NaibofTabr

Java is to JavaScript as car is to carpet.

With a lirpa, apparently:

Counterpoint - if everything was FOSS it would be absolute chaos with no direction, conflicting goals, incomplete projects, and limited oversight… and also lots of inter-dev-team drama and forking.

For instance…

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There’s a very good reasons why people and organisations will pay for proprietary software when there is a free alternative available.

Yup… risk transfer

Pay somebody else to take responsibility for pieces of your business process, then blame them when something goes wrong - that’s why we have a contract.

I really hope there isn’t a lot of publicly accessible fluorine…

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I always recommend buying enterprise grade hardware for this type of thing, for two reasons:

1. Consumer-grade hardware is just that - it’s not built for long-term, constant workloads (that is, server workloads). It’s not built for redundancy. The Dell PowerEdge has hotswappable drive bays, a hardware RAID controller, dual CPU sockets, 8 RAM slots, dual built-in NICs, the iDrac interface, and redundant hot-swappable PSUs. It’s designed to be on all the time, reliably, and can be remotely managed.

2. For a lot of people who are interested in this, a homelab is a path into a technology career. Working with enterprise hardware is better experience.

Consumer CPUs won’t perform server tasks like server CPUs. If you want to run a server, you want hardware that’s built for server workloads - stability, reliability, redundancy.

So I guess yes, it is like buying an old truck? Because you want to do work, not go fast.

Hmm, I don’t have direct experience with ThinkServers, but what I see on eBay looks like standard ATX hardware… which is not really what you want in a server.

The Dell motherboard has dual CPU sockets and 8 RAM slots. The PSUs are not the common ATX desktop format because there are 2 of them and they are hot swappable. This is basically a rack server repacked into a desktop tower case, not an ATX desktop with a server CPU socket.

You can get old servers on eBay for surprisingly little money, like this PowerEdge T410 for $200. Add some drives, install TrueNAS SCALE and you’ve got a good home server platform.

This is the Great Filter theory.

no vinyl

The smallest government is a dictatorship.

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'Traditional’ here means ‘Physical’, as in artworks which are NON-DIGITAL in nature.

Do you just not like the style?

Shiny happy people laughing…

• a few git repos (pushed and backup in the important stuff) with all docker compose, keys and such (the 5%)

Um, maybe I’m misunderstanding, but you’re storing keys in git repositories which are where…?

And remember, if you haven’t tested your backups then you don’t have backups!

“is is”

I mean… a weapon of terror still has to, y’know, kill people… it’s not very terrifying if it doesn’t.

This appears to be a misunderstanding. The box on the platform is for a battery, yes, but it was used to power an electric ignition coil:

The engine is geared to the wheel by means of a disk clutch. The flywheel, on the right side of the front wheel, contains a 6-volt lighting generator that originally furnished current for lighting and ignition, but the system later was altered by the addition of an ignition coil and four dry-cell batteries. The ignition switch is mounted on the right side of the frame, and the gasoline tank is above the front fender.

https://www.treehugger.com/autoped-was-worlds-first-scooter-4858489

There was no electric motor design in 1916 that could have powered this scooter from a battery that size.