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pete_the_cat ,

This is so beautiful

pete_the_cat , (edited )

Using this ended being a massive pain in the ass for me. I could file the federal taxes online, but after I submitted it and attempted to file my state taxes online it said I couldn’t since I lived in NYC and made more than 75k/yr and I’d have to mail them in since it’s impossible to file only your state taxes online due to the IRS’ requirements.

I haven’t used my printer in years so it was a hassle just to print out 5 pages and mail them half way across the country. It also delayed getting my refund by about a month.

pete_the_cat ,

I filed for free with H&R Block.

pete_the_cat , (edited )

A city problem to be more exact. Since I lived in NYC and made more than 75k in a year I couldn’t file online, using the site the IRS directed me to (I’ve been doing it myself with TurboTax for the past 7 years, and paying for it). Due to the IRS’ own rules, you can’t file just your state tax returns online, since they’re largely the same as the federal taxes. So both are actually at fault.

I live in Florida now so I don’t have to pay state taxes, so next year’s will be a breeze.

pete_the_cat ,

I had them already prepared (I attempted to do it via H&R block as well but it was rejected since I had already submitted my federal forms), I just couldn’t submit them. Also I moved 1300 miles away in the past year, so I couldn’t really do that anyway haha

pete_the_cat ,

Yeah, I just assumed it would work smoothly by now. I’ve been using TurboTax for the past 7 years and have had no issues, I attempted to save money by doing it this way, but it caused way more headaches for me.

pete_the_cat ,

I had to mail in my state taxes for NY due to NYC regulations, which I didn’t know about since I’ve been using TurboTax for 7 years. I was only informed of this after I had filed my taxes federally using the IRS system. There is no way to just file your state taxes online, you have to do both and if you submit them a second time it just gets rejected.

It’s good that they’re doing this, but it caused a lot of headaches for me that I was unaware of.

pete_the_cat ,

If you lived in NYC and made than 75k/year you can’t file online using the state’s website, and both of those were true for me. I moved out of NYC last June, I live in Florida now. Also, why should I have to go see a tax agent? I should just be able to do it all online myself. I’ve been doing it for 7 years with TurboTax.

pete_the_cat ,

Because it’s funny to laugh at insane people

pete_the_cat ,

Alright, let’s not dogpile onto this, everyone.

pete_the_cat ,

He just chills there on the screen, dick out 24/7.

Questions about migrating a ZFS RAID

I’ve recently been looking at options to upgrade (completely replace) my current NAS, as it’s currently more than a little bit jank and frankly kinda garbage. I have a few questions about that and about migrating my current TrueNAS scale installation or at least it’s settings over....

pete_the_cat ,

Q1: No it shouldn’t matter as long as you didn’t import the pool using device names (sda, sdb, etc…). If you’re using labels or UUIDs (the better option for portability sake). If they do happen to use device names, just export the pool and then reimport it on the same system using labels or UUIDs.

Q2: It should work just fine assuming you’re not using device names for your pools

Q3: it’s just as robust as FreeBSD’s implementation. Once again, see the answer to Q1.

Q4: IMO virtualizing your NAS just adds more headaches and performance overhead compared to running it on bare metal.

Out of my years running TrueNAS on and off, I’ve always had issues with it when doing anything other than using it purely as a storage box. I tried 24.04 a few weeks ago, thinking that most of the issues I had originally when SCALE was launched would be resolved. They weren’t. So I went back to Arch w/OpenZFS…again

pete_the_cat ,

I agree, the VM management could be easier. I don’t understand why I can’t have two NICs in the same subnet as long as they have different IPs.

The bigger annoyance for me was there was no way to tell what disk is attached where in the VM device listings since it only shows the boot order and not labels or paths.

pete_the_cat ,

Yeah, but I should be able to have them separate as well like I can in every other Linux distro. In TrueNAS they force you to have them in separate subnets for some reason.

pete_the_cat ,

I agree. It’s shitty for Cloudflare to just straight up destroy this company’s DNS, but also it seems like the company violated the ToS. They had about two weeks to migrate to something else, but instead they just continued debating with CF. Also, this company doesn’t have a secondary DNS server in case CF ever went down? That’s pretty stupid on their part. Redundant systems are key, I hope they learned that lesson haha

pete_the_cat ,

Regardless of what they tell you, if you care about uptime, you ensure this yourself. I feel this is 60% the company’s fault and 40% Cloudflare’s.

pete_the_cat ,

My first thought was “So that’s where RFK Jr got it from”

pete_the_cat ,

You’re confusing “cooking temp” with “internal temp”.

pete_the_cat ,

I volunteered at a shelter for two years and it’s definitely easy for some people (those that don’t give a fuck about animals): I was volunteering there one day and this guy came in with a happy and healthy looking Samoyed and said “I want to have her put down, she bit my kid”. Luckily the shelter refused to do so.

pete_the_cat ,

It was my replacement for dear old WinAmp when I first switched to Linux.

pete_the_cat ,

How did the owners/directors even stand being in there? 🤢

pete_the_cat ,

As someone that grew up a half hour from Atlantic City, and has to go there frequently as a transit hub…you’re correct. The casinos are a sad, sad place. Especially during the week.

pete_the_cat ,

Sad.

pete_the_cat ,

Same thing with big cats:

A Jaguar or Leopard just looks and acts like a big house cat… but it can crush your skull with one bite and can drag your dead body 30 feet vertically up a tree.

pete_the_cat ,

Ji-mo-nah! 🕺

pete_the_cat ,

Two words: Nuclear War

pete_the_cat ,

…but so will the a large part of the US

pete_the_cat ,

Russia, or possibly China and North Korea.

pete_the_cat ,

The name of my Plex server has been “The Pirate’s Booty” for about a decade 😂

pete_the_cat ,

Threadripper already accomplished all of this years ago. My TR2970WX has 24 cores/48 threads, 48 PCI-E lanes, and it supports ECC and non-ECC RAM. My AsRock Rack board has BMC support as well.

The Threadripper series was the perfect workstation CPU. I’ve had mine for a few years and it can handle anything I throw at it, it can easily transcode 2-3 4K videos while doing multiple other things.

It wasn’t cheap though, it was like $650 on sale, originally like a grand or so.

pete_the_cat ,

Spending $100 billion on AI is insane, even with Google Money.

pete_the_cat ,

If it’s so “expensive and valuable” then why have we been using it for decades to fill balloons here in the US? It costs like a few bucks to buy a bunch of balloons and get them filled. I just looked it up and Dollar Tree (a dollar store) will fill them for free as long as the balloons are purchased there.

You can buy a 14.9 cubic foot tank from Amazon for $80 (unfilled of course), which is enough to fill 50 balloons.

pete_the_cat ,

“Create your own penis showing game”

That’s what the tech world has come to recently, especially with monitors and smartphones.

pete_the_cat ,

Screen technologies for a lot of things has gotten to the point where your eyes literally can’t tell the difference, but sure, dump money into a placebo.

pete_the_cat ,

That is the point, most people don’t do research and see “ahh a bigger number, it must be better!”. 1Khz refresh rate may be a niche thing now but in two years every company will be pushing something similar.

pete_the_cat ,

Google is helpful when you have questions 😉

It seems that you need to read up on the basics of Linux if you don’t know what a bash script is.

pete_the_cat ,

Yeah, if you feel like waiting for an answer when you could easily do it yourself in two seconds.

pete_the_cat ,

You just suck at searching for stuff apparently.

pete_the_cat ,

Just because it’s becoming less useful doesn’t mean it’s useless. I search for stuff every day and can find the answer I’m looking for in under a few minutes.

pete_the_cat ,

Apology accepted 🙂

Google gets a lot of hate, and they, as a company and as a search engine have gotten worse over the years, but they still do a lot of stuff right. I never took it personally, just giving an example.

pete_the_cat ,

It really is quite funny how this spread throughout the world in the 90s and early 2000s.

pete_the_cat ,

That was far more interesting than I thought it was going to be, crazy enough, I grew up about 1.5 hours south of Princeton.

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I absolutely love milkshakes. I just wish they loved me more.

Is this what god feels like?

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pete_the_cat ,

I remember seeing this back on Reddit a while ago, but you may be Casein intolerant rather than Lactose intolerant, it’s less common but the same effects. Some dairy products have more Casein than Lactose.

Beginner in need of real help!

I’ve been interested in self-hosting for a while, but didn’t really know where to start. I’ve never messed with Linux before and wanted to jump ship from Windows since Microsoft decided to start putting ads everywhere. I came across this post [lemmy.world/post/6542543] which was exactly what I was looking for to start, and...

pete_the_cat ,

That’s confused me as well. It probably did a kernel update and then triggered update-grub.

pete_the_cat ,

I think you should start with the basics of Linux instead of diving into the deep end 😉

pete_the_cat ,

Kinda hard to find them if you don’t know they exist in the first place.

pete_the_cat ,

Yep, iDrive is the way to go, before they raised their prices I got 50 TB for a year for $500. I moved everything back locally, now I’m just going to use them for off-site backups. You can’t beat $15 for 1 TB for a year.

pete_the_cat ,

5 TB for $150 seems awfully high (didn’t click the link). I’m on my first year (and did it before they doubled their first year prices) and I got 50 TB for $500.

1 TB is $15 for the first year.

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