I am not convinced that the new tools will be better than the originals. The coreutils have been optimized and vetted for over 30 years (most of the tools predate the existence of “coreutils”). Numerous groups have tested them, hit them with crazy attacks, and hardened them against those.
Those Dell fans were never built to be quiet. And they are also not built to be replaced by any quiet fans.
While yes, there is a reason why I have retired the Dell server I had for a normal desktop PC. The server was so loud, I could hear it two stairs and two closed doors away.
My largest file transfer I have done via USB disk. You simply don’t transfer multiple terabytes over the net.
I use my former PC as the home server. It is probably 10+ years old, has no M2 slot or something, but an SSD for the OS. More than big and fast enough for all my needs: File service (Samba), Web service (apache2), Wiki service (mediawiki), Database (MySQL), Calendar service (Radicale), Project service (Subversion), and probably some others I forgot. All of it running on Ubuntu Server, aministrated by WebMin.
The only investment I did when I turned this into a server was that I put 2x8TB in it as a RAID for bulk storage - I dump the family PCs backups on that machine, too.
That is the future of AI written code: Broken beyond comprehension.
That is a big one. IoT lives off ESP32.
Customized bling bling PCs are for kids. Like Windows.
Great times. And new rules every year!
No docker. Plain executable.
You need this for your family, and not hundreds of people? No crazy, outlandish usage requirements?
Then basically any PC will do.
I do regularly have issues with radicale, for years now. One is that it does not work properly after boot. I have to SSH in, kill the radicale process, and restart it.
What the heck are you self-hosting that anything beyond 64G is even taken into account?
An old co-student back then went away for a number of months in 1998/99. Turned out he had done a job in Frankfurt for some bank before 2k for some real money. The job included a nice apartment and a chauffeur free service.
Do you think opinions should be shareable in any form, or respectful?
It’s probably the usual case of “respect my opinion while I don’t respect yours.”
On the contrary, it makes the community look good not to federate with everyone. There are instances that are so toxic that I’m really happy not to have them around. Let the gun-lovers, fascists, the Russian mouthpieces, the spammers, etc. have their place, but don’t offer them the platfor they don’t deserve.
One might get banned for opinions that are incompatible with certain instances. You can always open your own, and build a community of similar minded individuals. But never expect everyone to federate with you.
My home server runs on an old desktop PC, bought at a discounter. But as we have bought several identical ones, we have both parts to upgrade them (RAM!) as well as organ donors for everything else.
I don’t speak elisp, but I speak regexp. Looks like the LLM speaks neither.
With tools it is often the thing with “newer, easier” and “old reliable” versions. If you want to write and print a text, Word might be easier, but TeX is still more predictable and reliable. And with software like the literally CORE utils, I actually prefer predictable and reliable over fancy eye candy. I could easily see to have them both installed, so everything that worked before still works without the risk of breaking at some odd point, but might use the Rust version like “Rcp -g” if applicable.