The graphic for the Dark Brandon post that I generated and forgot put in the Joemala today:
Brigham Young University is still investigating the racist slurs yelled at a Duke volleyball player last week — in part because campus police say it doesn’t appear the man who was eventually banned was the person shouting the N-word.
BYU Police Lt. George Besendorfer said Tuesday that based on an initial review of surveillance footage of the crowd, the individual who was banned wasn’t shouting anything while the Duke player was serving.
“When we watched the video, we did not observe that behavior from him,” he said.
Duke sophomore Rachel Richardson, the lone Black starter on the team, has said she “very distinctly” heard a “very strong and negative racial slur” come from the student section during Friday’s match while she was serving.
“Various BYU Athletics employees have been reviewing video from BYUtv and other cameras in the facility that the volleyball team has access to for film review. This has been ongoing since right after the match on Friday night,” BYU Associate Athletic Director Jon McBride said in a statement. “The person who was banned was the person identified by Duke as using racial slurs. However, we have been unable to find any evidence of that person using slurs in the match.”
Between this and the Duke Lacrosse Hoax, maybe it would be best if we just disbanded Duke athletics until we can figure out what it going on. Also, raze the campus. And a salt the earth.
NEVER GO TO THE BEACH WITHOUT A FLAMETHROWER
Who thinks this look like something from another planet? This is a starfish walking after being washed up by the tides.(video speed up)
Music- @not_theking
Credit: Zeb Hallock Youtube pic.twitter.com/smwOiqkRog— Curiosity (@Sciencenature14) August 30, 2022
Heroic Mulatto made me watch this. Now you have to too.
Draft them all. Send them to the DMZ. Stop their nightmare reign of shitty Backstreet Boys pop.
S. Korea may conduct survey on BTS members’ military duty
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea may conduct a public survey to help determine whether to grant exemptions to mandatory military service to members of the K-pop boyband BTS, officials said Wednesday.
The issue of active military service for the band’s seven members has been a hot-button topic in South Korea because its oldest member, Jin, faces enlistment in December, when he turns 30.
Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup told lawmakers that he ordered officials to implement a survey quickly. He said his ministry will also look into various other factors such as BTS’s economic impact, the importance of military service and overall national interest.
After his comments created a stir, his ministry clarified in a statement that Lee ordered officials to examine whether such a survey is needed, rather than launch it immediately.
It said officials were asked to study details including which agency would be responsible for a survey, how long would it take and who exactly would be surveyed. The statement said if the survey is carried out, it will be done by a third organization, not by the ministry or related authorities, to ensure fairness.
The ministry said the results would be only one of the many factors determining BTS members’ military status.
Disposable pop band to disposable heroes.
Metallica
“Disposable Heroes”
Master of Puppets (1986)
Bodies fill the fields I see
Hungry heroes end
No one to play soldier now
No one to pretend
Running blind through killing fields
Bred to kill them all
Victim of what said should be
A servant ’til I fall
Soldier boy, made of clay
Now an empty shell
Twenty one, only son
But he served us well
Bred to kill, not to care
Do just as we say
Finished here, greetings death
He’s yours to take away
Back to the front
You will do what I say when I say
Back to the front
You will die when I say you must die
Back to the front
You coward
You servant
You blind man
Barking of machine gun fire
Does nothing to me now
Sounding of the clock that ticks
Get used to it somehow
More a man, more stripes you wear
Glory seeker trends
Bodies fill the fields I see
The slaughter never ends
Soldier boy, made of clay
Now an empty shell
Twenty one, only son
But he served us well
Bred to kill, not to care
Do just as we say
Finished here, greetings death
He’s yours to take away
Back to the front
You will do what I say when I say
Back to the front
You will die when I say you must die
Back to the front
You coward
You servant
You blind man
Why, am I dying?
Kill, have no fear
Lie, live off lying
Hell, hell is here
Why, am I dying?
Kill, have no fear
Lie, live off lying
Hell, hell is here
I was born for dying
Life planned out before my birth
Nothing could I say
Had no chance to see myself
Molded day by day
Looking back I realize
Nothing have I done
Left to die with only friend
Alone I clench my gun
Soldier boy, made of clay
Now an empty shell
Twenty one, only son
But he served us well
Bred to kill, not to care
Do just as we say
Finished here, greetings death
He’s yours to take away
Back to the front
You will do what I say when I say
Back to the front
You will die when I say you must die
Back to the front
You coward
You servant
You blind man
Back to the front
Back to the front
Back to the front
Back to the front
Back to the front
If Hunter is so rich, how come he didn’t freebase?
Money can’t buy class?
It can still buy massive amounts of cocaine.
Money can’t buy you class…elegance is learned
https://youtu.be/kEDvlSAMhQU
Money can’t buy love, although it can rent it sometimes.
Smoking crack is free basing.
Like tomatoes are fruit?
Vegetable: plant matter, esp edible plants
Fruit: the edible produce of a vegetable
Tomatoes are the fruit of a vegetable.
Different processes, similar results.
So none said the slur?
Apparently – nobody heard this.
All those white BYU fans are obviously in denial of their racism.
Well Duke sophomore Rachel Richardson says she did…
Somebody said something about her being the best digger, and it was misunderstood.
*golf clap*
It was the same guy who shouted the N-word at John Lewis.
Strange, because Mormons are so well known for being unruly, rabid racists who shout NIGGER at everyone the meet and not overly polite straight-laced conservatives with a history of persecution making them sympathetic to any real or imagined oppression.
The more surprising part of the story is that BYU has a volleyball team.
They are actually pretty good. #10 in the latest poll, IIRC.
It is not a small school.
I was thinking of the booty shorts, not the actual athletics department. The relatively squishy Christian high school my step brother attended even had reservations about their girls volleyball uniforms, and Mormons tend to be on the more conservative side of those kind of religious issues.
I’ve seen no difference between booty shorts in Mormon country than other parts of the country.
Jews don’t recognize Jesus. Catholics don’t recognize divorce. Mormons don’t recognize each other at the liquor store.
I thought that was Baptists.
It is. The Mormons don’t recognize each other in the coffee shop.
I’ve heard it both ways. It more aptly applies to Mormons than Baptists as the prohibition is much stronger in Mormonism. How about this one:
Why do you always take two Mormons on a fishing trip? If you only take one he’ll drink all the beer.
Please, please — get it right: Baptists don’t recognize each other at the porn shop.
(Full disclosure: former Baptist here)
Why do Baptists discourage drinking? It might lead to dancing.
Ahem.
It’s “Why don’t Baptists make love standing up? Tsk, tsk — could lead to dancing.”
What, you are surprised at a bunch of Mormon girls with ponytails?
Of course they do — at one point they had SCOTT STERLING!.
I’m surprised that took so long for somebody to link.
Hilarious! I had never seen that before.
There’s a soccer variation as well that’s also great.
I’ve heard that fans in Utah can be pretty obnoxious, but unless there’s video, I’m saying it didn’t happen.
“when he turns 30”
That seems rather old.
Yep. In Russia the threat of military service ends when one turns 27.
They’ve probably been getting deferrals for years. This might be a legal limit.
You can’t fool me, that’s one of Jeff Dunham’s puppets.
President Walter?!
Walter seems to have a sharper mind, common sense, and a much more agreeable personality.
Walter has never threatened to kill me with an F-15.
Man, I thought exactly the same thing when I saw it.
And people complain about Trump’s tan…
Dark Brandon looks like he is holding in a fart.
That is not a fart he is holding in…
Before she passed, my wife’s grandmother lived with us. Once while in a doctor’s waiting room, randomly, she said to my wife, “Never trust a fart.”
Because pop singers are so much more important than everyone else.
Fuck ’em. No exceptions for the rich and the famous. Either repeal the compulsory service for everyone, or the song and dance men can suck it up with everybody else.
Well, at they’ve got the “suck it” part down.
Can’t they just enroll in college in the States for 10 years to avoid military service like my college roommate did?
I used to think that was the reason so many Germans spent a decade or two in post-secondary, until I realized that Germans actually. just. don’t. like. working.
https://narratively.com/how-one-american-citizen-was-forcibly-drafted-into-the-south-korean-army/amp/
https://dc.medill.northwestern.edu/blog/2021/01/21/former-k-pop-star-deported-for-allegedly-dodging-military-service-wants-to-return-home/#sthash.E74ueOlX.dpbs
The guy from the first link had learned of his Korean citizenship before he traveled to Korea. He must have entered the country as a Korean citizen. Why then so surprised?
enlisted song and dance men
RE: D&D commercial
I LOVED THAT CARTOON.
I first just saw a screencap and thought it was a live action adaptation. I realized I was wrong when the redhead wasn’t played by a Black girl and the Black girl wasn’t played by a natal male.
I remember that cartoon too. I liked it.
I’ve seen that commercial before.
As long as I’m linking hilarious Studio C bits….
Mmm….live action Diana.
Cartoon Diana may or may not have been a pivotal figure in a young Seguin’s life.
Duke sophomore Rachel Richardson, the lone Black starter on the team, has said she “very distinctly” heard a “very strong and negative racial slur” come from the student section during Friday’s match while she was serving.
Sure she did.
She also heard Thank you all for coming to my show….
Duke sucks.
That is all.
Oh, and it is really sad that the D&Ders are driving a Renault.
I mean, come on!
Why?
That seems completely appropriate.
I was thinking the same thing.
That’s the joke.
Ah the joys of September in FedGov. After shitting their pants and pulling back budgets (my meager 5k) we are now getting yelled at to spend spend spend!
On top of that I have been down three techs and our HR is sitting at home enjoying the laptop class life not doing a damn thing. Instead they say “why no you hire?”
I have been requesting transfers and new hires for months! Fucking hell.
That sounds like me. I’ve got people in the hiring pipeline since March and HR keeps asking for the exact same documents to finish the process.
I don’t know how many sane person works for the government and comes away thinking “this is how we should do things.”
I know. Every time I hear one of our best and brightest students (they do exist) say “my goal is a life of government service” I want to just punch them.
Your budget process sounds a lot like ours, if you just replace “September” with “June”. Our FY is not determined by Michaelmas.
Some of my techs eyes lit up like it was going to be Christmas in September to be squashed by me that the money will be for quality of life improvements and much needed tool replacement.
Sorry you don’t get the UHD curved 40 in monitor….fucking kids man
September is when I got all the stuff they refused to fund the rest of the year.
When I came on board with the state, I’d heard stories of “March Madness” to clear the budgets just before the end of our fiscal year. It never happened while I was there, and then we got consolidated, so they don’t buy anything I ask for anymore (instead of once in a blue moon). I probably should write that article on procurement…
Our agency is hiring like it’s going out of style. Got to get them in the door before the Repubs take Congress!
(they still haven’t learned the GOP will do nothing)
We still can’t get approval to hire, despite it being in the project budget and being well below the necessary headcount to meet deadlines.
Maybe if Lee wins we’ll get the approvals between the election and the handover.
Duke sophomore Rachel Richardson, the lone Black starter on the team, has said she “very distinctly” heard a “very strong and negative racial slur” come from the student section during Friday’s match while she was serving.
#SURVIVOR
It’s totes racist that she’s expected to SERVE!
Nets were used to round up escaping slaves or something….. TRIGGERED!
Hey, if they can turn reins into whips for the Border Patrol and never apologize for that slander… why not.
Whatever happened with that noose in the NASCAR driver’s garage, anyway?
Somebody used it to pull down the garage door, like it was intended.
Netter?
“‘We’re trying to educate, not indoctrinate’: Fear looms over CRT as 60 high schools across the US will offer the first AP African American Studies this fall to study black pride, black power and black feminism”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11165579/60-high-schools-offer-African-American-Studies-fall-study-black-pride.html
It’s a credit to their race.
I’d love to see the cognitive dissidence if they study Franklin Douglass and try to fit that into the whole CRT model.
You mean Frederick Douglass?
They all look the same, amirite fellow racists?
Yes, of course… mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I shouldn’t post while I’m also trying to manage the last hour of work or something.
You probably know Franklin by his street name: Corn Pop
You mean Franklin?
I knew they have been adding more AP courses, but damn.
What is going to be hilarious is watching our legislature and governor trying to reconcile this with their existing law that says we have to give credit to anyone getting a 3 on any exam.
Grades are so bourgeois — just take the class.
One month a year ain’t enough!
“California goes haywire! Electric car owners are told NOT to charge their vehicles because of heatwave – just days after announcing 2035 ban on gas cars”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11165279/Californians-urged-not-charge-electric-cars-just-weeks-ban-gas-cars.html
Perfect. *chef’s kiss*
They are preboarding them for rationing electricity for vehicle charging, which is a component of the soft bait-and-switch they will use to eliminate private transportation except for the very rich.
At least they have world class high speed rail to get themselves to where they want to be.
Some future governor will have to extend this deadline and eat some shit while doing so.
No worries, in 13 years the state will have reached phase 2 of the 47th feasibility study to build a solar array on eminent domained farm land. That should be plenty of power for everyone.
That is some unfortunate timing.
That is some
unfortunate timing.There, that’s better.
My dad was here when I first read that. I had to read it to him after I literally LOLed
Then we talked about how the only way you can make mass EV adoption feasible is to massively ramp up nuclear power.
Man, I love when leftists tie themselves in knots.
Insert red button meme here.
And maybe start ramping back up the mining for minerals that we mostly outsourced to China.
I thought they were mined in Africa for Chinese companies, then processed by Urghurs? Sure, it’s a an environmental disaster, but you can’t beat it for diversity.
‘It’s too soon to tell what the impacts of the 2035 ban will be,’ Anna Gonzalez, of CA ISO, told DailyMail.com
An unmitigated disaster or Armageddon, who knows?
Yeah, it’s not “too soon” at all.
Welcome to your all electric future.
Electric Funeral
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11161861/Kourtney-Kardashians-stepdaughter-Atiana-La-Hoya.html
I have no idea who she is.
models a unitard
So mean. I’m sure she’s a tard in multiple ways.
She’s the stepdaughter of Kourtney Kardashian! It says so right in the headline!
Who?
I was going to post a picture of that cardassian girl from DS9, but the legit pictures were lost among all of the semi-pornographic fan art and cosplay. Evidently there are a lot of people whose kink is gray skin and neck ridges.
Ew.
I’ll just leave this here
It was a Duke fan, yelling, “Pull the TRIGGER!”
Dark Brandon > Dumb Brandon.
If Joe put on a felt goatee and completes the darkest timeline joke I will most likely vote for him
Flexo!
Wrong show.
“scoundrels normally have a reasonable degree of competence, and will, for their own benefit, maintain a higher standard of efficient government than will benevolent fools.” – CONSTITUTION FOR UTOPIA – John Wood Campbell
Link to the whole article if anyone is interested.
https://www.free-culture.ir/Analog_1961_May_Constitution_for_utopia.html
I wonder what the NLRB would say if Tesla workers sued to wear “Defend Right to Work” shirts on the shop floor.
Triggering, Hostile workplace.
From the Faux Nooz report on the volleyball kerfuffle:
BYU said 5,507 people were in attendance for the match against Duke.
Fifty-five hundred people at the event, and the only one coming forward about this alleged slur was the so-called victim? Not one other person has verified that “OMG, this guy was saying like, really rude things while the Duke girl was like, trying to serve.”?
As the kids might say these days, seems sus.
Stranded starfish have no place to hide, Still waiting for the swollen Easter tide
The absolute best version of this song.
I missed you all. Too bad I’m firewalled from here.
Hello!!!
Hey, man.
Too many cruel jokes about your absense, but I just assume you were trying to avoid being cooked.
I expected nothing less. My bacon has been cooked for a long time…practically crispy now.
Sup bacon!
Mmmmm, crispy bacon… {insert Homer Simpson drooling noises here}
Crispy bacon is the best bacon! With lots of fat!
Welcome back, b-m! (::starts pondering a better nickname::)
But that one is perfect
Howdy
Hello, my tasty friend!
Hiya, bacon!
Mmmmm bacon.
Sweet. Now all we need is Sour Cream and chives…
Why you don’t bring a tranq gun to a monkey hunt
I’m sure Straff had something to do with this.
Legit LOL.
Given the lack of gun culture there, I’ve no doubt firearm discipline isn’t exactly widely taught.
It’s like the joke with the hunter and the naked lady.
Then they molested her while she was passed out. In the next scene, a girl with even bigger tits has sex with the monkey.
Not a big Metallica guy, but this one is excellent.
It would be perfect over some nice WWI war-porn.
Doctors considering quitting health service over pay, says BMA
Advanced cyber-attack: NHS doctors’ paperwork piles up
If only we had a modern, first-world medical system like the UK…
Uffda. I have no other words.
What we need is an underground railroad for black people to kill their kids.
* I’m more pro-choice than pro-life, but for fuck’s sake, don’t try to make me feel bad because minorities are being denied abortions.
Which is worse? Food desert or Abortion Access Island?
Cheering for abortion is ghoulish.
Shout your abortion!
“life-changing”
🤪
Do you know how bad her life could have been if she didn’t kill her child?
Well, the child had a “life-changing” event.
I tried out for the last season of Abortion Access Island but didn’t make it.
Your time was…. cut short?
Identify as pregnant woman harder next time.
If abortion is so wonderful, why aren’t those services provided pro bono? Dirty capitalists!
Voter ID is very bad, but can you even imagine the horror of undocumented patients not being able to get an abortion.
Worth mentioning, as always, that these draconian rollbacks on abortion access typically are still more liberal than the laws in EU countries. The ones whose medical and economic systems we are supposed to be mimicking for the betterment of all humanity.
Your daily dose of Sanford and son:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s8RAT0AQ-Kk
Long overlooked, Oregon’s Swastika Mountain may have a new name soon
DC went a different route:
Swann Street Has a New Name.
Winner of the “Rename Swastika Mountain” contest: Burning Cross Mountain
They should rename it Worcestershire Mountain, that way nobody can pronounce it.
… we realize you have a choice in mountains….
Hooked Cross Mountain
I think the Fasces Mountain would be more fun.
Faces was a gay bar in Sacramento, and of course, it was given the nickname.
Mt. 500m Buddhists are wrong.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. County, Washington says, “Hi!“
Higgs bosons can be green.
I haz a saddenz that particle physics is starting to go woke. Fortunately, it’s a one-off, and not the norm.
Although, TBF, if you want to save energy you are also saving money. But they have other considerations, too.
OTOH, if the difference is a molecule in a bucket, it doesn’t really matter.
So effing tediously stupid.
Also tediously stupid.
That’s tediously evil
I gotta admit, I don’t get the left’s hangup on this issue. It’s seems such a strange thing to focus on so doggedly.
Wrongthink must be punished.
But why this wrongthink? Have they run out of other wrongthinks?
They are sure to be testing the waters for child rape.
Each iteration of postmodernism seeks to outdo the previous one in the denial of reality.
“Biden himself seems unable to differentiate between sexual orientation and gender identity.”
Their hair smells the same?
Monkees drummer Micky Dolenz sues FBI for secret files on band
If that Monkee is a subversive, he’ll swing for it.
BREAKING: The FBI Was Always Political
That’s bananas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcXpKiY2MXE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUzs5dlLrm0
If you’re looking for signs that Europe is about to come apart at the seams, here’s pretty big one.
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2022/08/23/pope-francis-instructs-vatican-entities-to-move-all-funds-to-vatican-bank-by-sept-30
There have been lots of issues, fraud and self dealing, with Vatican funds. I can’t remember if it reached the college of Cardinals, but I’m sure a few knew.
I’m assuming this is more to consolidate control.
If it were me, I’d be protecting my assets from a banking system failure which is looking more and more likely. The Euro is in freefall and winter is coming.
I’m betting the bulk of its assets are denominated in Euros.
It would be “interesting” to see a breakdown. That said, I bet the Vatican Bank has no obligation to distribute funds to members and can avoid a run on assets.
The liberation theology reincarnation of St. Basil demands the RCC consolidate all its money in its private hedge fund to shield itself from losses. We truly live in the best timeline.
Give them credit, they’ve outlasted multiple incarnations of Europe and will likely outlast the old European banks that have been around for half a millennia now.
It sounds like they don’t need any credit.
Fair point
Don’t get me wrong, I respect the grift in that half-disgusted way one does when they root for Tony Soprano. The timing and the messenger are just the cherry on the parfait. Then again, as long as I’m comparing commie-pope to St. Basil, he was equally a hypocrite, living off the profit of a large inheritance whose management he turned over to his brother with a contract stipulation that it would all revert back to himself upon request while lecturing wealthy people that they were moral degenerates for owning more than one cloak or pair of shoes.
Swastika, New York
In September 2020, the town’s councilors unanimously voted to keep the name despite the word’s modern associations.[4]
Governor Hokum must be livid.
+ 1 Intercourse, PA
Bumpass VA?
Some pissant stop-sign in the middle of the North Country? I’d love to see her hold a self-important press conference up there, Taking Care of Business.
“”Do you realize the bullet out of an AR-15 travels 5 times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun.”
https://twitter.com/robdoar/status/1564713770974433280
Sure, Joe.
“For those brave right-wing Americans… if you want to fight against the country, you need an F-15. You need something little more than a gun.”
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1564706079036116994
But an unarmed idiot in speedos and a Flintstones hat can overthrow the government?
Five times faster than any potato gun
I lost a .243 in a tragic boating accident.
In order to experience cognitive dissonance, you need to be able to experience cognition.
AR bullets are greased to reduce friction?
I dip all my ammo in KY
That improves penetration.
I fail to see how Kentucky makes your ammo faster.
It’s the meth
Yeah, but that only makes sure it has no teeth.
But then the bullet has no bite.
California jury awards $1M to teen bullied in middle school
And meanwhile the school and its administration who turned a blind eye to this…
LOL
Pretty sneaky, sis!
He should have just claimed the video was edited and he was totally innocent, that’s how every other shithead that’s stuck their foot in their mouth on a Veritas video has done it.
Love the Score Four commercial reference
FDA authorizes BA.4/5-targeting COVID boosters from Moderna and Pfizer
Covidians celebrate.
Based on a trial using eight mice.
And they killed the mice to measure antibody levels
Not kidding.
An explanation of the clotting from COVID vaccines that makes sense
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/heres-how-the-vaccine-is-causing
My blood is not clotting, but it is boiling.
Well, my server finally died (probably power supply). It was running Server 2003 and it was harder and harder to get things to work with it. When I started, probably 20 years ago during the dial-up days, it was my router and provided DNS, DHCP, WINS, and file service. Toward the end it was storing the files for me and the Mrs. and doing nightly backups. I’m grateful for the latter as all that I have lost are the financial data from yesterday.
So now I have to reconfigure my LAN. One important aspect is the server was also my PDC, and I don’t have an alternate. I’m into unknown territory here as far as user authentication and file security. Backups remain a priority and I’ve got to now come up with a new system.
RIP Yapashi. You served well.
Can you just replace the PSU at least temporarily until you get a different solution going?
Is this for an office or just your home network?
I moved to NAS for file storage. I setup iSCSI for Windows backups. Losing DHCP and local DNS would be a problem.
@Pat: I can probably resurrect the box by replacing the power supply but I’ve been getting STOP errors for a while now and it’s inevitable that I was going to have to replace it at some point. It looks like that point has shown up. It started off life when I was hosting a dial-up ISP but has been nothing but a home LAN for almost two decades.
@Rat: It looks like something like NAS has saved my bacon in this case. My backups were from the server to a USB disk on my computer and those files are what I am now using. I’m getting DHCP and DNS from my internet providers so that is no longer an issue.
That being the case I’d also join the chorus and recommend a NAS with some local services. I rolled my own, which I prefer for ease of maintenance and software compatibility, but there’s great prebuilds as well.
If you do choose the DIY route, TrueNAS Core and OpenMediaVault make it stupid easy to set up services through a nice web-based graphical interface instead of SSHing and doing everything manually.
I just set up a synology a few weeks back. Spendy, but plug and play. The only thing I regret is not going up a model so that it could transcode 1080p without getting laggy.
*starts shopping for servers on eBay*
Probably cheaper to just replace your clients with something that does hardware decoding. I use a RPi4 for my living room entertainment center with primarily h264 and h265 content. To be fair, most of it’s old TV series in 720p or 480p, but it’s never choked on a 1080p movie. And there’s way better hardware out there for a video client than a RPi.
https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS220+
I have an older 4 bay. Given the size and cost of HDDs RAID 1 is fine now I think and it’s cheaper.
You can run most Linux based networking services on it including windows specific.
I have a RS1219+ running RAID 10. I setup a DS220+ for my sister. Both have worked well.
I am not in need of an industrial-scale system. I have daily Quicken documents, and a scattering of Excel, Word, and, occasionally other files from legacy programs. Probably 5Meg max. And no, I’m not sticking them on The Cloud.
So no 60 drive models?
Buy a used server off EBay and install Ubuntu with Nextcloud and/or Plex
No proprietary operating systems to deal with
I don’t see the point of Ubuntu on a server instead of just going with Debian since it’s the base system for Ubuntu anyway and it’s going to be headless. Unless you’re paying for support from Canonical, of course.
Ew, Ubuntu.
To me the issue is the loss of the PDC. Since I’m down to two computers perhaps I’ll back down from the domain to the workspace.
Unless there is a way for a Win10 Pro box to pick up the duty. I’m not expecting it.
You can use Samba on Linux as a Windows domain controller.
Hmm, thanks. Will muse on that for a while.
Thinking about it, another option might be to spin up a minimal Windows VM from a Linux server or Docker and use that as the domain controller. I’m not 100% certain if that would work, but might be worth thinking about too.
Okay, I don’t know if this is going to work, or not.
But, here’s the linky to the purported, supposed, aspirational Glibs Humpday Zoom, which is supposed to automagically self-start at 19:55 CT every Wednesday night.
The secret is that you have to be logged into Zoom before you hit the link. Otherwise, no workie.