There is a book Make the Bread, Buy the Butter: What You Should and Shouldn’t Cook from Scratch - Over 120 Recipes for the Best Homemade Foods, by Jennifer Reese

I think, but cannot be certain, that is includes some energy cost.

It really is excellent.

USA Supreme Court. USA courts.

If conservatives can shape society with executive orders, progressives can as well.

Shaping change grassroots is great, but progressives don’t need to be bound by different rules than conservatives.

Edit: toning down my rudeness.

No they aren’t. A number of proposals have been kicked around for decades. There has not been the will to implement.

Most importantly and very evident in the US: 100 yrs of reform can be rolled back in one day. We’re seeing that reform is pointless.

It also means swinging the other way takes a day. (Unlikely, but now far more likely.)

The joke is electricity and Linux.

The real answer is the free hardware.

My main reliable is from 2008? It cannot do modern virtualization due to not having the CPU instruction sets.

Be sure to watch costs. Lots of mechanics own everything to the “SnapOn man”.

Have you considered graduate school? (Enrollment goes up when economy sucks.)

It can be easier to get a job with a masters degree or PhD.

Bonus points for being societally acceptable.

What about people that live outside? Can they draw a line around “their” space and keep vampires out?

Other options are LUKS with Tang and Clevis, or LUKS with SSH and Dropbear.

Sorry, I have no details.

Edit: Tang/Clevis are local software and a network server that provide keys. If stolen, won’t boot.

SSH and Dropbear make it so you can login to provide keys.

What features do you want?

What should my first configurations and preparations

Write on paper your goals. Write on paper a list of your systems and what needs to speak with what.

Then pick the most important or simplest device and get it connected the way you want.

At home, colors Whatever color the purpose is.

There are near 800 billionaires in the USA. Assuming all only have $1 billion dollars and it is all invested, applying the “4% rule” gives a sustainable $40 million each per year. With $10 million to personally spend, that gives $24 billion a year for charity and public works.

I failed to find a list of the costs to solve various issues. Homelessness could be solved in a couple years.

The numbers provided are just a starting place. Many problems are extremely expensive. Actually working to solve them would help.

Look up what system vendors will sell for that CPU. If they sell 256 GiB, then you are likely good.

I don’t find I ever upgrade after the first couple months. I would max it out or get multi CPU boards wherI cannot afford to max it out.

I tend to buy two at a time. Some are months old, others three years old.

Professionally, I have seen drives over 10 years always on at low utilization without issue. (The data was easily replaceable.)

crammed in to my case in a hideous way

Heat is a killer. Check them regularly.

Mainly, I’m wondering if I should migrate /home/ to my RAID array, or leave /home/ where it is and create a new directory on the RAID array.

Leave home where it is. Symlink to important directories on RAID.

Makes it easier to mess with the RAID if it doesn’t make logging in hard.

For roll your own, FreeBSD and ZFS on any old desktop with 4 SATA ports is pretty nice and cheap. Built in encryption, NFS, SMB services. Navidrome has install directions for serving music. Pretty secure by default.

I like reminding people that with every new technology, the old one is still around. The new gets most of the attention, but the old is still kicking. (We still have wire wrapped programs kicking around.)

You are all good. Spend your limited attention on other things.

Thank you. I hear that a lot, but I have issues finding number of employees and their total salaries and benefits from financial forms.

Any idea what multiple the CEO makes of the salaries of those striking?