I like KDE a lot

It’s their media PC, they literally just use to to watch YouTube and Series.

They’re fine with the switch it makes no difference to them and KDE is nicer

Yea I know that, but I only have one USB and eventually came to this place where it’s useful to just have them saved

I distro hopped them once on their media PC they just use to watch YouTube and series.

I don’t see myself changing it again, Kubuntu & KDE is so nice

For me KDE is so much nicer to use

Idk having 10 usb’s sound fun 😅 Chaotic Good.

Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if we’ve gotten to that point.

They’d claim it’s AI generated and move on to ‘more important thigns’ like the money wasted on foodstamps

Finding what I want on Amazon, and then looking it up and buying directly from the supplier. It’s usually cheaper too.

Is it much easier than TrueNAS?

I went with TrueNAS because it’s open-source, and it’s been smooth sailing.

(I just use it as a NAS, nothing more)

I’d be curious to rewrite some of the malware we made in class and see if AVs would pick it up now.

Most of them didn’t make any network calls etc. they would just mess with your files and system Things like Set background to Justin-Bieber, play Justin-Bieber randomly, we were very mature

The best security is to limit your risk vector.

Like you said Anti-viruses aren’t some magic bullet, in university a bunch of us wrote Malware and wrecked each other’s lab computers or did things like having the whole Lab’s computers CD trays open at 10am every morning.

The AV didn’t pick up any of them and we barely knew what we were doing.

Afik, AV’s mostly scan for known threats

Just do what the Netherlands did, ~30% of the country is under sea level

I’m more than happy to share. If others didn’t share I wouldn’t have been able to do my hobby.

So basically I just kinda copied this:
https://www.darkrym.com/posts/2025/05/my-rack-setup-2020-extrusion-diy-mini-rack/

The biggest difference is I used different corners, and I made mine a bit deeper (28cm total, so that it would fit a 30cm 3D printer bed)

Right now the back is literally empty, I’m planning on moving all the power cords there soon.

The HDDs are plugged into the ODROID H4+ (the thing that looks like a PSU)

Check my linked post and you’ll see what I’m talking about

Ooof that is rough!!

If you can make your own like I did I would highly recommend it.

If you have the Alu tubing cut and threaded for you most of the work is done

The thing that looks like a PSU is actually a ODROID H4+ it has 4 SATA and power connectors, so I just power it from that.

It’s all in excruciating detail here: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4-plus/

You can also have a look at my old post: https://piefed.social/post/1002037 that might give you a better idea.

They are connected to the ODROID H4+ mini PC above with SATA

Thanks yea that’s the plan I’ll add those to the side and something on top later on.

Either that or I’ll 3D print a honeycomb mesh

Jip everything is running in proxmox, except Home-Assistant I moved that to bare metal

I’m pretty sure I can stand on it without issues, if I add some corner plates it would be even stronger.

But when in doubt you can always go for 3030 or 4040 which would be really strong, you can probably park a motorcycle on those