NaibofTabr

Heck, there hasn’t been peace in the Middle East since the Bronze Age Collapse.

I always recommend buying enterprise grade hardware for this type of thing, for two reasons:

1. Consumer-grade hardware is just that - it’s not built for long-term, constant workloads (that is, server workloads). It’s not built for redundancy. The Dell PowerEdge has hotswappable drive bays, a hardware RAID controller, dual CPU sockets, 8 RAM slots, dual built-in NICs, the iDrac interface, and redundant hot-swappable PSUs. It’s designed to be on all the time, reliably, and can be remotely managed.

2. For a lot of people who are interested in this, a homelab is a path into a technology career. Working with enterprise hardware is better experience.

Consumer CPUs won’t perform server tasks like server CPUs. If you want to run a server, you want hardware that’s built for server workloads - stability, reliability, redundancy.

So I guess yes, it is like buying an old truck? Because you want to do work, not go fast.

Hmm, I don’t have direct experience with ThinkServers, but what I see on eBay looks like standard ATX hardware… which is not really what you want in a server.

The Dell motherboard has dual CPU sockets and 8 RAM slots. The PSUs are not the common ATX desktop format because there are 2 of them and they are hot swappable. This is basically a rack server repacked into a desktop tower case, not an ATX desktop with a server CPU socket.

You can get old servers on eBay for surprisingly little money, like this PowerEdge T410 for $200. Add some drives, install TrueNAS SCALE and you’ve got a good home server platform.

Fuck no this administration won’t help. The best hope Americans had of lowering prices was Lina Kahn.

This is the Great Filter theory.

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'Traditional’ here means ‘Physical’, as in artworks which are NON-DIGITAL in nature.

Do you just not like the style?

Is “dragged” the new “slammed”?

the border crisis stuff

What “border crisis stuff”? There are no massive groups of people crossing the border illegally, all of the talk about that is GOP propaganda.

The majority of illegal immigrants in the US enter the country legally and then overstay their visas.

Hmm…

I have questions.

How low can you go?

• a few git repos (pushed and backup in the important stuff) with all docker compose, keys and such (the 5%)

Um, maybe I’m misunderstanding, but you’re storing keys in git repositories which are where…?

And remember, if you haven’t tested your backups then you don’t have backups!

I mean… a weapon of terror still has to, y’know, kill people… it’s not very terrifying if it doesn’t.

It’s just sexism. There’s nothing complicated to understand here about Trump being more appealing to Latino voters because of policy or speeches or whatever. There’s only one reason they voted for Trump over Harris, and everything else is prevarication & rationalization.

Well, you know, that is an option…

Someday we will find Windows 9.

Windows XP was the last good Windows.

I think you’re really only remembering XP after SP3. XP in its original form was clunky, buggy and unreliable.

It had zero bloat

Wait are you trying to be funny?

it encouraged you to use an admin account as your daily account.

This is bad. You should not do this, especially not on anything connected to the internet. You should definitely not do this on an XP system connected to the internet.

There was no built in firewall until a later service pack, but you could just opt out of that update.

I’ve eaten the onion, haven’t I?

The U.S. methods of choice have been wars, regime-change operations and unilateral coercive measures (economic sanctions).

Because of course, China and Russia would never

Star Wars in name only.

like spice

Um, worth more than hoarding money? probably, yeah.

Treat tomorrow-you as an expense for today-you, but also don’t forget to live today.