WFloyd
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- Comment on If Christians were real, they’d be lining up to post for their sins (not trying to avoid judgement). 3 days ago:
I see. You’ve added more context to your comment - thanks for the insight, I’ll stop engaging for now, as it seems that wasn’t your intent in making this post. Thanks for your time, and I wish you well.
- Comment on If Christians were real, they’d be lining up to post for their sins (not trying to avoid judgement). 3 days ago:
I’m sorry if the church has hurt you before, truly, but I’m not seeing any reasoning behind your position. Care to elaborate?
- Comment on If Christians were real, they’d be lining up to post for their sins (not trying to avoid judgement). 3 days ago:
At risk of taking some bait…
I profess a faith as a Christian, but am not a theologian. Grain of salt and all that, but we do exist lol
Unfortunately sorting “real” Christians from posers is difficult, and that’s how people can get away with using the “Christian” label, because who can judge but God?
That being said, when you think about whether someone is a “real” Christian who’s just not doing a good job, vs a poser who’s just using the name, consider whether they exhibit some of the very clearly articulated attributes of being a Christian, such as the Seven Virtues. If someone consistently calls themselves Christian, but makes no effort to improve in these ways, that might be a good sign they’re not genuine.
So to your point, using Christianity for social gain is antithetical to actually being a Christian.
I’m terms of Organized Christianity, and cases in which it has shielded those who do evil, that’s a big, messy topic. Sufficient to say, the church is wholely responsible for not taking it seriously for so long. It breaks my heart that it happens at all, and brings great shame that there are people who supposedly profess the same faith and yet allow these things to happen. The church can and should do better to hold one another accountable and to protect the vulnerable.
- Comment on I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server 2 weeks ago:
I’ve found great success using a hardened ssh config with a limited set of supported
Cyphers/MACs/KexAlgorithms. Nothing ever gets far enough to even triggerfail2ban. Then of course it’s key only login from there. - Comment on Fully self-hosted password manager options 2 weeks ago:
Agree with others, Vaultwarden is probably your best bet. I’ve found the default app to be a little flaky, but ended up using Keyguard, which I’ve found really good.
I used to use Keypass+Syncthing, but found sync conflicts too often (due to Syncthing support for Android), hence the switch.
- Comment on Server upgrade/replacement help 2 months ago:
Anything USB connected more likely to be flaky, but a good enterprise disk shelf and a HBA card would be rock solid (just noisy…)
Unfortunately my solution when I did a big data migration was to buy more (cheap) storage lol. Ultimately it was a cost vs. time/stress tradeoff.
- Comment on Server upgrade/replacement help 2 months ago:
Physical space is actually a huge issue
Ah then I’d recommend keep the existing machine as the server (it sounds like it’s serving you well hardware wise), and get a SFF machine for regular desktop use, be that a new build or a used office machine. The trick will be in migrating the server to Linux, and without endangering your data in the process.
- Comment on Server upgrade/replacement help 2 months ago:
Examples of some of the deals I’ve personally gotten (ymmv, some were auctions):
- 5 x 3.84TB SAS SSDs
- $521.54 total (stunning deal, I got lucky)
- $104.31/drive
- $27.16/TB
- 5 x 960GB SAS SSDs
- $165.17 total
- $33.03/drive
- $34.41/TB
- 7 x 12TB Toshiba SAS HDDs
- $427.31 total
- $61.04/drive
- $5.09/TB
- 2 x 8TB Seagate SAS HDDs
- $49.99 total
- $25/drive
- $3.13/TB
- 2 x KTN-STL3 JBODs each including 15x3TB SAS HDDs
- $532.73 total
- $266.37/shelf
- $17.76/drive bay+drive
- $5.92/TB not including value of JBODs (~$150/each without drives)
- 5 x 3.84TB SAS SSDs
- Comment on Server upgrade/replacement help 2 months ago:
In short, I’d recommend option B/C, where you buy used enterprise grade equipment, learn to run Linux, and build out that way. I can’t overstate just how good a deal can be had on eBay, even from reputable sellers. This goes for everything, from the computer itself, to disk shelves, to HDDs and SSDs. Plus you’re reducing on e-waste! Used HDDs are a great deal if you buy enough to run redundancy (RAID 6 or equivalent), because the seller will often include a warranty (up to 5 years!). I’ve only had a handful of drive failures and 0 issues with warranty refund/exchanges.
You’re running roughly the same services as I do (though a bit more storage), so if it means anything, I’ve ended up using the following (all purchased used)
spoiler
- HP Z440 Workstation (upgraded over time) - CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2698 V4 (20 core) - RAM: 128GB DDR4 2133MT/s - GPU: Intel Arc A380 - Storage: Boot SSD + HBA card for bulk storage - 2 x Dell EMC KTN-STL3 JBOD - 15 x 3.5" bays - Mix of HDDs spread across the two JBODs - 7 x 12TB - 6 x 14TB - 6 x 10TB - 2 x 16TB - 1 x 8TB - 1 x HP QR490A JBOD - 24 x 2.5" bays - Mix of SSDs - 6 x 3.84TB - 5 x 1TB ___
Broadly, I find the following with my setup:
- Pros
- Easily expandable storage using a HBA
- High reliability (ECC memory, server grade equipment)
- Used equipment is cheap
- Cons
- Running mostly older-gen hardware, not cutting edge performance
- Bulky, noisy cooling, less power efficient
- Pros
- Comment on Server upgrade/replacement help 2 months ago:
A few things that might help narrow options down:
- What’s your budget?
- Do you expect to host more stuff in the future? Do you need more RAM/CPU performance?
- How much physical space do you have? Do you have a place where could store equipment if it were noisier?
- How expensive is your electricity? Is efficiency important?
- How much of your 100TB is full?
- Comment on Article admits it's a smear campaign 2 months ago:
Oof, my bad! Thanks for tracking that down.
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