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Are we doing the “Chinese Weather Balloon” hysteria again?

Ah yea, when people are concerned when a near-hostile country sends over unknown aircraft unannounced it’s just “hysteria”. Not like those weather balloons are perfectly capable of carrying bombs or biowarfare contagions or anything…

Starting in which year?

April 28, 1952 when the San Francisco Peace Treaty that was signed on September 8, 1951 went into effect.

Here’s a wikipedia article all about US-Japan relations since you appear to have flunked highschool history

The Western reporting coverage of Chinese military operations is slanted to paint China as an aggressor

China is literally aggressive in both active and passive ways, maybe some news outlets are exaggerating a little for clicks, but it’s not by much

You don’t read about American military aircraft invading Japanese airspace because Japan is occupied territory.

Japan isn’t “occupied territory” they are a US ally who allows us to have a base there for rapid response and protection.

You don’t read about Taiwanese aircraft invading Chinese airspace, because there’s no defined territorial line between them on account of Taiwan being contested territory.

Lol, nah, Taiwan is a country the only one contesting it is China in the same way that Russia is “contesting” that Ukraine is their territory.

This reeks of wolf warrior diplomacy.

China sending a single Rambo-esque supersoldier in to liberate native peoples from an evil mercenary army?

1. It’s called strategic boundary pushing China has been known to do such things with their other neighbors

2. You reek of a China apologist

If the switch supports it, you login with local credentials first, navigate to its config page and configure LDAP under there. You’ll tell it the IP address of the LDAP server as well as give it its client side configuration. You give it a bind account credentials (a dedicated service account with as minimal permissions as needed) that it uses to lookup the users on the server as well as Organization Unit paths and such

When a user goes to login the switch will query the provided credentials against the LDAP server, if it’s valid the LDAP server will respond with a success and the switch will log the user in

Generally there is always a local account fallback in the event that the LDAP server is unavailable for whatever reason

Your confusion is confusing me lol

I don’t see how this would work as it relies upon every single device on the network supporting a particular authentication mechanism.

Wdym? That’s not a thing, you can have some devices on LDAP some with local logins and some with OIDC or any other combination. Authentication is generally an application layer thing and switches operate at layer 2 maybe 3 if it’s doing some routing. As long as your network has a functioning DHCP server the web UI of the switch will be able to communicate with the LDAP server that you configure it to

Do you have time to build something partially from scratch? I could see repurposing an old laptop, disassemble it and make the screen face outwards with the board affixed to the back of the screen lid.

Might take some creative routing with the internal display cable, but I’ve taken apart tons of laptops where this would be doable, especially after you’ve discarded the plastic chassis

Though you’ll still need a frame of some kind, unless you like the “raw-tech” look

You should be able to turn it on on the enclosure and then plug it into the laptop whenever, similarly you should be able to disconnect it from the laptop whenever and then switch it off

My turning off the laptop is more of a precaution from what weird things I’ve seen cheap no-names do in the past.

I would see if you can find the manual online somewhere and see what it says, it should specify the proper order of doing things or worst case you’d have to test with a cheap PCIe device

Worst case consequence, the PCIe device should be what dies here since the enclosure is likely being powered externally, but most likely it’ll just cause a crash.

Not to say it’s impossible for it to burn out a port, but it would require some serious negligence on the manufacturer

The laptop should be powered off whenever you turn the enclosure on or off by its switch, although the enclosure should handle this on its own. But my trust in it would depend on the brand/reviews/quality.

One last thing. One of the 2 products I’m looking at, the better of the 2 because it also comes with an m.2 slot and some extra ports, has instructions in a youtube video about connecting power supply cables to the GPU itself as well as the enclosure. My card only consumes 10w of power and doesn’t take external power. If I connect a power supply to the enclosure and plug in the card, it should just draw power from the PCIe slot right?

Yes, anything that’s not a GPU the slot will be able to provide more than enough power, but again, a sus no-name cheap Chinese brand might not have wired it up properly if they were expecting the end-user to only use a GPU in it.

That being said, since the device you mention has a self-powered m.2 slot and other ports id wager it more likely than not it’s wired up correctly

contested land ownership

Ok, still senseless violence, but makes sense ig

sorcery allegations

Wut‽

“asked” LMAO

That’s neat, but it’s no Riker Trombone lolol

Ah right, except for that, damn propriety bullshit lmao

2000’s era

Any modern standard PSU will work provided it has molexs. PSUs were pretty much standardized by then, there’s really no need to “rescue” the one it came with

Now if you had a “true” vintage computer with a non standard PSU, like something from the 80s or an Apple II or something like that, yea you might need to repair it or hope someone is making new replacements for it

Edit: Unless it’s a damn proprietary PSU like Dell, pop the model in eBay and see what comes up in that case.

make Russia the villain at every turn.

They attacked a sovereign country unprovoked as part of some world domination plan, they’re literally the villain

I would do option A, but instead of just not using the free internet, I would use it for everything else not needing server services. So like streaming or general browsing.

Just leaving the Google fiber as a dedicated pipe for all my self hosted services

You can do this kind of split with pfSense easily

A simple scan is fine, but to actually image a dying drive for recovery purposes, you should absolutely be doing a direct connection

I’m going through it rn for Proxmox, it’s a pain in the ass.

I think it was better a tad on ESXi, but VMware stuff is a non starter for me at this point.

LMAO yea ok buddy, Ukraine was totally unstable when Russia started the war lolol /s

For better tagging classification of your user can you specify which of the following apply to you:

1. An employee of a Russian disinformation campaign
2. A volunteer of a Russian disinformation campaign
3. An American who drank too much of the Kool aid
4. A European who drank too much of the Kool aid

THIS was the plan from the start

Lol yea, because Putin secretly loves western/capitalist countries and played along to attack Ukraine! /s

Meh it’s a meg, not like it’s the good ol dial up days where you’d sit there and have to wait for a few hundred KBs of a pic to load line by line LMAO