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Please continue to vote. I'll give this a full 24 hours, but in the interest of the community preference I'm going to clean up the past 24hrs worth of posts now, and put the 7 day minimum into the rules as a starting point while we give folks an opportunity to provide their up/downvotes.

I worry this is going to turn the rules into needing a post with full descriptions, but in the interest of the fun being had this week...

I think a mandatory delay on posts for new accounts doing promo, even if they are fully f/loss, can stem the tide.

I'm going to make comments below as a quick poll below for timeframes. Please upvote the ones you'd be ok with, downvote if you're against it. Since this will be quick I'm going to keep comments closed for now - if you have comments please add them to the main thread.

Edit: For the record I've removed the initial upvote from myself by creating the comment, so the net on each is exactly as the community votes on each item.

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ICYMI, Unraid now supports internal boot and TPM licensing (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 52 minutes ago by CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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First, I know that Unraid is not FOSS and I'm a month late, just to get that out of the way. But for those that are running Unraid and haven't updated to >7.3.0, there's good reason to (other than for security patches): internal boot and TPM licensing.

This update allows you to boot from an internal drive, no more chewing up flash drives. As a long time Unraid user (for over a decade), this was a long time coming. My server ate several flash drives. Setting it up was a breeze, once I updated to 7.3.x, the wizard to configure it came up and I was able to move it to one of my internal SSDs. All I had to do after that was go into the BIOS and set the boot priority correctly.

Internal boot works without a TPM, however you'd still need the flash drive with your license on it plugged in at boot. If you have a TPM on your server, though, you can migrate your license from your flash to your TPM, with another simple wizard. After migration, you no longer need a boot flash drive.

I had to get a Supermicro AOM-TPM-9665V TPM chip for my motherboard, but I've got it all set now. It's a relief to no longer have to rely on flash drives now - my server's rear exhaust fans were blowing directly on them, causing them to overheat and eventually crash my server.

Unraid posted about this in their blog here: https://unraid.net/blog/unraid-7-3-0

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Microsoft admits 8GB RAM is fine for Windows 11, after years of pushing 16GB as the baseline (www.windowslatest.com)

submitted 1 hour ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I'm currently reading the 1911 novelization of Peter Pan, and was completely unprepared for this rule in a children's book (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 hour ago by fireweed@lemmy.world to c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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How it goes (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 hours ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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A Plastic Motor Just Defied a Century of Engineering Assumptions (scitechdaily.com)

submitted 1 hour ago by Delta_V@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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...The discovery expands how motors and actuation systems can be designed. Most electromagnetic motors today depend on magnets and copper coils. This new approach can create motion without magnets or rare earth metals, which could be valuable in a world where material resources are limited.

The design could also be lighter and simpler. Since the rotating component can be made from resin instead of metal, devices may become lighter and faster to respond. That could help in robotics, compact machines, and precision systems.

Because the motor does not depend on magnetic fields, it may also work well in places where magnetic noise causes problems, including medical equipment and data storage devices...

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.... Fair (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 hours ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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