AbidanYre

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Looking for Linux SFF PC Post

Apologies if this isn’t the correct forum. A couple of days back, maybe a week, someone made a post asking if a certain pre-built SFF PC would run Linux. Several people responded that they run that same PC and that it works great. I’m planning to build a PC for my mother and this would be perfect for her needs. However, I...

AbidanYre,

Can you link the post in case anyone else wants to see it?

AbidanYre,

And then abandon the whole project three weeks later.

AbidanYre,

Tomb might fit your needs

dyne.org/software/tomb/

AbidanYre,

You can increase the size of a tomb, but IIRC it’s an offline process.

AbidanYre,

That doesn’t help the people who lost data.

And the reports are common enough that it suggests cryptomator should consider making some interface changes.

AbidanYre,

That’s fair. But I’d still be really wary of something with a reputation for eating data just because a user looked at it funny.

AbidanYre,

The pinebooks are pretty inexpensive. I can’t speak to quality or usability though

AbidanYre, (edited )

I’ve been eyeing the framework-in-a-case option.

frame.work/…/cooler-master-mainboard-case-and-mai…

AbidanYre,

If it was any company at all except Amazon there would be hope

You won’t be saying that in a couple months when Facebook makes their own announcement.

AbidanYre,

Something’s got to fill up those “biggest tech fails of the year/decade” articles.

Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform (www.engadget.com)

The long fight to make Apple’s iMessage compatible with all devices has raged with little to show for it. But Google (de facto leader of the charge) and other mobile operators are now leveraging the European Union’s Digital Market Act (DMA), according to the Financial Times. The law, which goes into effect in 2024, requires...

AbidanYre,

Name a better duo than Google and killing off products

Yes, duo is on that list.

AbidanYre,

I have to question their commitment to 480p though.

Sometimes quantity is more important than quality. Hard drives ain’t free.

AbidanYre,

I usually consider “great logistics” and causing a medical emergency to be mutually exclusive.

Dozens of health organizations pledge ‘full support’ for federal ban on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars (www.cnn.com)

Eighty national public health groups, including the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Preventative Medicine, placed a full-page ad in Sunday’s edition of the Washington Post in support of a federal ban on menthol in cigarettes and all...

AbidanYre,

It worked out so well the last time we tried.

AbidanYre,

I was referring to the comment about banning certain types of booze in the US and what happened when we tried that before.

AbidanYre,

Yeah, I don’t know what has your panties in such a twist, but I also don’t really care enough about you or menthol cigarettes to be a part of it, so you’ll have to pick a fight with someone else.

I was just making a joke about America’s history of banning things people like.

AbidanYre,

That’s not remotely what’s being discussed here and you know it.

AbidanYre,

I never said anything about what OP knows or doesn’t.

Just that you know regular maintenance of voter rolls isn’t the topic at hand

AbidanYre,

Dropping a can of soup 12ft onto a driveway seems bad for the can and for the driveway.

AbidanYre,

For now

www.supplychaindive.com/news/…/697360/

AbidanYre,

$50k is already overpriced.

AbidanYre,

Not enough 420 or 69 jokes for Elon to accept that offer.

AbidanYre,

maybe they did and partnered with Kendrick Lamar behind the scenes.

Litephone has been around for a while.

AbidanYre, (edited )

This is a Litephone 2 with a logo etched on the back. I don’t know their overall numbers, but it’s not just the 250 for this marketing gimmick.

AbidanYre,

Terminal velocity is just the maximum speed a thing will reach. Hitting the ground at that speed may not be fatal depending on the aerodynamics of the thing (squirrels can also fall from any height).

AbidanYre,

They never really had any to begin with.

AbidanYre,

Press ‘m’

AbidanYre,

IIRC, the founder/CEO got paid $1B to go away.

AbidanYre, (edited )

The tank would have to cost $0.08 to have the same effect.

If my math is right.

AbidanYre,

At the same time, you have the people claiming they immediately turn blue and pass out within seconds of putting a mask on.

What are some KVM-over-IP or equivalent solutions you guys would recommend for guaranteed remote access and remote power cycle?

Currently, I have SSH, VNC, and Cockpit setup on my home NAS, but I have run into situations where I lose remote access because I did something stupid to the network connection or some update broke the boot process, causing it to get stuck in the BIOS or bootloader....

AbidanYre,

pikvm.org

Maybe?

AbidanYre,

If you check the other thread here, he’s clearly not.

AbidanYre,

His new flare also says he’s banned from the community, so … mission accomplished?

AbidanYre,

Gallows humor existed long before Reddit came along. It will be here long after Reddit is forgotten.

AbidanYre,

“Go f*ck yourself” is also an acceptable answer.

AbidanYre,

As a middle aged white guy with no desire to go anywhere near Texas, my Internet blustering doesn’t hold much water on this topic.

AbidanYre,

The Fun They Had got here a lot earlier than I expected.

AbidanYre,

Kind of funny that United was being held up as the hero here. All the airlines suck.

Wander, (edited ) to selfhosted
@Wander@packmates.org avatar

The future of selfhosted services is going to be... Android?

Wait, what?

Think about it. At some point everyone has had an old phone lying around. They are designed to be constantly connected, constantly on... and even have a battery and potentially still a SIM card to survive power outages.

We just need to make it easy to create APK packaged servers that can avoid battery-optimization kills and automatically configure an outbound tunnel like ngrok, zerotrust, etc...

The goal: hosting services like , , !? should be as easy as installing an APK and leaving an old phone connected to a spare charger / outlet.

It would be tempting to have an optimized ROM, but if self-hosting is meant to become more commonplace, installing an APK should be all that's needed. can do SSH, VPN and other tunnels without the need for root, so there should be no problem in using tunnels to publicly expose a phone/server in a secure manner.

In regards to the suitability of home-grade broadband, I believe that it should not be a huge problem at least in Europe where home connections are most often unmetered: "At the end of June 2021, 70.2% of EU homes were passed by either FTTP or cable DOCSIS
3.1 networks, i.e. those technologies currently capable of supporting gigabit speeds."

Source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/broadband-coverage-europe-2021

PS. syncthing actually already has an APK and is easy to use. Although I had to sort out some battery optimization stuff, it's a good example of what should become much more commonplace.

cc: @selfhosted

AbidanYre,

Then ditch the raspberry pi and get an sff PC that has an x86 processor in it.

AbidanYre,

PostMarketOS or UBPorts are basically that, but have limited functionality and few hardware options.

AbidanYre,

You can get a wyse thin client on eBay for $50, and if you’re clustering the pis it’s not $50 anymore, so you can get a real computer on woot in the $150 range.

Either of those options will run circles around a pi/pi cluster.

AbidanYre,

Who provides the software and firmware updates

That’s the fun part. Nobody does.

AbidanYre,

I’ve bought a couple old SFF PCs and tablets from there for low powered workstation stuff.

For self hosting I end up with rack mount dell servers when the prices fall off a cliff; right now it’s the 13th gen stuff that’s super cheap.

AbidanYre,

Insulting my reading ability and math skills would work better if you weren’t making a fool of yourself.

I gave you an example of a $50 x86 PC and mentioned the more expensive options because you brought up building a pi cluster in your first response to me, at which point you’re not talking about spending $50 anymore.

The main point is that either the thin client or the slightly more expensive computer will runs circles around your pi(s) for the same price.

AbidanYre,

www.ebay.com/itm/235218301047?mkcid=16&mkevt=…

Maybe you should worry more about your own reading and math skills than mine.

AbidanYre, (edited )

A worthless fucking machine

Hey, that’s what I always end up thinking when I try to use a pi for anything.

But if you actually check the numbers, that has pretty similar specs to the Pi4 but supports virtualization and has more ram. And the wyse runs on a real hard drive instead of an SD card or some janky USB setup.

AbidanYre,

You’re a bad person.

AbidanYre,

Food from unscripted shows. What does that even mean? They serve the disasters from Nailed It?

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