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Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital (mashable.com)
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[–] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 22 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Yes, of course

Except, i doubt anyone will be doing much with a 32 code Xenon CPU Windows snobs cant even run Windows on without a super giga 1000€ license for more than 16 Core CPUs

And the cuda only fanless and outputless GPU will also be kinda useless, especially because they all need a special setup to force feed air through the entire rack to not overheat

[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 1 points 1 hour ago

You clearly have a very restricted imagination about what ideas people could come up to use such hardware...

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Windows snobs cant even run Windows on without a super giga 1000€ license for more than 16 Core CPUs

I'm not using Windows servers at home but if I did then a license wouldn't be a factor when deciding what hardware to buy.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

And on top: ROK ISOs by hardware vendors by HPE (and probably lenovo) don't have the trial time limit and can be run indefinitely without a license.
You only need to satisfy the requirement of running a supported motherboard during boot of the iso.
Well...Too bad that I can (unlike in ESXi) modify the manufacturer string in proxmox to say whatever I want ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Could you point me to more info about that?

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 54 minutes ago

At work we sell servers by HPE.
We create Install-ISOs from the included install ISO.

At boot the Installer checks if the system is manufactured by the vendor.
If it is: It continues boot and offers you the installer options
If it is not: It will fail with a message that the manufacturer doesnt match.

On ESXi you need to pass the argument smbios.reflectHost = true (or something along those lines)

Dunno how HPE customized the install.wim
But you can probably get those for cheap on ebay and maybe compare the wims for differences.

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 15 points 10 hours ago

I mean it’s 64/128/256 cores for home/pro/workstation so not really. People buying aftermarket server parts that want windows can probably figure out how to type irm https://get.activated.win/ | iex if they don’t want to pay for it anyways lol.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 19 points 10 hours ago

a super giga 1000€ license for more than 16 Core CPUs

Year of the Linux Desktop! Any day now... any day... huffs copium