Trainguyrom

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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

I mean by that logic Nextcloud is just a rebranded skin of Owncloud and Libre Office is just a rebranded skin of Open Office. I'm sure someone can chime in with a more damning real world example but the important distinction with a fork is not "do they entirely replace most of the codebase" but instead it's "how well do they maintain the project" and "how much value do they add through improvements and features"

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

AI is just the latest hype cycle that appears to finally be in a cooling off phase. Just like Blockchain 5? years ago, and mobile a decade ago

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

A browser tied to a VPN provider would probably harm adoption in the wider scheme of things. That would be a next-to-impossible sell for business IT for one thing, but also the optics generally aren't great at all, especially if said VPN provider finds itself in hot water related to the primary usecase for commercial VPNs (illegal activity)

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago

At least it's notable when a website doesn't work correctly in Firefox rather than being a frequent annoyance

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

if Google stopped paying, someone else would pay instead.

Have we all forgotten that time period when Yahoo! was the default search provider in Firefox?

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah there were some people who were so certain he would sweep the floor of that crowded primary, but then he was just so rizzless. He didn't even seem to want to be there

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago

The more oddly specific the police force's jurisdiction, the more scared to be if they take an interest in you.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That kept Ted Cruz out of the White House in 2016.

Don't forget about forgettable no-rizz Jeb! Bush

...please clap

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago

My experience working support for a phone manufacturer has informed me that once an average user installs an app it tends to stay installed indefinitely, but they may or may not be aware it's even installed. A gentle nudge notification of "hey look at me" every once in a while might very well be amazing for engagement

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago

If you think preventing predatory practices through legislation is a "nanny state" then I think you fail to understand the purpose of a government in a society with profit-driven companies

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I was blanking pretty hard when I wrote that and meant to write RDP while thinking of TeamViewer. Need to post stuff less late at night

 

I placed a low bid on an auction for 25 Elitedesk 800 G1s on a government auction and unexpectedly won (ultimately paying less than $20 per computer)

In the long run I plan on selling 15 or so of them to friends and family for cheap, and I'll probably have 4 with Proxmox, 3 for a lab cluster and 1 for the always-on home server and keep a few for spares and random desktops around the house where I could use one.

But while I have all 25 of them what crazy clustering software/configurations should I run? Any fun benchmarks I should know about that I could run for the lolz?

Edit to add:

Specs based on the auction listing and looking computer models:

  • 4th gen i5s (probably i5-4560s or similar)
  • 8GB of DDR3 RAM
  • 256GB SSDs
  • Windows 10 Pro (no mention of licenses, so that remains to be seen)
  • Looks like 3 PCIe Slots (2 1x and 2 16x physically, presumably half-height)

Possible projects I plan on doing:

  • Proxmox cluster
  • Baremetal Kubernetes cluster
  • Harvester HCI cluster (which has the benefit of also being a Rancher cluster)
  • Automated Windows Image creation, deployment and testing
  • Pentesting lab
  • Multi-site enterprise network setup and maintenance
  • Linpack benchmark then compare to previous TOP500 lists
 

I'm currently decluttering and reducing to get a handle on my home, and I've come to a conundrum of how many plates/bowls/cups/etc do I actually need? I have 2 young kids that we'd prefer not to have to run to the store at 8pm to buy more plates because someone ruined a plate, but very limited cupboard space (small 120-something year old house with a kitchen that was built in the 50s)

 
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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Trainguyrom@reddthat.com to c/homelab@lemmy.ml
 

I'm just going to be vulnerable for a minute here. I met the first person in real life who had similar server-y linux-y obsessions to me and we'd send eBay links of systems to drool over to eachother. They ended up being a terrible person but hid it from me pretty well until they couldn't anymore and now I no longer have someone to chat with about those things.

So um, I guess I'm open for applications for the position of "nerdy friend who I nerd too hard with about network infrastructure and Linux packages" now

Edit: Autocorrect errors manually corrected

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