BackYardIncendiary

@BackYardIncendiary@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"This Is The ONLY Home Server You Should Buy" Or, why older computers may be better for the environment | Hardware Haven⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never used Proxmox, so I can’t say. But TLP is a utility that starts at boot. I’ve used it with virtualbox running, so if Proxmox runs atop a host operating system, I don’t imagine that it would interfere with TLP.

  As an additional note, I usually set the min/max thresholds at 40/80, so the battery will charge any time it’s plugged in and below 40% and stops charging when it reaches 80%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally bids farewell to PowerShell 2.0⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Batch scripts run at work. Powershell requires administrator privileges that I don’t have.

  I don’t make the rules, I just evade them :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"This Is The ONLY Home Server You Should Buy" Or, why older computers may be better for the environment | Hardware Haven⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I use a 2011 ThinkPad X120e as an FTP/Syncthing server. It was underpowered as a laptop from day one, but still works fine as a lightweight server. The best thing about ThinkPads is that TLP allows you to set min/max charging thresholds, so that you can keep an old battery in good shape for … well, I’ll let you know. This one’s 14 years old and still has a four-hour run time.

  One thing I’d like to try is “Wake My Potato” for shutdown / automatic restart when a power outage occurs.

  Links:

  TLP - linrunner.de/tlp/index.html

  Wake My Potato - github.com/pablogila/WakeMyPotato

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally bids farewell to PowerShell 2.0⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I have to use windows, I write batch scripts. They still work and there is a lot of documentation online. There’s even a good set of GUI dialogs with WizApp (or the Zenity port).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨XMPP vs everything else⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve run an XMPP server for a small online user group for about 7 years. It was relatively simple to get a basic server up and running.

  One challenge came when my wife and I decided to use it as our everyday mobile messaging service. I had to learn about and configure a number of extensions to get Prosody working well with Conversations (Android) and Monal (iOS).

  Another challenge was filtering spam. I posted my administrator XMPP address online and got hammered with spam. It took a while to figure out how to effectively combat it.

  With respect to why it’s not more popular, imagine if you were trying to sell email people on email (with no business use-case). It’s a generic federated protocol. I don’t know if you can get much more bland.