Personally for me it's that it's not as resource heavy as windows whilst offering a similar out of box 'it just works'. Sure it's not the best tool for the job in a lot of regards but for example I have two laptops from early 2014. A macbook air and a windows laptop running windows 10. The macbook air runs smoothly when browsing the Web, or studying whereas the windows laptop ends up slowing down a lot and chugging.
I will say I am a fan of the best tool for the job approach though. Doing a lot of office based work and need word editing or spreadsheet editing? Windows. Gaming? Windows. Server work? Linux. Music/video production? Macs
I have an email server but it is not my main email account. I'm purely only using it to learn and to have email notifications sent out from a few services. I do not trust myself or my setup enough to have my main email account hosted on it
I didn't take it as one don't worry Nah not at the moment just got it on my pc screen right now
It's less an announcement and more an explanation for the spam of posts
Unfortunately due to the 720kb drives and the meager specs I couldn't get os/2 to install and run. Got pc dos on these and os/2 on the 57sx
I did feel a little like Richmond sat in the dark watching these flashing lights!
It doesn't even run destroy all humans! Incase you were being serious these are Personal System 2s otherwise known as the PS/2..fun fact this range of computers is where the ps/2 connector started
Moving my posts from reddit. The PS/2 Model 30 and 57Sx when I got them setup
Sadly that CRT is no more...it seemed to have an issue with it's flyback coil and I am not brave to attempt fixing CRTs
Moving my posts off Reddit - This is the other addition to my PS/2 addiction - my 57SX
Got this a while back and I am so glad I did. Massive fan of this pc
If anyone is needing it Stephen D does have a project to help a ps2 read a stanard floppy drive...I just haven't got around to actually figuring it out again - https://gitlab.scd31.com/stephen/ps2-floppy-converter
Beginning to move my posts from Reddit. This is the aftermath of trying to get a model 30 to read a 1.44mb floppy drive and a cf card
I got the cf card working... never got around to the floppy drive again
Just a crappy webcam plugged into one of my servers running simple rstp server to send the stream to vlc. Quality isn't fantastic as you can see but I enjoy it
Setup a live stream to my lab and now watching it like a fireplace
There is just something relaxing about those blinking lights y'know?
After my first job as a printer technician I can believe some of the horrors to expect. Training on a nice shiny new printer vs one that had been installed upside down, backwards and whilst drunk...20 years ago haha
Ah it's on three bits of wood screwed into the wall. Can still unscrew it and flip it over though so I may do that.
They have, but you can still find them on the second hand market. I m not looking forward to the day they stop supporting them however
Firewatch is a good example of this. Wandering round an empty forest, seeing an evergrowing forest fire all the time. It's quite eerie but not outright horror.
Ah this isn't the chromecast streaming devices I'm talking about. It's the older pucks that plug into an aux cable that you can stream music from your phone to
Cross Post - How it Started, vs how it's going.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/1236407
> > On the left, my first 'proper' rack. > Specs - > Router - Cisco 887VAMW > Unmanaged Netgear switch Two laptops (Asus X550Jk and HP Pavillion DV6) both running proxmox which has Pihole, Nextcloud, Bitwarden, Roundcube webmail and Nginx proxy server. Both laptops have their batteries removed to avoid them swelling too much. > A Phillips Hue hub and TP Link Deco M5 router at the bottom. > On top is a mishmash of leftover parts which is currently running TrueNas and Jellyfin. This is going to eventually replace the D-Link sharecentre hidden in the back. > Specs of the pc on top - CPU - AMD FX 6100 (An older model but still has it where it counts) > RAM - 8Gb DDR3 (Plans to upgrade it to 16Gb at some point) > GPU - GeForce GT 710 (Honestly just there so I can get an ouput) > Storage 2x 1Tb WD Red drives (With plans to add 2x 4tb WD Red Drives from Sharecentre) > > On the right is the mess that is yet to be fixed. On the top shelf is a selection of cisco switches and routers which are being used as a lab for me doing my CCNA (Hence the mess there). On the bottom is the same Lack rack as on the left just with slightly different components. Specs - > Router - Cisco 887VAMW > Switch - Some managed Netgear switch from 2004 (It's on it's way out and will be replaced very soon) > First Dell Poweredge R420, with two Xeon E5-2403, 80Gb RAM and about 3Tb of Storage. This is my new Proxmox host. > Second Dell Poweredge R420 with a single Xeon E5-2403, 64Gb RAM and 7Tb Storage running TrueNas. > On top is an old AMD Bulldozer machine I only use for ripping and encoding DVD files. > > Bonus pic of my bottom rack.
How it Started, vs how it's going.
On the left, my first 'proper' rack. Specs - Router - Cisco 887VAMW Unmanaged Netgear switch Two laptops (Asus X550Jk and HP Pavillion DV6) both running proxmox which has Pihole, Nextcloud, Bitwarden, Roundcube webmail and Nginx proxy server. Both laptops have their batteries removed to avoid them swelling too much. A Phillips Hue hub and TP Link Deco M5 router at the bottom. On top is a mishmash of leftover parts which is currently running TrueNas and Jellyfin. This is going to eventually replace the D-Link sharecentre hidden in the back. Specs of the pc on top - CPU - AMD FX 6100 (An older model but still has it where it counts) RAM - 8Gb DDR3 (Plans to upgrade it to 16Gb at some point) GPU - GeForce GT 710 (Honestly just there so I can get an ouput) Storage 2x 1Tb WD Red drives (With plans to add 2x 4tb WD Red Drives from Sharecentre)
On the right is the mess that is yet to be fixed. On the top shelf is a selection of cisco switches and routers which are being used as a lab for me doing my CCNA (Hence the mess there). On the bottom is the same Lack rack as on the left just with slightly different components. Specs - Router - Cisco 887VAMW Switch - Some managed Netgear switch from 2004 (It's on it's way out and will be replaced very soon) First Dell Poweredge R420, with two Xeon E5-2403, 80Gb RAM and about 3Tb of Storage. This is my new Proxmox host. Second Dell Poweredge R420 with a single Xeon E5-2403, 64Gb RAM and 7Tb Storage running TrueNas. On top is an old AMD Bulldozer machine I only use for ripping and encoding DVD files.