metaStatic

joined 1 year ago
[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 6 points 5 months ago

"He's going after that anti-marketing dollar, that's a lucrative market."

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

if I know anything about advisory councils in tech it was pure optics and letting them all go will have absolutely zero impact on the normal flow of business beside the current bad press.

I would love to know if they ever affected company policy even slightly.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

I have a few 2015 laptops, the last time the apple logo lights up like it damn well should, (and their operating systems are still getting updates almost a decade later) ipods and an iphone 6 I've fixed, apple TV because it was cheap enough. all told I'm in it for less than the cost of a new macbook and apple hasn't got a cent yet. I have an imac from 2008 I found on the side of the road that actually needs linux but a computer of that vintage in 2008 would be a paperweight at best, the fact it's still useful as a computer at all is astonishing to me.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I recently got into the apple ecosystem and am loving it.

I know this is a linux community and apple is literally the devil but I haven't had a bad experience with it yet.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't matter, if I'm 12 then it will always be the wrong thing.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

We're making e-gaming history

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 39 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"I put on my robe and wizard hat"

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 15 points 6 months ago

the best jokes have a kernel of truth.

The VM is optimised for the OS, the OS is usually a fresh install with just that 1 program you need to use instead of you're entire life scattered across the desktop, it can be a snapshot of the system in an optimal state right after running an unfuck windows script that removes default system malware which doesn't let it reinstall, it has less system resources to deal with for the simple fact it can't use them all at the same time as the base OS.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 10 points 6 months ago (7 children)

it's not a drop in replacement and anyone looking for one will be disappointed by literally anything available.

You're learning an entirely new operating system, don't think of it as an upgrade, this is a time sink. You'll be under the hood more than on the road for the foreseeable future, but what's the alternative?

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 23 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Windows running on a VM under linux runs faster than windows on bare metal ...

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

depends if you think anonymous interactions are as impactful as people you actually know.

oh god, is this actually worse?

 

Fished this monster out of a dumpster a few years back at work and always knew I'd probably do something with it, heard they make great gaming PCs but it's so freaking loud I never even entertained that possibility.

it has 16x2.5" sata hdd bays, still has the iLO details and serial number card which I hear is uncommon for 2nd hand servers, hardware raid card because of the extra 8 bays and external scsi card.

my self hosting journy only started a few weeks back with a 2 bay synology nas and pi-hole (technically a few years with jellyfin on my main pc but you know ...) so simple suggestions, preferably 100% local because I'm behind a CGNAT without ipv6 and it looks like a lot of work to deal with.

and if anyone knows what software is used on the SD slot and internal usb key, if anything, that would be great :) I'm assuming license keys for software or something equally unimportant because I've installed Proxmox to mess around with and it didn't need them.

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