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nexusband , 19 days ago to Technology in Proton is taking its privacy-first apps to a nonprofit foundation model

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nexusband , 26 days ago to Technology in Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats

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 to Selfhosted in Anyone running Zoraxy v3, the reverse proxy for networking noobs?

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 to Technology in The little smart home platform that could

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 to Technology in Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad

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

nexusband , 2 months ago to Technology in Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad

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 to Technology in Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad

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 to Technology in Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI

"AI" is probably simple machine learning?

reads article

Yes, it is.

nexusband , 2 months ago to Technology in Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO

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 , 2 months ago to Technology in Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO

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 to Technology in Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO

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 , 3 months ago to Technology in Nvidia is on a different planet | Youtube | Gamers nexus

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 to Selfhosted in UGREEN enters Network Attached Storage (NAS) market with diverse Linux-based NASync lineup

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 to Selfhosted in UGREEN enters Network Attached Storage (NAS) market with diverse Linux-based NASync lineup

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 to Selfhosted in UGREEN enters Network Attached Storage (NAS) market with diverse Linux-based NASync lineup

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