TeaWithDani

Cynically though… they’ve been peddling nothing for two decades now. Big data, the cloud, SAAS, web 3.0, metaverse, nfts, llms, there’s always a new nothing born.

They are all going into debt over datacenters. Google issued new shares… how? why? They all make so much money and still they can’t cashflow this expansion.

What blood will there be to take?

Or his pivot to threads?

Yeah, that’s the neat part about servers, they don’t necessarily need to be snappy. Most of what it does is background work and it doesn’t have anything else to do. DDR3 and DDR4 get the job done just as well, and save you a buck.

My NAS has 16gb of ddr3 ecc, it has 10tb of ZFS pools and it runs an embedded OS. No problems with that. Not going to use it to host Gitlab lol, but it gets the job done for what it has to do.

Farming equipment is a particularly annoying one, that and construction vehicles, are becoming increasingly locked down by proprietary software and impossible to maintain yourself. You can’t even employ mechanics outside the dealer network in some instances and it will be more so in the future.

Do you really need 64gb though? Do you want a PCIe in a low wattage, low air circulation mini PC? Are you running a docker swarm of VMs within the same system? Why?

What’s your use case for this?

You won’t get Local LLMs if the PSU is minuscule. Best get a big old workstation with good cooling. Fried motherboards overloading them with local LLMs. That stuff is mean on hardware.

16gb is still fine for most people.

I think that’s how it went down for most people.

I remember getting free games with Gold back on the 360 and One. Eventually they became unplayable without the subscription. Kinda enshitified.

There’s just something about your progression being tied to a subscription that makes you want to invest less in the game.

There’s some kind of threshold of # of subscriptions and $ of subscription people are willing to be tolerant of.

Like most people were ok with Netflix/Prime when they were the only two in town and it cost like $20-$25 for both.

Now there’s how many different streaming services? You don’t even have an easy way to know which provider has what anymore either.

Microsoft currently sells 4 different passes… and I have no idea whatsoever which gives me what… And the prices range from $14 to $25 CAD, which is the upper limit of what people want to pay in total subscription cost alone.

People get games with Netflix and Prime on top of their existing subscription and I’m sure most people don’t play or even know about them. lol

I’m actually really surprised this didn’t work. They had acquired such a large amount of quality studios, IPs and a huge back catalogue. They had enough money to keep the subscription low indefinitely. Getting added to the Game Pass was a huge deal for indie devs at one point, but I think those who did were disapointed with returns.

Granted the article says they dropped 300 million on Jedi Survivor and Suicide Squad… which gets to the point of how unsustainable subscription models are. It’s like a smaller version of the Ai market. Just like how you can’t break even on 300 million selling a $10 a month subscription, you can’t break even on $30 billion investments with the same $10 subscription.

Still, how could you possibly mess this up. lol

The only requirement of the BSD license is you credit the code somewhere in a disclosure. That’s pretty much it.

At least it supports 64 bit then. 😅

Listen, can’t speak for 20 year old cpu, but yeah snaps are more optimized now than in 2018.

It’s more of a symbolic thing. FreeBSD has removed the vast majority of gpl code over the last decades. I think this specific removal was just a last lingering overlap that was difficult to replace.

Is it bad? It’s subjective. The project goals were always to be permissive. There was just historical borrowing from other open source projects.

I think both approaches are valid. GPL has fostered a greater number of maintainers and volunteer participants. That’s definitely its shown strength but you can also attribute fragmentation to this. Whereas BSD has created much more focused and targeted distributions. I guess that’s indirectly due to the license and more the smaller group of active contributors.

It’s really difficult to rival FreeBSD at certain specific usecases. I wouldn’t use anything else for a NAS or a router.

It’s a very lopsided distro, bad gpu and wifi support. Limited application support. Really not ideal for a desktop, nor is it really meant to be used that way.

Exactly, it’s a defining feature of the project. They don’t care how you use the code as long as you use it. It’s just a different philosophy.

BSDs are just doing their own thing and whether they benefit or not from others using their work is not really a concern.

Take OpenSSH, it’s used by virtually every operating system and just exists to be used. It’s a great contribution to software even if OpenBSD is a tiny marginal thing used by only those that need it. They are cool with that.

Yeah an appliance distro would be a different consideration. For me Ubuntu is really flexible and a great docker host. I feel it’s safer to tinker with since you get those extra layers of containment and sandboxing.

If I was to build an appliance I might also start with Debian, but so far I have used FreeBSD. Works great on my NAS, where I use XigmaNAS. You can transfer a surprisingly lot of skills. Learning what was common to FreeBSD and Linux really helped me with cli.

I’m curious to try making stuff with Ubuntu Core. I think it has potential, but that’s a future deep dive and project. lol

I discovered Tresorit and I like it so far. $150 usd a year for 1 TB. Owned by the Swiss Post of all things. I prefer state owned or non profit companies where possible as service providers.

I also wanted something GDPR compliant and outside the scope of the Cloud Act. I didn’t want my data accessible by a hostile nation.

I like their cli tools, though they are setup a bit weirdly on linux. It’s more like running binaries and scripts than installing a package. Nevertheless, it gets the job done. Upload speed isn’t amazing, but it is overseas. Took nearly 24 hours to send 100gb or something. My server handles it, so its not a concern.

I’m not sure I could recommend it as a replacement for a Google Drive since I don’t use it that way. I just turn the sync on once a week and it’ll diff what’s on my backups.

I might setup a different folder to use as a more daily cloud storage and see how that goes. There’s desktop and mobile apps.

I think that’s more of a Ubuntu Desktop concern. My thinkpad has a 4th gen i5 and launches Firefox maybe half a second slower on a fresh reboot and afterwards its normal.

Its really not relevant to a server who has all the time in the world to boot and stays up. Once the snap is launched, its launched, works fine afterwards. It’s all cached in the RAM or temp data or whatever afterwards.

Ideally your server install would be on an SSD and your data on HDDs. Performance will be good with that setup.

I wonder how viable it would be to do the opposite of quantum. If we remove every at risk feature and strip it down to the basics: no scripts, no multi-user, no public sharing etc…

Project could be pretty easy to maintain indefinitely?

I remember reading earlier this year that the project was essentially “complete” and would only get security updates.

But like he says: “people keep making PRs for new features. Features that I do really think would benefit the project.”

I really struggle with folks’ sense of gratitude sometimes. Like there’s so many people making cool things for us… for free… When they could be doing the same work for money.

But yeah, sucks nobody could really keep the project up and secure. I’m not looking for a fork that will add anything to the project.

I’ll read some of the bug tickets to see what the current state is like. Figured this thing could just work indefinitely without much maintenance… its so simple?

Yeah… I pay money for 2 cores and 4gb RAM. I’d read the fine print on those free services.

I’m not comfortable with free services anymore. Nor am I comfortable dealing with a company subject to the Cloud Act.