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Uh i didn’t know you could grow servers. I assumed they were assembled in factories, being machines and all.
Does anybody have experience with this process? Where do you get the seeds from? What soil do they grow in? Should you water them, or not (considering them being machines and all)? Do they need sunlight exposure? And if yes, how much of it?
They grow in high-silicate soil.
Being kernels i assume it’s akin to corn propagation
Only the certified organic servers are grown. Usually hydroponics are involved as the soil tends to jam the coolers. Sunlight is only necessary if they’re solar powered.
I’m no expert but I heard you can compile the kernels to grow them yourself
I once flipped on all my synthesizers at the same time, sparking a main plug (I cannot reach) so I had to call the building owner. An electrician had to come fix it.
2 weeks later a guy was standing at my door unannounced, wanting to measure everything and check my rooms for a potential weed farm.
I now turn them on in small groups to prevent it happening again.
My buddy once had an epic hydroponic set up going in his garage. One day the garage door went up for some reason. Guess someone saw it and called the cops. They went full on raid of his garage only to find some of the best fucking vegetables in the city. He said they were actually visibly upset that he only had veggies
Not weed, but I was going to HS prom in the 80’s and my date had a bottle of sparkling grape juice she showed me when we parked. 3 cop cars came out of nowhere, zoomed up and got us out of the car. I was laughing knowing it was non alcoholic. But the look on the cops faces was priceless. Just total disappointment. They all had to look at the bottle just to make sure. Hadn’t thought about that in years until your comment.
It still blows my mind that a plant is illegal. One with medicinal uses, no less. What will they think of next? Banning sunshine?
If black people like the sun too much, probably.
Just ftr: Everyone uses drugs about equally. They just arrest Black people disproportionately for it.
True, but specifically USA targeted black people to fill their prisons with slave labor. Crack to this day is still treated much worse than cocaine despite the insane multiplier having been lowered.
Or if sunshine starts competing with wood pulp for paper manufacturing.
Cops get pissed when their hunches are wrong because they still believe the hunch, they just think you got away with it
That’s terrifying. Those stupid cops will kill your baby with a flashbang, shoot your dog and then murder you becauese you were holding the TV remote during their veggie raid.
Even if he really was growing some pot plants, it shouldn’t even be a big deal.
“No fruits???”
Fucking carrots??
Hah! Best comment I’ve ever seen
LoL, this just reminded me of the movie “Shoot 'em Up” with Clive Owen’s character being a stone cold badass while munching on carrots he grows in his garage.
BTW, though it is a cartoonishly ridiculous action flick, “Shoot 'em Up” is a terrifically fun movie to watch.
Thank you for the recommendation, I know I love him as an actor, but mostly because I only know his character in the Sin City movie
sllllurrrrrrrrrrrrrrpppp
exaggerated: Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Worst that’s happened to me is that I was detained and questioned by the cops while they investigated my “grow operation”. I had some old school grow lights in my kitchen window for my window sill plants and a potted hibiscus outside on my deck.
It’s sad that the cops couldn’t immediately tell the difference between hibiscus and weed nor were they aware that people can grow indoor house plants under those pink/purple fluorescent lights which for sure wouldn’t be strong enough to grow marijuana to begin with.
It’s also funny that my neighbor at the time actually was growing weed on his front patio, and they never seemed to notice in the 5 or so years I lived next door.
This is because “The Drug War” is just a device for political persecution of the people that whoever is in power wants to harass or outright remove. It’s the Nixon Playbook and it’s not just Republicans who use it.
It’s more basic than that as well. Cops assume that if you arent hiding something then it’s fine. In a very real sense cops are looking for criminals not crimes. If you act like they think criminals do they’re going to be a pain in your ass at best and possibly even pressure you into confessing to crimes because “they know a criminal when they see one”.
But the inverse is also true. If you break the law while acting like you have every right to do what it is you’re doing, you can often get away with it so long as the cops aren’t tipped off. Someone owns that bike, some people lose the keys to their locks, if someone isn’t hiding that theyre cutting a bike lock most of the time that person owns the bike, and if they confidently say it’s their bike, it’s not like a cop is going to check or even have a way to check unless somethings off (unless they think you look like a criminal). A potted plant in the front yard is the same.
Disguise your grow op as a server farm… We’re “crypto mining”
You’ve never been at a grow farm, have you? You can disguise it as much as you like, you are never getting rid of 100% of the smell.
It really depends on the size. There’s home grows all over the place nobody ever smells because tents and negative pressure and activated charcoal filters work. I’ve grown in my house in a very illegal state and felt fine having ac techs come and work right outside that room while flowering.
Bit of orange chronic will fix that right up
Kubernetes?
Tank you!
In what country can you get raided due to high electricity usage?
US
A judge would sign a search warrant because of a power bill? Damn
There might also be a followup examination with a thermal camera of the property, which with a server farm, would also show significantly elevated temperatures.
This is why most of us in the USA live in constant fear that our hobbies of basement aluminum smelting operations will land us on the wrong side of the law enforcement.
While everyone else lives in fear that their basement aluminium smelting hobby will land them in the morgue due to the fumes.
Imagine if growing a plant in your home was legal and the police had to figure out something else to do with their time
I sometimes wonder if really serious reptile hobbyists, the kind that’ll have like a whole room full of terrariums, have to deal with suspicious cops. Reptiles like warmth, heat mats and lamps take power, one of the most popular brands for heat mat thermostats is technically meant for controlling indoor plant heating, and if they want to grow live plants in any of their animals habitats they might need grow lights too.
As a former reptile enthusiast yes this was a valid concern. Making nice with the neighbors helped alot. Also red night lights made it look like we were running a brothel.
If there’s anything I’ve learned from my weed growing hobby, it’s that nobody cares unless you’re doing it on a near industrial scale, like converting an entire floor or house to a grow.
A hot tub requires way more power than your average hobbyist grow op these days. I can’t imagine a reptile setup is requiring 10+ kWh/day (what a fucked unit that is btw)
Plus, car charging is changing the game vs 10+ years ago. Everyone’s got huge power draws happening all the time now while their 1 or 2 evs are charging each night/day.
Not even a power bill. They have been known to sign warrants for nothing more than an off the shelf infrared scanner/heat scanner showing increased heat from a specific unit in a building compared to the surrounding ones.
Like your house nice and toasty in the winter? That’s a no-knock-raid.
Land of the Free.
America version 86.47 has been rereleased as “Land of the Fee” due to the R not willing to share its use.
judges here will sign warrants for anything. the way their positions are doled out a key qualification to being a judge who signs warrants is intrinsically trusting cops
A judge would sign a search warrant because a cop pinky swears the target is a black ms13 Muslim antifa commiesocialmarxist.
I’ve had cops come around to check out what they could when I was living with roommates and we had all kinds of equipment that used lots of electricity. We actually got a letter from the power company telling us we were in the 99th percentile of residential power use and to consider how much money we could save if we lowered our electricity useage. I’m sure if the cops saw anything they could construe as evidence when they were snooping around they would then easily get a warrant and do a raid.
I wonder how high it needs to be to get to that point.
Depends on how behind the DEA is on meeting quotes
Happened not long ago that, for the same reason, police raided a tomography & XRay clinic. Guess what, an MRI needs serious power to work…
If I remember right, one cop brought his rifle in which got sucked into the MRI machine.
Even the warrant was based on a cop lying iirc. The basis boiled down to something like “energy use and tinted windows”, which, you know… Medical imaging and patient privacy.
Idiots and asswipes.
And then they hit the emergency shutdown, which is for when people have a plate in their head and they’re stuck to the side of the machine. That one causes all the liquid helium to be quenched, thus needing to be refilled.
There is a slower shutdown that doesn’t do that, but, you know, cops.
Every detail of that story was worse than the last, and it’s 100% on the cops.
Edit: forgot another detail. The gun is probably magnetized now and might be unsuitable/unsafe for use anymore.
A button worth $25,000 on the low end to refill+replace the magnet, a million on the high end if it needs total replacement. It calls to me when I sit with the mri techs. Looking like SpongeBob trying to not push it sitting in the back.
I understand.
Thats right! I forgot about that part.
Cops are nightmarish levels of stupidity.
Guns getting sucked into MRI machines is a recurring news story at this point.
So, a moment of curiosity.
If my theoretical pistol did get pulled into am MRI machine, stuck against it by the magnet, and I, for the purpose of scientific inquiry, pulled the trigger, should I expect the bullet to fire more or less as normal, to fire, but the bullet be pulled back to the machine, or for the bullet to not move, or not move more than an inch or so from the barrel?
Lead is not magnetic.
It’s also non ferrous, which is rather more the point
Interesting. Good to know.
That poor chair
But to address your main question, most bullets are not magnetic. Some are, in which case idk how the mri would impact them. But most would fire as normal
I guess it depends on the steel parts. I’m sure there are other magnets.
In any case, if the firing pin or hammer or anything in the trigger mechanism is steel, it’s going to be difficult to move to actually fire.
Say the bullet has a steel tip or core though, and we are able to fire it. The force pulling that bullet is going to prevent the bullet from going much of anywhere. Let’s pretend the barrel and firing chamber are frictionless and indestructible.the bullet will leave the gun, but immediately curve into the magnetic field, inevitably into the MRI itself, but likely not very far.
It would be pretty fun to watch though.
Ah, interesting. Good to know.
Realistically, the mechanism would jam. I doubt the hammer would fall, being squeezed hard against whatever structure supports it
Most modern pistols are striker fired not hammer fired.
I’d venture a guess nothing out of the ordinary happens thanks to lube and springs. Gun fires.
That’s an implementation detail, not really relevant to my point.
I don’t think you appreciate how powerful those magnets are. Any ferromagnetic object would be doing well to avoid binding up completely when held right up to the device
Interesting.
Not the answer I’m looking for, but still interesting. Thanks for the information!
Probably higly dependent on the specific gun/mechanism
Damn clinics, always growing weed!
SO THATS WHAT THE MEAN BY MEDICAL MARIJUANA!! SEE ITS THE PHARMACYS GROWING WEED, GASP
USA
Land of the free
they’re so free, kinder eggs were (are?) banned lol
There are “kinder eggs” here now, but they are in no way the kinder eggs that they have in Europe. They’re the same brand, but with a ton more plastic packaging so that we don’t get all confused about what’s chocolate and what’s not.
If you mean Kinder Joy that’s a different product that we have in europe as well
The chocolate has lowered in quality. The toys have been dumbed down. Is that everywhere or just US?
Between all the microplastics, digital babysitting, and the department of education, the US had to dumb down its toys or risk alienating the target market. Regarding the lower quality chocolate, they’ve begun adding crayons directly to the mix so the children grow to become better marine recruits.
obligatory /s
Land of the fuck I don’t wanna live here anymore
California
ACAB
Botanists? BSD admins?
No, Bastard (Operators from Hell).
Hopefully that checks out, even though it’s an old reference.
(Also, agree with the original expression of the negative systemic evaluation of the US policing system, even if I don’t love the crude expression; and even though I’m contributing in a humourous satire of the expression)
I remember being around 12 years old on the early Internet and finding those and reading a bunch of them
There definitely have been a case where the police, observing things with thermal cameras from a helicopter (for it is in the US where this tale happened), observed some house with a highly suspicious heat signature. …Some dude’s crypto mining operation.
Well, that was definitely indirectly drug related.
In theory it’s supposed to be unconstitutional to use FLIR on a house without a warrant to find evidence. In practice though, I’m sure they can easily ruin someone’s life for a while based off of “heat signatures”. This isn’t even mentioning what they could get away with if the Feds are involved. Who even knows anymore?
Can’t use it to find evidence or get a warrant, but absolutely do use it to figure out who to target/where to look for evidence.
Herring Vs. United States set the de facto legal basis that allows for this sort of evidence laundering.
ik there’s a lot of drug money in crypto but the majority of it isn’t that. Bitcoin didn’t get a 2.1 trillion dollar market cap though selling weed, a ton of that is from institutions like banks and corporation buying it up
In a way it sorta did. Not directly obviously but if you look at the history of bitcoin, its first truly viable use was darknet markets. After getting established as the currency there, it proved it could work and banks n all started buying it, so it was the weed that did it in a way
First ever bitcoin purchase was literally pizza lol
I didn’t say anything abt the first purchase so unsure how this is relevant
Edit: excerpt
Silk Road proved the market for secure anonymous transactions based on blockchain ledgers, and the viability of cryptocurrency in general. Before the Silk Road marketplace, Bitcoin was mainly a novelty, with the first Bitcoin transaction famously being 10,000 BTC for 2 pizzas. Shortly after the Silk Road darknet market took off, Bitcoin reached $266 per coin, and the Silk Road marketplace became a $200 million operation.
Plot Twist: Servers are full of websites about how to grow weed, selling weed and weed-recipes.
What using a lot of electricity is a crime, which lets a judge sign off on a warrant, now?
They can dream up any nonsense and slap it on a warrant, so it’s not really that big of a hindrance to get one. They can get one for a different person at a different address, still come shoot you in your own home and walk away with a paid vacation.
Do you snort, smoke or inject kubernetes?
Duh, it’s a cloud, you inhale it.
ba-dum tss
You plug it in
I’ve always called it boofing.
Bender, have you been jacking on?
Jack in with your personal link.
No, I just have kids… Kids that don’t turn ANYTHING OFF!!! I’m OK.
I had the opposite happen one time. Our provider came out to check our electric meter because our usage dropped significantly when we had our old AC replaced. They thought we were stealing power and came back a aecond time to double check.
Kubernetes sounds like an awfuly strange strain of weed.
If you’re doing it right you’ve got plenty of pods.
with your help we can have a cannabis cultivar called kubernetes, only the sky is the limit (and electricity bills)
