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OF COURSE he uses GoDaddy

Nvidia Tesla P4. Under $100 for a new one on eBay. Comes with a low profile bracket.

If you're running Proxmox, you can even get the official vGPU drivers running so you can split the card between multiple VMs.

Is there a window in the room the closet is in? I've got a similar setup with a server rack in a closet (no ventilation, though). I recently purchased an in-window Midea AC that can be controlled by Home Assistant.

I have an automation that will kick on the AC if the temperature in the closet rises above a certain amount, and will shut down when it drops below that amount. I just leave the closet door open by about a foot and that seems to be sufficient.

It's probably worth noting that I'm running pretty efficient hardware (35w i7s and a 75w Tesla P4) so it doesn't get super hot, even under heavy load.

I've been daily driving a Debian 11 Proxmox VM running on an HP ProDesk Elite SFF with an i7-6700T and an ancient Nvidia GeForce GT 730 passed through.

I access it via ThinLinc running on a Dell Wyse 5070 Extended thin client. Works really well, even video isn't bad, but it's not for gaming.

For gaming, I'm working on setting up a Nobara VM with an Nvidia Tesla P4 passed through.

I like to imagine that cats who stare off into space like this are just listening to the circus music in their heads

It's a "more private/hardened" version of Firefox. Add-ons are possible as with Firefox Nightly.

There were a few efforts in datahoarders to archive stuff before July 1st. I believe the correct search term to find them would be "redarc".

Here's one project: https://github.com/Yakabuff/redarc

Thank you for mentioning this, just tried it and will be using it!

I'm pretty sure that's Mull rather than Lemmy. Just started using it and it's excellent!

This is the correct answer.

Run an *arr stack somewhere on your network, install Jellyfin on the server and the Jellyfin app on the Shield and you're golden, no need for subscriptions.

"Alexa, take me Starbucks and play latest episode of "Ow, My Balls".

My 1991 4Runner doesn't even have a diagnostic port (pre OBDII), but you can get it to tell you what it thinks is wrong.

To do this, you need to use a paperclip to jump two terminals in a box under the hood, then turn the ignition to ON, count the number of times the check engine light blinks, write that down, then look up what that code means, in a book.

(Granted, the book is a PDF these days, but still)

Heh - my car from 2006 has 2 SD card slots behind the radio/nav screen for my MP3 and M4A files.

I also ripped out the CD changer for a BT integration, but I still use the SD cards sometimes.

Unfortunately, I recall thinking the same thing about Photoshop before Adobe switched to the subscription model, but here we are.

Adobe made the switch to subscription in 2013, and their revenue the following year grew to about $4 billion. It has continued to increase every year, often by double digit percentages - revenue for 2022 was $17.6 billion, an increase of almost $2 billion over 2022. And 93% of that revenue is from subscriptions.

On a more positive note, maybe a Windows subscription model is what will finally lead to the Year of the Linux Desktop...

From an actual cost perspective, a video streaming on YouTube is not even remotely the same as a movie ticket. The company selling the movie ticket has to price each ticket to ensure that the company can make enough money to cover:

• Rent/lease for the building
• Wages for employees
• Purchase/rental of movies from studios/distributors
• Purchase/rental of equipment to project movies onto screens

Google has its own costs of course, but for essentially the same thing (showing a person a video), Google's costs are vastly lower per person, because the video they are showing you is a digital file that lives on a server, and the same file is shown to everyone who wants to view it.

Another example: A book printed on paper requires a lot of physical materials - ink, paper, cardboard, glue, etc. Selling a paper book requires machines to print the pages, trucks and trains to transport raw materials to and from factories, and to locations where they book can be sold.

For a paper book to end up in your hands, lumberjacks need to be paid to cut down trees. Miners need to be paid to dig the materials required to make ink out of the ground. Printing press operators need to be paid. Truck drivers need to be paid. Warehouse workers need to be paid. Delivery drivers need to be paid.

A Kindle ebook is a digital file that has been uploaded from the publisher directly to an Amazon server, and Amazon is certainly able to provide itself with server space at far lower than retail cost.

A brand new printed paperback version of the lastest David Baldacci novel costs $19.99 on Amazon. The Kindle version of the same book costs $14.99. Considering that the Kindle version has almost zero of the costs associated with the print version, and is literally the exact same digital file that is sent to every single person who purchases the ebook, the ebook, compared to the paper book, generates almost 100% profit with almost zero additional costs or overhead.

Given this, should an ebook cost almost as much as a real book? Should a YouTube Premium subscription cost as much as a movie ticket?

Or are two of the most profitable companies on the planet simply charging "real" prices for digital products because they have a de-facto monopoly in their respective markets, and they can basically just do whatever they want?

Just wait a few more years - Windows 11 will probably be the last "desktop" license you'll be able to buy. Microsoft really, REALLY wants the next OS to be Windows 365 Cloud OS, run on Azure (of course) and available only via subscription.

I've been using the music service for some time now as well. Do you have any suggestions for viable replacements for that?

Self-host Navidrome on a cheap VPS (or at home), use Symfonium to stream your music to your phone/car.

Prince Andrew: "Think of the children!"

St. Elmo's firewall

You know things are bad when your search for a CSV viewer looks like the back of a CVS receipt.