In the US they are usually governed as real estate legally. You can resell it, but most people aren’t interested in paying the maintenance fees. You’ll find all sorts of timeshares out there being resold for 1$ because they just don’t want to pay the maintenance fee anymore.

The -k argument on my openssl accepts a passphrase, not a file. You likely encrypted with the filename as the secret, not it’s contents. Perhaps you should use -kfile instead.

$ openssl aes-256-cbc -help
Usage: aes-256-cbc [options]

General options:
 -help               Display this summary
 -list               List ciphers
 -ciphers            Alias for -list
 -e                  Encrypt
 -d                  Decrypt
 -p                  Print the iv/key
 -P                  Print the iv/key and exit
 -engine val         Use engine, possibly a hardware device

Input options:
 -in infile          Input file
** -k val              Passphrase**
 -kfile infile       Read passphrase from file

IANAEE. For an on-board application you can create a simple switch with a transistor. https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/transistor/tran_4.html

To make something wireless you’ll probably want to go with a microcontroller or Raspberry Pi and hook up GPIO pins to the motor controls. A transistor wouldn’t be needed in that case as the microcontroller can hold the pin high or low depending on what state you want.

Surprised it took this long to make a WinPE boot disk with a script to unlock the drive and delete the file. We had to do a similar process when a script went haywire and corrupted the user profile service on hundreds of devices. WinPE supports PowerShell which is extremely convenient for making the process completely automated. The hardest part is getting users to boot to a USB device (or getting into BIOS to change boot device).

In days past some drive vendors had different sector layouts for drives and would cause issues with raid. Pretty sure most nowadays are all the same layout and you won’t run into any issues. I still look to get the same drive model anyways just to be perfectly sure that there are no issues.

Even then you may run into weird issues like one of my 1.2 TB enterprise ssd drives was reporting 1.12 TiB rather than 1.09 TiB the other 7 drives had. TrueNas refused to build a vdev with that drive and I had to return it to get a new one.

Yes, I agree that this is a bit of an anti-pattern, as you lose quite a few benefits from the Generics compile-time safety and instead open yourself to runtime exceptions. Not sure what your use case is, but if you want to maintain type safety it might be better to have multiple overloads for each type you want to process rather than a Generic. Typically you use Generics when the actual type doesn’t matter to the method being called (e.g. LINQ uses Generics for IEnumerable<T>.Where because T can be anything and it just calls a Func<T, bool> on each element).

If you don’t want to go the pattern matching route you can also use reflection with MakeGenericMethod to specify the generic type and then invoke it.

Untested example:

var type = field.GetType();
var methodInfo = typeof(GenericClass).GetMethod("GenericMethod").MakeGenericMethod(type);
methodInfo.Invoke(null, field);

Edit: wrong documentation link https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.reflection.methodinfo.makegenericmethod?view=net-8.0 ~~https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.reflection.emit.methodbuilder.makegenericmethod?view=net-8.0~~

Typically a Fiber ISP will run Fiber optics only to your DEMARC (or Demarcation) point. This will be usually where your main cable (before any splits) or DSL line used to come in (in the US they’ve been using Orange tubes to indicate this and it will usually run to a panel in some closet or laundry). At the DEMARC they’ll install one of two things: a basic fiber to ethernet converter which will provide you a single ethernet port and a pure tap to the internet, or a Gateway device that will convert the fiber to multiple eithernet with NAT (usually providing other capabilites like TV, Phone, etc).

If you have the latter, you may not get much say in what you can do with your connection, and would be limited to a DMZ mode that is configured on the Gateway. What you put behind the converter or gateway is up to you.

I’ve got my mom setup on their PC backup service, no complaints so far (on the Backblaze side that is, she still insists that she doesn’t need continuous backups even though I’ve had to restore multiple times for her).

I switched my backups from Crashplan to B2 as it was significantly cheaper than going to AWS. B2 is more expensive than what I was paying for Crashplan Pro Unlimited (about 8x for the amount of data I have), but I have more peace of mind with it not relying on Crashplan’s terrible Java client.

A reminder that the only good backup is a tested backup.

I would say the story of KH1 is pretty great, it’s just that the gameplay and menus are quite dated and very frustrating to deal with. The platforming is still a bit of a problem but with dual-stick controls it’s at least bearable.

If you don’t want to play it, I would still recommend looking up the story beats in video form so you know the story. KH2 is where I would say the gameplay really takes off.

Make or find yourself a cart to drag around (g or G to drag it). It it doesn’t have wheels it’ll be quite loud. Sound = attraction = death in most cases.

Don’t bother with cars for a long while, even one that actually runs. They take a lot to maintain and cause a lot of noise (see above). You’re better off starting with a bike for midrange transportation (or if using mods a foldable bike).

When you start building or find a nice base area, make a crafting nook and drop all your items nearby to it. When crafting you can pull ingredients from 1-2 tiles adjacent.

You’ll probably have to provide the netmask info for us to review. If you’re using /24 then those all reside in the same network so I would expect them to be in the same broadcast domain.

If you have mismatched netmasks that could be trying to route traffic to the gateway which then reflects back. Ensure your devices have the same network, netmask and broadcast ip (e.g. 192.168.1.0/24 will have broadcast ip of 192.168.1.255)

I was thinking this too, if you have an open-ended 4x slot it can fit a 16x card but only runs at 4x.

TBH if you’re running 10Gb you may want to look for a board with on-board 10Gb rather than a PCIE which will save you the slot. My HP server has a swapable daughter board for the nic so you can chose 4x1Gb or 4x10Gb.

For my part, to get Jellyfin to recognize some of my shows/movies properly I had to export the Metadata which properly detected most. If that doesn’t work Jellyfin might be ignoring them due to decoding issues. Would be worth checking the log while rescanning to see if there’s an error or access issue.

29% of 112 and 60% of 170 is 134, which is 47.7% of the total. Math checks out.

I purchased an enclosed rack like this many years ago, but I’m glad I never used it. They are a pain to cool properly. Most of these types of rack will not come fully enclosed, with the front or sides being steel but with air holes for good airflow. The one I purchased was a StarTech.

Racks are usually counted in height by U (unit) which is a standard server height, so look for something in the 12-25U range. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_unit

I believe the one I purchased was a 32U with wheels and it was around 1500 USD plus freight (it arrived on a pallet).

What you’re likely looking for is a wall mount rack. Wall mounted racks are going to be the same width (usually 19" 2 or 4-post) but will vary by depth. You won’t be able to put a full length server in a wall mount as it’s designed for half-depth network equipment, but should serve your stated need quite well. 19" shelf mounts are available too.

Some examples: https://www.startech.com/en-us/server-management/rk1232walhm https://www.startech.com/en-us/server-management/cabshelfv

Check the note below that section. It will attempt to unlock all root partitions with the same passphrase entered, so if you setup the second drive with encryption it will unlock alongside your primary drive. With LVM on top you should then be able to expand the VG to the second drive to add space or redundancy to your LVs.

If the second drive has subpartitions (LVM on bottom, encryption on top) it looks like you’ll need additional setup (section 7.2.2) https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Specialties#Modifying_the_encrypt_hook_for_multiple_partitions

The amount of Windows bashing in this thread is hilarious, for what amounts to Enterprise grade DNS-over-TLS with additional whitelisting. Doesn’t help the home user, but likely won’t break home users internet access either.

Perhaps they should ask Copilot how their templating system works.

I had analytics turned on (new phone and didn’t check it before), and the app info only shows 76 kB have been transferred in the past 30 days. Seems pretty reasonable, but I disabled it anyways out of principal.