[-] director@some.institute 1 points 1 year ago

Tons of good options in the used enterprise market. 3-5 years old, usually some paths for basic upgrades, as well as a flood of part availability from all the other similar systems being off boarded that were broken and not resellable. Laptops can be a bit roughed up, but full sized and sff desktops are usually in great condition.

[-] director@some.institute 19 points 1 year ago

You have to create your database without any indexes, then you can add them later for a speed boost

[-] director@some.institute 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed, Aldi's stuff rarely worse than equivalent products, and some I prefer more than the name brand. Only things I balk at are fake cheese flavored things and canned goods from their German themed store brand.

[-] director@some.institute 11 points 1 year ago

Apple really doesn't offer me anything I want to do above and beyond what Android offers that makes the cost of transition worth it. I've been on Android for 13 years, I'm very used to it, know all the tricks. I like the level of control Android gives, I've loaded custom roms in the past and I side load apps now. I've also never had a (modern) Apple product and never had the need to set up any Apple accounts, so it'd be a pain starting completely fresh.

[-] director@some.institute 3 points 1 year ago

I still play OpenTTD, happy it got added to Steam.

[-] director@some.institute 2 points 1 year ago

Idk, I'm still working on CS1, maybe after I beat it

[-] director@some.institute 1 points 1 year ago

XFCE for the longest time, and Cinnamon recently.

[-] director@some.institute 1 points 1 year ago

Desktop is Win 10, laptop is mint.

[-] director@some.institute 2 points 1 year ago

I miss running a Linux machine at work, it was so nice. I imagine that having a modern Linux machine would be even nicer

[-] director@some.institute 5 points 1 year ago

Confusing similar domain names are a common thing with email. Micr0soft.com vs Microsoft.com. Same idea could be done with instances.

[-] director@some.institute 6 points 1 year ago

A lot of people start on used small form factor desktops like the ASUS PS52. Other common ones are the Lenovo M series tiny desktops, Dell Optiplex micro desktops or Intel NUCs. These can sometimes be found used for sub $100 a piece from businesses updating their fleets. They can struggle a bit doing stuff that needs some CPU grunt, like live plex transcoding, but are decent otherwise, especially considering the low power draw. You might want to consider spreading that software demand over two or three of them.

[-] director@some.institute 3 points 1 year ago

My understanding is that as the amount and speed of memory increases, the usefulness of ECC in detecting and preventing the types of errors that can cause a crash or corrupt a file goes up.

But for home use it's probably more useful to focus on storage redundancy and backups, or a UPS to keep things running during power blips/outages.

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