You know, I’ve always wondered if local sexpot was thrown from that balcony for his anti-establishment and “eat the rich” positions. I think he was too dangerous to them. Tragic loss for the rest of us.

Good point, thanks. Since this caused me to look that up, here’s an interesting study on Australian firefighters and plasmapheresis:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8994130/

Yah, I’m not really prepared for the post-mortem check just yet. The blood test at least gives an idea of where one is at that moment. One could then do all the blood-letting, or leaches needed to bring the numbers down (only to be re-ingested, ofc). Not sure if it lessens any that might be lodged in the skull, but holy hell I did not have this on my bingo card of health issues to watch for.

Veritasium has a video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC2eSujzrUY

I think the PFAS blood test runs ~$350. I have no idea if my insurance would cover it, but it is a cost I am nearly willing to bear just to find out what “gains” I’ve made in the world of plastics.

“It’s a trap!”

That boy needs therapy!

That looks like the one I am using. I bought a tiny motherboard that had the newer Supermicro Optilink connections. This allowed for all eight bays to be used with smaller cables that helped airflow and it had one onboard M.2 slot that I am using as cache. I did also put the PCI-E ribbon cable in to use with a 10Gb card, but I should pull that out as it’s only using the 1Gb link where it sits.

I don’t recall where, but there was a whole buildout of this Unas case on some blog linked from reddit years ago and I just followed that except for changing the motherboard. The parts I swapped in did better on the build than the blog version. They had to trim things to make it all fit. I didn’t have to do anything like that. It just worked.

All in all, a very nice NAS package that has the same footprint as the Synology.

I bought a U-Nas case a while ago. Just a small NAS-style PC case with eight 3.5" disk bays. I built it up and played around with it, but never put it into service in my homelab. It just sat there (off) with Truenas or something on it for testing. Well, it was a good thing I never did anything with it as I needed it the day my Synology died last year. It was a DS1518+ on (a lot of) borrowed time having lasted nine years. I mentally toyed with buying a new NAS, but the idea of spending a few thousand dollars didn’t excite me (or the wife).

So, I loaded up Xpenology on a thumb drive and plugged it into my U-Nas. It did not take me long to see how easy this was to load up a Synology DSM and hit the ground running. Then, once I loaded all my disks in, it saw everything and asked if I wanted to upgrade the OS. Sure, why not?

So, all data intact and running a mostly generic set of hardware as a Synology only a couple of days later. Zero extra cost for me as I already had everything. But you can do this too with hardware you might have laying about. I highly recommend it.