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- Comment on Virtual Machines- is there a better way to jump start a VM? 9 hours ago:
There’s many ways to do this. Saving the disk state is one, I believe that’s what the other person suggested - essentially stores the disk as an image which then you use for future vms as your jumping off point. This is also essentially how workstations are deployed at companies. (Essentially being the key word). Cloud providers have different names for this too, in AWS this is called their AMI.
Another option is Ansible, which essentially handles deploying a VM by running your scripts for you. I haven’t played too much with this, and I doubt it works with VirtualBox, but it’s something you may want to look into, it would definitely uplevel your skills.
Thirdly is dependent on what you actually use your VM for, you haven’t given your use cases but this is one of the reasons containerization became such a thing - because when running an app we mostly don’t care about the underlying system. It may be worth it to learn about docker.
- Comment on Sortable Table view with $/TB for serverpartdeals.com 4 days ago:
Is there a site like this for other refurbished items beyond storage? More cases, tam, cpus?
- Comment on Cleaner ironmaking tech a bright spot as US firms retreat from green steel 4 days ago:
The same thing happened in 2016. They tried to roll back every green initiative, but no matter what they try, green just makes more sense. Not only green and long term, but financially too. You have a one time setup with solar and wind and then very little maintenance - or you have constant mining operations, transport, and burning of heavy, dusty, gross coal. It’s the same here, whether they like it or not - it literally makes more sense.
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 4 days ago:
Yeah with their “everything is an Xbox” nonsense it’s pretty clear they want to focus on the platform, marketplace where you buy games. Playing them is kind of second. I’m sure they’ll still have something, but it’s going to be more geared towards cloud streaming, pc, handhelds, and “play where you want” so they can just do the digital side. I wouldn’t be surprised if they get partners like Asus to build boxes now.
- Comment on Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks] 6 days ago:
The article said there’s a phone companion app
- Comment on Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks] 6 days ago:
There’s a good chunk of us who used it with the web, and they’re adding that to the vast Google graveyard. That in and of itself makes me excited to see an alternative because Google will kill the app version on a whim too.
- Comment on ! Mastodon new ToS from July 1has a binding abbreviation wave !!r 1 week ago:
I’m guessing lawyers drew it up as a standard tos and they threw it over the fence tbh
- Comment on ! Mastodon new ToS from July 1has a binding abbreviation wave !!r 1 week ago:
But they can stack the deck heavily in their favor, and you don’t have the same legal protections anymore. Who arbitrates Where? When?
- Comment on Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data 1 week ago:
It’s honestly not bad, definitely the most mature fediverse service
- Comment on is there is any Lemmy server that care about privacy(does not require email), Does not impose limits on community posts like my current instance and does not have high amount of restrictions? 1 week ago:
Agreed, this is my go to response to everyone, (seriously there’s like a post a week about this same thing) asking it. Sounds like the perfect place to spread whatever garbage you want is the server you set up and pay for yourself, accepting all personal liability for. Go all cowboy with it!
- Comment on Best place for a community alternative to Facebook group? 1 week ago:
Could try it out, for a migration this size I’d recommend testing it a bit. Try replying to this post via pixelfed
- Comment on Pakistan's solar surge lifts it into rarefied 25% club 1 week ago:
That’s perfect for them. Go green and make all of their electricity from solar and renewables, then sell the oil to the third world oil dependent countries
- Comment on Best place for a community alternative to Facebook group? 1 week ago:
Pixelfed won’t launch groups anytime soon unfortunately, I’ve followed closely and it seems it’ll be out about the same time as Tesla’s full self driving.
I think the best way would be choose yourself piefed or Lemmy, and then you offer mastodon or pixelfed as places for your users to join and subscribe. So it’s a little more natural to them.
While your goal is noble, reality is that I would expect a very small percentage of people to migrate. Less than one maybe even. I think that even a few hundred more people joining the fediverse here is a great idea, but I don’t want you to be discouraged when it doesn’t turn out the way you hope. People love their platforms. (I also just read your last paragraph after writing this, my bad, glad you’re in the right headspace :)
- Comment on The Witcher 4's development is "more console-first", but don't worry, CD Projekt will still try and turn your PC into the sun 1 week ago:
Makes sense. CP2077 they completely ignored at release that the game was unplayable on all the consoles the suits promised.
- Comment on Some audio doesn't play on Jellyfin on bazzite 2 weeks ago:
That’s what I thought was happening, There’re no other system things that need to do?
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- Comment on Docker is renaming a mounted drive 2 weeks ago:
Agreed. Needs to be a required mount in fstab. System won’t even start then if the mount fails, docker always has access
- Comment on China Is The World's First Electrostate - CleanTechnica 2 weeks ago:
This used to be true, but it’s out of date now. China, like it or not idk, is outpacing us, and is turning off more coal by the day.
The predictable result of all that new renewable energy is that emissions in China declined slightly in the first four months of 2025. No other industrialized country saw similar reductions. “China now leads the 4th Industrial Revolution, making huge strides in electrification, renewable energy, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and the Internet of Things. And, just as oil and gas drive the petrostates of the Arab world [and most other countries as well], clean energy technologies are powering China’s growth,” says OilPrice.com.
- Comment on What in the... 2 weeks ago:
To all the young engineers here, this is one of those things that seems really funny and a great idea at the time, but lasts way past the joke being funny.
If you name your services Megatron or aragorn then be ready for business and executives to use those names for 10+ years. The joke is officially dead when you force someone 3 layers above you to demand “why did Galactica go down over the weekend, who is responsible?!”. Be thoughtful in your naming.
- Comment on Here's for 2 years since I joined Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
I had no idea they went public
- Comment on Activision Quietly Force Adverts into Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Warzone Loadouts and Players Absolutely Hate It: 'At This Point It Really Feels Like Opening Up a Mobile Game' 4 weeks ago:
That’s good context, you’re right the title made it sound like they were advertising KFC at startup. But, then again, an ads an ad.
- Comment on ZeniMax QA workers have reached a tentative contract agreement with Microsoft, paving the way for better wages and more 4 weeks ago:
Good. Microsoft has been taking advantage of contractors for decades to avoid paying real salaries
- Comment on Looking for a software suggestion 4 weeks ago:
Their site leaves a bit to be desired, but they do have PDF versions along with many others it will scrape in
- Comment on Activision Quietly Force Adverts into Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Warzone Loadouts and Players Absolutely Hate It: 'At This Point It Really Feels Like Opening Up a Mobile Game' 4 weeks ago:
So… They stopped playing right? Because there are a lot of similar games without ads, so why would people just put up with it. Right?
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 weeks ago:
damn I’ve been out of the loop on that one for a while! Agreed, I set up Immich and it’s pretty much a drop-in replacement now
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 weeks ago:
Did they really kill off free photo backup? That’s so incredibly shitty, they even compressed them!
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 weeks ago:
Did they really kill off free photo backup? That’s so incredibly shitty, they even compressed them!
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, op didn’t say you couldn’t opt out of it. It’s that they’re doing it at all. Every year they ask for a little bit more info, chipping away, making it harder and more obscure to opt out. That’s enshittification.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 weeks ago:
I bought a Plex pass for 90 or something. I officially dropped Plex about 4 months ago now. For 90 bucks I got something like 8 years out of it. I’ll call that a win, I don’t feel like I wasted my money, I don’t feel like I overpayed. Just moving on now.
- Comment on Real-world map data is helping make better games about farms and transportation 4 weeks ago:
NIMBY Rails has been insanely fun. Their tagline is politicians are wrong, you know what’s best for your community or something like that. Very fun to make the transit systems we should have, and very satisfying to see ridership on those systems