i mean if i wasn't poor i could probably even buy actual servers put them in a datacenter and offer this at really cheap prices but while i could 100% afford colocation i can't afford to get like 1000€ worth of server hardware
Cuz they do provide ample of power and don't get that hot, and in any decent datacenter one would.consider colocating you have hot aisle/cold aisle configs and sufficient airflow... https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/111669323118417743
At worst , add a panel of fans to it...
Like >75% of the used volume if any Thin Client I use is a giant passive heatsink!
This might sound silly, but I installed virt-manager to make things a little easier when using qemu, then created a new virtual machine with debian 12 on it... then installed qemu on that.
The actual reason for this is to make github account separation a little easier...
If you get virt-manager set up properly, it definitely makes using qemu easier, though. I practically just had to tell it to make a new virtual machine using this iso with this much memory and this big of a hard drive, and it was right at the debian install screen. (Set it up with xfce...).
Main tricky parts were that I had to install libvirt first, make myself a member of the libvirt user group, enable the service, and install dnsmasq. Not great, but could've been worse...
Used debian on the virtual box just for a little variety. I like to keep my hand in on different distributions a bit.
@SweetAIBelle given #Oracle's hostility towards #FLOSS and blatant disregard towards commitments done by #SunMicrosystems when they were (sadly against everyone but #FTC & @EU_Commission 's decisions) allowed to absorb #Sun I think that is sadly more necessary than ever before.
Were it not for the absurdly high cost of electricity in Germany (~€0,33/kWh) I would've already converted several Workstations into Servers running #ProxMox.
I make due with some hp t620 #ThinClients that are fanless…
Also OS/1337 intents to be fully transparent in the sense that it can be used for #CriticalInfrastructure by virtue of being fully-automateable "#BuildFromSource" so on fully #airgapped systems and networks it can be deployed after it went through the ardourous #audit pipeline said users demand.
Welp! I spoke too soon on that printer. My offer was rejected. I only asked 13$ under asking price. Oh well patience grasshopper. I realized I need a machine dedicated to being a server. Sharing a desktop and a server is not very smart so I priced out a Broadwell Xeon-e5-2699-v3 based build with a 2TB SSD and cheesy graphics card for 653$ total. That will give me 18 cores and 36 threads of raw power with 128GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD to get me stated. Upshot I won't need heat for my apartment this winter
I'm torn between running xcp-ng and Proxmox. Proxmox is practically turn key because my images are builtin libvirt and would migrate easily. But xcp-ng is closer to what is used in enterprise. I'm torn. Anyone care to weigh in?
If you were going enterprise, you'd already have a shitton of licenses for #ESXi on a #VxRail but then again I've also seen #Proxmox in enterprise...
If you don't have absurdly cheap electricity and a high tolerance for noise, consider getting some #surplus#MiniDesktops or #ThinClients... They are much cheaper and quieter...
One thing that kinda pisses me off about @tails is that it's #PersistentStorage - which is just a fancy name for #LUKS encryption - is absurdly restrictive and the #setup doesn't even want to work.
Like yes there's a reason I'm booting the #ISO via #Ventoy [ https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html ] and yes I want to use the vacantly kept 8GiB at the end of the flashdrive to be useable as for persistent storage and no, I need that drive to be as is since it's a #multiboot drive designed to be easily updated.
I'm currently evaluating it for a setup with some #ThinClients as a #privacy-concious #InternetCafe Client where people can either boot their flashdrive OR have the preinstalled #Tails just run as the main OS and have the option to just setup #Tails on their own drive or mount their Persistent Storage.