Section 9 - The Engineering Mindset was an interesting part of the article.

edit: Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2009
This is an ooold paper

The proportion of engineers who declare themselves to be on the right of the political spectrum is greater than in any other disciplinary group: 57.6 % of them are either conservative or strongly conservative, as compared to 51.1 % of economists, 42.5 % of doctors and 33.5 % of scientists, 21.4 % of those in the humanities, and 18.6 % of the social scientists, the least right-wing of all disciplinary groups.
[…]
The Carnegie survey reveals an even more surprising fact, hitherto unnoticed, that strengthens the suspicion that the engineers’ mindset may play a part in their proneness not only to radicalise to the right of the political spectrum, but do so with a religious slant: engineers turn out to be by far the most religious group of all academics – 66.5 %, followed again by 61.7 % in economics, 49.9 % in sciences, 48.8 % of social scientists, 46.3 % of doctors and 44.1 % of lawyers.
[…]
One could question whether this mindset is unique to academic engineers. The answer is likely to be negative: similar results are found on the political and religious opinions of students, both for “un-socialised” beginners in the first four semesters and more advanced ones.
[…]
Still, one could further object, the phenomenon could be uniquely American. Some old evidence suggests that at least the right-wing bias occurs in the Middle East: a 1948 survey of 3,890 Cairo University students recorded the highest sympathies for fascist ideology among engineering students (Botman Reference Botman1984, p. 70). A survey of Canadian professors also found that engineers are the least liberal of all (Nakhaie and Brym Reference Nakhaie and Brym1999).

Unfortunately, non-US data that would allow us to combine political and religious attitudes are of much lesser quality.
[…]
The results from 2,816 cases in 16 mostly Western countries show that engineers were not more religious than other graduates and only insignificantly to the right of them. However, the combination of the two characteristics occurred far more often among engineers than the null hypothesis of non-correlation would predict – the only professional category in which this happened. Whereas based on individual scores on religiousness and right-wing attitudes we expected 9.4 % of engineers to share both attributes, 13.9 %, actually did (significant at 0.05).

Ah yeah - always a good idea to verify support on the motherboard. I think AMD mbs are usually better on the bifurcation front than Intel ones.
The Startech card I linked is backwards compatible with PCIe 3.0 M.2 NVMe cards, they mention that they’ve tested with Samsung 970 EVO for example, so you can still fill it up with older, cooler M.2 cards even if it supports PCIe 4.0.

An M.2 PCIe card can make most old computers into a good SSD NAS.
https://www.startech.com/en-eu/hdd/quad-m2-pcie-card-b

When nslookup google.com from a laptop on this LAN, it returns Server: 10.2.0.1 Address: 10.2.0.1#53

nonauthoritative answer: google.com with ip information repeated.

I don’t under stand this return as it’s an ip outside my lan net and dhcp provisioning.

I’m unclear on what you’re confused about regarding the above quote. Here comes an explanation of nslookup.
The command is nslookup <domain> <dns-server> and if dns-server is empty it uses your default. F.e.:

***@fedoragaming:~$ nslookup www.google.com 8.8.8.8

The response starts by telling you which <dns-server> it used for the lookup and which address including port was used:

Server: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53

It then gives you the answer on where to find the <domain>, once for ipv4 and once for ipv6:

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.google.com
Address: 142.251.142.228
Name: www.google.com
Address: 2a00:1450:400f:807::2004

edit: I think I understand your question a bit better now. To check which dns-server you’re using do a “cat /etc/resolve.conf”
If you run a distro with systemd then use the command “resolvectl status”

I mean they have added a chatbot to their website and I’m sure they have replaced overseas first line support in many products with chatbots as well to encourage their customers to give up on getting support (and ensure that the customers that prevails and get sent to a human coworker are sufficiently pissed off).

“They ruthlessly cut costs, R&D, and employee benefits and then replace existing employees with overseas contractors. Innovation and growth take a back seat to sheer profitability.”

This is the operating manual that explains why IgniteTech’s much-publicized AI purge feels more like a familiar private-equity play.
[…]
IgniteTech is owned by ESW. For anyone who’s watched the ESW orbit, that vagueness is not accidental. ESW’s playbook, summarized in a long explanatory dossier that has circulated inside the industry, is blunt: buy distressed software, strip costs, move work to an hourly contractor model through a unit like Crossover (which has been described in Forbes as a “global software sweatshop”), and squeeze recurring revenue out of an existing customer base rather than invest in new products.

• https://aimmediahouse.com/market-industry/ignitetech-didnt-fire-80-for-ai-it-fired-them-for-profits

Here’s a couple of articles regarding the director.
https://nichegamer.com/attempts-to-cancel-factorio-dev-backfire-players-and-positive-reviews-swell/
https://nichegamer.com/factorio-founder-kovarex-interview-cancel-culture-and-secret-support/

True!

I think you may be right of the initial law not including same-sex relatives, but when I checked Sweden (the third country together with Ireland and Germany to allow same-sex incest) the law that includes the part about incestuous sex has been updated in 2022 without changing the wording.
The swedish law only makes vaginal sex illegal btw, so in Sweden it’s okay for John to fuck his sister too, but only in the ass?

Makes more sense if you’re simply trying to avoid offspring from close relatives. John fucking his brother won’t result in that after all.

Then you have the really weird combos like Jamaica that forbids same-sex couples (regardless of incest) but allows opposite-sex couples (also regardless of incest). So it’s okay for John to fuck his sister but not his brother.

Codeberg or a selfhosted Forgejo would be my recommendation.

Sounds like you should look at N3 and N4 then. :)

Is this just a rehash of the 2024-10 news?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62rmv63069o

If you haven’t bought cameras yet then you can always check for one that works with thingino Open-source Firmware for Ingenic SoC IP Cameras

If your N100 mini server has an ITX motherboard with several SATA ports then changing the case to something like a Jonsbo N2 might be a solution that works better than USB.

Do you have any links for someone who wants to read more about these LCA and why they’re not combinable?

Depends on the operating system of the NAS, but generally the NAS will want to format the drive. Even if you can somehow get it running without a disk format you’re generally in an unsupported configuration.

I don’t have full access to the danish study, so I will have to take your word for it.

I do see that Tilman D, Clark M (2014) Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health. Nature 515(7528):518–522. is referenced in the 2016 study and the 2022 study.

A big point of a NAS in my mind is to run some sort of redundancy, which means you will want to setup a RAID on the drives in the NAS, and that in turn means that my recommendation wouldn’t be to chuck existing drives into the NAS solution but to setup the NAS drives and then copy your data to it.

Dedicated NAS hardware storage is usually accessed over SMB, NFS or SFTP and most software has support for one of those protocols.
Some services can have hiccups when running against networked storage, f.e. Jellyfin might lose library metadata if the Jellyfin service’s library scan is started and the networked storage is unavailable.