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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • For me it was when I noticed that some of my photos had been affected by bitrot.

    Instarted building my NAS last year, and got caught up in the increased HDD cost, I need two more 8TB drives to get my 32TB Zraid2 going.

    I was going to use TrueNAS, but now that they have turned their back on opensource, I am not so sure anymore




  • stoy@lemmy.ziptoTechnology@beehaw.org*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 months ago

    Ok, so students can select either:

    1. A computer that they can study, work, (light) game, edit photos, and do much more on, without a digital use by date.
    2. An admittedly excellent office suite, a collection of games, for a limited time, and an Xbox controller, but only if they buy a specific computer.

    Yeah, nah Microsoft, nah.










  • Why does the cars need to move?

    Just build car charging coils into every parking spot, then have a computer keep track of what car arrived at what time, and give them an hour each of full charging sequentially.

    Example

    Car 1 parks in space A and starts charging, car 2 arrives shortly after and parks in space D, the computer logs the VIN and timestamp, placing it first in the queue. 30 min later car 3 arrives and parks in space B, the computer logs the VIN and time stamp, placing it second in the queue. Then car 2 leaves space D, the computer logs it and removes it from the queue, making car 3 first in line, then car 2 arrives back in space D, and is placed second in the queue since it left earlier.

    No need to move tonnes of metal and batteries, just switching the power, a cheap and fair way to extend the number of charging spaces, while not overloading the circuit and ensuring that everyone gets a fair timeslot, all without having to risk dammage while moving the cars.