when people start using the “don’t question them; they know what they’re doing” argument…I become even more suspicious. If they knew what they were doing the results would be apparent and spectacular to everyone; no one would question it…
the fact that trickery and forced adoption are required for the technology to succeed is very telling about the competence of the technology itself.
I think it would’ve been more impactful if instead of mentioning the lone org that will comply in the text, they made a list like the other one to show how outnumbered they were visually…🤔
does not exactly answer the question, but…
I’ve been buying last gen Intel Macbook Pros off eBay because nobody wants them. you can put a variety of server oses on them.
I followed one of the many guides for installing proxmox on Rpis. 3node, 4gb rpi4s
I use the cluster for lighter services like Trilium, FreshRss, secondary DNS, a jumpbox… and something else I forget. I’m going to try immich and see how it performs.
my recent goto for cheap($200-300) servers are Debian + old Intel Macbook pros. I have two Minecraft bedrock servers on MBPs… one an i5, the other an i7.
I also use a Lenovo laptop to host some industrial control software for work.
my two bare metal servers are the file server and music server. I have other services in a pi cluster.
file server because I can’t think of why I would need to use a container.
the music software is proprietary and requires additional complications to get it to work properly…or at all, in a container. it also does not like sharing resources and is CPU heavy when playing to multiple sources.
if either of these machines die, a temporary replacement can be sourced very easily(e.g. the back of my server closet) and recreated from backups while I purchase new or fix/rebuild the broken one.
IMO the only reliable method for containers is a cluster because if you’re running several containers on a device and it fails you’ve lost several services.
bump.
@laserjet - I’ve never failed to fix an issue with beets using the docs.
I use beets. highly configurable, good documentation. cli, though. I think someone was working on a browser plug-in…🤔
no doubt.
I remember when you’d put a jacket on before you went in the halls… but now everyone wears shorts.
10-15 degrees is all you need to keep a “cold aisle” at 85degf, most places, on the worst day.
IIRC Amazon figured out that individual components could actually run hotter within an acceptable replacement window.
higher equipment replacement is more than offset by the fact they don’t have to do refrigerant based cooling which makes daily operation ridiculously cheap… no pumps or complicated mechanical devices to produce cooling… no people with special skills to maintain them, etc.
critical data centers use swamp coolers because they don’t have to treat the water or expose it to contamination from outside. they use straight domestic water… super cheap.
if the conductivity gets too high, they dump the basin and fill with fresh… rinse and repeat.
a chiller is not a swamp cooler.
picture a fan with a wet sponge in front of it… that is a swamp cooler.
oh man! I just poked ptsf@lemmy.world for a Austria!=Australia flub in another thread… my come uppins!
yes. I programmed and integrated swap coolers at Amazon data centers. when the cool air hits the hot aisles the humidity goes down.
is liquid cooking cooling really necessary? critical data centers I have worked in use swamp coolers. cheaper, more efficient, more reliable, uses same water as your house…
edit: d’oh! :)
this looks similar to beets.
have you tried that? top notch, IMO. actively developed, awesome documentation.
don’t LLMs create works of fiction most of the time anyway? 😜
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php
oh, she was. found her several years earlier in a trash pile at an office building I was working at… with the protective plastic still stuck on the screen.
she met her doom against a concrete floor during a studio shuffle… sad day.
was going through some old pictures and decided I’d post a retro setup. pretty sure I took this picture with my android g1…so 2008ish?
here is a pic of one of my first selfhost setups. I began selfhosting for music and have never stopped. this iteration was stuffed behind a bar that was built in to the basement at my old house
the old fashioned was custom built and was running some flavor of windows server. the one on the floor was the first Linux server I had run to do something useful…torrents and subsonic IIRC. I pieced that server together with random parts, mostly donated from old family PCs. two UPS units were on the bottom rack of that metro shelf to battery back the servers and the tomato router out of frame.
using lawnchair at the moment. folders work, work profile… works.
the only feature they don’t natively have that I miss from the stock launcher is frequent apps. I could install the plug-in, but I’m about to switch to graphene for the next phone so I’ll probably start from scratch and see how native graphene works.