There’s a few options now, but you can get Intel N100 ITX boards Like this one from ASUS with a soldered on N100 CPU for the cost of a normal motherboard.

If its just a NAS, and I do recommend having a separate Just a NAS, that CPU fucks hard.

I respect that Steve was able to control himself and only make a 25 minute video on this.

https://piefed.ca/comment/2532727

Oh wow, I got all the important parts didn’t I?

Crazy…

TL:DW;

Mr. Nexus still thinks its news that, under capitalism, production of luxury goods will always be sold to the highest bidder and not “the masses”

I didn’t watch it either. But its about Micron no longer selling consumer ram in favor of the AI industry customer.

"Yeah we lost all credibility with our fans and people who still play our games are generally seen as uncultured sheep with gambling addictions. And the culture we do have is massively attractive to racists, creeps, and bigots. Were not taken seriously as an exports option.

But boy did we make a fucking KILLING selling Nikki Minaj skins"

Well seeing as its invite only still. Probably not yet.

I doubt anything that tightly under the creators control is going to be “soiled” yet

https://web.archive.org/web/20220204164530/https://www.headstamppublishing.com/foreigner-group

There’s only archives of this page says reddit

I wouldn’t be surprised if the guy did publish it under a pen name and different title.

Dude it was me who got confused LMAO

While we were having this back and forth I was also talking in another thread about wanting to read more Cuban history.

Let me find the actual controversy book.

Oh same honestly. I think he ultimately did the right thing with the publishing issue. He also made the correct business move sorta staying out of it when Karl Kasarda was having a spat with Browning and the ar15.com forum.

Ian’s dome a pretty good job being a neutral observer and has course corrected both times he’s started to swerve.

Yeah I don’t think that’s the guy who was imbedded with the Azov battalion during the Ukrainian civil uprising in the early 2010s

That’s also not Ian McCallum.

But that is the guy I recommended earlier in a different thread.

Are you confused or am I?

Google turns up nothing. You’re gonna have to link it if true.

Also this was a controversy from 3-4 years ago. I’m willing to let the man grow. Unfortunately this very thread starting with him working with Brandon “Don’t simp for communists” Herrera.

So there’s also that.

“Cuba Since the revolution of 1959: a critical assessment” by Samuel Farber

I have not read this book yet and only have it because I was in Haymarkets book club for a while. So I can’t attest to the quality other than I generally trust Haymarket.

Tried to publish a book written by a Nazi then cried about it when everyone said “No I’m not buying a book written by a Nazi”

Its how a lot of us learned about Ukraine’s Azov battalion and their Swarze sonne symbol.

Damn. The double whammy of “things someone into guns on Lemmy won’t like”

Brandon Herrera AND Forgotten weapons

Shame too. I quite like engineering. But fascists also like it.

And if you just want a NAS? It is really hard to go wrong with a 4 bay NAS from one of the reputable vendors (which may just be ugreen at this point?) as those tend to still come out cheaper than building it yourself and 4 disks means you can either play with fire with RAID5 or not be stupid and do RAID1.

Actually ASUS started to sell N100 motherboards with the CPU soldered on for $120

That plus a jonsbo N2 or N3, a few extra pieces, and its a few hundred dollars cheaper than the Ugreen options. Sure it will probably run Truenas instead of Ugreens custom truenas or whatever its built on, but that extra $300 is another 24TB hard drive or a HexOS lifetime subscription.

There’s also always the classic buy an old mid sized tower for $100 and slap two massive hard drives in it

Imagine less off a proper BOD and more of a 3D Printable holder for 3.5 inch drives and no actual connections.

I was considering a mini ITX PC with just an external SAS to Sata PCI card. But at the rate of just building that I might end up just building a better tiny nas box with maybe a jonsbo case like the N3

That’s basically what I’m going for.

How are you connecting the mini PC via SATA and how are you powering the BOD?

I usually follow the craft computing video whenever I have to set it up. He has a document in the description with all the things you might need to passthrough a GPU but only like half are needed to passthrough an HBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hOBAGKLQkI

Proxmox wiki has a more concise guide IMO

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/PCI_Passthrough

It was really simple to do in Proxmox.

You will find no name brand HBAs in IT mode on eBay for half the price of Intel, Supermicro, Dell, Etc branded ones. Do not buy the no names. I spent a week flashing and reflashing some cheap one, cycling through cables, etc. Nothing.

My supermicro branded one worked absolutely no issue. And I think it was like $40

It probably took a total of 30 minutes to pass it through and build the VM and everything. It took a couple days to rebuild my data from my previous truenas server but I had 10 TB of data on 4 drives.

The only issues I’ve had have been my own reading comprehension in setting up truenas accounts.

Are you using truenas as the entire homelab?

I also love messing with stuff until it breaks and I learn something, but I’ve decided I just want my files to be accessible.

So I actually have truenas virtualized with a passed through HBA so I can run proxmox to host all my breakable VMs while leaving truenas alone.