Kadath (she/her)

Forever in the closet. This time, though, I only am going to have an account where I am myself.

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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • No shit. I have five Lenovo Tiny M720q with the i5-9500t and 32 gigs of RAM each in a XCP-NG cluster, another one as standalone Plex server (QuickSync kept on failing under XCP) plus an old Shuttle SFF with an old (2015, I think) Atom acting as standalone.

    Power consumption is pretty much minimal, with NVMEs I don’t have to worry about slow data rates, nor sudden disk failures.

    Most of all, all of these were cheap and easy to find. My two 8 bays Synology cost me way more, without even taking the disks in consideration.

    Why would I even go for a RasPi or equivalent?





  • The anti-corporate and even “humans are the real predators” messages in JP were pretty clear IMO. EG, the sequence that goes from the velicoraptors being fed to the dinner debate with Dr Malcolm’s “should you” and “life finds a way” arguments … I’m pretty sure the directing clearly draws parallels between the way raptors and humans eat meat/beef/cows.

    You really should read the original book by Michael Crichton. The story is way darker. For more Dr. Malcolm’s goodness, also go for The Lost World. He really shines there.