Apropos of nothing, this was an article about substance from a year ago:

Substack faces user revolt over anti-censorship stance on neo-Nazis

Fuck substack.

Shit, this article is about stack overflow, not substack. Too early, but still fuck substack.

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What the fuck is the point of putting “AI” into a fucking TV, other than to have something else to spy on you?

Do you have any resources on that kind of setup? I appreciate that constructive advice!

Among 12th graders, 66% reported no recent use of alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, while 80% of 10th graders and 90% of 8th graders avoided these substances entirely

I would say yes.

Among 12th graders, 66% reported no recent use of alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, while 80% of 10th graders and 90% of 8th graders avoided these substances entirely

Turns out, the people running this thought of that possibility.

Do you have any info on the custom setup? Sounds like a fun project/learning experience.

And do you mean OCI like oracle cloud?

That’s actually doable. Thanks for that friend.

Hell 50 bucks you can get a decent SSD.

If only it were that easy, I would have already thrown a spare 2.5" into the system, but it’s only got a single nvme slot for local storage.

That’s really good to know. Do you ever have issues writing database files on those disks? Database files on nfs mounts have been the bane of my existence.

Interesting, it was running on this system, so it may actually have been wear that killed the drive. I’ll have to look into that config and see if it’s worth getting a new nvme to throw into the cook box.

Thanks for that info!

Yeah, pretty much what I guessed. The drive came with a cooling pad but it didn’t do much at all

Yeah, NFS bind mounts aren’t an issue. The issue I run into is database lock errors when I try to write a database file to the NFS share. I’ve got 1G networking as well and haven’t seen issues accessing regular files from my containers via the bind mounts.

Yeah, I didnt think that was a realistic possibility. Given that it was a bitty fan less nuc style system, I’m leaning more to a heat death as I originally surmised.

E: though another person suggested a frigate misconfig could have worn the drive out early

I docker’d all of my systems a few years ago, and I’m so glad I did. So much easier to manage, and when I lost a system I was able to get most of my services back up and running with minimal configuration on a VM same day.

As for hardware, you might check and see if you’ve got a local reseller of retired business equipment. Before I moved, I had a place I went to from my work that accepted shit we were getting rid of that disposed of stuff and resold at a bargain the stuff that was still good. I got more than one hp tower from a few years previous that ran (and still runs) like a champ. Felt like night and day when I upgraded to that from my Pi setup, and they were only like $35 each.

My ideal is something more like a netboot-able image that I can modify/recreate and have it pull on next boot. But those options aren’t a bad thought either. I’d just need to have the bootable image configured with the info needed to bootstrap it. I’ve got another VM that’s got a different automation platform running (Powershell Universal), but it would give me an excuse to learn another well known automation platform.

I might be able to hook it up to a usb NVMe reader, but when I initially tried I barely got any recognition of the drive from the OS. My primary system is windows, so I might get more info from one of my linux systems, just haven’t had the fucks to give to the dead drive. As for a replacement drive, funds are scarce and time/learning is (comparatively) free. Someone else suggested kubernetes, so I might look into that to see if that can accomplish what I’m looking for.

I’m leery about using a USB for long term persistent OS storage due to lifespan issues I’ve seen when just running a hypervisor from one. A ‘real’ usermode OS is probably going to have a worse lifespan than what I was seeing at work.

I don’t want to use a USB for storage, because those aren’t going to have a great lifespan in my experience. I’ve used them as the install media for something like ESX, but I’d rather not run a ‘real’ OS from a disk because I wasn’t impressed with overall lifespan on some of the systems we managed at work.

Realistically, I just want to have a system that can act as the hardware end point for a coral processor to do image recognition. I don’t need to write a lot on demand, and what was being written previously was all to the NAS (other than the app’s database)