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  • All of the symptoms described-aside from physical scarring-is very much in line with water boarding as that NK guard mentioned was standard practice. Repeated water boarding causes immense stress on the cardiovascular system, weaking it. It will eventually lead to cardiac events that would not be detectable after time passes without a full autopsy, which they didn’t do. Similar to a human jumping into freezing cold water, your body will just not be able to synchronize breathing and pumping blood properly under this kind of stress. You don’t get used to it.

    Repeated over time, this synchronization will eventually be so out of whack, your heart will be damaged, and you’ll have a heart attack or throw a clot. Many whistleblowers talked about this during the last Iraq war. We don’t even know how many people died in Guantanamo because of this exact thing.




  • First: there is no cheap way to back this amount of data up. AWS Glacier would be about $200/mo, PLUS bandwidth transfer charges, which would be something like $500. R2 would be about $750/mo, no transfer charges. So assume that most companies with some sort of whacky, competing product would be billed by either of these companies with you as a consumer, and you can figure out how this is the baseline of what you’ll be getting charged from them.

    50TB of what? If it’s just readily available stuff you can download again, skip backing that up. Only keep personal effects, and see how much you can reduce this number by.
















  • It starts with the hardware first. You started well with tuning your CPU/MEM frequency settings, but that matters less if you’re running giant PSUs (or redundant), more drives than you need, and a huge number of peripherals.

    Get a cheap outlet monitor to see what your power draw is and track it at the wall. I just got these cheap Emporia ones. I’m sure there’s more reputable ones out there.

    Don’t go crazy with your networking solution if you don’t need them. PoE switches draw tons of power even when idle, and a 24-port switch is a huge draw if you’re only using 3 of them.

    Consider getting a power efficient NAS box for backend storage, and low power Minipc for frontend serving instead of using a power hungry machine for all your network apps.

    You can dive deeper into any angle thing, but these are the basics.