I used to run Linux Mint on mine. Worked fine, some quirks with the ctrl key not working. Did you have the same problem on EOS?

That’s too bad. Luckily i keep just a couple of docker compose stacks there. But I should start backing them up, that vps is the only thing I don’t backup

Second Anubis, just finished by setup yesterday i have it of a oracle cloud frre tier vps, which depending on the domain routes the traffic to services hosted on the vps itself or to my server ar home. Relatively easy to setup, blocks most requests with very few false positives (one of which for example it would aggressively challenge by thunderbird trying to reach my baikal instance). I set a bit more aggresive rules than default (i also block googlebot and bingbot, since i received a bit more requests than I’d like). In like 10 hours it straight up denied about 5000 requests from the ai-catchall ruleset (mostly amazonbot) and challenged about 10000, mostly from a block of IPs in singapore, some of the hosts having the user agent of a Macintosh with PowerPC. They all sure love to explore the public repos on my git server.

I’m in the process of changing servers for an upgrade, the old one still hosting more services while I setup the new one. The old one now does run audibly quiter. I don’t even want to think how much electricity went wasted because of those bots

I actually never investigated. My guess would be yes

No, it’s because, in the very specific fault I described, at least one of the caps on the supply line are actually shorted. I don’t know how rare it is, I’ve had it happen on a couple laptops, both Dell now that I think about it

Does the power supply turn off, entering short circuit protection, when plugged into the laptop? If so some capacitors on the supply line may be shorted. Usually they are all in parallel so to find which one is shorted go by trial and error: remove each shorted cap test continuity outside the mobo. If it beeps it’s dead. You should be able to power the laptop without that cap.

Note that caps under/behind the CPU/GPU appear shorted even if they are working when the laptop is off, do not touch them

Also if you’re considering new hardware already I really recommend looking into surplus enterprise gear. I run my whole lab on an R730XD. It holds a ton of drives, has an IDRAC (I can’t live without it now), ECC for extra peace of mind during ZFS scrubs, and they hold an insane amount of inexpensive RAM. They’re fairly cheap on eBay or from refurbishment companies. Bring your own drives with warranties though, used drives are a headache. Servers like this can be really noisy though, I keep mine in the basement.

I’ve briefly considered it but it is out of the question for me. Not enough space in the house and enterprise gear is way too noisy. This setup will probably sit next to the TV in the living room so it has to be as silent as possible.

This is really interesting, might be the way to go for me

I had thought of that, I didn’t really like the idea of using a third party service to access my machines.

Also I didn’t mention in the post, but, while my ISP gives me a public IP, I only use port forwarding to wireguard into my home networks. My services are exposed via a vps hosted on oracle cloud free tier free, which forwards public traffic to my server via another wireguard connection

How is that different from a VM and using docker inside it? Any specific advantages/disadvantages to both approaches?

No, I wanted something that I could upgrade if I wanted in the future, especially for disks. I still have 4x 3.5’ slots available in the case and as for sata ports on the mobo I can always by a controller to plug in the pcie slots

Wait is that in the background supposed to be the tardis?

I was not expecting a Polynerdeia meme in here, nice

Very nice! Are you using some sort of tiling window management plugin/setting for kde? Or did you place the windows manually?

It’s the second random post in which I find you randomly throwing Doctor Who quotes. They’re so on point every time, love that :D

Straight out from Pantheon. Actually a part of the plot of the show

A daffodil is not a broadsword, BUT I STILL WON THE LAST ROUND!

Funny 3 out of 12 are minecraft

Our goal is to continue the legacy of Mull by providing a free and open source, privacy and security-oriented web browser for daily use

Anyone can explain to me what happened to Mull?

I’ll bite. Meta, obviously, never actually cared about free speech. Zuckerberg also said that they are about to flood the platforms with AI bots to increase engagement. I’d say getting rid of fact checkers is only to avoid having their own bots automatically brought down by their own moderation. The rest is a façade