sj_zero @ sj_zero @lotide.fbxl.net

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I like to think that after his episode in TNG, Scotty went on to have all kinds of adventures in his little shuttlecraft.

When I was a kid, I'd draw his little shuttle craft showing up in battles against the borg and the like.

Depends on the SSD. I've only ever had one SSD become read only, and I've seen a lot of failed SSDs.

SSDs dominant failure modes of catastrophic failure?

I've got a similar problem at home, and I use a really straightforward solution: since the problem manifests on my pcs, I just add my services to the hosts file. It's particularly good when I'm working on my next cloud, because sometimes you end up with a lot of data moving back and forth, and you don't really want to hit your router to hit the outside world to hit your internal server when you don't need it. I just sent it to resolve my main services to the internal IP address, and the best part is that even when the internet is down and DNS isn't available, my services keep on humming away. I might not even realize.

The n280 is specifically limited since it's 32-bit, but low powered machines can be useful regardless. Two of the servers in my empire of dirt are atom d2550s, and I'm even able to run proxmox on them (since that model is 64-bit), but in terms of bare metal, they were able to run Matrix conduit, ejabbered, a nostr relay, and for a while my searx and yacy instances. (Though as I recall the cpus lack of instructions eventually stopped me from running searx on that hardware) I think I was even able to run invidious.

If it's just for you, it would surprise you how much you can do with a very small amount of CPU power.

Another thing that a machine like that might be useful for is a jump box. You can just put a very light distribution on it, and make it accessible to the outside world and one way or the other (secured of course) so you can hop into it if you need to do any remote administration.

The one thing that I found when I was using stuff that was particularly low powered is drive latency matters a lot. If you are using an SSD for storage, even much faster processors end up spending a lot of time sitting there waiting for the spinning hard drive to get to where it needs to be so you can be a lot more efficient with less CPU power.

Runs on hardware that isn't a supercomputer.

I'm using what it's forked from, conduit, and I've hosted my matrix homeserver on an Intel atom D2550 that's also doing like 3 other things. When I tried the same with synapse or dendrite, opening a big chat room took a few days.

I use Chromecast with android TV, it's about perfect with jellyfin, and if I were to domit again I'd probably spend the little extra for the 4k model even though my TV is 1080p (more horsepower). You can run a different homescreen to somewhat degoogle it.

Probably not what you're looking for given what you've lined up here, but I live and breathe with it every day and it's great, and as an added benefit you can cast from a lot of services or websites as well.

Have you donated to your favorite foss projects this week?

That is probably the coolest thing I've read today. Thanks for posting it.

I sort of wondered how they did that, and it makes sense from that point of view -- the mouse could do both. Also explains why those adapters probably wouldn't work on other mice today.

Not saying nothing, but there's always luanti and voxelibre.

Looks like a hard drive to me. All my hard drives used to look like that except with a black faceplate.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/133801771582

Nextcloud notes is just my life now.

Their ad campaign for warp was memorable. I still remember the Germans nuns going "aus too varp"

Nextcloud music Also supports subsonic as a protocol, so clients also can be used with that.

I picked up scribblenauts unmasked for like 90% off, I've always loved the series (though I find unlimited has fewer puzzles...)

Across different systems, probably Chronotrigger..... Maybe civ 1. Not bloody 3, not bloody 5, 1.

The two top ones host invidious, searx, and yacy on one and lotide (what I'm talking to you on) and matrix on the other, they both have Intel Atom D2550s. The bottom one has an Intel Core i5-4570TE, and hosts basically everything else including my reverse proxy server.

At some point I'd like to move to low-end ryzen embeddeds, because they are either as powerful or more powerful than anything I have and remain fanless, but one step at a time (and finding something that powerful that's inexpensive and scavenged from a roadside sign is tough sometimes)

https://lotide.fbxl.net/api/stable/posts/165851/href

My whole empire, made almost entirely of parts scavenged from roadside signs. (not a single fan on the whole setup)

The obvious point being that if they're not going to even run their own mail server, they won't run their own fediverse server.