Trainguyrom

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

At this point I think it's most telling that even Azure runs on Linux. Microsoft's twin flagship products somehow still only work well when Linux does the heavy lifting and works as the glue between

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I think for some people it's more about killing multiple birds with one stone. One guy I know went to see a Dolphins game, bought a car and got some warmer weather during the coldest part of the year. Another bought a car while visiting family (and learned the hard way that radiators are sometimes refilled with water and therefore will freeze in the winter if brought north) and another had their 20 year old truck die while hauling their RV and bought a new truck from the nearest dealership. So maybe it's not widespread, but every one has talked about the benefits of a car that's never seen salted roads

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

For grapes, since they're sold by the pound you can just take some of the grapes from the bag and place them into another bag of the same veriety if it's too many

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

The true snowflakes are always looking for something inconsequential to have a meltdown over

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

You say that but there's basically 0 chance I'll buy it anytime soon because I wait for games to be down to about $20. If I really really want it I'll snag it at $30-40 but I don't think I've ever bought a title at $60

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

In the north there's even people who will specifically head south to buy a car that's never spent a winter driving on salted roads. Road salt corrodes so badly it's nasty

[–] [email protected] 43 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Generally Republicans and Trumpists use "woke" to describe anything they don't like that seems to slightly swing liberal rather than anything specific.

Originally "woke" was slang in the black community meaning to understand the risks of being black in the world and basically was an equivalent of saying "drive safely!" or a Midwestern "watch for deer!" in wishing one a friendly goodbye

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

My experience working in banking is that they're extremely conservative. They don't take big risks on new technologies or processes and don't modernize their technology too quickly to be certain that everything works as expected and doesn't surprise anyone

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I feel similarly. I work in an office that's heavily invested in Microsoft for everything and when you use Microsoft everything Teams fits in really nicely with great outlook integration, Microsoft Loop integration, etc. and the experience on Teams is fine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Clearly gotta start listening to truecrime podcasts and let some young kids muck up your YouTube algorithm and they won't know anymore what your gender is

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I started playing that one a couple of years ago but found myself horribly lost on one of the introductory quests (I think the first lockpicking was what did me on?) and kinda lost interest from there. I can see the appeal though and at some point I'll certainly circle back to it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

My wife and go on kicks of playing a bunch of Minecraft together which is amazing

 

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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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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