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pete_the_cat , (edited )

Using this ended being a massive pain in the ass for me. I could file the federal taxes online, but after I submitted it and attempted to file my state taxes online it said I couldn't since I lived in NYC and made more than 75k/yr and I'd have to mail them in since it's impossible to file only your state taxes online due to the IRS' requirements.

I haven't used my printer in years so it was a hassle just to print out 5 pages and mail them half way across the country. It also delayed getting my refund by about a month.

pete_the_cat ,

I filed for free with H&R Block.

pete_the_cat , (edited )

A city problem to be more exact. Since I lived in NYC and made more than 75k in a year I couldn't file online, using the site the IRS directed me to (I've been doing it myself with TurboTax for the past 7 years, and paying for it). Due to the IRS' own rules, you can't file just your state tax returns online, since they're largely the same as the federal taxes. So both are actually at fault.

I live in Florida now so I don't have to pay state taxes, so next year's will be a breeze.

pete_the_cat ,

I had them already prepared (I attempted to do it via H&R block as well but it was rejected since I had already submitted my federal forms), I just couldn't submit them. Also I moved 1300 miles away in the past year, so I couldn't really do that anyway haha

pete_the_cat ,

Yeah, I just assumed it would work smoothly by now. I've been using TurboTax for the past 7 years and have had no issues, I attempted to save money by doing it this way, but it caused way more headaches for me.

pete_the_cat ,

I had to mail in my state taxes for NY due to NYC regulations, which I didn't know about since I've been using TurboTax for 7 years. I was only informed of this after I had filed my taxes federally using the IRS system. There is no way to just file your state taxes online, you have to do both and if you submit them a second time it just gets rejected.

It's good that they're doing this, but it caused a lot of headaches for me that I was unaware of.

pete_the_cat ,

If you lived in NYC and made than 75k/year you can't file online using the state's website, and both of those were true for me. I moved out of NYC last June, I live in Florida now. Also, why should I have to go see a tax agent? I should just be able to do it all online myself. I've been doing it for 7 years with TurboTax.

Questions about migrating a ZFS RAID

I've recently been looking at options to upgrade (completely replace) my current NAS, as it's currently more than a little bit jank and frankly kinda garbage. I have a few questions about that and about migrating my current TrueNAS scale installation or at least it's settings over....

pete_the_cat ,

Q1: No it shouldn't matter as long as you didn't import the pool using device names (sda, sdb, etc...). If you're using labels or UUIDs (the better option for portability sake). If they do happen to use device names, just export the pool and then reimport it on the same system using labels or UUIDs.

Q2: It should work just fine assuming you're not using device names for your pools

Q3: it's just as robust as FreeBSD's implementation. Once again, see the answer to Q1.

Q4: IMO virtualizing your NAS just adds more headaches and performance overhead compared to running it on bare metal.

Out of my years running TrueNAS on and off, I've always had issues with it when doing anything other than using it purely as a storage box. I tried 24.04 a few weeks ago, thinking that most of the issues I had originally when SCALE was launched would be resolved. They weren't. So I went back to Arch w/OpenZFS...again

pete_the_cat ,

I agree, the VM management could be easier. I don't understand why I can't have two NICs in the same subnet as long as they have different IPs.

The bigger annoyance for me was there was no way to tell what disk is attached where in the VM device listings since it only shows the boot order and not labels or paths.

pete_the_cat ,

Yeah, but I should be able to have them separate as well like I can in every other Linux distro. In TrueNAS they force you to have them in separate subnets for some reason.

pete_the_cat ,

Maybe, because, this shit is serious and we can't keep pushing it off?

pete_the_cat ,

I agree. It's shitty for Cloudflare to just straight up destroy this company's DNS, but also it seems like the company violated the ToS. They had about two weeks to migrate to something else, but instead they just continued debating with CF. Also, this company doesn't have a secondary DNS server in case CF ever went down? That's pretty stupid on their part. Redundant systems are key, I hope they learned that lesson haha

pete_the_cat ,

Regardless of what they tell you, if you care about uptime, you ensure this yourself. I feel this is 60% the company's fault and 40% Cloudflare's.

pete_the_cat ,

It was my replacement for dear old WinAmp when I first switched to Linux.

pete_the_cat ,

The name of my Plex server has been "The Pirate's Booty" for about a decade 😂

pete_the_cat ,

Threadripper already accomplished all of this years ago. My TR2970WX has 24 cores/48 threads, 48 PCI-E lanes, and it supports ECC and non-ECC RAM. My AsRock Rack board has BMC support as well.

The Threadripper series was the perfect workstation CPU. I've had mine for a few years and it can handle anything I throw at it, it can easily transcode 2-3 4K videos while doing multiple other things.

It wasn't cheap though, it was like $650 on sale, originally like a grand or so.

pete_the_cat ,

Spending $100 billion on AI is insane, even with Google Money.

pete_the_cat ,

That's confused me as well. It probably did a kernel update and then triggered update-grub.

pete_the_cat ,

I think you should start with the basics of Linux instead of diving into the deep end 😉

pete_the_cat ,

...have you seen my stapler?

pete_the_cat ,

This is dependent on the TRIM schedule. It could be size based (execute a TRIM when 50% of the blocks are used).

pete_the_cat ,

The data just needs to be overwritten to be truly deleted.

pete_the_cat ,

The only problem with that server is there are tons of shit you'd rather not see. It's sadly not as easy to filter like the reddit porn subs are.

pete_the_cat ,

I remember the night when I found out about that and saw Jennifer Lawrence was one of the victims 😍

pete_the_cat ,

It just gets tiresome when you have to block 100 communities for the 15 you wanna see

pete_the_cat ,

Kinda hard to find them if you don't know they exist in the first place.

pete_the_cat ,

You get a BJ! You get a BJ! EVERYONE GETS A BJ!

pete_the_cat ,

Social media in general is full of people that want to rage or exert control over someone else. I had two of my comments here on Lemmy (not sure what server) under the News community for "Victim Blaming" and "Victim Shaming" for saying that people need to take responsibility for their actions occasionally instead of constantly blaming it on the other party.

pete_the_cat ,

What took you so long? 😉

pete_the_cat ,

You're not required to go on Facebook just to use WhatsApp 😉

pete_the_cat ,

Same. I got on it in 2006 and it was great up until about 2010, 2013-2014 was when the shit started to hit the fan.

pete_the_cat ,

I stopped actively using it in about 2015 and every time I happen to go on it (like once every 3 years because, like a lot of people, it's how I communicate with family members I don't see often) it's like uncovering and diving into a cesspool.

pete_the_cat ,

Yep, iDrive is the way to go, before they raised their prices I got 50 TB for a year for $500. I moved everything back locally, now I'm just going to use them for off-site backups. You can't beat $15 for 1 TB for a year.

pete_the_cat ,

5 TB for $150 seems awfully high (didn't click the link). I'm on my first year (and did it before they doubled their first year prices) and I got 50 TB for $500.

1 TB is $15 for the first year.

Can someone ID this comic strip? (lemmy.world)

Some time ago, I pulled this sticker off our old fridge before we got rid of it and put it onto my PC's side panel (don't ask me why, I guess I thought it looked cool). I don't exactly know where it came from or who put it there, although I suspect it was put there by a Australian relative that was visiting us a long time ago...

pete_the_cat ,

I figured it was either British or Aussie, since I'm American and didn't understand half of it 😂

pete_the_cat ,

Someone definitely got fired for that. This is why you don't put all of your eggs in one basket.

pete_the_cat ,

🫰🤌🤚👌

pete_the_cat ,

It's Overkill IMO

pete_the_cat ,

Someone comes up with something good: look what I made, we can use this to better humanity!

Corporations: How can we make money off of this?

pete_the_cat ,

a little-known micro-cap stock called Long Island Iced Tea Corp. (LTEA) said Thursday that it’s now “Long Blockchain Corp.,” and its stock leaped more than 200 percent at the open of trading. Shares closed up 183 percent.

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

This is like my friend who "invested" in Doggy (not Doge) coin "because it was going to explode and become highly valuable" even though it was only worth like .1% of what Doge was worth like two years back..... He's a teacher.

Or my other friend that invested thousands in Etherium like 2 years back, while knowing basically nothing about "The Etherium Network", or anything crypto related. He just knew that he could potentially make money off of it like he could with stocks. I asked him like a year later if he ever made anything off of it and he said "not really", and said he had reinvested the money into other things (I forget which, it wasn't crypto related) 🤣

pete_the_cat ,

I'm going to guess enabling "desktop mode" in Chrome (idk if other browsers have it) would probably work as well, but would throw off the layout most likely.

pete_the_cat ,

I think what's even more annoying is when you actually do use the app, every community you visit, it pops up a notification that says "turn on notifications so you don't miss updates from this community!"

pete_the_cat ,

I didn't get it until I read your comment 🤦‍♂️

pete_the_cat ,

Oh nice, I have a Carbon X1. I knew that fprintd has worked for a while, and has allowed me to enroll fingerprints, but has never successfully worked for authentication.

pete_the_cat ,

All he needs is a cat on his lap.

pete_the_cat ,

I'm assuming you've never built a computer before because even 32 GB of RAM costs more than $150 🤣

what will be my next server operating system (Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, NixOS), your experience and opinion

I want to reset my server soon and I'm toying with the idea of using a different operating system. I am currently using Ubuntu Server LTS. However, I have been toying with the idea of using Fedora Server (I use Fedora on my laptop and made good experiences with it) or even Fedora CoreOS. I also recently installed NixOS on my...

pete_the_cat ,

I've been swapping between Arch with OpenZFS and FreeNAS/TrueNAS for probably 5-7 years now. In fact, I'm doing that right now! I think SCALE is finally stable enough to my liking...but we'll see.

ZFS becomes a pain to manage via the CLI when you have more than a few disks, a nice web GUI takes the pain away.

pete_the_cat ,

I know this is a month old, but this was randomly recommended to me in YouTube and I watched their "ad", even though it's free to install on a Pi or any other device that can run Debian or Ubuntu.

It works well in a Pi, but their documentation is out of date, and accessing the web GUI isn't as easy as it should be, especially for new users of Linux. There's no way to (officially) set a static IP in the OS. I searched their forums, and followed their guide, which didn't apply anymore since they're using NetworkManager now. I applied a static IP via that...and FUBAR'd the webUI. A simple reflash of the uSD card doesn't work either since there are hidden partitions or something because the settings still persisted after two DDs. I had to zero out the first few megs and reflash it in order to get it to work again.

That being said. I'm going to give it to a friend as a no hassle/small footprint/low power piracy box and Plex server.

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