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Never heard of pikvm, it actually looks like a very interesting solution.

From the previous point, what I mean by headless is basically to go the server, yank the GPU, press power button and it just boots.

I’ve tried several times, but bios straight up doesn’t let me go on. I’ve seen in a couple of places some mobos simply refuse to boot without a GPU.

I can see if I can have a decent value for the GPU. If not, I guess it’s doing its job as is. It just feels a waste to have this GPU be used as video for a server.

You are for sure right. I did find gaps on my solution right now which is:

• I have several external disks that only have the information once (some of then quite old).
• if I aggregate all of those in one spot I for sure need more space
• right now the ssds are grouped into a lvm to make a logical volume of 3TB (at the time this was OK since I was testing it out for a while). However, one disk fails and I have a problem on my hands.
• decided to look into ssd prices and my eyes started get watery at how expensive would it be (thus, coming to the realization regarding disk types. Didn’t mention before since my post was getting WAY too long).

Since I get this now, I am trying to understand better the landscape of solutions that can potentially fit.

Thanks for the reply. The breakdown is very good and I can actually see a lot of reasoning on your situation that I also would share (I do not have vast amounts of money to throw at this + only one drive failing and 2 handle the boat sounds about right).

As for the way to do the software raid, I’ve seen MD somewhere before but I honestly forgot. Since people tend to talk about unraid a lot. From my perspective, I would probably go as simple as possible, although I will be studying how effectively MD works.

Great reply :) learned a lot

This is something I still don’t fully understand because raid in itself has so many bizarre terms and configurations that for the initiated is just really hard to understand, unless you really take time to dive into it.

So my question is: when you tall about software raid, which configuration you mean? And also, how many drives are needed to do such configuration? Thanks in advance

Thanks for your insights. Yes you are for sure correct. There was a time I had friends of mine losing everything because of spinning drives. But then again, none of them were nas grade (and also, was a time having 128gb was an absolute luxury).

As for RAID, I was asking since it is something I hear people a lot doing. On my situation, my plan is to always have an external ssd with me plus a future remote like location for last ditch effort to save the data if really needed. So maybe it is OK for me to skip it. (And if I don’t have access to my photos for a week, no one dies)

This was some great insight. I know some countries out there culturally the parents are “ashamed” they have disabled kids and simply the kids do not get out of the house often, but I was not aware how things can be on an institution level.

I think this is very much it yes. I run bazzite on my laptop as is such basically an atomic distro. That’s it

He started using gentoo. Never came back to reality

Thanks for the response. Right now I do not have enough knowledge to judge for myself if systemd is effectively great or not. Once I have the time I will check closer kernel architecture (theoretical wise), then in how the Linux kernel is effectively organized and only after that understand the theory behind systemd. I’ve seen several threads where 2 very different camps exists, but I was not entirely sure of the information I was getting.

Cannot say I will get around this, but for sure peeks my curiosity

It may have been a thing discussed ad nauseum on certain threads. I just wanted to understand if there are facts that make systemd bad in general

I have actually seen some people with this kind of opinion regarding systemd, but I still do not get the hate about it.

Can you elaborate what is so terrible about systemd?

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I still prefer this version of the meme (which one day I will totally print it and put it on the back of my work laptop)

Depends. Some women cannot have enough milk production, some have over production. It’s a bit of a gamble most of the times. In countries like Brazil there is a sort of system where is possible to donate milk in case of over production, and in case you don’t have or not enough, you can have some of it (not sure about the details, but for me this sounds great).

As for people saying formula is better than breastmilk, believe or not, Nestlé is to blame for this. Back in the day they touted that all over the place, and at some point, they got penalties for saying such bs. The fun part? They are using the EXACT same tactics on some under developed countries so they can sell more. Quite frankly, Nestlé is really up there on companies to despise ( Exxon is possibly the top one, but Nestlé is not really that behind)

so, “fun sized” Saddam Husseins exists?

if one Saddam was only 400 calories, then he was extremely malnourished

i miss the nonsense autocomplete posts. still remember the one about hitler stealing nutella, and the one about americans thinking obama is a cactus

That’s how i want my canisters: with good posture

When are we going to riot to have the same button to enter bios setup everywhere? For me personally grinds my gears every time I have a different machine, check the bios boot message like a hawk to get what key I need to press to enter setup (after a while you sort of know by vendor, but for me that should not even be a thing)

Thanks for taking the time to explain. I was trying to get my head around on how this works but could not understand much of it. A lot of people here are very much against systemd in all senses, but this sounds like a better approach. Even if it not done as systemd, makes more sense than checking files and getting elevated privileges for a scope and use guardrails everywhere