Unfortunately Dell pulls some shit with their PCs. Their boards are usually almost standard as @catloaf points out. I had a Dell Optiplex 990 that had a board advertised at ATX… but a few of the mount points were a few centimeters off. I thought I might be able to make do without a few mounting screws until I realized the cooler was actually designed to hold the board in place and would not be transferrable. I thought about getting a new cooler but the board was designed so the CPU was too near the edge of the case to fit most standard coolers. Not sure if they do this on purpose to make their parts ecosystem essentially closed or if there is some cost benefit reason but it blows either way.

I love that dock. I had four HDDs in two of these docks connected to one of my servers for a bit. Same experience. A bit slow for large transfers but fast enough for HD streaming. I think the space between the drives allows for enough natural airflow to keep them relatively cool. I think the hottest they got was 63 degrees Celsius during a large transfers. Usually stayed a bit below 60. In my janky homebrew NAS I see temperatures around 50, give or take 5 degrees. The use case should really determine the build so that may be the best option for many, especially with budget constraints.

The power supply probably won’t spin those drives and you may have some difficulty with thermal management. I used a SFF PC case with a SATA extender running outside to a few HDDs for a while. The drives got really hot until I got a fan running over them. This was a super janky setup though. Made a lot of dust. If you’re looking to stay low budget and don’t need RAID or SMART reporting then I would get an enclosure for those drives and just use USB. Otherwise see what you can Frankenstein from what you have. I built a NAS using my janky setup’s HDDs, CPU, and RAM. Got a cheap full size tower, old motherboard off eBay, basic cooler, and power supply for much cheaper than a new build. Still janky but upgradable with a lot of internal space for storage/GPUs.

What form factor is the m710q? I have a tiny FF so I’m imagining you trying to squeeze two HDDs into that… I was in a similar situation a while ago and broke down and bought a new case and transplanted my CPU and RAM. The options are only limited by your budget and needs when building

This right here. Since you can’t really configure the ISP router (1), DMZ is the way to go. The DMZ feature on home routers usually allows you to select a specific device or devices to add to the DMZ so make sure to reserve/set a static IP on your router (2) and configure the DMZ on your ISP router (1) to include only that specific IP. DMZ essentially forwards all ports to that device.

Sorry, I wasn’t trying to correct anyone, I had to look this up and that’s what my translator returned. I’m agreeing that this should be the de facto slogan for the White House (and most of Congress).

Stultitia et imperitivae = stupidity and ignorance. Couldn’t agree more with the spirit of this post.

Seems like AI wrote this. And did a good job!

It actually really simple. High-pitch, high intensity (around 150 Db) sound projected directly towards your ears causes pain to your ears. If you’re close enough then it can permanently damage your hearing. It can also blow out some microphones so many recordings of this from a victim’s perspective don’t actually contain audio of the actual deterrent sound.

This depends on a lot of factors like distance, direction, and original intensity. But it can be painful or worse, cause permanent hearing loss.

Source: https://www.acentech.com/resources/long-range-acoustic-devices-lrad-and-public-safety/

All good info. A bit outside of this post context but helpful nonetheless.

Good advice but the respirator doesn’t wrap around the ears so in the context of acoustic protection/reflection it doesn’t seem effective. I agree that a shield is conspicuous… I’m just spitballing about total effectiveness in theory. I like the end of the video shared above where the concave parabolic shape of the shield (when reversed) was used to redirect the LRAD sound at the operator. Pretty cool seeing a vulnerability in a system exploited in that way.

Thanks for sharing this video! It’s a great resource. $5 shop headphones and a polycarbonate shield you can make for under $100 beats a $20,000-$100,000 LRAD. I wonder if ear plugs, shop headphones, and a shield would be any more effective.

This is in Turkey, not the US. Also not TikTok employees but Telus Digital employees. Shit headline.

Predicting Trump and co are going to start saying Wall Street went woke and corporate boards are being paid for their opposition by China and George Soros. All the greatest hits.

I literally just deleted one of these texts before reading this post. Started seeing a lot more of these after creating a LinkedIn account… hmmm.

I found an informative post about a related issue that might be of some use to you. Sounds like DHCP or Network Manager may be rewriting your systems-resolved.conf.

https://joshrnoll.com/my-tailscale-dns-woes/

Have you tried deleting /etc/systemd/resolved.conf and restarting the service with systemctl restart systemd-resolved?

Did you undo the reverse path strict filtering your guide suggested?

net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1

Above is what the guide suggests to force reverse path strict filtering. Try setting as shown below:

net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 0
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 0

According to the guide, “By default, these are set in /usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-default.conf”

Fair points! I’ve been tinkering with Homeassistant for a while now. The community has come very far so I’m hopeful that more advanced features will be added as the user base grows.