Katherine M. Moss @cambridgeport90@qoto.org

Nothing like the sound of a dog barking. How I wish they could talk. #Share2Steem #life #dogs

@luxotek I'll have a Mastodon or Pleroma instance running in a VM or Docker container, can't decide which, on either a SuperMicro if I'm smart and take it off my friend, or a Dell PowerEdge R420 if I have room on my shelf for one of those.

@freemo Interesting. I have to figure out which Linux OS I ought to put on the Latitude D630 I have. I took him out of the pile of stuff no one wanted at a volunteer session. I can get Ubuntu to sort of work, though, it kinda cops out when installing certain stuff on it, PowerShell, for instance. I tried OpenSUSE, as well, but that is too laggy. Debian, you think? Could work, and I could run OpenSUSE over in a Hyper-V environment over here with XRDP.

@luxotek Oh boy. Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. What kind of server, then? Nice little creature, i'd think? I love rescue units.

@freemo Ah. My day job, I run into that sort of thing all the time. Not so much for the stuff I do outside of it, though.

@gatewave @theoutrider Haha.

@mjog@octodon.social The whole anti-code-behind thing?

@luxotek What happened to that server?

@freemo Point. I always tend to stick to the secondhand markets or the outlets. there's always some poor sap who thinks that it isn't moronic to sell a fully loaded workstation or server for a steal. Idiots probably don't even realize what they end up with and just want to get rid of it. And on the odd paranormal side, me and computers. Only get me started on that if you're in for some stories, though ...

@lilithsaintcrow Writing has a mind of its own. I swear.

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@freemo I guess it's what you're used to. Even my very techie friend is now staying away from custom builds. A friend of ours just gave him a HP Z420, actually. Haven't gotten a chance to check it out, though. He'll probably sell it for a Precision, though, knowing him.

@Luxotek@jorts.horse No, thankfully, but he had no problem screwing people over monetarily, either. He boasts about selling a Dell PowerEdge 2950 server for twice what he bought it for, and the idiot took it.

@theoutrider I'm going to have to stick this one on my book list anyways, then. I think it's on there, actually. Will check Goodreads.

@Luxotek@jorts.horse I had an ex-boyfriend like that. And after hoping that our failed relationship would make him see the error of his ways, a former friend of his now informs me that his current other half is as crazy as himself.

@freemo Dell and HP have systems that can monitor for hardware failures, temperature changes (not such a big deal, considering my apartment's already freaking cold anyways), and stuff like RAID rebuilds if needed. For instance, my current little server, he's adorable, but the only way I could get any insight into his RAID degradation (he has some, considering he's got two eight-year-old hard drives inside him), is through the actual BIOS interface, which would require a technical sighty to read for me. Hence why that sort of thing matters more so than it might for others. Those are actually coming from the board itself.

@theoutrider Oh dear. Well then. That's definitely a good piece of sound advice, considering from whom it's coming.