Intel Core i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz with 16gb ram 165TB of storage. Motherboard is a Asus Delux 10+ years old. And a 10gb NIC. All inside a fractal Design XL case.
The hardware is by all means not top of the line, but you dont need much for a NAS.
I personally run truenas on a standalone system to act as my NAS network wide. It never goes offline and is up near 24/7 except when I need to pull a dead drive.
Unraid is my go to right now for self hosting as its learning curve for docker containers is fairly easy. I find I reboot the system from time to time so its not something I use for a daily NAS solution.
Proxmox I run as well on a standalone system. This is my go to for VM instances. Really easy to spin up any OS I would need for any purpose. I run things like home assistant for example on this machine. And its uptime is 24/7.
Each operating system has its advantages, and all three could potentially do the same things. Though I do find a containered approche prevents long periods of downtime if one system goes offline.
Excellent example! Very rarely do you see a individual just shoot out from behind you in a line and by pass a whole queue of people.
Where as in a car you see people mounting a curb/sidewalk to make a right turn to squeeze past the individual in front of them. Or driving into oncoming traffic to get to the left hand turn lane a few seconds sooner. Or my favourite, seeing people stuck in highway traffic choose to off road to leave the highway, as opposed to waiting for the offramp. Meanwhile a crowed of individuals follows causing a unsafe situation for everyone.
Video for context regarding the last point.
https://www.tiktok.com/@oxtailpapi/video/7222122580495453445
I would really like to live in a town/city that does not have this issue. North America really needs to reassess its roadways and infrastructure.
The path to safe infrastructure is usually not just “remove all barriers” but instead “control the flow of traffic”.
I would also argue “intent” needs to be taken into account, otherwise the general public would just be walking around destroying public and private property.
For example if a person walks or rushes through a door, and somehow the door falls off or breaks. Then that person should not be responsible for the damage, this would just be standard “wear and tear”.
If that same individual intended to break the same example door with physical force, such as smash the glass, or rip the door off the hinges, then this would be property damage.
Anyways, in no way should a worker have to kneel and beg in any situation, especially when they fear losing their job if they dont make the next delivery.
This article IMO shows a lack of worker protections and on job support within the gig economy. Workers should not have this fear, especially for minimum wage. If something happens to a worker during their shift they should have a direct support line, with support staff ready to assist.
Uplifting news, the content creators should really be paid for what they post, and so should be the mods. /s
Correct, Toronto.
You know you are in Canada when you walk down the street and start seeing Tims cups drifting with the wind, wanting to start again ♪♫♬
Its not too long ago the Gardiner got flooded this bad as well.
I would be not surprised it gets flooded one more time this year. We should start to expect more heavy rainfalls more consistently like the one we saw today, especially in the coming years.
I wonder whatever happened regarding the Loblows boycott. It seemed to have fizzled out.
Have you ever tried running balls free, same idea.
Trouble is there was no farewell, it was here one day and the following day it was closed.
Guess with all the Green Belt fiasco that happened not to long ago, the developers want land and Ford more then likely promised them the Ontario Science Center lands for condo and housing development.
The implementation of traffic islands like this is used for “road calming” and intended as good design in protecting pedestrian traffic both on foot and cycling.
Road island like these are sometimes referred to a “cycle banana’s” or more commonly “refuge islands”. Their designs are very common in Dutch towns and cities as a example.
Here are a few images in how these types of “refuge islands” are positioned, and how they are used to “protect and separate” both pedestrian foot traffic and cycling traffic form vehicles using the street.
The function of the island allows vehicles turning right to achive a clear line of sight. It also, if implemented well, allows a right turning vehicle to clear the first pedestrian crossing and have a “standing zone” to clear the second pedestrian crossing (see image 2 & 3). All while not blocking the first crossing and obstructing views at the same time. A secondary vehicle turning right at the same time would wait behind the white line.
Throughout the pandemic crisis volunteers stepped up and created interactive maps to help Ontarians better understand what was going on in their area. The province did next to nothing. But LCBO’s closed? Doug Ford roared to life.
If he had any decency or moral, Trump should have stepped down himself.
Also, kindly remind everyone with a vagina and everyone who cares about someone with one: This year’s presidential election is about abortion access. Roe vs Wade was repealed by extremist MAGA judges appointed by Trump.
Just ban blowers outright, makes no sense when leafs get blown from one property to another, and then back again.
Yup its the only suburban neighbourhood in north America that is completly car free.
Trouble is zoning laws in Ontario and anywhere else in north America prevent cities from building more neighbourhoods like this.
Examples include things like minimum parking requirements, minimum setback, fire codes and even policing all play a part in shaping this. If you ever look at new suburban developments, think how hard its to get a convenience store or small supermarket build right inside the suburb.
Its a shame because we really should not be building suburbs with the same two or three single family homes repeated over and over, its really inefficient. We should start having townhomes, fourplexes, small 4-5 level mixed use condos, subways and trams with busways incorporated. Existing suburban layouts should also start adding missing middle housing inside whereever possible by changing zoning.
“Pedestrian streets” are not really “new”, it’s just something that we as North Americans have forgotten about.
We see large Walmart parking lots as normal and 6 lane “strodes” as nothing weird in cities and suburbs.
Comes down to personal preferences really. Personally I have been running truenas since the freebsd days and its always been on bare metal. There would be no reason you could not virtualize it, and I have seen it done.
I do run a pfsense virtualized on my proxmox VM machine. It runs great once I figured out all the hardware pass through settings. I do the same with GPU pass through for a retro gaming machine on the same proxmox machine.
The only thing I dont like is that when you reboot your proxmox machine the PCI devices dont retain their mapping ids. So a PCI NIC card I have in the machine causes the pfsense machine not to start.
The one thing to take into account with Unraid vs TrueNAS is the difference between how they do RAID. Unraid always drives of different sizes in its setup, but it does not provide the same redundancy as TrueNAS. Truenas requires disk be the same size inside a vdev, but you can have multiple vdevs in one large pool. One vdev can be 5 drives of 10tb and the other vdev can be 5 drives of 2tb. You can always swap any drive in truenas with a larger drive, but it will only be as big as the smallest disk in the vdev.