I’ve never taken apart a Topre board, but looking at this video video, I’d say it was doable. Fiddly, maybe, but then again, so is opening up every switch on an MX board, too. Take your time, be gentle, pay close attention to what you’re doing… You’re probably going to be fine.

Fellow Microserver haver, here! Mine did get a Xeon and RAM boost and has been my everything server for years now.

Same here, so unless something is fully open source, self hostable and preferably federating, I’m not picking it up.

Before opening up or resoldering any switches, I’d short the two pins with something (tweasers or similar) to confirm or rule out the switch itself as the cause.

They don’t, officially, as far as I know it’s always been an “at your own risk, might get your account banned” endeavor.

No, problem not solved, problem half-heartedly worked around. People dislike Discord for several reasons, bridging it to whatever different platform will at best be a bandaid.

Ik heb mensen horen verkondigen dat dat is omdat imessage- of facetime-gesprekken (geen idee welke precies, ik heb geen Apple-toestel) niet werken met het ding aan je oor. Of dat klopt, weet ik niet. Dat ik iedere keer als ik zo iemand zie, van binnen iets verder doodga, weet ik wel. Geen gezicht, en vaak nog het geblaat over de speaker ook.

It absolutely is. Yet, as Sean said, it’s also yet another bit of software to run and maintain, and ES is known to be a bit of an effort to keep going well.

Admins having only finite amounts of time and/or resources, might make the very understandable decision to leave it out.

Gut, ja, het is stroom, het werkt, prijzen zijn prima, dus ja, wel tevreden.

Ik heb wel een code voor je.

(Edit: code ook daadwerkelijk toegevoegd. Ooit ga ik dat internet en links en zo snappen).

You gotta love the copy on the Warp site. As for why they’re now launching it on Linux:

Despite this, Linux has relatively few terminal options compared to Mac and Windows

…relatively few? Really?

This sounds like it’d be exactly how I currently use Tumbleweed on my workstations: I don’t update daily, but rather every once in a while. I appreciate the new versions of things, but being on the daily bleeding edge is more work than I care to put in.

I can also see this working quite nicely for those with nvidia hardware, where with TW you’d sometimes end up with a kernel too new for the drivers to get shoehorned in. A slightly easier-going pace would help there.

It also reminds me of Android, where you have roughly monthly updates (theoretically) and every now and then a bigger one.

Installing a software package through a distro’s package manager sounds like a perfectly fine “Linux way” to me.

Of course, that filesystem exists today as btrfs.

Which, to be fair, isn’t exactly the fasted FS around. I love me some btrfs, but not for the benchmarks.

Als ik de bedrijven in dat artikel zo aan het woord hoor over “krapte op de arbeidsmarkt” en “diversiteit”, zegt de cynicus in mij “we nemen gewoon internationale studenten aan want die slikken blijkbaar nog dat we ze zo min mogelijk betalen”. Er is m.i. sowieso een verschil tussen “het personeel is het Engels machtig zodat een klant in die taal te woord kan worden gestaan” en “het personeel spreekt alleen maar Engels”. Dat tweede vind ik toch een mindere ontwikkeling, ondanks dat ik me persoonlijk prima in het Engels kan redden. Er zijn er genoeg (ook onder de 87,25 jaar) die dat niet kunnen.

That’s correct. Btrfs will simply divide your disks in 1GB chunks, and when writing, always ensure that a bit of data is always stored in 2 chunks on two different disks. You can also do 1C3 or 1C4 if your data is truly that critical, which means data is always stored in 3 or 4 chunks (on different disks), respectively. Of course, that also requires at least they amount of drives.

This chunking is also the reason why the sizes of the drives don’t have to match, as long as it’s possible to divide it evenly you won’t lose space as unused. Simply put, make sure your largest drive is not larger than your other drives combined and you should be fine.

In my case, data will always see one copy on the 4gb drive, and another on either of the 2gb drives.

As for the reason to switch: that’s something I can get behind, although you could also just slap Proxmox on it an do all your experimenting in VMs; at least that keeps the server itself running as smoothly as possible, while not limiting you in your learning experiences.

As for btrfs: it most certainly does have RAID functionality. RAID5/6 is considered unstable (although I’ve heard/read from plenty of people who have great experiences with it, provided you don’t run into the edge cases), but I’m sticking with RAID1 because I don’t need to run the risk, and I’m not sure if waiting for a checksum calculation whenever something does go pear-shaped is going to do a whole lot of good for me.

Anyway, as for my setup: an HP Microserver (an oldie, a Gen8 with a Xeon switched in) running Leap, powering a few VMs, a collection of Docker containers, and a few “native” services (nginx, PHP, stuff like that). The root fs is a single SSD (btrfs SINGLE with some directories having a flag to disable COW), and there’s a data pool of 3 spinning disks (2x2 and 1x4GB), 4GB effective, that contains “data”. Most of it is setup with Ansible these days, hence no real use for YaST on that machine for me.

You’ll lose more than just snapshots, btrfs does a bit more than just that.

I’ve been running my NAS/server on btrfs for years, now. I started out on Rockstor (which was still based on CentOS back then, they switched to an OpenSUSE core some years ago), later I decided to roll my own setup on Leap, partially because I already had (and love) Tumbleweed on my workstations, and keeping everything on one distro is just less mental overhead. For me, it’s been rock solid. I like OpenSUSE, I like btrfs. Snapshots have saved my bacon on the workstations more than once when bleeding edge updates and nvidia clashed; it’s never been an issue on the server of course, and I don’t really use them for data (although the option is there). I do however use RAID1, on 3 drives, and being able to just add a drive even if it’s not the same size as the others (within reason), is a big plus and one of the reasons I opted for btrfs back then.

OpenSUSE as a distro is great, there’s a fair amount of software, stuff that’s not in the default repos might be on OBS. It’s a fixed-release distro but the cadence feels somewhat different from Ubuntu’s. YaST is great when you want to have some easily accessible menu driven interface to setting things up, rather than poke around in config files (I’m more of a config file guy, but having the option is nice).

Of course, as for opinion… It all depends on what you want to use the machine for, where your experiences lie, and so on. What’s the NAS doing, besides file shares, what do you hope to gain by switching distros? Where are you on the scale from “I want it to just work, something like a Synology would be nice if they weren’t so pricey” to “I hand-compile kernels for fun”?

De theorie is dat bedrijven goed zijn in de goedkoopste manier vinden om te doen wat er van ze verlangd wordt.

Die theorie klopt al niet helemaal — bedrijven hebben als doel om winst te maken. Een goedkopere manier om iets te doen is een middel dat kan bijdragen aan die winst, prima, maar dat is bijzaak. Het draait om de winst, en het maximaliseren ervan. Soms komt daar een product uit dat jij en ik ondermaats vinden, soms niet, maar ook dat is bijzaak: zolang het product wordt afgenomen, is het (voor het bedrijf) zeker niet ondermaats.

Dat je dan bepaalde taken aan het bedrijfsleven gaat overlaten omdat die wel even goedkopere manieren zullen vinden, laat zien dat je dan de hoofdzaak gemist hebt. Een bedrijf dat zo’n taak krijgt, gaat daar zoveel mogelijk winst mee maken, dus waarom men verwacht dat dat goedkoper gaat worden is me compleet onduidelijk.

Kbin can do Microblogs, but I’m not sure what you mean with “alternative to chronological feed”?