Why not just use what you have until you can afford to and/or need to upgrade? SAS drives are more expensive because they typically offer higher performance and reliability. Hardware raid may be “old” but it’s still very common. The main risk with it is that if your raid card fails, you’ll have to replace it with the same model if you don’t want to rebuild your server from scratch.
I’ve been running an old Dell PowerEdge for several years with no issues.
“Just need a few more million tons of bombs bro. Then the NVA will finally realize that WE’RE the good guys bro.”
– Robert McNamara (Probably)
Oh man. “Inner restlessness” is probably my least favorite ADHD symptom. I’m not outwardly hyperactive but my defective little brain sure is.
I used to treat it daily with Jim Beam but that’s not a good way to live either.
Now I take my bed time meds (including melatonin) about 3 hours before bedtime and put on my blue light glasses. It’s not perfect but it’s better than it used to be.
Management often views software engineers more like machines that spit out code rather than actual engineers who design software. I can’t tell you how many projects I’ve been on where someone up the ladder is unhappy with the time estimate given to complete a feature so they either bring on a contractor or pull a team from another project
Invariably, the additional “help” makes a giant cluster fuck and the people who are actually familiar with the code are now stuck having to scrutinize every PR and fix a ton of defects rather than contributing to feature development. Then the feature takes twice as long to develop as originally estimated. Management scratches their head, shrugs it off, and repeats the same mistake the next time.
I’ve heard it called a “suicide plug”. A common use for them is back feeding power from a generator into your homes electrical panel during extended power outages.
It can technically work but comes with major safety risks such as:
The proper way to do it would be to have a transfer switch and generator plug installed. The transfer switch guarantees that when you’re running on gen power, you’re not back feeding through the transformer out to the power line.
You just need a reminder to check your reminders.
“I’m going to set this right here. That way I will definitely remember where I put it.”
Narrator: “He did not remember.”
Facebook is optimized for other stuff. Vacuuming up data for instance. That tends to drag on performance. If you want to see a “fast” website, I believe McMaster-Carr’s is still the gold standard.
Set hammer on top of step ladder
Climb down from ladder
IMMEDIATELY forget about hammer
Move ladder
KLONK!! “Ow! Shit.”
“That’s the last time I’ll ever do that.”
Narrator: “It wasn’t even the last time that day.”
Self hosting is a great opportunity to learn about some popular technologies and even acquire a few sysadmin skills. Required knowledge of a self-hosted solutions tech stack is not gatekeeping any more than required knowledge of tools and building materials is gatekeeping when it comes to renovating your bathroom. In either scenario, if you don’t know what you’re doing, it’s going to be a much more difficult job.
reverse proxies
That said, you should not be exposing any of your services to the public if you don’t know what you’re doing. That’s a quick way to a bad time.
Users can interact with AI to explore story elements, generate summaries, and build a personal knowledge base.
You what else would accomplish this? Reading the fucking book.
The PC OS market is saturated and has been for years with Microsoft dominating the market since mid 1990’s.
They were smart enough to realize the market was tapped out a long time ago and have worked aggressively to transform the entire organization from an OS provider into a SaaS provider that also happens make the dominant PC OS. Windows is slowly becoming just a funnel to chain you to the Microsoft “ecosystem” and make it easier to sell you more of their services. Good business decision but shitty deal for the customer.
That said, one of the major selling points for Windows has always been backward compatibility. Enterprise customers like to keep running their ancient software and some of them will pay exorbitant licensing fees to keep doing that.
I grew up in a family with a cycle of abuse.
I now understand why my dad was as angry and violent as he was. It honestly made me feel sorry for him and made it easier to forgive him. But in no way did it excuse or justify his actions. What he did was still wrong.
When I forget the name of someone that I have known for ages. Especially frustrating when I see them somewhere and I’m scrambling through my phone contacts to see if it jogs my memory.
Then, all of a sudden POOF it comes back to me. So annoying.
I use Proxmox for Work and Hyper-V at home. Looking forward to retiring my old Hyper-V host and replace it with Proxmox because Hyper-V is a pain.
Virtualization really helps with reliability. In particular, by allowing you to quickly take snapshots before doing anything destructive and by streamlining backup and recovery.
Have you tried focusing and applying yourself?
/S
Ah. So Galveston.
I think you mean an “eeek-ooh-terrorist”
“Can you please do it right this time? Pretty please?”