>glorious day off
>not down with egg hunting
>proceed to sleep for about 20 hours
>wake up hungry af

Feels pretty good man. There's a Chinese buffet open on hilidays around here and I think I might just go and pig out in a bit.

Celebrate Jesus' resurrection from the dead with Easter offensives to introduce heathens, heretics and misbelievers to the afterlife.
- US B-52 maintenance during the 1972 Linebacker II Easter Offensive.

Uneventful. Kinda bummed about it. I live for family.

  9 Instant Ramen Hacks from Ivan Orkin https://youtu.be/6Bj5NJ5cJlc
Watch as ramen guru Ivan Orkin shows you 9 ways to spruce up ("Orkin-ize, if you will) your instant ramen.
A personal tip is to bulk up cans of cream of chicken soup by adding a package of cheap ramen noodles to it (boil them for 3 minutes first, do not add the flavor packet).
The Korean Fire Noodles taste better with a pat of butter and mac-and-cheese powder added to the bowl.

Buy blackberries, blueberries, and raspberries. Stick them in your freezer. Enjoy them as a delicious frozen treat.

>>109393
RaceMixer is right!
I picked wild blackberries and blueberries often in Washington State and keeping bags of them in the freezer is a treat.
Mixing them in yogurt is also good.

One treat was to squish picked blueberries into Twinkies. But here, someone went further and made a Lemon Blueberry Twinkie Parfait
Ingredients
- 4 Twinkies (to make 4 servings, otherwise 1 Twinkie per serving)
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- ½ cup lemon curd (you can make your own or buy it premade)
- Whipped cream for topping

Remove Twinkies from wrappers. Slice into 8 slices.
Place 3-4 Twinkie pieces in bottom of serving dish.
Drizzle small amount of lemon curd over Twinkie pieces.
Layer 6-8 blueberries on top of lemon curd.
Spoon in layer of whipped cream.
Beginning with Twinkies, repeat all layers, and top with final whipped cream layer.
Enjoy! http://thesimpleparent.com/lemon-blueberry-twinkie-parfait/

Um... again I am straying from the healthy part of this food thread, but par for the course, old bean.

Perkele

>>109363
Why is there a white character representing Sweden? That's not very progressive.

>opchan jumps on the /int/ bandwagon
looks like 2009 finally caught up to you guys.
what are y'all's poster names on /r/polandball?

>>109382
Are you twelve years old, we've had countryballs here since they started on der generals website.

>/r/polandball
You are twelve years old...

I have a work buddy who was pretty gung-ho about joining the FFL as a young man because he wanted combat. He's now a married, very happy, officer in the Army National Guard who takes every deployment he can because he loves that life. He's also glad he didn't join the FFL.

Wow didn't know Masterlock was getting into the safe business.

I was safecracking yesterday. Buddy of mine got his XD .45 stuck in a Sentrysafe, had to cut a hole in it to get at the solenoid to get it open. Fortunately that was quite easy since they are only like 18 gauge sheet metal.

It has been a strangely warm and dry winter around Denver, Colorado. February and March being the historically snowiest months, but the only snow I can find is the dump of ice scrapings in front of a local ice rink. Temperatures above 70 degrees this week. Yesterday, I was driving around in my T-shirt with the car windows down. In the past few years, the southern states get more ice storms in the winter and the north-east coast gets heavier snow storms, but the weather in Colorado is getting sunnier with significantly less snow (apart from on the mountains, but that's where the snow should be). I also heard that Chicago has gotten hardly any snow this year. Since Dec. 18, Chicago O'Hare International Airport has measured a pathetic 0.6 inches of total snowfall through the end of February. The average Chicago snowfall for that period is 23.4 inches. Denver did a little bit better, racking up 7.9 inches of snow through March 2, 2017, but still failed to top Hawaii that got a blizzard that dumped 8 inches of snow on Hawaii's Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa peaks in a single sitting two weeks ago.

Hawaii Has Had More Snow Than Denver or Chicago So Far in 2017
Mar 7 2017 https://weather.com/news/weather/news/hawaii-more-snow-2017-than-chicago-denver

>>109043
Yeah holy shit. Last few times I've driven back and forth from WV everyone loses their shit in the mountains. (All of two thousand two hundred feel elevation)

> driving to WV
> implication of snow
> everyone huddles into one lane and drives 20 mph
> a tiny bit of snow on the road
> be a rebel and use the other lane and drive 35 with a comfortable amount of traction

> night, driving back to MD
> snowed earlier that day, slight dusting of snow on road
> car in ditch
> car in ditch
> car in ditch
> car in ditch upside down

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  >>109050
> car in ditch
> car in ditch
> car in ditch
Do people there even use anti-locking system or something like that?

>>109052
I would say that most cars in the US have come standard with ABS for at least 10 years. Traction control was mandated just recently.

I did a defensive driving class (which was fun as fuck) and we did some stops with and without ABS. I had no problems with non-ABS, since you just modulate the brake pressure to prevent the tires from locking up. (But again, I have racing exp.)

I use some QC5000-ITX/PH board for my NAS. Picked it up for about $60 a few years ago. It's passively cooled and last I checked it sat around 12-15watts on my kill-a-watt while idle. Only got a case and a tiny power supply. Already had spare ram.

I have OpenMediaVault loaded on an old obsolete 70gb msata drive, that formerly sat in my laptop. It's hooked up to a USB3 adapter and sits inside the case.
2x 8TB HGST Ultrastar He8's in RAID1. Acquired these drives several months ago, doubling my former capacity.
2x 4TB HGST Ultrastars. These old drives used to be my main RAID1 array and served me well for years. Eventually I needed some more room and these are now set in RAID0 and used to store extra parity information via OMV's Snapraid plugin. Essentially these now act like a weekly "backup"+extra error checking. These are typically powered down. There is no issue if either of these drives fail.
1x 8TB Seagate Archive HDD. This is a cheapo and slow as fuck shingled drive that is perfect for offsite (protected from fire/theft) backups. I don't add much to my data horde anymore, so I only retrieve it to do an actual backup every 2 months or so.

I'll will never ever bother with RAID5/6.

Also, here's a protip:
Shitty SATA cables can cause hard to identify issues with hard drives in raid. If you have a hard drive that works fine in an enclosure, but starts acting up when stuck in a raid array, try a _different brand_ of cable.


Open Media Vault is pretty baller, but the whole permissions thing can be a pain in the dick to figure out when setting up SMB shares and the like. If you are new to this and a big dummy like me, expect to have to start from scratch a few times before you finally learn from trial and error. People that actually understand linux (OMV is debian based) will probably have a much easier time.
Other than that, OMV is pretty straightforward with everything being based on plugins and the web interface. I've never had to use the command line or any of that bullshit, thank the devs.

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>>109035
>mfw reading that

For some reason I never considered 8 to 10tb UHCP drives. I think I was stuck in the "they're so expensive" mentality without considering total cost of 8+ drive RAID build and dollar per GB. In addition, I would be using this kind of thing as a backup to the backup, so it would see less use, making drive replacement cost smaller relative to system use.

I was parting out a RAID6 build and saving up but now... Now I really don't think I'll have to bother. Just a cheap build and some UHCPs...

>>109038
UHCD*

Derp.

>>109038
Glad that was helpful. It was basically what I ran into when deciding how wanted to set things up years ago. Did I want lots of cheap moving parts, or do I want less moving parts for not all that much more cost-wise? After coming across a fuckton of "my RAID5/6 array is all fucked!" threads, the decision was easy. Either I care about complete redundancy, and use RAID1 or RAID10, if I actually wanted to save thousands of movies or something, or I don't and use RAID0/Linear.

I've basically just doubled my data storage a few times over the past decade and a half, starting with 2TB, moving to 4TB, and now finally 8TB. This has allowed me to easily re-purpose my previous old drives for extra redundancy.

Realistically, with a proper setup you can easily find 8TB drives that are cheaper than ultrastars. I personally like ultrastars because they've been the closest thing to a gold standard that is accessible to a consumer's wallet, and hey, I have a job and don't drink so that cost premium isn't an issue to me. But as long as you have redundancy and incremental backups (that can't get fucked by power surges, fire or theft), then you can easily get away with "perfectly fine" and even "adequate" when it comes to reliability. Another thing to factor in is the rate at which you acquire data. With my recent upgrade I should be set for another 4-5 years, at which point consumer-class phased holographic hypercube drives should allow me to double my storage again affordably.

The ultrastar HE8's were about $360 for an single drive.
Many same capacity RAID compatible drives should be around or under the $300 range. WD Reds were pretty solid last I checked.
Seagate's archive drive was about $220. Don't use this in a RAID array. They are meant for occasional use. Do incremental, compressed backups to these.

You can use a browser plugin called "camelcamelcamel" to see historic prices for an item on amazon. For hard drives, this tells you when to hold off buying. Stay away from oddly low prices and stick to the listings with hundreds of recent positive reviews.

>>109040
Originally I went with smaller drives in RAID6 because I knew I was going to use it a lot every day, so drive failure was absolutely a matter of "when" and "how many". Replacing a $350+ HDD every couple of months versus a $150 drive and rebuilding didn't look too bad to me, even considering the slightly higher setup cost.

Plus I started out needing 10+TB of redundant storage when 6TB drives were a LOT more than what they are now, and 8+TB drives didn't even exist.

At this point, I'll keep using the Synology, I mean I've already purchased it. I have spare 3TB drives already, and it still makes sense from a daily use/upkeep cost perspective.

But for offsite backups, you're right on all accounts, and that's what I'll do. Time to do a bit of homework on drive prices and stay on the lookout for sales.

Thanks.

FOX: at least 122 former Gitmo detainees have re-engaged in terrorism (real news)
https://twitter.com/foxandfriends/status/839076420018065408

Trump: 122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just another terrible decision! (fake news, 113 were released under the Bush administration, none of the cases in either administration were reviewed by political appointees, they done by the military legal system at gitmo)

Breitbart: Trump says 122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield.(real news)

http://www.dni.gov/files/documents/FINAL%20-%20GTMO%20Unclass%20CDA%20Response%20-%20September%202016.pdf

Fox isn't less accurate, they're just covering the wrong topics

>>108992
There has been a noticeable increase of clickbaity articles and amateurish writing on BBC in the past few months.

Some better journalism is going on at Fox than other broadcast outlets. They aren't entirely running the anti-Trump hysteria tactical talking points. They don't accept and push a lot of the recent obvious gov't non denials denials at face value against Trump. There was some collusion @ Fox indicated in the Podesta emails that got about as little coverage as the others. Fox has fairly well toed the mainstream Republican establishment pro-immigration line and is still as bought and paid for as everyone else.

  wow such quality reporting, russia sure is the greatest, peace be upon the prophet.

  >>109000
It predates that, MSM sucks because they don't talk to people. Fox, CNN, BBC... they all cut the feed the moment a guest says something that counters the narrative.

Over time this makes MSM think that the majority agrees with them, and SO MSM starts shilling for MSM beliefs, thinking that will get them bigger audiences.

>>108660
For younger voters maybe, but racism is certainly a motivation for the boomers.

>>108674

Most of the bigwigs in the Democrat establishment are Boomers.

In other words, do you have anything to back your statement up with?

>>108674
Baby boomers are the most hippie generation in history, they started socialism and degeneracy in america.

I find it ironic that you blame everything on baby boomers now, considering you and your ilk are basically brainwashed puppets of baby boomer professors.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3790614/They-don-t-like-drugs-gay-marriage-HATE-tattoos-Generation-Z-conservative-WW2.html
http://heatst.com/world/a-new-generation-of-conservatives-is-on-the-rise-study-finds/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2016/09/17/how-modern-teenagers-are-rebelling-against-their-parents-by-bein/

>>108674
Nearly all the under 30s I know would support an anti-immigration pro-white candidate if there was one in Canada. All the boomers I've ever met think anything but full globalist multiculturalism with mandatory racemixing is bigoted and wrong. The former grew up in a majority arab-somali area with prayer rooms and drive by whootings while the latter grew up in exclusively white neighbourhoods. Growing up in a multiracial area breeds racism. Even the boomers who are 100% "whites will be gone in 100 years, beige power!" admit that there seems to be less trust today than in the past.

I think the group described in the OP has a dumb attitude (muh oppression! muh victim status!), but people have to take responsibility for their own safety. Also guns are fun.

>All the boomers I've ever met think anything but full globalist multiculturalism with mandatory racemixing is bigoted and wrong.
>grew up in exclusively white neighbourhoods.
>muh oppression! muh victim status!
>t. u

>>108816

I think you'd be better off jamming the Ku-band frequency that its satellite link runs at. That video feed back to the pilot shouldn't be THAT hard to blind if you point a moderately sized jammer with a directional antenna up at the satellite.

>>108820
This is true Basically the satellite cant distinguish the drones signals through the jamming noise, so the satellite has no idea how to send corrections to drone. If there's an operator, his best bet is just to not touch anything and let the drone go into autopilot. Drone circles until it loses fuel and then crashes.

This is the problem with satellite guidance. It has to be extremely sensitive to send and receive signals from small transceivers, which means its easy to jam. GPS guided bombs, GPS guided anything, drones of any kind... completely useless against any country that has functioning universities churning out electronics graduates.

Also glide ratio is dependent on speed. Obviously if its launched at a faster speed the wings will generate more lift and give it a better ratio. A drone can't usually fly very fast, so glide ratio is reduced from whatever the manufacturer is claiming.

>>108826

Most drones are fairly slow, topping out at ~300mph, with a 250mph cruising speed. Additionally, the most common drones are only a little bit stealthy.

If you had a missile that could get up to that altitude, hitting one wouldn't be that hard, but you're talking blowing up tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of hardware that far up when you could probably buy three top-class jammers for the cost of one workable missile.

>>108853
Don't forget that control signals for them interfere with one another, which is why USA can only fly ~25 UCAVs above Afghanistan.

For comparison, in a much smaller country called Vietnam, America flew thousands of manned ISR aircraft.

Oh also bandwidth problems. We don't have good satellite bandwidth over the countries where we keep getting knee deep in shit.

Sad fact of life, but reality can't be ignored.