I faced pretty much the exact same choice, except I was given four of them, each with 8 GB of RAM.

Unfortunately they were two different hardware revisions, so the most I could achieve was two servers with 16 GB each.

They sound like a Jet taking off when powered up and the BIOS doesn’t support lower fan speeds.

Instead after months of deliberation I decided to go with a SFF Lenovo, 32 GB, 2 x 1 TB NVME, Ryzen 7, and bought this:

https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/lenovo-ideacentre-ryzen-7-32gb-2tb-desktop-lenic00aau

It’s whisper quiet and running Proxmox.

To get VM video passthrough to work I installed an extra video card, though, you could install a desktop on the host OS instead if you prefer.

The video card I used to fit inside is this:

https://www.msy.com.au/product/msi-geforce-gt-1030-4gd4-low-profile-oc-graphics-card-geforce-gt-1030-4gd4-lp-oc-73092

Cents

Here’s what fuel costs in Western Australia, changes daily, next day prices are published at 06:30 UTC (14:30 local time).

https://www.fuelwatch.wa.gov.au/

No idea. I have two accounts, one on Lemmy, one on Mastodon. Presumably somebody is mirroring this community to Mastodon, or perhaps the other way around, I’m not sure.

I’m typing this on Lemmy, not Mastodon.

Uhm … no.

Linux had permissions from day one, neither Windows nor Apple did until much more recently.

I use Apple, since there’s many versions of its OS and only¹ the one based on BSD has permissions.

The entire Linux ecosystem is permissions based, it’s baked into the kernel and while bugs continue to be discovered and patched, they’re visible to everyone, where that’s not the case with either Windows nor Apple.

Permissions aren’t new. Unix has had them from the early days, as have operating systems like VMS, BSD and OS/400 to name a few.

As for exploits, the level of user social engineering exploits is exploding with the growth of Linux, since most new users come from operating systems with poor security.

In my opinion Mac OS is hurting itself by making inexplicable security choices, causing pain where none is required, resulting in people actively disabling security to their own detriment.

As for actual exploits, they’re getting more and more ubiquitous since more and more operating systems are running the same code, think python, nginx, bash, etc.

Finally, I’d point out that your attempt at dispelling what you call a myth does not appear to be backed up by facts or sources.

I’ve been in this industry for over 40 years and while it’s far from perfect, I am comfortable stating that Linux is more secure than many operating systems and I suspect that it will continue to be the case for the foreseeable future.

I also note that it has a significantly larger user base than any other OS. Don’t believe me? Heard of Android, same Linux kernel.

¹ There was a brief A/UX hybrid OS that had permissions, based on Unix System V and BSD. It was discontinued in 1995.

https://xkcd.com/927/

I think that it’s going to take societal change to stop this from being the norm. In Australia there was a road safety campaign with the slogan:

“Speeding. No one thinks big of you.”

It essentially compared speeding with having a small penis, by using the metaphor of a wiggling pinkie, and thus embarrassing perpetrators.

In other words, it needs to become uncool to drive such a massive vehicle. Perhaps “The bigger the trick, the smaller the …”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speeding._No_one_thinks_big_of_you.

Edit: Removed stray period.

Edit: Added non stray period back and changed how I entered the URL. Fingers crossed this works. Remind me again why I work in IT.

Some reasons:

We don’t (yet) have flexible panels that would survive the abuse that curtains experience.

Vertical surfaces are not nearly as effective for the majority of cases in capturing solar radiation.

Windows have lots of obstructions that reduce the effectiveness of a solar panel.

Putting solar panels behind an extra layer of glass that would need to be kept pristine would be counter productive.

The voltages involved in solar panels would create an added source of danger inside the house.

A very tiny rocket, or a massive frog?

Pandoc will convert markdown to a PDF in portrait or landscape and there’s even “beamer” support, aka data projector or presentation support.

Why run Docker Desktop when it’s installable as a cli service?

What are you actually trying to achieve?

You can live in hope.

While they’re at it, could they please also penalize Android app developers who do this too?

It’s not too late.

I have some success by using the “Hide Read Posts”, but it’s pretty flakey.

Noted on both, though I wasn’t aware that I was asking for ICT support, rather I was attempting to discover if the problem I was seeing was unique to me or experienced by others, which turns out to be the case.

I’d rather not delete this thread, but if the mods feel that it’s in breach of the rules, I’ll abide by their ruling.

It works as it’s currently implemented.

That said, I’d like it to comply with my preference for Dark Mode without me having to install a browser extension to forcefully recolour the interface.

Not really. Sometimes I even get to the end of the feed :)

When I relaunched 20 minutes ago, it took about three screen fulls to find some already seen posts, then a whole lot of new, then more old ones from nine or so hours ago when I checked at lunchtime.

I understand. That’s not what I’m seeing, it’s the same (sequence) of posts.