Trainguyrom

joined 1 year ago
[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ooh I'll have to try that! I've always hated soy sauce because its just too salty (I'm very salt-sensitive so I generally cook with no or low salt)

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

Hope she knows they make reusable coffee filters. I bought one about 3 years ago and haven't needed coffee filters since

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

Mother. Fucking. GARLIC.

Toss in some onion powder too, a bit of seasoning salt and you won't even miss the salt

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 points 3 days ago

MTG seems to be in the minority of elected Republican representatives in that she actually seems to believe the things she says

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think it's more trying to win political favor by spending big with the company owned by a member of the incoming presidential administration.

Or it's just wanting to market their ads on that platform and as you said, not having the balls to stick to their boycott

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

Good question! I can't remember.

I think I read a Microsoft blog or something like a decade ago that said they shifted from a Hyper-V based solution to Linux to improve stability, but honestly it's been so long I wouldn't be shocked if I just saw it in a reddit comment on a related article that I didn't yet have the technical knowhow to fully comprehend and took it as gospel.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago (4 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

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week 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

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

At least as far as US law is concerned, a federally hosted and administrated social media platform gets interesting with America's unusually strong free speech laws, since there's content which is legal but unethical which they likely would not be allowed to block or moderate, such as bullying, hate speech, misinformation, etc. but also illegal content would be immediately moderated away, which might include content that falls into legal grey areas or ethical but technically illegal content, like someone copy/pasting the contents of a paywalled article, or discussing any kind of DRM or digital security bypass

Honestly I think there's good reason for governments to host a Mastodon instance for their representatives to use for communications, but inviting the public to use it might get weird for sure

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

Too big of a map ultimately becomes a deal breaker for me because it will inevitably have too much empty space and get too boring and time consuming to play through.

Smaller more refined maps are better than larger maps where the team can't sufficiently justify every single corner and make sure every inch truly is fully designed and makes sense.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 11 points 1 week ago

My in-laws have some horses on their little hobby farm. They grow and bale their own hay which gives them an excuse to play with their antique tractors and makes it affordable enough to keep the "hay burners" around. I agree the prices anon provides are pretty rediculously low

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 12 points 1 week ago

But there's also the byproduct of making you swole and potentially making exercise your new hobby, which then further increases your energy consumption and waste output...

 

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
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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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