TedZanzibar

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[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 8 points 4 days ago

I feel like this is the wrong way around. It should say that five lights are included but show pictures of four.

[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 14 points 1 week ago

Controversial as in it ruined an otherwise great show? Dexter.

[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's more like £150/year, but it's charged every 3 years. Still very expensive compared to .com for sure!

[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This looks really good and I'm enthused with how responsive you're being, will definitely give it a try.

It is a bit of a shame you didn't call it Jott as jo.tt is available as a domain, but then the tt TLD is pretty expensive so maybe not!

[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

I assumed you were linking Mario Piu's take from 15 years earlier. It was a club classic.

[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Contacting the registrar is worth a shot and could be your best bet. I recently did a similar thing except the expiring domain was on a pretty obscure country-TLD with only one registrar. They told me how long the grace period was and then I setup a script to check the availability every minute and alert me when it came up.

Probably not feasible with a .com or similar but they might be able to help in some regard. Edit: though having read about drop catching, that's definitely your best bet if it's likely to be sniped!

[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is very impressive and I'm highly likely to give it a whirl. My question is, though: would it be something that my very non-tech savvy wife could use?

Eg. I'm thinking setup the app on her phone with a default location and when she asks me for a file I can just tell her that I've "put it in the app", and she'll be able to easily retrieve it. Also same thing but vice versa, though the video seems to cover that via the Android share menu...

Again, super impressive. Good job!

[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah right? See also: Cryptocurrencies.

[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I tried a couple episodes of Lower Decks but I wasn't taken. Maybe I should just skip to S2.

[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Came here to ask if it was worth watching as someone who considers Next Gen and DS9 (and Voyager to a lesser extent) to be peak Trek. I think you've answered my question!

[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 3 points 4 months ago

Start of September

[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 21 points 4 months ago

I used to work at a games studio that would get these delivered fairly regularly, usually paired with a particular motherboard and presumably a custom BIOS.

I think we were technically supposed to return them but the manufacturers never enforced it, so once the chip was actually released to the public - and assuming the sample was stable enough for general use - the PC would rotate into normal stock and eventually get sold for cheap to staff or end up in the spare parts bin.

While it was cool at first to get pre-production chips before anyone else, it became pretty mundane and I'm not at all surprised to see them out in the wild decades later. Interesting piece of history though!

 

Quick overview of my setup: Synology NAS running a whole bunch of Docker containers and a couple of full blown VMs, and an N100 based mini PC running Ubuntu Server for those containers that benefit from hardware acceleration.

On the NAS I have a Linux Mint VM that I use for various desktoppy things, but performance via RDP or NoMachine and so on is just bad. I think it's ultimately due to the lack of acceleration, so I'd like to try running it from the mini PC instead but I'm struggling to find hypervisor options.

VirtualBox can be done headless, apparently, but the package installed via Apt wants to install X/Wayland and the entire desktop experience. LXC looks like it might be a viable option with its web frontend but it appears to be conflicting with Docker atm and won't run the setup.

Another option is to redo the machine with UnRaid or TrueNAS Scale but as they're designed to be full fledged NAS OSes I don't love that idea.

So what would you do? Does anyone have a similar setup with advice?

Thanks all!

Edit: Thanks for everyone's comments. I still can't get LXC to work, which is a shame because it has a nice web frontend, so I'll give KVM a go as my next option. Failing that I might well backup my Docker volumes, blat the whole thing and see what Proxmox can do.

Edit 2: Webtop looks to be exactly what I was looking for. Thanks again for everyone's help and suggestions.

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