I faced pretty much the exact same choice, except I was given four of them, each with 8 GB of RAM.

Unfortunately they were two different hardware revisions, so the most I could achieve was two servers with 16 GB each.

They sound like a Jet taking off when powered up and the BIOS doesn’t support lower fan speeds.

Instead after months of deliberation I decided to go with a SFF Lenovo, 32 GB, 2 x 1 TB NVME, Ryzen 7, and bought this:

https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/lenovo-ideacentre-ryzen-7-32gb-2tb-desktop-lenic00aau

It’s whisper quiet and running Proxmox.

To get VM video passthrough to work I installed an extra video card, though, you could install a desktop on the host OS instead if you prefer.

The video card I used to fit inside is this:

https://www.msy.com.au/product/msi-geforce-gt-1030-4gd4-low-profile-oc-graphics-card-geforce-gt-1030-4gd4-lp-oc-73092

Not sure what you mean. When I click the link on my post, it goes to where I intended. Note that I removed an errant period at the end of the URL about an hour ago.

Edit: Well this is getting weird. I tested it three times, now it goes to a redirect page that does require the period.

Edit: I think I nailed it third time around.

Thank you, fixed.

I think that it’s going to take societal change to stop this from being the norm. In Australia there was a road safety campaign with the slogan:

“Speeding. No one thinks big of you.”

It essentially compared speeding with having a small penis, by using the metaphor of a wiggling pinkie, and thus embarrassing perpetrators.

In other words, it needs to become uncool to drive such a massive vehicle. Perhaps “The bigger the trick, the smaller the …”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speeding._No_one_thinks_big_of_you.

Edit: Removed stray period.

Edit: Added non stray period back and changed how I entered the URL. Fingers crossed this works. Remind me again why I work in IT.

If you’re not going to show the source code, there’s absolutely no point in using GitHub.

As for getting paid, I hadn’t seen gumroad before, nice, but failing the access to the source, it’s unlikely I’d buy/pay for unknown software and install it sight unseen on anything I care about.

From a security perspective, in my opinion this is a disaster waiting to happen.

Goodise?

Pandoc will convert markdown to a PDF in portrait or landscape and there’s even “beamer” support, aka data projector or presentation support.

Why run Docker Desktop when it’s installable as a cli service?

What are you actually trying to achieve?

Tah. I’ll have a look see.

Not sure how, or if, I’d want to install an Arch package under Debian, but it’s my understanding that the package I’ve raised a bug for under Debian implements, or is supposed to at least, the functionality you’re describing.

What I haven’t found is a recipe that documents exactly how it’s supposed to work (not to mention, in a Debian way).

I’d love to discover something that doesn’t start with instructions to remove all pipewire packages and install from source, since that completely defeats the purpose of running Debian Stable as the host.

In my adventures I did look at this, but it appears to require that you install support for this inside the guest, which is possible for modern guests, but not for ancient ones like say Debian Wheezy or Win98se.

Bitcoin Bros … yeah, can’t say I considered those but I’d suspect that’s indeed a high probability.

Interesting concept, no idea if this is sourced or validated, or what the agenda of the publication is.

At this time I suspect that this is a hoax rather than a real news report. That might change with more information.

While this doesn’t answer your question, I use Docker for this exact purpose, since you can throw away everything if it fails, whilst keeping a recipe for success documented in a Dockerfile.

Given that you’re having issues with the DNS, I’d look at this.

Specifically, are you using the ISP DNS as an upstream lookup, or have you configured another DNS as the upstream?

Is the ISP DNS locking you out because you’re hammering it?

Does the ISP block traffic on Port 53?

When you’re having issues, can you look up addresses using a different DNS?

How is your DNS configured / implemented?

You do understand that California is not the centre of the universe, that states within the United States of America don’t agree on how to conduct voting, let alone agree on laws and finally, that there are 8.3 billion people on this planet, 96% of whom don’t live in, or are subject to laws made in the USA.

I’m sorry, but no.

Age validation is surveillance under the guise of “protecting the children”, which it spectacularly fails at for more reasons than I can count.

1. Everyone has to validate their age, which creates a whole infrastructure that require documents that “prove” your age.
2. A verified “under age” user will be added to a database by unscrupulous players, creating a honeypot for predators.
3. Age verification isn’t universal, isn’t uniform and regardless of the jurisdiction in which it’s implemented, won’t actually prevent content from being procured from sources outside that jurisdiction.
4. One source of objectionable content is another’s entertainment, legally so, given that laws are made in isolation from each other across borders.
5. The result of such legislation is the effective censorship of content that some lawmaker finds objectionable, which will cause more harm than good.
6. Operating System level age verification on open source platforms will spectacularly fail since they’re published outside the jurisdiction.

So … no.

I understand your point and agree that this is the thin end of the wedge.

What we’re doing here is discussing the phenomenon and I’m highlighting some concerns.

I believe that this is how you get a dialogue happening which will effect change, which is what we’re both advocating.

I think that age verification is about surveillance rather than protecting children and I think it should be fought at every level.

This is me contributing to that fight.

In my opinion, storing a date is pretty much irrelevant unless there’s a process that validates the supplied date, otherwise every Linux user was born on 1/1/1, if not, an administrator can “fix” that

Furthermore, that systemd thinks that it’s the place to store such information is in my opinion beyond absurd.

Who appointed that project the source of age truth in the Linux ecosystem? What discussion was there, who was consulted and where was the vote?