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If they worked on a star wars movie

They did not.

S8 was such a complete pile of shit that they lost the deal.

If its for work, its on a work machine.

That said, I have a lot of efforts (personal projects with hardware I get given, or side work not related to my job) where I need specific software. For those, I have a VM tailored to that application that’s been trimmed down as much as possible.

This let’s me rdp into them, do what I need to do, save to a designated location, and shut the VM down. Since its a VM I tend not to give it network access unless required, and I have USB drive I pass through to the VM.

This makes sure everything works, I limit the access of MS with local only accounts and win 10 (among other specific versions like XP for a specific piece of hardware, server 2008 for an irritating piece of software I sometimes need, etc).

All the VMs are on my proxmox cluster, easy to start/stop with a script.

Generally my preference.

And a great excuse to get my company and/or clients to contribute to open source software efforts.

Unfortunately that doesnt change what @drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.com is concerned about, specifically when we take the executive order that marks nonexistent organizations and basic political beliefs as “terrorist organizations”.

Which can be applied to both groups. So it comes down to the response to that - and we know how ICE is being used and how they are trying to use the NG.

My fear is that this is going to get extremely bloody. Elections won’t matter at that point, even if they were held.

I see you didnt actually read the title or the writings.

Goodbye.

So is everyone.

Saying “he’s just another dude” as if his opinions on politics don’t matter is that same as saying your opinion (or my opinion) doesn’t matter. Its saying only politicians opinions matter, which is about the polar opposite of reality.

I was curious what this nonsense looks like - and found out that the $5k is the preorder price. It goes up to $5600 once its shipping.

Looking at it in their videos it just reminds me of every “Robot turns bad and kills everyone” story. Just needs red eyes to replace blue.

I’d be hard pressed to think of one that wasn’t, yeah.

I would say by their judgment that is what makes them “good”.

Yeah everything is a player (including the piano), and aside from the instruments themselves there are hundreds of rolls - originals (which my kids saw how they are made with an old Mr. Rogers episode I put on for them), customs my FIL made of his own music, and some modern pop we’ve picked up for them.

And yep, AMICA is a great option, my FIL is a member still I think. We are definitely going to take at least one of them, I have a feeling it will be the big pneumatic upright. Which I’m prepping a controller conversion for to allow him to do midi with it to test playback before making a new roll. The controls all work but I need to replace one of the relays…

And now you know why that’s the one we’ll likely end up taking (and its also one of the bigger ones).

Now that’s the kind of thing my wife would love to have. Maybe at some point we’ll take away someone else’s space occupier.

We’ve got a few pieces of furniture, the one in really not looking forward to is the musical instruments. We’re talking full grand piano, player piano, pneumatic uprights, etc. They are huge. There is no way my wife won’t want at least one, and I’m probably the only one who knows how to do the maintenance despite it being her parents stuff and she has a few siblings.

Depends on what youre using it for, though I don’t like external drives in general for anything I want stability for.

I have a NAS for my media storage (and backup NAS for that media plus another for miscellaneous), so the only thing on the drives in those machines are the VMs and LXCs themselves.

No worries

Like I said, I generally prefer lxc. LXC and docker aren’t too far off specifically in that both are container solutions, but the approach is a bit different. Docker is more focused on the application, while lxc is more about creating an isolated container of Linux that can run apps. If that makes sense.

LXC is really lightweight, but the main reason I like it is the security approach. While docker is more about running as a low privileged user, the lxc approach is a completely unprivileged container - its isolating at the system level rather than the app level.

The nice thing about a bare metal hypervisor like proxmox is that there isnt just one way to do things. I have a few tools that are docker containers that I run, mostly because they are packaged that way and I dont want to have to build them myself. So I have an lxc that runs docker. Mostly though, everything runs in an lxc, with few exceptions.

For example, I have a windows VM just for some specific industry applications. I turn on the VM then open remote desktop software, and since I’m passing the dGPU to the VM, I get all the acceleration I need. Specifically, when I need it - when I’m done I shut that VM off. Other VMs with similar purposes (but different builds) also share that dGPU.

Not Jellyfin though, that’s an lxc where I share access to my igpu - so the lxc gets all the acceleration, and I dont need to dedicate it to the task. Better yet, I actually have multiple JF instances (among a few other tools that use the iGPU) and they all get the same access while running simultaneously. Really, really handy.

Then there are other things I like as a VM that are always on, like HomeAssistant. I have a USB dongle I need to pass through (I’ll skip the overly complex setup I have with USB switching), and that takes no effort in virt. And if something goes wrong, it just starts on another machine. Or if I want to redistribute for some manual load balancing, or make some hardware upgrades, whatever. Add in ceph and clustering is just easy peasy IMO.

The main reason I use proxmox is its one interface for everything - access all forms of virt on the entire cluster from a single web interface. I get an extra layer of isolation for my docker containers, flexibility in deployment, and because its a cluster I can have a few machines go down and I’m still good to go. My only points of failure are the internet (but local still works fine) and power (but everything I “need” is on UPS anyway). Cluster is, in part, because I was sick of having things down because of an update and my wife being annoyed by it, once she got used to HA, media server, audiobook server, eBook server, music server (navidrome as well as JF, yes, excessive), so on.

Feel free to ask on any specifics

Doesnt need to be approved for 60 days, and only needs notification (with specific provisions) within 48hrs.

And this is why it was about “national security” as it relates to “drugs”.

a shitty retail pharmacy

AKA pretty much every pharmacy these days, since these pharmacy companies are large enough to own the insurance companies.

What a fucking disgusting mess the US medical industry is.

This would have been mine. I generally only donate rather than buy software, but reaper is an exception.

Isn’t making things more affordable like the ideal goal for most politicians?

Nope.

The ideal goal for most politicians is whatever makes their base happy. If youre the mayor of Scarsdale, NY, where the mean household income is $600k, affordability is the opposite of what its residents want, and they are the ones voting for the mayor.

Similarly, if the ones funding your election and can influence the outcome are the ones ripping off renters (Cuomo), affordability for rentals is a talking point at most, and of zero interest when it comes to actual legislation or efforts by the admin.

I prefer lxc to docker in general, but that’s just a preference.

If you end up relying on it, you can expand your servers by adding another to the cluster, and easily support the more complex stuff without major changes.

The web interface is also extremely handy as is the CLI, and backups are easy. High utility for minimal effort.

Its also a lot easier to add a VM later if youre set up for it from the start IMO.

What exactly is proxmox?

Debian with a custom kernel, web interface, accompanying CLI tools in support of virtualization.

For one, I won’t touch Ubuntu for a server. Hard recommend against in all scenarios. Snap is a nightmare, both in use and security, and I have zero trust or faith in canonical at this point (as mentioned, I’m opinionated).

Debian itself is all I’ll use for a server, if I’m doing virt though I’d rather use proxmox to make management easier.

https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2025/12/executive-order-61