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Mt. Tamalpais

This was the closest I've ever been to hummingbirds and the most I've ever seen in one place. I spent 5-10 minutes holding still, trying to get one to land on my finger but no luck. I could see their little tongues and had no idea how frequently they poop. Their poops are these tiny quick little squirts.

Edit: started a free trial of Qobuz, it might be the winner for me.

I've been meaning to distance myself from Spotify for a while now but I've got a lot on my plate and their service has been very convenient. I've been paying for no ads since 2014 so I haven't heard the ads personally but have seen multiple sources online describe them and confirm they they haven't stopped as of today. I cancelled immediately. Not sure how many Spotify users there are on Lemmy but I just thought y'all ought to know what they're up to. Spotify let's you write a message saying why you're cancelling and I was very descriptive. Hopefully they'll back down just like Disney with Jimmy Kimmel.

Edit: he dead

Haven't seen this posted on Lemmy yet

NBC link: https://ground.news/article/charlie-kirk-shot-at-utah-event

Check darkdemize's comment below for a video: https://lemmy.world/comment/19313696

Closer video... NSFL https://lemmy.world/comment/19313963

Charlie Kirk was shot in the neck during an event at Utah Valley University, according to eyewitness accounts and reports from Deseret News.

A suspect has been apprehended, and a shelter-in-place order was issued for the campus, as confirmed by UVU campus police and a UVU alert sent to students.

Witnesses reported seeing blood after the shooting, and Kirk was rushed to a local hospital.

U.S. Senator Mike Lee stated he is closely monitoring the situation and called for prayers for Kirk and the attendees.

You can buy these with a calibration certificate for like $70, but I skipped the cert. Should be the same quality, cost me $16. I chose the version with the superior units of measurement.

I tried to find a more applicable community to post this to but didn't find anything.

I recently set up a NAS/server on a Raspberry Pi 5 running Raspberry Pi OS (see my last post) and since then I've got everything installed into a 3D printed enclosure and I've got RAID set up (ZFS RAIDz1). Prior to setting up RAID, I could transfer files to/from the NAS at around 200MB/s, but now that RAID is seemingly working things are transferring at around 28-30 MB/s. I did a couple searches and found someone suggesting to disable sync ($ sudo zfs set sync=disabled zfspool). I tried that and it doesn't seem to have had any effect. Any suggestions are welcome but keep in mind that I barely know what I'm doing.

Edit: When I look at the SATA hat, the LEDs indicate that the drives are being written to for less than half a second and then there's a break of about 4 seconds where there's no writing going on.

Just got all the hardware set up and working today, super stoked!

In the pic:

• Raspberry Pi 5
• Radxa Penta SATA hat for Pi
• 5x WD Blue 8TB HDD
• Noctua 140mm fan
• 12V -> 5V buck convertor
• 12V (red), 5V (white), and GND (black) distribution blocks

I went with the Raspberry Pi to save some money and keep my power consumption low. I'm planning to use the NAS for streaming TV shows and movies (probably with Jellyfin), replacing my google photos account (probably with Immich), and maybe steaming music (not sure what I might use for that yet). The Pi is running Raspberry Pi Desktop OS, might switch to the server version. I've got all 5 drives set up and I've tested out streaming some stuff locally including some 4K movies, so far so good!

For those wondering, I added the 5V buck convertor because some people online said the SATA hat doesn't do a great job of supplying power to the Pi if you're only providing 12V to the barrel jack, so I'm going to run a USB C cable to the Pi. Also using it to send 5V to the PWM pin on the fan. Might add some LEDs too, fuck it.

Next steps:

• Set up ~~RAID 5~~ ZFS RAIDz1?
• 3D print an enclosure with panel mount connectors

Any tips/suggestions are welcome! Will post again once I get the enclosure set up.