From an article about the painting, it seems that the alabaster jar and faint halo over her head are references to Mary Magdelene? If the 19th century repaint was to make it a pretty picture for sellability then I could see why they wouldn’t want such a heavy subject matter.

For DIY consider a setup that supports ECC RAM to help prevent corruption. Any good server motherboard should do.

Unraid is pretty easy to get going on. That’s probably the direction I would take in your situation.

Also, if you’re not doing 3-2-1 backup now might be a good time to consider an off-site backup plan. That 4-bay Synology at a friend’s house with a VPN path would be an option for critical data. You could give them some partitioned space on there and on your new NAS to compensate for the power usage. Setup Borg or Restic and it’ll be encrypted on the remote NAS, and benefit from incremental and dedupe to minimize bandwidth usage.

Two of the things that I think are new vs the current system are:

Wallet: anonymous holding of currency without a custodian. You can’t hold fiat currency digitally today without a bank or other entity providing that service.

Transfer: moving fiat currency anonymously and under your own direction without intermediaries. You can’t make a digital payment or transfer in pure fiat currency today without that custodian providing the service (often through fee-based payment network). As a result, your identity is known when that transaction happens.

Cool!

Where did they get the coconut? That’s a temperate zone.

A good problem to have, right?

The switch between two routers wouldn’t be my choice. Even if the ISP router supports link aggregation you are spending more money and not getting full bandwidth on any single device connection.

RB5009 series would be my pick for this. Same price as RB4011, but it has a 2.5Gbps uplink and a 10Gbps SFP+ to connect a switch behind it. You could start out with the RB3011 as a switch and link aggregate if you want.

I don’t have a source to offer, but remember reading that the primary purpose for building, maintaining and expanding the canal network, all the way back to its origins in the 4th or 5th century BC was to deliver grain to the capital. So when the capital moved to Beijing, new sections were built for the same purpose.

So I would guess that these are general purpose cargo barges that could transport grain to the capital, and other commodities & goods (and political power) inland.

David Tennant has fantastic hair the whole time so I had no complaints.

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Nice! It’s on my list to watch. How was it?

Loose yolks. Heh

It’s Munster on the list, a washed-rind cheese from France. Muenster cheese in America is probably somewhere down around a used Ford Focus.

Latest release seems to have been in March 2025. The version you get would depend on how you installed it. For Ubuntu/Kubuntu it looks like maybe they point to the Snap store? I have no idea how well that works and personally would avoid it.

Did you do that, or, download a deb or install “printer-driver-gutenprint” via apt?

In another comment you said you have the Canon proprietary driver. I think you would need the CUPS driver for this to work.

I didn’t do this recently enough to remember what the process looked like. But in your situation I would probably try to uninstall everything print related, reboot, and then start with sudo apt update -y && sudo apt install printer-driver-gutenprint and see where that gets me.

True. I should have said that there was enough information there to satisfy my interest in the matter. Which was small.

I wondered too. It was explained here: https://lemmy.world/post/28040267

Sibiu Romania sees what you’re talking about.

The Gutenprint plugin has support for a bunch of Canon printers. I haven’t used it in a while but I remember it supporting borderless prints with CUPS drivers. Maybe not for all printers? Worth a look at least.

Ah, got it. That plan should be great. You can segment your own wired+WiFi network with that hardware, and even do Wireguard from the hAP ax2 to get whole-network egress via an outside VPN service at a good data rate, if you want.

The other devices you might consider as the router are the GL-iNet Slate series. They will be slower as a VPN router, but they’re pretty small and light. They come with a skinned OpenWRT, but in most cases you can install a build of the unmodified OS if you want.

Sure. That plan would work. You might want to be sure that this is permitted at your university.

Universities often have strict rules about what should connect to their networks.

That isn’t what I would choose for your situation. CRS3xx switches are fast at switching (layer 1 & 2), but not as a NAT router, which you probably need.

Better to pick something from the Mikrotik Ethernet Routers range, assuming you don’t want your personal LAN to have WiFi. The L009 or basic RB5009 are both good options in the same price range. Choosing depends on your upstream connection speed. Both are fanless.

Or pick a Home/Office Wireless device if you are permitted to have your own WiFi access point. The hAP ax2 is small, affordable and performs well at 1Gbps. If your upstream connection is 1Gpbs this is probably what I would choose even if you don’t want WiFi as long as this is enough ports. Just turn off its WiFi radios to use it wired-only. If you have a 2.5Gbps upstream port then hAP ax3 is a better choice.

All the Mikrotik choices will require some learning if you want anything beyond a basic router configuration. But once you get it like you want it they are very solid and reliable.

OpenWRT and OPNSense are easier to jump into without a lot of effort, so if you don’t want a networking hobby I would use one of them. Pick up pre installed device if you want it easy. Or get a mini PC with a few network ports and install the OS yourself to get more power for the money.

How about creating your own LAN within the untrusted network?

Something like an inexpensive OpenWRT router would do fine. Connect all your devices and the server to the router. They are now on a trusted network. Set up Wireguard on the OpenWRT router to connect to Proton so that your outbound traffic from all your devices is secured.