Server equipment is not on any normal burglar’s list of items to nab. It’s such a low risk I think it’s completely not worth worrying about.

It’s incredibly unlikely they’ll know what they’re looking at in the first place, and won’t be assed to carry out heavy switches and PC gear “just in case” to look it up later. They want to get in, check rooms and closets, drawers, etc and GTFO before you come home or a neighbor notices. Computers aren’t as expensive as they used to be. Gaming laptops might look attractive, but other than that you’re fine.

They want jewelry, cash, guns, good tools, silver, modern game consoles, expensive bicycles, etc. These are all things that are easy to carry and pawn or sell well on the street. Nobody is selling switch gear at a pawn shop or to random people, so even if they know the value of what they’re looking at (extremely unlikely) they’ll leave it because it’s too hard to fence.

If you’re that worried about theft then set up good full disk encryption and have off-site backups of your data (should do that anyways) but you don’t need to worry about physical security at home, at least not specifically in regards to your home lab.

Businesses are at much higher risk for hardware theft, from employees or from others that are targeting the locations specifically because they DO understand the value and have a way to offload the gear, but those same people won’t be randomly breaking into people’s houses hoping they’ve got Cisco gear in a closet somewhere.

I’m not a huge anime fan in general but I fucking love Gurren Lagann.

That show feels like every episode is competing to be the most ridiculous, but the only other competitor is the previous episode of the same show.

Probably less, yeah. Do you get them from the hopper style that drops from the bottom, or bins you scoop from?

If hopper I’d expect you to catch some sometimes because they settle down to the bottom, but if you scoop them from the top of bins I think it’s pretty unlikely you’d ever find any.

Your day may come. Be vigilant! Best to find them on the counter than in your mouth. Some brands, or bean types, have a lot more than others. Black and red beans have had the most for me, in that order. It sucks because it’s harder to spot the rocks in the black beans, too.

Yeah I find them more often in brands from foreign foods sections. Often times they’re better quality beans for a lot cheaper though!

I’ll take the couple minutes to scan for rocks if it means I’m getting better beans any day of the week. Fucking love beans, haven’t ever met one I don’t like.

Nice! Maybe I’ll try that. What else did you have in the pot?

Sure!

TLDR: mirepoix, garlic, ground mustard, ground thyme, basil, salt, pepper, bacon

I cut a pack of decent quality bacon into strips and start it a sizzlin

Then, dice equal parts carrot, onion, and celery (mirepoix) while the bacon is cooking

I crank the heat and sautee the mirepoix in the pan with the bacon, then I add the beans with the soak water and some salt (don’t go crazy, the bacon has salt too, and I add cheese at serving also)

Bring to boil and then reduce to simmer until the beans are mostly cooked, stirring and adding water as needed.

When things are cooked pretty well throw in a diced tomato (or a can), a bulb of crushed garlic, ground mustard, dried basil, and ground thyme. Let it cook a bit until the flavors develop, then adjust seasoning, salt, pepper etc. Sorry I don’t have measurements, I eyeball everything. I cook the soup a long time so by the end it will stick if you don’t stir fairly frequently because the lentils and some beans have dissolved. I like the soup thicc so that also contributes to it sticking.

The thyme and basil are the stars here, the thyme especially.

I usually eat it with some rice and some grated Monterey Jack cheese on top.

I use jasmine rice and put a small amount of olive oil in the pan, then crush a garlic clove per cup of rice I’m cooking and sautee gently (don’t burn it!) as soon as the garlic has cooked a bit I add a cup of dry rice to the pan and stir it around real good, add the water, and salt it. Rice should not be bland, motherfuckers!

I think it was more of an issue when I was younger for sure, but I still find them occasionally. I eat a ton of beans though.

Lots of bags of dry beans have rocks. Little black pebbles usually, like coarse sand.

Some brands have them more often than others but you can easily break a tooth on them so I always toss them on the counter and scoot them around to check.

They don’t. As I said in another post, the lentils break down first so it gets ugly but it’s nice and thick.

I’ve never pressure cooked them, just soak overnight but that might be a way to cook them without stirring too much, and keep the lentils formed correctly.

I dunno, the way I do it is a favorite so I’m not experimenting any more.

I fucking love these.

I just throw the seasoning packet away, never used it at all. Just use the bean mix itself, it’s really good, HOWEVER be aware that some of the “beans” are actually lentils, and they break down into a mush faster than others.

If you cook the beans a long time in your soup as I do then it gets REALLY bad looking. We call it “ugly soup” because it’s ugly AF but DELICIOUS.

Edit: I’ve NEVER found a rock in these also, not once in the dozens of bags, maybe hundreds, I’ve used.

We cannot stop youth, only put controls in place that dissuade young people from being reckless. Traffic enforcement is huge - pulling people over for moving violations is the greatest deterrent in society but no, it will never solve the problem fully. The only thing that can help is more traffic enforcement and raising driving ages, but the latter again has other negative externalities that I personally don’t think are worth it but I think it could be solidly argued for

People driving when they’re too old is also a safety issue, with no deterrents or controls at all. The rate compared to another demographic isn’t necessarily the point, it’s still a problem and one is being mitigated and the other is not. Your point is whataboutism.

I grew up in a tourist heavy area with tons of people driving motorhomes visiting, and it was primarily older men driving because they’re the ones with the time and wealth to do so. It’s fucking TERRIFYING to have stubborn old men driving fucking buildings on wheels when they are too old to drive and are unfamiliar with the roads. Yes, it’s a problem and it’s not being addressed, whereas young drivers ARE being addressed in the best ways we currently have.

They’re not the same.

I think the difference is that young people are inexperienced and reckless, not physically incapable of the task. Their shortfalls are also based on their age but it’s not something that we don’t have a system in place to handle.

Older drivers are more experienced, generally not in as much of a hurry, and less reckless but if they can’t see, hear, react as quickly, or be aware of their surroundings then the debate is legitimate.

Younger drivers need to be held accountable for reckless behavior and preventable accidents. There’s a system in place for this, it’s civil/criminal law. There’s no such system in place to control the effects of aging, which is a problem.

I’m not going to dive into the stats you posted so I’ll take it on faith that they’re correct and you’ve accurately represented their conclusion, that younger drivers as a general rule are more dangerous on the road. But I disagree that elderly get too much flak for driving poorly because that’s a real problem that hasn’t been solved (because it is really complicated and has lots of other negative externalities associated with revocation of driving privileges, continual testing past _____ age, etc)

16GB is great for current market, most games can’t even break it at 4k max settings right now, and even with the most demanding titles it’s enough for 1440p max settings with 60+fps. It’ll be great for 1440 for a couple generations, and if it’s in the budget or low-mid tier, where Intel needs to establish themselves, why is that bad? Nobody is expecting Intel to come out with a card right now that’s competing with a 40/5090.

NVIDIA seems to struggle to even make 16GB cards at all, let alone ones that aren’t outrageously high dollar MSRP. AMD has good ones but they’re all priced fairly poorly right now.

If Intel just releases a boring 16GB card but prices it competitively and produces enough that people can find them, that is NOT yawn that’s BIG NEWS because we need a competitor to bring the market back from crazy town where it’s been living since the cryptomining shortages.

Yeah. Tired of seeing it, been on lemmy for a hot minute and there’s so many annoying or toxic users but this is the first person I’m actually blocking. Don’t even know how to do it but looking it up right now because it’s like the ultimate pretentious cringe ala useless effort that just grates against my very soul.

It hasn’t ruined other games for me, but it’s definitely the best 1st person automation game I’ve played. But I still love factorio, Dyson Sphere Program and Shapez. They’re all great in their own ways.

I can’t find other ones as good yet though.

Satisfactory is great because you have Z axis (DSP has some but it’s much less developed) and a ton of freedom to build incredible spaghetti nonsense everywhere. I love being able to move freely through the world in satisfactory and I’ve never found anything in its class that comes close. Subnautica is probably the closest to scratching the itch but it’s first and foremost a survival game with base building, not an automation game at all. Now that I think about it I like Grounded for the same reason but the base building in that game is much more tedious and grindy.

I agree. I’d add some brighter highlights on some edges of stuff and keep it instead of replacing it with something else.

The government, both state and federal, use incentives to encourage certain behaviors. Tax breaks for retirement spending, education, child bearing, solar installations, EV purchases etc are all examples of this.

During the EV adoption phase the govt will incentivize use of EVs through various means such as tax breaks, preferred parking, preferred lanes (carpool lanes).

Once adoption rates are high enough, the incentives slow down. It’s a good thing to initially give reasons to adopt tech or behaviors that benefit the common good.

It can be argued that it might be time to remove carpool access for EVs for several reasons, and it can be argued that we should keep them for now. I don’t have a specific opinion on the matter of fact, I think both perspectives are reasonable (as you stated carpool lanes are meant to encourage car pooling, which has environmental and traffic benefits).

EVs only have an environmental benefit in this case so once we reach a tipping point where the environmental benefit is outweighed by the detriment to traffic flow, it’s time to revert the incentive. I don’t know if it’s time yet, I’m not a traffic/environmental analyst.

But I think this change has more to do with the administration’s battle against EVs and green tech in general than a calculated cost benefit analysis.

Maybe try podcast addict, been using it for years and it’s just got constant development. I donated to them because I hate subscriptions and I’ve gotten a lot of value from it.

Free version only has ads on the search page as far as I can tell, and it’s just a couple recommended casts.

Without knowing specifically what your AI requirements are I wouldn’t swear on my following, but you can set up something easily for the same cost of your RAM with new components, and way cheaper if you go used.

32GB mini PCs are right around $300 on Amazon with lazy searching, which means you can find them in the $250 range if you look, and they’re cheaper if you want to go lower RAM and no OS. If you have a TV then all you’d need is an HDMI cord and a keyboard+mouse, or none if you go headless. You won’t need a monitor because you wouldn’t be gaming on it.

But if you’re going to set up dedicated hardware I’d suggest buying some server gear for better reliability in the long term. You’ll still be in the $200 range to start, it’s so cheap to get your first rig and make mistakes and figure out what you want later. This link has tons of lists of hardware you could put into a very capable server with price estimates. It’s primarily NAS/service hosting focused so again, ymmv with AI requirements, but for base hardware that you can spin up some VMs and containers you’re in business with 8-16GB and a mobo that supports ECC.

https://forums.serverbuilds.net/t/guide-nas-killer-4-0-fast-quiet-power-efficient-and-flexible-starting-at-125/667/13