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  • aquacat@pawb.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Im sorta a computer hoarder but what can i do with some older desktops?
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    8 days ago

    Since there are a lot of OptiPlexses with different specs I will give you a general advice for making home servers.

    Use newest desktop you have and/or the one that took the least beating since you will need all the perfotmance and uptime you can get.

    If you opt for used storage (like some hard drives you have), make them into RAID with redundancy (at lrast one possible drive failiure, preferably two if you can).

    Also look for power efficiency, so if you have a laptop (and can add at least 2 drives in it for RAID) or a recent i3 or i5 dekstop (or even i7 if undervolted) that would be your best bet.

    Also look for decent network interface card. Try to avoid 10/100mbit and look for 1gbit, though I doubt that old PCs can even push 1gbit. Also make sure that the LAN plays nice with linux.

    For the OS, use something stable like debian, or if you want to thinker Alpine is fun and also really stable. Also Ubuntu Server is a solid choice.

    When deploying services like a file server if you just want something that works (or at least should be easier than other options) YunoHost or CasaOS are your friends, but you can learn docker (or run without encapsulation) and nginx (or other reverse proxy I don’t care).

    For a file server everyone has their preference, but I use SeaFile since it is crossflatform and simple with good integration.

    As I said, for any questions about selfhosting just hit c/selfhosted and ask away.

  • aquacat@pawb.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Im sorta a computer hoarder but what can i do with some older desktops?
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    8 days ago

    How old are we talking?

    • Anything before core iX series is not recommended to be used as a server (missing instruction sets, low efficiency etc.).It could still be used for fun projects like installing gentoo or old redhat with plasma 2.
    • If you have Core iX cpu (preferably 3rd gen or newer) you xan host some services, but look into c/selfhosted if you’re interested in that.
    • You could also experiment with Kubernetes and combine lots of bad PCs into one less bad PC.

    In the end PCs are useful only if you can run useful sodtware on them, but besides nostalgia there ain’t much use I see in them.

  • aquacat@pawb.socialtoCasual Conversation@piefed.social•Do you have some Personal "Hot Takes" that you (maybe) too scared to said online?
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    12 days ago

    Hot Take:

    every high school should have an entry test >!(idk what it is called in english but it is a test to see how strong is your knowleage)!< because middle school is so unserious and can vary so much depending where you are from.

    I was on a lower side of the entry for my high school but am somehow better than people who got almost full points! It is so unfair and doesn’t AT ALL take into account actual knowlage and take seats from people who are actually interested AND can keep up with the program.

    If most of the class can’t keep up you end up with few talented students who are way ahead of the class, but must wait for the others because underpaid teachers can’t (or wont) do personilized classes to everyone so they just take the slowest student and set theirs standards to that.

    Yes this is more like a rant, SUPER biased and I don’t still think the tests are a solution since they just fix the symtoms of the cause, but I stand by that some people should not be able to take schools they are taking no matter how many times they say they got there “fair and square”.

  • aquacat@pawb.socialtounixsocks on fediverse •what five years of computer science will do to you
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    19 days ago

    I have few things to say.

    • firstly I might be trippin but does your sysfetch say you have 17.4 Gb of RAM? HOW?
    • also I see you’re using bash. at this point you might as well try zsh with omz.
    • and why VScode when already you are using neovim (or other terminal code editor)? If you reeeally need the ecosystem try Codium. I doesn’t have all the exstenaions but if it has the one you need it is less bloated vscode (and gentoo users hate bloat)

    also the setup is nice ig

  • aquacat@pawb.socialtoEurope@feddit.org•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    4 months ago

    tldr;

    • europe is buying weapons
    • they buy from USA
    • bombs kill people and that is bad
    • so eu is bad because they normalize violence

    By that logic cars are bad because they also kill people, yet people are buying them. Only thing I agree with is that EU should invest in local weapons industry and not buy from USA, but some people in EU just LOVE that crusty trump cock.