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nexusband , 23 days ago

What a load of bullshit, Voters that don't turn up are the most dangerous of them all, because it lowers the percentage and skews the votes. If 40% go voting and make their vote invalid, those 40% still get counted, meaning the percentage for other parties is overall lower.

nexusband , 2 months ago

Yes, I did. But I couldn't get my Homeassistant to work routing through it, so I switched back to Proxy Manager...

nexusband , 2 months ago

If average joe can't be assed to to some research, the product isn't for average joe and that's a good thing. Because designing a product for average joe has a lot of drawbacks.

nexusband , 2 months ago

I finally switched my gaming rig two weeks ago. Been great so far, except VR and I'll admit, the Xbox Game Pass missing...I wish gog or someone would come up with something like it, because there have been a lot of games I started and didn't finish because they just haven't been my cup of tea...

Now if Autodesk would get their shit together as well, things could be happening at work as well.

nexusband , 2 months ago

That's why I said "someone" and "something", because I'll be the first to admit I have absolutely no clue on how that would look like. Humble Bundle Choice is something I do like, but it's steam only...while that's cool in terms of proton, steam deck and so on, Steam is still a service that has to work, because without I can't use the products. With gog I can just save those files and use them whenever and wherever I need to...
Windows, Linux...doesn't matter much.

nexusband , 2 months ago

Different Game Pass - talking about the one where you run the games locally...

nexusband , 2 months ago

"AI" is probably simple machine learning?

reads article

Yes, it is.

nexusband , 2 months ago

That's not the issue in IT anymore. There are loads of alternatives, but rebuilding existing infrastructure on these kind of scales is nearly impossible without causing some serious downtime, loss of money or maybe even loss of life in case of some medical facilities.

nexusband , 2 months ago

What? Have you looked at the prices? Proxmox and TrueNAS have ridiculously low prices compared to VMware support. If we're talking about Nutanix and stuff, sure - they aren't cheaper than VMware. But Proxmox and TrueNAS are dirt cheap in comparison - not only because the documentation is pretty damn good, your standard, run of the mill Linux admin can do both, while Nutanix and the likes is an entirely different animal.

nexusband , 2 months ago

Full support from Proxmox isn’t cheap, compared to even the new prices on VMware, if you look at the per processor cost that small businesses often have.

You're joking, right? VSphere is AT LEAST 1400 per year for the base license, that hasn't even got any support tickets - one Ticket is at least 300, 5 tickets is around 1200. Proxmox Full support starts at 340 Euros - with 3 Support tickets included. Then there's also the fact, that Proxmox doesn't have core limitations - meaning, you need at least two VSphere licenses for a 64-Core EPYC CPU. Oh, you want advanced networking or storage services? That's even more.

As I said - it depends on processor count. I know a number of small businesses that will be paying $5k/year for VMware, not much more than Proxmox top tier (which is what they would want).
Proxmox is about $1500 per processor, so would be $3k-$6k/year for these businesses. That’s a trivial difference when you look at VMware already being installed and running, no transition costs, no risk of migration. You’d burn up a few $k difference with a single issue.

WTF? You can't even compare the 5k/year for VMware, just beacuse of the the single fact, that proxmox has UNLIMITED support tickets in the top tier. Not only that - it's 1,1k per processor without any core limit - VSphere still has that ridiculous 32-Core Limit. In many cases, VMware also has support times up to 24 hours - proxmox has max. 2 hours

Frankly, as much as VMware annoys the shit out of me, I couldn’t recommend migrating to Proxmox for those businesses, today. At best I’d recommend planning a transition when they need to upgrade servers, and do it early as a parallel install to give transition time for the business.

SMB doesn’t have the luxury of test labs for this stuff - they don’t have the cash flow/finance room to justify it.

If they don't, they don't have the cash or finance room to justify their IT, period. For most SMBs, IT has become the utter lifeline for everything they do, that's basically like when you are a machine shop without power. Meaning, the company is dead in the water for a serious period of time.

nexusband , 3 months ago

Yeah, the quality of Nvidia pro drivers is a crapshoot though. We've had so many issues, especially with OpenGL, it just isn't funny anymore. Granted, AMD isn't really that much better, but at least the cards cost a fraction and I have more confidence in AMD fixing the problem, than I have in Nvidia.

nexusband , 3 months ago

QNAP x86, standard uefi! Can run anything. Been running mine with Proxmox, ZFS, Runtipi and others. Easy GUI setup for everything, Runtipi is just clicking add for various things.

nexusband , 3 months ago

Do it anyway and put an x86 OS on one of the "standard UEFI" versions. There's no other Hardware better on the market for this - even self build isn't going to come close, there's simply no case with 8 hotswap slots (for example).

nexusband , 3 months ago

Get an x86 Qnap and put Truenas Scale on it - there is no case in that form factor in existence.

nexusband , 3 months ago

Get an x86 Qnap and put Truenas Scale on it - there is no case in that form factor in existence.

nexusband , 3 months ago

Does this have a backplane?

nexusband , 3 months ago

I've had a look and sadly, they are not available in Europe (at least for any reasonable price).

nexusband , 3 months ago

You could do all that, yes - but that's not really "replacing" a Synology IMHO. The point is that you don't really have to think about putting it all together correctly - put the drives in, install your OS of choice and that's it.

nexusband , 3 months ago

Basically, all of those https://www.qnap.com/en/how-to/faq/article/nas-recovery-guide-for-x86-based-nas
There are some older models that can only boot from the DOM, however most newer ones (especially the AMD Ryzen ones, which i personally would highly recommend) have no issue. The early TS-X77 models do not boot from NVME, but that can be overcome with some creativity :)

nexusband , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

It is. And I personally commend Google for this - they are pretty much the last manufacturer to truly give your the freedom, without crippling the device to hell and back. Sony and Samsung cripple the cameras when you unlock the boot loader, nearly all Chinese manufacturers don't even give you the choice, Xiaomi has a "wait list".

Say what you want about Google - they still aren't as terrible as others.

nexusband , 3 months ago

Google is just the complete opposite and empowers global surveillance.

I disagree with that. Yes, they enable it, but you can turn (nearly) everything off in the settings and with a few ground rules things are quite good.

Take TikTok, Meta or something like that...you can't turn off most of the data harvesting and profiling.

nexusband , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Smaller corporations have it easier, IF they took IT Security serious. For the simple fact, that there are just a lot less entry points and way less whack amole playing.

And Microsoft never took security as serious as they should have.

Edith: And I highly doubt, we'll see a substantial change on Microsoft's side. 1.: There's less Money to be made. 2.: In some ways, their hands are tied because of the still ongoing Patriot Act/USA Freedom Act (which is a bullshit name) or rather the safe harbor stuff.

nexusband , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

You do realize, many of those "forever chemicals" have no alternative? PFOA for example is essential for modern production, because there is no other material known to withstand the temperatures and pressures needed in the production processes? So the alternative is either not to use them at all, with ALL the consequences - or we have use a proper way to dispose them.

Purification Plants are the same argument analogy.

nexusband , 3 months ago

Is there really no alternative in shampoo & disposable coffee cups?

There is - but i personally think it's up to customers to not just grab what's on the shelf and do at least some basic research, because PFAS generally have to be marked on the bottle. Disposable coffee cups are just stupid all together.

This could have been done years ago but if industry can’t self regulate then bans it is.

I get the sentiment, but why not regulate stuff, before just banning it? And while we're at it, how about educating the customer?

nexusband , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

And you are arguing that customers become mindless drones that don't need to think about any consequences when they consume. Which is exactly why we have fucked up the climate.

Coming back to the purification plant, that's the same thing if everyone would go shit in the Neighbors garden and flushing down anything down the toilet. We don't do that, because we know it would fuck up the purification plant, clogg the toilet and turn the garden in to a literal dump.

Choosing what you buy is also the same thing as choosing what to eat. Sure, if you don't know any better you may just eat junk food all day long. But the consequences are going to haunt you very much.

nexusband , 3 months ago

Maybe in the U.S., but not in Europe. We got the Nutri-Score, we got the animal wellfare labeling and we have open source databanks where you scan the barcode and get all the information about a product so you can actually make a decision.

nexusband , 3 months ago

Oh i absolutely agree with you. Especially in cosmetics and other "day to day" products that are disposable.

But that's also exactly the argument - make companies and customers dispose of these products correctly, because banning PFAS outright will have devastating consequences. (Like 3M just shifting production to China from Europe. Europe had the highest safety and production standards for PTFE - now they are going to be produced in china with absolutely no standards )

And if there is a proper way to recycle those PFAS, there is no need to shift production to places where there are no standards so you can get a porper goretex jacket (for example), because phasing out PTFE for something other that's substitutable now has an incentive.

nexusband , 3 months ago

I've been wondering for quite some time why everything is going to shit. Now I think I get the picture. Thanks for the enlightenment.

And yes, I fucking expect people to think about their decisions and take responsibility serious - even if they don't have the means to get caviar or Champagne all the time. But hey, I'll probably be labeled as boomer in the next few years, so whatever floats your boat!

Judging by all these downvotes, I guess that ship has sailed a long time and maybe I shouldn't care so much 🤔

nexusband , 3 months ago

Well, since working in the industry, i can say with a very high confidence: There will be substitutes, but not for everything - at least at this point in time. There may soon very well be a breakthrough in material science, but at this point there is no alternative in some use cases (like gaskets, that have to sustain extreme temperatures and pressures...).

But i absolutely do agree with you.

nexusband , 3 months ago

for example production of base chemicals that are used in various other follow up products, lot's of efficiency due to special membranes and so on.

nexusband , 3 months ago

maybe we all are? 😵

nexusband , 4 months ago

That's a pretty daft conclusion, because JCB has been making Hydrogen machinery for quite some time now and power made for all the equipment on site can also easily be made with hydrogen.

nexusband , 4 months ago

That is incorrect, because salt water electrolysis is a thing - actually so much more efficient even, that they salt fresh water because it takes less energy. Not only that - the plant which I indirectly work for uses grey water. You know, that stuff that you flush down the drain?

nexusband , 4 months ago

And they generally get subsidized...

nexusband , 4 months ago

That's not true, Gasoline doesn't have to be made from Fossile fuels either. It's pretty easy to make actually - there are a number of European companies doing it and with the Co2 Taxes, it will be a viable option by 2028.

nexusband , 4 months ago

In my "testing" at work and private, PVE is miles ahead of xcp-ng n terms of performance. Sure, xcp-ng does it's thing very stable, but everything else...proxmox is faster

nexusband , 4 months ago

I really hope so. I still have to see a meaningful use case for these kind of LLMs that just get fed with all kinds of data. LLMs "on premise" that are used for specific jobs are fine, but this...I really hope a Kessler-Like syndrome blows it out the water, for countless reasons...

nexusband , 4 months ago

Spain and Portugal laughing from their benches on their roofs...surrounded by lush green plants..

nexusband , 4 months ago

It has absolutely nothing to do with the lines, but the headends. Coax is very capable of transmitting lots of Data fast. Due to the tree topology of cable however, the headends have to be extremely fast. If everyone on the tree of 100 has 1000 Mbit, that headend needs to have 100 Gbit of capacity. Most of those headends however cap out at 10 Gbit and sometimes service up to 300-500 ports. German cable providers cheaped out and didn't upgrade their infrastructure for quite a while. The coax line technology didn't change in the last 30 years.

nexusband , 4 months ago

As a customer of both Telekom and O2, i highly disagree...the Telekom net most of the times is shittier than the O2 one - even though the O2 one sometimes looses connection all together, in those cases the Telekom connection doesn't have Internet at all either.

nexusband , 4 months ago

Siberia isn't the permafrost melting - those emissions correlate to known Oil and Gas Wells, that mostly have been just left open, so that they can be used easily again. Melting permafrost is still releasing relatively little.

nexusband , 4 months ago

Yep...makes Synthetic fuels an even more no-brainer for me personally. Granted, it doesn't for those companies and lobbyists because it's going to be a lot more expensive initially, but if there's really a will to do something against climate change, the first thing to do should be taxing those companies doing this shit willfully and knowingly to hell and back.
A few wind turbines with some electrolysis machines suddenly become a lot cheaper.

And it's a Win-Win for everyone - lots of people keep their jobs, execs keep getting money and I can keep driving ICE - and no extra co2, methan or other gasses are being released. And with these Satellites, there's actually a way to keep companies from being shit.

But that may very well be a bit too utopian...

nexusband , 4 months ago

Don't. They already get way to much taxes and while these are the shining examples of what the EU should be and are beacon of hope...there are other utterly ridiculous laws and stupid regulations we have to deal with. Don't get me wrong, I'm proud to be European and so on, but it's not the bright haven some people make it to be...

nexusband , 4 months ago

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/103530/eu-demands-speed-limiters-all-new-cars-know-rules-and-how-they-work

One of the most prevalent examples that affect me - it's a horrible system and most car makers are not able to do it properly, because the camera systems are not cheap enough to be good enough. Mercedes, BMW and so on do it relatively decent, but they've gotten so expensive, even the base models are out of my reach now.

This could go on for a while, but to make matters short: The basic idea is cool, but mandating it like they have makes it a nuisance and will make most people turn it off. All of the people I know that have a car that has that system turn it off immediately starting.

nexusband , 4 months ago

Switzerland? Sweden? Finland?

nexusband , 4 months ago

The difference is, ABS was only mandatory after it was fully developed and actually safe. Same goes for the airbag. This is horseshit, same goes for the AI Rules, EU Cloud initiative, unified power grid and so on.

nexusband , 4 months ago

What kind of ridiculous argument is that? You can pinch your dick in a zipper - are zippers unsafe? You can chocke in a tomato, are tomatoes unsafe?
Just because something designed to safe you, can also kill you, doesn't make it unsafe. You can get seriously injured from a seat belt - if you consider seat belts unsafe, you should probably not leave you home ever again.

nexusband , 4 months ago

I'm very proud to be German. How about you go f-yourself?