Spyke
programming.dev

It's like "I have a windows computer, I install software on it and use the software. Why would I need more than 1?" Turns into "ooohhh, computers are great. All the things I can run and host. Software isn't just a gui".

It's like learning to love computers again

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hddsxreply
lemmy.ca

ASCII? What’s that? /me thumps stack of punch cards on table

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melroyreply
kbin.melroy.org

Punch cards? What are that? /me grapping my abacus to add up 2 numbers.

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Abacus? What is that?

/me grabbing my dedicated pile of stones so I can throw one into ground for each individual sheep I see to make sure I didn't lose any as counting wasn't invented yet

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It's the thing you run when your Parallel Processing Card is not doing anything and you go - "might as well"

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::: spoiler Spoiler: Late-stage Navi (Knowledge Navigator) :::

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grtereply
lemmy.ca

An anime called Serial Experiments Lain.

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This is me with old phones that I keep to prove LineageOS will still support, I keep them all updated, I flash Mobian or postmarketOS, but I keep none as a daily driver

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Lol, I've been wanting to tear down my old laptops down to the board and run them "bare" in my rack as some sort of cluster lmao

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Jim Eastreply
slrpnk.net

I've not heard of that. Does Fedora have its own coreboot distro, or is it something else?

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lemmy.ca

Ohhh I thought you were talking about flashing software for inputting the iso into the usb like Rufus.

I haven’t swapped out the BIOS/UEFI firmware before.

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Jim Eastreply
slrpnk.net

Compatibility with Libreboot/Canoeboot seems to be one of the main advantages of certain Thinkpad models, so it might be something to check out. :)

(For creating a bootable USB drive from a .iso file, can you not simply use the dd command?)

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lemmy.ca

Thanks for letting me know about these options. I haven’t tried the dd command though.

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You're welcome! To make a bootable USB drive with dd, the command would be sudo dd if=/path/to/installer.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=1M && sync where the sdX is your actual USB drive.

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lemmy.world

The masculine urge to buy a bunch of computers, deck my room out like some cyberpunk rat nest and do secret software stuff. (Seriously what would you even have multiple computers do.)

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(Seriously what would you even have multiple computers do.)

Setup k3s (pronounces "kubes") on each computer as a node. Run scalable software - a website, database, some LDAP setup for users, maybe.

Check out /c/[email protected] for inspiration :D

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Run Multiple Services silly. How do you think Spotify, Netflix, and all these other goofy things operate? I think it is the obsession to locally host your own services and compartmentalize things so things don't all come crashing down at once. It totally makes sense to me. And I don't even think it's masculine. I think chicks would even dig it too. I think they do actually dig it. I think you're just told as a female that that's just not for you. And some resist. No subscription for me, thank you very much. All these major tech-bro companies have blood on their hands. And what they do is nothing special.

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I mean, you don't need to at this point, all those incompatible with Windows 11 computers. So hard not to just buy another for $50

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Can't relate. That's after selfhosting not Linux. I only have 1 laptop anyways to do work on.

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I've got a random guitar amp I found next to a dumpster plugged into my raspberry pi...

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Then the next pannel should be a empty room after age verification.... They are gonna kill opensource... making a good thing bad. wE hAvE t0 $aVe duh CiLdReeeeeeN.... You ready install a root kit?

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