I don’t cry often, but this movie, damn…

Watchtower took care of that for me 👍

In Germany, there is a wide selection of alcohol free beers. I personally enjoy more alcohol free beer, when I am at home, I crave for a refreshing drink during a week day, when I am by myself or at lunch, don’t want a sweet soda, alcohol free beer is just perfect! I still enjoy regular beer in the weekend when I am with friends.

This is brilliant

Her party is also under investigation for embezzlement of public funds from the UE parliament.

The NFP proposal would make the top 10% French pay more tax and the rest 90% would pay same or less tax. They want to introduce more tax “slices” to make it adjust more progressively with higher income.

Official source are kinda hard to brows, but I could find this about the latest (16th) legislature:

• Votes for law proposal to increasing women’s access to positions of responsibility in the civil service RN is the only group voting against (For: 0, Against: 35, Abstain: 1)
• Votes for constitutional law on the freedom to have recourse to voluntary interruption of pregnancy votes against are essentially from RN (For: 46, Against: 12, Abstain: 14) and LR (For: 40, Against: 12, Abstain: 4)

It’s important to keep in mind that, without reading the details of the proposals, it’s hard to know the reasons for voting against. Often, a proposal with a title that seems to be progressiste is voted overwhelmingly against by the left groups, because the proposal is deemed flawed or insufficient, then many amendments are proposed and voted again, and again… It’s all very complicated to decipher. This small research also helped me to realize, what the news and media reporting about this in a more comprehensible way are often simplifying a lot and cherry-picking data to push a specific editorial line, and it is misleading more often than not.

It is very sad to see. RN party really doesn’t carry any values that are favorable to women in any way. They are very much fighting for blocking access to birth control and sex education. They have voted against proposal aiming to improve parity and reduce wage gapes.

First-hand reports did not make mention of the origins of the perpetrators, only that they are of similar age (12 and 13yo) and one of them the ex-boyfriend of the victim. Very horrible, no question. But, is immigration relevant to this case ? Isn’t it more relevant to question why education of teenagers has failed so bad ? Why are racial and faith related aggression still a thing in a laïc state ? Why nothing concrete is being done to protect women ? Let’s avoid the essay short-cuts, and instead talk about the real root-causes.

It is surprising everyone, including left voters. I don’t think Macron considered this outcome seriously when he made his play to dismiss the national parliament. Most likely he was counting on the “Republican blockade” (it’s kind of a tradition at this point) to draw all the center to his cause (this would have included, Green, Socialists and the traditional right of Republicans).

Instead, Les Republicains instantly imploded when their leader Eric Ciotti declared we wants to ally with the RN (leading extreme-right party), he got unanimously banned from his party. Another extreme-right party, Reconquête also failed to rally to RN (this is another crazy story, mixing family relations and betrayal). And the left in the most broad sense, is as united as ever, in a unions that seems much more serious and solid than precious failed attempts, giving (my feeling) a lot of hope for voters attached to democracy and justice.

In a nutshell there are 3 possible outcomes we can summarize in Macron’s perspective:

1. Republican blockage: Macron gets again majority in the assembly, he is reaffirmed as the legitimate leader of the country and he can continue the same government and policies. **Macron wins **
2. Rassemblement National (RN) wins the parliament: Macron is the last standing defense against fascism in France, he will use his powers to veto and block the policies of RN, use this as an opportunity to display RN as incapable of governing, putting him and his party in a favorable position for the next presidential elections in 2027. Macron wins
3. Le Partie Populaire wins the parliament: Macron cannot govern, he will use his powers to block the policies of the left, these measures are in large part about reversing the unpopular policies he passed in the passed 5 years (often without vote: 49-3), this will discredit him and his party. Macron looses

Sorry, but Les Républicains are not “center-right”, they are definitely very-right, they campaign on the same topics than the extreme-right and share a lot of points in their programs.

The new Front Populaire regroups a fairly wide variety of parties, from the the far left revolutionary communists like NPA, radical left with PCF and LFI, until the center like Les Socialistes (social Democrats) and Ecologists. Last Sunday, they were divided and dragging each other in the mud, today they have 1) signed to campaign as one, 2) decided the candidates for each county, 3) agreed on a very detailed common program for the next 2~3 years.

The vote takes place on 30th of June, therefore the political landscape of France will continue to shift frenetically for the next 2 weeks at least.

About the power of the hardware, you don’t need to worry too much. My NAS is a SBC with 6 ARM cores and 4GB or RAM. It run flawlessly all the services you’ve listed and more ! (Also, without transcoding for jellyfin).

I don’t know if your budget includes Hard disks, but it should be plenty enough to get you an ready made NAS from Synology or other brands, that will give you an easy start with self-hosting.

If you want to go the DIY route. Then I recommend to build yourself a small computer from a Intel N100 motherboard, or the older J5040. From there you can install Open Media Vault, or otherwise the Linux distribution you are the most familiar with, and install Docker. You can check Linuxserver.io for many guides for spinning up docker containers for all of the services you’ve listed.

You don’t say. They aren’t subtle about much. They are barley containing their hate speech below the legally permissible threshold.

Accelerationism theory. Maybe, but that is a gamble, that could cost us our democracy.

I bet you we will get a RN prime minister next month… I don’t know what’s Macron’s move, but he is really to bet on our heads and democratic system with a roll of die.

If you are an EU citizen, please go vote on 9th of June. These far-right parties all have the goal in common to sabotage the EU from within. We can let them has sits in our parliament!

If I were to rework the drive mounting solution, I would probably redo the whole case from scratch. Currently the drives are slotted inside 5.25" bays and theses are assembled together with 3D printed brackets. I have the impression vibration are not transferring too much to the case and outside.

Maybe I can find some rubber damper that would fit around the drives inside the 5.25" bays.

Thanks, I will look for surveillance types of disks.

Living room is my only option.

Thank you for the suggestions, but this isn’t quite what I am looking for. Moving the NAS to another room isn’t an option, bedroom and bathroom are even less suitable for a NAS :D

I don’t wish to modify the appearance of it either. For one, I’ve spent quite a lot of time designing and building the enclosure from scratch (it’s a unique and original design from my creation). Then, it sits in my TV cabinet and space is an additional concern.

I suppose 5640 RPM wouldn’t make much of a difference compared to 5400, although I’ve never came across such hard disk. I will keep an eye on external drive options, thanks.