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I did similar task recently, but used my old MacBook Pro 2011 (15 inch, with a faulty GPU). I chose DietPi, which I can recommend as a start distro for a newcomer. I chose it since I have some experience with it from my Raspberry Pi and I plan to give the laptop to a friend, who isn’t familiar with Linux. (For him to run Immich.)

I have a similar MacBook Pro for myself, with Arch Linux installed (my old laptop with a few keys now broken). It’s on WiFi, not Ethernet, and where the signal isn’t very good. Yet, I’m mostly happy with the result.

So far, being somewhat experienced with Linux, I think I’d choose DietPi for most server setups. I really love it, a good work done by maintainers. I can recommend going with it for your first self-hosted adventures.

I hate Microsoft so much that I’d prefer them to bankrupt and have some other duopoly. I’m ok with it being Linux and macOS. But not Linux and Windows.

Ideally, though … Linux vs FreeBSD. Since you cannot install macOS on anything but an Apple computer. So, that’s a niche thing already. A Linux / FreeBSD duopoly feels very nice to have!

By complex X setup I meant something that isn’t available in Wayland. I haven’t noticed anything being changed when I migrated from X to Wayland. On some machines I don’t even have XWayland installed. Hence, I don’t understand the ‘Wayland bad, I continue using X’ drama. I imagine these people have some complex setups that Wayland doesn’t support.

If replying very briefly, I think we all need to bury Windows, to make Linux the default, whatever that default is. And then, some of us may migrate to, say, FreeBSD or others. As someone mentioned already, I think the most viable way is FreeBSD, if you want to run games. I’ve read OpenBSD being too slow, since they prioritise security over performance. So, for games, that’s a no-go.

Me, I have no issues with most things Linux. Systemd is convenient, whatever that is. I have never relied on complex X setups. I came to very shallow understanding of it somewhat recently, and I am long with Wayland already (Sway). I don’t like the bloat, but my current Arch Linux setup is close to what I want. I may prefer Gentoo, but I have no knowledge for it, and resources to acquire the knowledge.

If I am to migrate one day, I think FreeBSD is close to what I want. But I don’t know it first hand, and I’m not sure my hardware well supported. Maybe it is. Maybe it’s not. So far, all rings considered, I’m very happy with Linux. As someone who came from a decade of macOS. I haven’t even seen Windows properly since 7. The 10 was a joke, and now 11… I have no name for it, worse than that.

Well, it ends where it gets in the teeth.

Russia is working on it. If that’s not what you want, help Ukraine as much as you can.

Well, stupid thing that technically that’s true, since Ukraine refuses to remove its troops from Ukraine. While Russia considers the entire territory of Ukraine as theirs, so they expect Ukrainians to leave that territory. Neat, right? In the same way, I hope against hope, many other countries would claim the territories Russia holds as theirs and order Russia to leave those territories, shrinking the fuckers to what they belong to, just two fucking cities. However, personally I’d prefer their imitation of European cities to be grounded as they grounded many Ukrainian cities. For Moscow, I’d love to see its centre to follow the same fate, so they’d be left with their wonderful Soviet architecture.

I had an entry level GPU (Radeon RX580 4GB) which I bought from a friend for €150 circa 2018, when its price was about twice more (won’t recall, from €200 to €250 maybe), he just did not need it and the card was overkill for my ‘just render the interface and occasional Photoshop-like kind of task’ workload. I thought I needed it, but it turned out I never utilised it. I don’t play games, that was for my Hackintosh to get a native support (which worked). I needed to upgrade the PSU alongside the GPU. I saw almost no difference in day to day life, since most of my work was some office-like stuff.

We entered some crazy times with GPUs a bit later, 2019 or ’20, another friend who was buying and selling these cards, told me I should sell it for €150 to €180 (basically returning my money back), and while I agreed with him at the time, I did not sell it. I didn’t want to spend my efforts on that, and then spend my efforts on buying something else (I thought I’d still need some GPU).

I regret that slightly. Not much, since €150 isn’t much to lose, and I did not have much resources to spend on this task. But if it was today, I think I’d do that.

I believe RAM prices would fall significantly at some point (would take years), I did buy +16 GB of DDR3 RAM right before the Rampocalypse, but I don’t see DDR3 being too expensive today. I don’t really utilise 32 GB vs 16 GB, but there’s not much point to sell it for what I’ve bought (€30 or so).

DDR5, on the other hand, may sell for a very good price, so if you don’t utilise it fully, why not then? You may buy a much better memory in some years. Keep in mind though that this crisis may take longer than we all hope. May take it not a year or two, but, say, five or ten.

Me, I’m ready for this. I run Linux, which works ideally with even just 8 GB of DDR3 RAM (my current laptop), so I’m pretty confident I’d survive till the prices drop. I’m not even sure I need it being newer and faster. Only if the hardware upgrade price would be insignificant to notice. I’ve got my current laptop from work for free, so that’s even better than I expected. But that’s just a different story.

Opening was very slow: instant vs maybe 30 sec sometimes. I won’t recall. I agree, a new tool may want a different perspective and use patterns. So I don’t blame it, just I initially thought it would be the same thing, as it’s evil mode, but realised I need to invest more into the setup, and I had no resources for that at the time. May try again later.

I tried that, and it was incredibly slow for me. I tried to use eMacs because of the org mode, but eventually I gave up and returned to markdown and vim.

I think you need a good understanding of why would you want to have eMacs with vim keybindings. Perhaps that’s super useful for someone, but I just gave up for now.

Tried what I thought the opposite side is, Helix. Didn’t work for me either. I’m with vim for now, may reconsider at some later point, when I’d have more resources to learn and explore.

Yeah, was my first time hearing of open project, and that Confluence alternative too (wasn’t surprised here, as I know of multiple wiki implementations). Any coverage for this projects is good for them.

Have you considered a projector? Just saying, I’ve got one recently, and your floor plan seems ideal for that. Also, as a bonus point, you may have a much bigger screen, for fully immersive experience.

Didn’t know, thanks! Still, 30 TB isn’t much, is it? I can have a disk this size. I assume the tape is much cheaper, but I need to write this tapes non-stop then, if I were the megacorp. Especially when the data changes all the time. Say, a Flickr user would usually not change their old photos, only adding new. But having a service like Dropbox being backed up this way… feels very difficult, unless it’s entirely automated. (Never heard of the tapes. Well, maybe once, but never explored further.)

I assume that’s too expensive for me to backup, say, family photos and videos this way. Right? Would be cool to have a super disk like that lying around. My bet the equipment needed is super expensive and big, so enterprise only.

I’m not, obviously. Just wondering that having all your data at theirs means no proper backups and someone else having access to it. Like, why would you want that then?

No guys, I meant the backups strategy for a company this scale. Those are millions of HDDs. Each server’s HDD has to be duplicated, isn’t it? You won’t simply use USB disk for those. Unless you’d juggle them all day long.

For millions of users, what would be the backup strategy? Basically you need just another data centre to backup the data, right?

Not an expert and never thought on this, before reading your comment.

But this at least signifies once again that the American president is but a Russian bitch, who works for Russia not for the US. I wonder what American citizens think about that. Them being basically ruled by Russia, a failed state, which is rather a terrorist state run by mafia. A wonderful place of 250 years of democracy. Well, partially ruled, at least. I have no idea what part of the congress is bought by Russia and serves their interests. I hope it’s a minority, otherwise that’s just quite a miserable state to find yourself in.