any bias that doesn’t confirm my bias is reverse bias

see also: reverse racism

everything is a file, except when it’s not.

how do you know if someone is a vegan…

it’s literally a meme template for insufferable people to say “I’m x btw” and those same people don’t actually say it, it’s a fucking jab at them.

maybe do a google search before attacking people on the internet … or don’t, I’m not your manager.

carnivore btw

I use Arch btw was always a meme , literally no one ever said it unironically.

I use Arch btw

da fuck?

my main PC hosts nothing, everything else is always on

sometimes I remember I’m self hosting things

I use a cron job but have

alias updog='sudo apt update | lolcat && sudo apt upgrade -y | lolcat'
for when I feel like making sure

let me just quickly check discord … and manually download and run this update before we can automatically update again

ITT: People who have never heard of Crontab

my scsi controller needs to be entered during boot to manage raid. it also has an external battery that needed replacing (which cost more new than just buying a new card … with the exact same battery) so if you’re not in verbose boot mode figure that out and see if the controller is telling you which function key it needs.

figuring out this old stuff is most of the fun in running it, I would sell it as scrap before actually hosting anything on it.

I have a HP Proliant DL380G7, basically the last server with a front side bus, and all the comments about it where about power per watt.

and they’re not wrong.

I just don’t think this is the community for old servers like this, self hosting is very much a practical consideration and the money spent on electricity running anything useful on these old things is better spent on a raspberry pi or stand alone NAS or something.

The home of Kafka still pumping out the paperwork I see.

Ah, the star trek method

old

laser

That’s the key

Brother just has the most recent ones, but if you can find an old laser the brand almost doesn’t matter.

I don’t see the programmer socks in the picture, did I miss them?

Dial in BBS

it’s called the bleeding edge because you risk getting cut every time .

by the time I can afford a 30 the 20s will be cheap enough to tile my floor with.

Back in the 90s

carnivore btw