Trainguyrom

joined 2 years ago
[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 8 points 4 days ago

This is where I'm at too. If I go crazy and start installing stuff natively to experiment I end up with extra stuff auto configured that's no longer needed and random problems I'm too lazy to figure out how to solve. Flatpak doesn't do that and I don't have to worry about that. I can install random stuff to play with and uninstall it cleanly. Some packages need more system access than flatpak gives natively and with those I'll make the decision of if I want to set it up and tear it down manually or not.

Storage is cheap, my time not so much.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 points 4 days ago

That was the wildest part of that leak is seeing that his public and private personas are identical. I'm not sure if that's comforting or terrifying to know

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Sounds like you're vaguely describing a ground effect vehicle, basically a plane which coasts along the water. They're more efficient than actually flying due to exploiting the ground effect on the lift surfaces, but ultimately it's closer to a plane than a boat

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 4 days ago

I've just been using the site in my browser for the couple of years or so I've been on Lemmy. I've thought about trying one of the apps but meh. The web interface is so well mobile-optimized as it is

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

Mastadon is awesome! I honestly spend more time on Mastadon than I do on Lemmy nowadays

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you are administrating systems it's extremely useful to know how to work with stuff by command line, both for remote administration via SSH or Ps-session and for rapid troubleshooting/settings changes and of course for emergency recovery when everything is super broken.

Honestly I personally use a mix of both GUI, CLI and hosted admin portals (the 11 ton gorilla in the room everyone arguing over GUI vs CLI forgets about) and will shift between tools depending on what is best for the given job.

Of course if you're just an owner-operator, see Joe Average in Anytown America with his household laptop, the GUI tools are the only thing you'll want to use and even that might get overwhelming or scary, but Joe Average is more often than not these days going to not even own a computer and instead just use their phone. That's the other thing many folks in these threads forget, is the home computer is a market on life support. The average "not a computer person" does not own a computer at all, they use their smartphone for literally everything

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 5 days ago

Winget install [programname]

winget search [programname]

winget upgrade --all --silent

Oh look, its also super easy in Windowsland!

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Btop will also show disc and network utilization while running much lighter than glances. Personally I keep both btop and htop installed on all of my machines because I feel like htop is better for quickly killing a processes when needed

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 10 points 1 week ago

There are specifically tax deductions for taxes paid on your primary residence, so theoretically there is a higher cost to owning multiple properties, however this cost is simply too low to be much of a deterrence

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

All he has to do is apply sufficient political pressure upon the governor to make the pardon happen. It's more work for a state level concern but ultimately it's plausible if the current Republican administration is sufficiently motivated

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

Wait when did I stumble into a Rimworld sub?

Of course, you can never go wrong with the old faithful "one lung, one kidney, amputate both arms and legs and replace with pegs then release back to their people"

 

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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