind a few extra watts of power consumption. The Raspberry Pi are getting expensive, and the 200USD will barely get you a RPi5 nowadays. You said there is no market for you for second hand sever hw, but I’m guessing it should not be too hard to get used office desktop PCs.

• Get two of these. Maybe Optiplex or Thinkstation. You can probably get something decent <50USD each.
• Get two small SATA SSDs for the OS (128 - 256GB), around 30USD each.
• Get your storage drives. You should get 3 of them so you can have ZFS raid redundancy.
• On one machine, install TrueNAS and your storage drives. Default RAM is probably enough.
• On the other one, upgrade the RAM to 8 or 16 GB (~50USD), install your favorite Linux distro, and you can run your services, accessing the storage with NFS!

To me it feels safer (against my own mess-up) to separate the storage and the services, plus this setup is fairly upgradable. You’ll probably have space to add more storage drives, even maybe a cache SSD; increase the RAM; add a third machine etc.

Of course it’s just one idea, maybe other another layout might fit your use-case better, idk.

Good luck!

I don’t have the conversions on top of my head for what 85% of 5RM represents exactly (around 70% of 1RM?), but that sounds maybe a bit “low” for strength?

But if you can go to failure between 5 and 15 reps, again, with great form, that should do! 👍 And if your issue to start with was the volume, then yeah, going for more reps will help.

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A few things come to my mind reading this.

• Your goal is to get big, not to lift big weights. Focus on feelings, slow full range of motion, perfect form for the exercises, even if it is a smaller weight.
• Probably related to the first point but if you are pushing too hard to go to higher weights, maybe it impairs your workout volume for each session bc your getting tired quick and can’t do more sets.

You should probably not focus on the weights other people are pushing (especially not the monsters on the internet). It will only make you frustrated. But if you figured you actually want to be strong, regardless of how you look, then eat more and move to a powerlifting program, but that’s a different discussion.

Good luck!

Does it need to be a new piece of software though?

I’m thinking it might be a lot easier to put some effort building a professional community on Mastodon (maybe on it’s own instance) than building it from scratch as a new platform.

Those Brinklinks small diorama always be looking great! I hope I can get one at some point!

“ It’ll be fixed in 1h. 30min if you leave the room.”

Personally, I’d rather use Python with matplotlib when I need to plot stuff, but Octave is great if you have to deal with Matlab code!

Damn that’s a good looking mini rack! Great job!

I don’t have much experience or advice about Proxmox, just wanted to show appreciation ✌️

100Mbps up because copper T^T