big ol dookie on Canon…💩💩💩

one of the worst technology purchases I ever made.

I bought the laser brother for scan and documents, which is awesome.

but I needed something for photos… found this “highly rated” Canon photo only printer… hot garbage.

bump. my brother multifunction worked flawlessly. scanner, printer…I assume the fax would work if it was hooked up.

Mac is 85-90%

Windows, I just completely uninstall/reinstall for each use because it is more reliable than trying to use it otherwise.

oddly enough, the Canon I got will only work properly from the phone, which pisses me off everyday. that thing is a POS.

I think it would’ve been more impactful if instead of mentioning the lone org that will comply in the text, they made a list like the other one to show how outnumbered they were visually…🤔

does not exactly answer the question, but…

I’ve been buying last gen Intel Macbook Pros off eBay because nobody wants them. you can put a variety of server oses on them.

I followed one of the many guides for installing proxmox on Rpis. 3node, 4gb rpi4s

I use the cluster for lighter services like Trilium, FreshRss, secondary DNS, a jumpbox… and something else I forget. I’m going to try immich and see how it performs.

my recent goto for cheap($200-300) servers are Debian + old Intel Macbook pros. I have two Minecraft bedrock servers on MBPs… one an i5, the other an i7.

I also use a Lenovo laptop to host some industrial control software for work.

my two bare metal servers are the file server and music server. I have other services in a pi cluster.

file server because I can’t think of why I would need to use a container.

the music software is proprietary and requires additional complications to get it to work properly…or at all, in a container. it also does not like sharing resources and is CPU heavy when playing to multiple sources.

if either of these machines die, a temporary replacement can be sourced very easily(e.g. the back of my server closet) and recreated from backups while I purchase new or fix/rebuild the broken one.

IMO the only reliable method for containers is a cluster because if you’re running several containers on a device and it fails you’ve lost several services.

distro without controversy seems like a unicorn to me…

https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-nixos-conflict-in-under-5-minutes

liking a distro is highly subjective and i’d recommend trying as many as possible to find the one that suits you and your workflow not the opinions/workflows of others.

pretty sure redhat is just an upstream consumer of fedora project. what’s your beef?

mac m2 pro + asahi Linux fedora changed my life

bump.

@laserjet - I’ve never failed to fix an issue with beets using the docs.

how can an ai bot pull a free speech defense? free speech is, ostensibly, reserved for people…?

I use beets. highly configurable, good documentation. cli, though. I think someone was working on a browser plug-in…🤔

no doubt.

I remember when you’d put a jacket on before you went in the halls… but now everyone wears shorts.

10-15 degrees is all you need to keep a “cold aisle” at 85degf, most places, on the worst day.

IIRC Amazon figured out that individual components could actually run hotter within an acceptable replacement window.

higher equipment replacement is more than offset by the fact they don’t have to do refrigerant based cooling which makes daily operation ridiculously cheap… no pumps or complicated mechanical devices to produce cooling… no people with special skills to maintain them, etc.

critical data centers use swamp coolers because they don’t have to treat the water or expose it to contamination from outside. they use straight domestic water… super cheap.

if the conductivity gets too high, they dump the basin and fill with fresh… rinse and repeat.

a chiller is not a swamp cooler.

picture a fan with a wet sponge in front of it… that is a swamp cooler.

oh man! I just poked ptsf@lemmy.world for a Austria!=Australia flub in another thread… my come uppins!

yes. I programmed and integrated swap coolers at Amazon data centers. when the cool air hits the hot aisles the humidity goes down.

is liquid cooking cooling really necessary? critical data centers I have worked in use swamp coolers. cheaper, more efficient, more reliable, uses same water as your house…

edit: d’oh! :)

this.

jellyfin has a pretty strict format structure if you want everything to auto discover.

I think pia is full tunnel by default. he may need to turn on split tunneling…