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Public utility district (although sometimes “people’s utility district”). Used for utilities like water lines, sewer lines, and fiber. Typically the cost is paid by a group of neighbors, an entire neighborhood, or it can be county wide as well. Usually also subsidized by the county, state, or federal government to help reduce cost.

Starlink will enshittify like all other non-PUD ISPs. This article shows that, and it’s already begun to struggle with throughput and scaling it is becoming more and more of a challenge.

There is one alternative that has been shown to be better than anything else: PUD projects which treat internet access as a utility and not something to make more and more money off of. The FCC has rural grants for ISPs that serve rural areas, but instead of exclusively funding PUD projects, they keep giving money to big for-profit ISPs (like Starlink).

Starlink should be considered a band-aid and only something that you’d need when you were in a super rural area without other utilities. The solution is giving everyone with grid connections public fiber via PUDs.

I know we don’t live in a utopia where that will happen overnight, and we don’t have an FCC that gives a shit. But the FCC should not be giving a trillionaire taxpayer dollars for a half-baked, polluting, wasteful service that will ultimately do the same rugpull that other private ISPs have done.

No doubt that a lot of the rural community will continue to blame Chinese lasers and “geo engineering”.

Anything other than admit climate change is happening and it’s directly affecting them.

I’m so glad the FCC keeps giving them money for rural broadband grants instead of giving more to local PUDs. It warms my soul to know that tons of electronics are getting unevenly burned in our atmosphere.

Oof. 🙃

Ebay, particularly GoHardDrives, or sometimes you’ll find new drives from random sellers.

I also check ServerPartDeals. Drives are pricy these days, don’t sneeze near your NAS.

Edit: I’m not sure if they ship internationally or not, however.

I use B but not for any particular reason other than it was what was used to teach me to crimp.

Just wanted to thank you for using the tag.

Thanks.

Interesting, I haven’t had an issue with the browser extension (yet). Have you considered the emergency access to your vault, or are you just letting it ride?

Oh really? I didn’t know that was supported, good to know.

I haven’t done it, but supposedly it’s a similar procedure. They blacklist the license and give you a new one of the same type through a license replacement.

https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/troubleshooting/tpm-licensing-faq/

What if I get a new motherboard?

You can replace a TPM-based license on a new motherboard, similar to replacing a flash-based license on a new USB device. In this case, only the original license is blacklisted, not the entire motherboard.

What happens if I update my BIOS? Do I need a new license?

TPM should not be affected by BIOS updates. If somehow it is, you can replace your license as if you got a new motherboard.

I don’t pay annually. I’m locked in with permanent licensing because I’ve used it for over a decade (see: legacy licensing). Unless that changes, and something else can do the mixed drives as well as Unraid, I don’t see that changing for me any time soon.

For my servers that aren’t mixed JBOD, I use Fedora/CoreOS with Quadlets, so believe me when I say that I know that outside of that specific use case, there are better options.

But I use Unraid specifically for the ability to mix drive sizes and easily emulate and rebuild failed disks. That’s it. That’s the whole reasoning as to why I still use it.

Oh, also, while yes, it did become a subscription (which does not apply to me anyway), it’s not necessarily a standard annual subscription, it’s a one time purchase and then you can choose to stop paying until you want to update again. The subsequent payments are less than the first purchase of the license and do last for a year. You still own your license when you stop paying, you just stop getting updates until you pay that lesser amount again. While similar (and I personally wouldn’t buy a license today), it isn’t what an annual subscription normally implies.

Bazzite also has a better package management system. SteamOS is meant for gaming almost exclusively, whereas Bazzite is meant for both.

I mean, it’s all personal preference in this community. Other than this flash drive issue, Unraid has been rock solid for me.

I originally started using it more than a decade ago to be able to mix drives.

I also do have multiple Unraid servers as well.

I think we’re going to have to agree to disagree here. I lived in Utah for multiple decades, and the bubble also goes both ways. If you can’t experience it for yourself, you will not understand.

Using SLC to compare is also not ideal. SLC is the least Mormon part of Utah. You should be comparing entire states, not just the cities. You should also be comparing the actual religion, and not just blanketing all of them into one. Apples to apples.

Utah has at least 5,229 LDS churches, and 24 temples (which are reserved only for the members with temple recommends). Not counting those temples, Utah has roughly 1 church for every 652 people. Not everyone is Mormon, the vast majority are though. If we only count church members, this goes to 1:411. This is all state wide. No individual cities, and it’s one religious organization (I prefer corporation).

This is actually what I did for the mSATA! I used an Eluteng USB adapter.

For my main server, though, I have a 36 + 2 2.5in bays, so I was fine using one of those bays for this.

I’m not sure if this drives home part of my point, but take a look at this (if you click the link, you might have to click “search this area”):

https://www.google.com/maps/search/Church+Of+Jesus+Christ+Of+Latter-Day+Saints/@40.2957943,-111.7057408,15z

That is a tiny, zoomed in silver of roughly three and a half x two Utah blocks (yes, even the block system is different because of the Mormon grid) picked at random in the Utah valley. That is NINE separate LDS churches in that image, all within a 2 minute or less drive of each other.

There is no such thing as an “independent” Mormon church, either, like the religions you are talking about. These all have members paying 10% tithes which goes to the church leadership as a whole. They are wards and individual churches under the same exact umbrella. Go to any place in the valley, and you’ll find even more. Where I grew up, there were four LDS churches within a 5 minute walk of my house. No joke.

This is why Mormonism is completely different than any of the other religions you have mentioned. They are a full blown corporation, and there are no independent churches. Zero.