any bias that doesn’t confirm my bias is reverse bias

see also: reverse racism

my main PC hosts nothing, everything else is always on

sometimes I remember I’m self hosting things

my scsi controller needs to be entered during boot to manage raid. it also has an external battery that needed replacing (which cost more new than just buying a new card … with the exact same battery) so if you’re not in verbose boot mode figure that out and see if the controller is telling you which function key it needs.

figuring out this old stuff is most of the fun in running it, I would sell it as scrap before actually hosting anything on it.

I have a HP Proliant DL380G7, basically the last server with a front side bus, and all the comments about it where about power per watt.

and they’re not wrong.

I just don’t think this is the community for old servers like this, self hosting is very much a practical consideration and the money spent on electricity running anything useful on these old things is better spent on a raspberry pi or stand alone NAS or something.

I’m happy to give Black Magic Design my money.

I literally wouldn’t piss on Adobe if it was on fire.

I don’t even know what a train is

They can and do associate cards with vehicles and use facial recognition. any attempt to circumvent the data harvesting is a waste of your time more than theirs … for loyalty point cards.

People in this thread seem to have base discount cards, which are perfectly fine to swap around a group but points cards tend to have a bulk discount that accumulates over time and swapping would be a very bad idea.

you haven’t seen the state of my server have you