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Cake day: August 13th, 2025

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  • I got 3 Seagate Exos X16 14 TB drives for only $140 each (refurbished) at the end of 2022. I’ve got them in TrueNAS as a zfs array and they work great.

    Mine were the SATA version, which isn’t currently in stock. The SAS version of my drives go for $299 now. The SATA X14 version is $350.

    So prices for the same refurbished drives are more than double what they were like 3.5 years ago, so they really are expensive! I paid like $10 per TB, but they’re all $15-25 per TB now! I was looking for drives for a friend who wants to get started self hosting, and I was shocked by how much refurb drives had gone up.

    This is all from https://serverpartdeals.com/ by the way, I’m assuming that’s the site you mean too.




  • I’m struggling a bit. I got the server up and text chat is working great, but the documentation for getting voice calls working is pretty hard to follow.

    My searching around has failed to find a more step by step guide for modifying the gigantic sample continuwuity.toml file. It’s so unwieldy, and it feels impossible to know if there are some additional settings that need to be configured that I’m simply missing due to the length of the file.

    Any tips, tricks, or guides you’re willing would be appreciated!





  • The additions are to highlight the parts of our community that are typically underrepresented, more vulnerable, and facing higher levels of discrimination (i.e. trans people, intersex people, and queer people of color).

    It also helps weed out the “LGB without the T” assholes. As a trans woman, seeing just the rainbow flag flying somewhere often makes me think “is this actually a safe place, or do they hate me more than the place next door with no flag?” Usually that isn’t the case, but the doubt exists, and it sucks.




  • I have a Real ID. It has my correct gender despite my birth certificate not matching. You just need to show your birth certificate (yes it outs you to the DMV worker) and your certificate of name change, along with your proof of residence in the state you’re getting it in. I’ve never had a driver’s license that wasn’t a Real ID.

    Passports are currently fucked, it’s true. You can probably get one with the correct name since it’s changed with the SSA, but it might have the incorrect gender, though I don’t know the specifics of that situation currently. I know some people have been able to legally fight back and get issued a correct passport under the current regime so it is potentially possible.

    As for the far right and their goals, I’m fairly confident that we’re far off from that particular goal, in certain parts of the country at least. I’m hoping that we can avert that entirely, but plenty of shitty state governments are working towards it unfortunately.


  • If you live in a state that lets you update your state issued ID (driver’s license or otherwise), your birth certificate doesn’t really come up particularly often. I changed my name and ID a few years ago, the only time my birth certificate has been relevant outside of the paperwork to get my name changed with SSA, my ID, passport, bank, etc. has been starting a new job.

    My birth state does allow it to be changed, but it requires getting some paperwork notarized and completed by my doctor, and I have not gotten around to it yet as it doesn’t really come up often.

    Tl;dr: if you live somewhere that lets you self ID gender for your driver’s license, getting your name changed and selecting the correct gender marker on your photo ID does result in mismatched documents, but it isn’t usually relevant nor does it come up regularly.