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[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 122 points 3 days ago (4 children)

normal person’s server.

I’m pretty sure I speak for the majority of normal people, but we don’t have servers.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 45 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, when you're a technology enthusiast, it's easy to forget that your average user doesn't have a home server - perhaps they just have a NAS or two.

(Kidding aside, I wish more people had NAS boxes. It's pretty disheartening to help someone find old media and they show a giant box of USB sticks and hard drives. In a good day. I do have a USB floppy drive and a DVD drive just in case.)

[–] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hello fellow home labber! I have a home built xpenology box, proxmox server with a dozen vm’s, a hackentosh, and a workstation with 44 cores running linux. Oh, and a usb floppy drive. We are out here.

I also like long walks in Oblivion.

[–] neatobuilds@lemmy.today 7 points 2 days ago

Man oblivion walks are the best until a crazy woman comes at you trying to steal your soul with a fancy sword

lol yeah, the lemmy userbase is NOT an accurate sample of the technical aptitude of the general population 😂

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

It's pretty disheartening to help someone find old media and they show a giant box of USB sticks and hard drives.

Equally disheartening is knowing that both of those have a shelf-life. Old USB flash drives are more durable than the TLC/QLC cells we use today, but 15 years sitting unpowered in a box doesn't have very good prospects.

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 53 points 3 days ago

Ikr...Dude thinks we're restaurants or something.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 2 days ago

"Normal person" is a modifier of server. It does not state any expectation of every normal person having a server. Instead, it sets expectation that they are talking about servers owned by normal people. I have a server. I am norm.. crap.

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You... you don't? Surely there's some mistake, have you checked down the back of your cupboard? Sometimes they fall down there. Where else do you keep your internet?

Appologies, I'm tired and that made more sense in my head.

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Well obviously the internet is kept in a box, and it’s wireless. The elders of the internet let me borrow it occasionally.