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- Comment on Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler 4 months ago:
Ah, admittedly I avoid that problem entirely, I have an MTR, a ZR, etc running on devices here (hardware/software testing stuff), so I don’t need to run meetings on my desktop often.
- Comment on Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler 4 months ago:
I have several for work that will likely never work in Linux.
So those have a nice little VM they sit on, which has been stripped bare of the nonsense. Remote desktop access enabled, and I can do what I need whenever.
- Comment on Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete 4 months ago:
It’s on reddit going back quite a few years, with a recent tracker update:
- Comment on Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete 4 months ago:
Mythbusters streamlined is like that. A bit rough on some cuts imo, but overall just cuts the fluff.
- Comment on Help with deployment 4 months ago:
Dockge would be more appropriate for that.
Watchtower has different functionality, mainly keeping them up to date with images.
You want Jenkins, GH Actions, or even ansible.
- Comment on Top post in the conservative subreddit: Being unable to work at a "woke" company 4 months ago:
That is not what the article says.
- Comment on Finally playing with POWER. 4 months ago:
Get rid of the plastic, attach it to one of your own gloves.
Way better experience. Also really good for home grown vr in the early 90’s (combined with some LCDs nabbed off camcamcorders and a VGA to s-video (or composite) converter).
i’d love to see a new powerglove. Though I think at this point an esp32 and some sensors could do all the same tricks… Hmmmm…
- Comment on Already 61 servers updated to Lemmy 0.19.5! 4 months ago:
And I appreciate your choice (considering a good number of communities I enjoy are on your instance).
Personally I think anything prod level should be manual updates only anyway.
- Comment on Just how secure are the various reverse proxy options? 5 months ago:
For nginx - github.com/…/block-exploits.conf
That’s what is enabled when you check that box.
- Comment on Advice to upgrade from 2slots sbc to a 4/5 slots NAS 5 months ago:
I’d second this, if only because it’s super easy to run things on and OP explicitly said they don’t want to tinker with it. There is a limited list, imo, of buy and forget.
That’s said, I personally think a cheap little 4th gen or higher Intel based tiny/mini/micro would do a way better job on the services side, and just store on the NAS.
- Comment on What's a good NAS and server system under CAD$900 (USD$658)? 5 months ago:
For lots of services that require little CPU and ram, I use tiny/mini/micro PCs, bought used. I get them for anywhere from $100-$400, and usually all I do is drop in an SSD. That includes Linux VMs when I’m testing distros or deployment on a distro, since 32gb ram on the host is more than enough to leave 4-8gb ram to the VM.
For some heavier applications, I also have a 4RU case stacked with drives, which I use as a third NAS (VM with drives passed through), large DBs, etc. Its just a 1700x with 64GB ram, and that’s plenty.
For most things (DNS, a few web servers, git, grafana, Prometheus, rev proxies, Jenkins, personal fdroid repo, homepage, etc) I just use the tiny/mini/micro’s. Imo, you can’t go wrong with those.
- Comment on Many Network Interfaces per VM/CT - Good Practice? 5 months ago:
Agreed, I prefer trunk with native to the vlan for services, each container that the reverse proxy will hit in its own vlan (or multiples for differing sets of services, but I can be excessive).
I’d block any traffic initiated from that vlan to all others, and I’d also only allow the specific ports needed for the services. Then fully open initiated from the general internal vlan.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 6 months ago:
Because that would be a 40 minute drive. And there is a BJs… About 1/4 mi away from the Costco.
No, there aren’t bulk stores near me.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 6 months ago:
Only reason I still have prime is simple - diapers. I save enough on them alone to justify it. But once that’s done (another year-ish), I don’t think it will be worth it anymore.
And yet, I still don’t use prime video. It’s just not a good experience, and obviously getting worse. And as I have kids, the management of what I’m ok with them seeing is way easier on JF than prime video.
- Comment on How do you handle family requests that you disagree with? 6 months ago:
I say “no”, but for your case and for your mom, I’d agree with what others have said, a standalone library.
BUT! Only the Christian movies. Put them in a library called “The Christerion Collection”.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 6 months ago:
That’s fair, I’d agree the article does a terrible job of differentiating, and a company calling itself a library in it’s name doesn’t make it a library, just a rental service playing pretend for profit.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 6 months ago:
Tool libraries are libraries, not rentals.
So no, they aren’t saying renting is the same thing as a library. They are saying libraries offering more services are a great way for you to save money by not buying a tool you only need once or for a day here and there over the years.
- Comment on "Also, try our new deep dish special." 6 months ago:
It’s… Different.
Second season just wrapped, which is where Papa John makes his appearance.
- Comment on "Also, try our new deep dish special." 6 months ago:
Reminds me of Papa John in dungeons and daddies
- Comment on Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad 6 months ago:
- Comment on Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract 6 months ago:
Correct.
Which the other person is consistently ignoring and getting salty about, and selectively ignoring my comments to be mad because “but Google has it in the handbook!” rather than actually read what I said.
- Comment on Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract 6 months ago:
They commented “I don’t know why people keep saying they removed it”.
People say that because it was big news when alphabet, in restructuring, removed/replaced it from their duplicate handbook. It was removed as the Google motto as well, and kept only in the last portion.
So why do people think Google removed it? Becase ten years ago it was big news that Alphabet removed it.
This ain’t rocket surgery.
- Comment on Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract 6 months ago:
Dude.
Please read what I said. ALPHABET.
ALPHABET HAS A DIFFERENT HANDBOOK. I have said this multiple times now.
And I will say again - Alphabet copied the handbook in restructuring then removed it.
The Google handbook IS NOT RELEVANT AT ALL. READ WHAT I WROTE.
- Comment on Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract 6 months ago:
Alphabet <> Google.
The parent company, Alphabet, removed it from the handbook. I couldn’t tell you if they put it back in, but Alphabet removed it about 10 years ago.
This is not some conspiracy theory, it was released, they replaced that section of the handbook.
- Comment on Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract 6 months ago:
It was dropped by alphabet from their handbook.
Almost 10 years ago iirc.
- Comment on what will be my next server operating system (Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, NixOS), your experience and opinion 6 months ago:
I’ve got a small fleet of tmm’s, so HA is just practical for me, but yeah that works to with a single machine. Especially if you were sharing desktop use on it.
- Comment on what will be my next server operating system (Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, NixOS), your experience and opinion 6 months ago:
Proxmox is a server OS based on Debian which is oriented on running virtual machines and Linux containers.
The physical server runs proxmox. The services can all be individual containers (LXC’s).
Adding to the number of servers (and migrating containers later) is a benefit of Proxmox, since you can buy another PC to be a server later, and easily expand as you go.
- Comment on what will be my next server operating system (Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, NixOS), your experience and opinion 6 months ago:
Proxmox.
Each service becomes an LXC. Docker containers can be migrated to LXC, or be contained within an LXC dedicated to docker.
Running out of processing power? Add another server, add to a cluster, and migrate services (LXC or VM) over.
Having run Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, slack, even Oracle Linux - Proxmox is what I run for myself (and some clients).
- Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 6 months ago:
I don’t expect them to, just noting there are still new ones out there.
And while something new is being developed/tested, having a metric fuck ton of backup floppies isn’t the worst idea.
- Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 6 months ago:
You can grab a 10 pack of DS, HD 5.25" on Amazon for $30 apparently