Nice thing is that used microwaves are all over thrift stores for like $10 a pop. Our coffee maker broke this month and we got the best coffee maker we’ve ever had for $6.

I’m still going strong two years later! :D

Had me in the first half.

Yeah, good call. How fast/reliable/cheap are USB drive enclosures? Maybe I should just go that direction instead of buying a whole new system for it. As long as the NAS software doesn’t require much overhead, I’ve got an old laptop that should be able to handle things well enough if that would work.

Plus, then I could still grab one of these cheap Win 10 machine as a server box to run all of the services to go along with the NAS.

Edit: tons of great info here - thanks so much!

This is amazing info - thanks so much! I’ll probably end up putting the server in the basement, so sound hopefully won’t be much of an issue.

Gotcha, yeah, physical space was the main thing I was worried about picking up one of these used corpo boxes.

Would something like the HP DeskMini mentioned in another comment be a good enough choice for a service hosting machine? I suppose I could get one of the win-10 boxes for the hosting machine and then find a bigger case for a separate NAS.

I have an old, pretty big Antec tower from like 10 years ago that should have plenty of space for drives - I suppose I could reuse that for the NAS and just upgrade my main PC case to something more modern like I already wanted to do anyway.

I just wonder how necessary it is to add two full machines like this. Are there any specific reasons to separate the NAS from the hosting machine other than cost/size considerations? Like, would the systems interfere with each other?

Could I use one of these machines to double as an HTPC for my main TV as well, or does that need to be a separate third machine, for stability/etc. reasons?

Sorry for all of the questions!

Thanks so much! I expected it to be more complicated for some reason.

Great recommendation - I’ll keep my eye out for one!

They definitely do similar things though. I was out at dinner with some of my Japanese coworkers and one of them was having steak (suteeki in Japanese). I asked him if it was suteki (“great, wonderful, attractive”) and they all groaned and said I was telling “oyaji gyagu” (old man/dad jokes).

It does too many things too well.

Oops, thanks, I was watching it on my phone and grabbed the wrong link from Duckduckgo. I’ve corrected the link to point to their video.

Note that it is back up - I’m watching it on their channel on my phone right now.

There isn’t “feminist dogma”

I think we’re done here.

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Lots of good comments here pointing out problems with feminism, but one that I think hasn’t been mentioned enough in this thread that’s also directly relevant to the OP is the harmful idea that “if you believe in gender equality, then you’re a feminist by definition”.

While the term “feminist” does signify a person who, at least ostensibly, is in favor of equal rights among genders, using that term also, necessarily, implies belief in the core dogma that is inseparable from the term itself (patriarchy theory, etc.). This creates a false dichotomy in which people feel that in order to support equal rights they must also buy into feminist dogma, and that’s not at all the case.

Luckily, though, feminism doesn’t have a monopoly on gender equality, and it’s important to let people know that fact, both because of how incredibly misleading “feminism just means gender equality” is and because there are more useful, more egalitarian frameworks through which to view the push for equality.

it just signifies you are in favor of equal rights among genders

It doesn’t “just signify that” though, as much as feminists act like it does. The term “feminist” does signify a person who, at least ostensibly, is in favor of equal rights among genders, but using that term also, necessarily, implies belief in the harmful dogma that is inseparable from the term itself (patriarchy theory, etc.). This creates a false dichotomy that makes people feel that in order to support equal rights they must also buy into feminist dogma, and that’s not at all the case.

Luckily, though, feminism doesn’t have a monopoly on gender equality, and it’s important to let people know that fact, both because of how incredibly misleading “feminism just means gender equality” is and because there are plenty of other more useful, more egalitarian frameworks through which to view the push for equality.

I can’t tell if this is cope or Kool-Aid.

And they can keep them as far as I’m concerned.