Yup, I ended up frankensteining a nas from various craigslist parts (i actually found a low-power business-class server motherboard that has worked out well for the purpose). Had to get a SAS HBA card and a couple SFF-8087 cables to do the job right, and I grabbed an old gaming case from the 2010’s to hold it all, but it was relatively seamless. I had one of the drives go out already, but luckily I had it in a raid configuration with parity so it was just a matter of swapping out the drives and rebuilding.

It’s been fun and rewarding, for sure! I’m glad I didn’t sell them like these other dweebs told me to lol

Ohhhh, that sounds good, too!

if you continue to try { thisBullshit(); } you are going to catch (theseHands)

This is the most beautiful thing I’ve read all year

Right on.

I think lemmy is filled with a lot of people who (maybe) understand this in fewer words. Case-in-point: there are plenty here who are acknowledging this dynamic played out through landlords and ownership of private property.

Making the leap from understanding that type of authority to the authority utilized by AES countries takes some time for some. Similar in the way reactionaries interpret Foucault’s description of institutionalized power as inherently negative, power exercised by the state isn’t inherently bad, either, especially when the alternative is allowing capitalists to claim it for themselves.

Pointing out that suppressive authority exists even in the liberal democracies that nominally espouse ‘freedom’ is a good first step but far from the last. The Tienanmen square thing is… well it definitely gets in the way of that conversation. It’s a bit of a socialist’s Godwin’s Law.

This is a really weird interpretation of authoritarianism… authoritarian regimes often enforce their authority through ‘due’ process.

I think the point op is making is that liberal democracies defer authority to capital and enforces it on their behalf. There’s a temptation to consider liberalism to be less authoritarian because of this deferral but it’s mostly just a slight-of-hand

I’m biased but I think everyone should do this. You can basically find the hardware you’d need out of a dumpster, and then you can slowly build your library from there.

If you find torrenting to be distasteful, you can get a cheap USB DVD reader and rip dvds instead.

It’s still technically considered infringement, but at least it’s completely private.

I honestly don’t know why you wouldn’t just do jellyfin, unless you’re limited by your hardware and kodi somehow has less overhead?

They’re both free I guess. You can try them on and see how well they serve tour use case

What an unbelievable battle that was. It was so much, and so interesting, and so vicious and horrible, and so beautiful in so many different ways.

‘Never fight uphill, me boys, never fight uphill.’ They were fighting uphill, he said, ‘Wow, that was a big mistake,’ he lost his great general teeth. ‘Never fight uphill, me boys,’ but it was too late

Lmao they got a comm ban for ‘stalking’

Guess ill be trying my hand at building my own pfsense router

Simulacra and Simulation was on my list after Deleuze’s ‘the fold’ but I never made it out of the rhizome

You’ll have to report back if you find it

I’ve found the same to be true with libs

I have been accused of being a Russian troll so many times that I involuntarily gag when I see it used against someone else, but honest to God I have no alternative theories for some of them. They seem to have intimate state department knowledge of revolutionary activity in the red sea but somehow have no idea why the US is so interested in keeping Israel as an ally.

Its like what I imagine waterboarding would feel like.

No worries, I haven’t seen any anti-western sentiment here that wasn’t warranted.

I might have thought this was a funny hyperbole at some point but unironically some were arguing .ml should move out of .ml and let .worlders take it over

Not for nothing but I think cumshot_genocide is a satire account

It doesn’t help that it’s unclear which direction their sarcasm is pointed but Jesus christ

Maybe it’s because I’m old and I didn’t realize it but I don’t think this would make you very old

Is mockery not an insult? I’m learning so much today

“i feel like you’re being combative, you’re not engaging with what I’m saying. Makes me think you’re just here to be an asshole”

[Doesn’t engage the content, lobs insults, ‘he did it first’]

“I can see why you might have been banned”

“What do you mean I’m being totally reasonable?!”

There’s something about this format that just feels good, ya know? Like I’m invisible to criticism. I wonder why more people don’t use it