rectangleboy

In an effort to:

• Understand what hardware aspects are relevant for "typical" homelab stuff
• Reuse existing hardware I already have (an unlocked i7 I got as part of Intel's RetailEdge program)

I'm trying to answer the following questions for what I want my homelab to do:

• Where will my bottlenecks and limitations be with an Intel i7-8700K?
• How much RAM should I budget for?

What I want my homelab to do:

• Run a pool of HDDs for backing up my other computers
  • ZFS
  • Maybe enable on-the-fly compression
  • Maybe enable on-the-fly encryption
  • Maybe enable on-the-fly deduplication I plan to use HDDs, not SSDs
• Host game servers for me and some friends, e.g.
  • Min

We're throwing a Tiki party in a couple weeks and have some friends on medication that grapefruit juice messes with. I would like to replicate some of the grapefruit flavor using acids alone à la David Arnold's Liquid Intelligence for the tiny amount used in e.g. a Zombie or Jet Pilot.

How do I recreate the acid profile of grapefruit juice? Liquid Intelligence only has lemon, lime, and champagne.

Note: I am NOT looking to acid adjust grapefruit juice itself. I want to avoid grapefruit juice entirely. I would, however, be willing to acid adjust lemon, lime, or orange juice to be more grapefruit like.

Has anyone used the Save-Ur-Fur undercoat nozzle:

• At home?
• Without the $600 undercoat removal bathing system?

The only requirement I see for the nozzle is that it has 60psi water pressure (I have at least this at my house -- we just measured).

It looks like the bathing system just injects soap and "scrubbing bubbles" (air) into the water. I only have one (1) dog and can soak and soap by hand, so the time savings don't seem worth it to me.

• Would hand soaping be enough for using the Save-Ur-Fur to rinse+deshed?

For reference: I have a 1 year old [Australian Shepherd](https

I have a DOL-001 (USA) GameCube that I would like to softmod and want to boot strap it myself (e.g. not just buy a memory card with a game exploit already on it).

A few things:

• I refuse to hard mod my beloved GameCube from my childhood, even if it's simple, easy, or reversible.
• I don't own a Wii.
• (For now) I want to boot strap this process by myself as much as possible. Part of it's the challenge and the other part is that I want to ensure that I can do it again if I fuck up the memory card with the special save or far into the future in case that memory card dies or whatever.

My softmodding options seem to be:

1. The Phantasy Star Online exploit
2. Somehow procuring SD Media Launc

A video of someone playing a 90's style (think Doom) videogame and after playing for a bit, the dev starts chatting him in the console asking how he found the server.

The dev is super confused, maybe a little mad/scared, how the person got in and they start chatting. The dev made the game for his wife. There's an ominous presence / dark figure that appears out of the corner of the player's eye as they go from one end of the level to another.

I can't find it. It came out recently? In the last ten years or so? I could be wrong on that and it could be older, but I don't think so.

Some background: I got into this game after seeing someone I follow on Twitter post about it during the Mandalorian event last year. I vowed to do everything I could to get Baby Yoda, but, of course, completely missed out because I started the game halfway through the event.

I've been playing essentially everyday since (137 consecutive days out of 139) in order to get the calendar unlocks, 2 gems daily from watching ads, and to level up anyone I can. In that time, I managed to get R2D2 and the Star Wars float with gems and leveled up R2 and C3PO to 5 and 8.

In order to not go overboard with this, I've come up with the following rules for myself:

• No spending of real money on this game (m

Update:

Received email earlier today (2021-02-08 12:46 PM PST) and it's shipped! It should be here by Wednesday.

B&H sent an email at 6:25 AM PST today (my preorder time was 2020-11-04 10:07 PM PST): https://i.imgur.com/OERTXtR.png

Text:

Dear rectangleboy,

I hope this email finds you well. I realize that you are anxious to receive your AMD gear soon or at least gain an understanding as to when you might expect that to happen. Unfortunately, the latest update we received from AMD does not give us more of an exact shipping timeframe. All we know is that they expect we will receive more inventory over the course of the first quarter of 2021. Based on when you placed y