avhception

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by avhception 6d ago
What's the benefit of using the TPM compared to a simple passphrase at boot, in that scenario?
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by avhception 6d ago
I hold on to my precious few mini-Bs. They also seem to have a tendency to break.
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by avhception 8d ago
In German media, they always have a little "X (formerly Twitter)" thing. The rebrand is completely ridiculous.
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by avhception 12d ago
The hubris of the courts can be stunning. Sorry from Germany. And thanks for the great DNS service, I'm using it everywhere!
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by avhception 17d ago
It's a chicken-and-egg problem. Server hardware comes with VGA, because everything in the server room (think KVM switches, external remote KVM, local 19" consoles) is built with VGA. And that will be the case as long as server har
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by avhception 20d ago
A Fujitsu ARM Server for normal people that I can buy through a normal retail channel and boot a freakin' generic Linux ISO... that would be great! (Yes, I'm aware of Ampere Altra. The space desperately needs competition and commo
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by avhception 21d ago
Well FINALLY!
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by avhception 21d ago
At least back in the day, there was talk about Nvidia + ppc64le. Wasn't there even a supercomputer with that setup? But I guess that has fallen by the wayside.
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by avhception 21d ago
Huh. ARM instead of ppc64le?
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by avhception 21d ago
I would probably suck at marketing, and my personal preferences and convictions have no bearing here, I guess. With that out of the way, I hate this kind of vague messaging. Yeah, the product will... somehow enable me to achieve some vague
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by avhception 23d ago
In a way, that was my point. There is a market gap for a simple and robust 20 to 50 mbit, IP capable tech.
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by avhception 23d ago
It really doesn't help that a part of our attention-economy has hopped on the "what (the government/big tech/car company) doesn't want you to know!11" bandwagon and constantly feeds into this notion that there
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by avhception 24d ago
That sounds really interesting! Any concrete products for end users? Seems mostly chips and specs so far
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by avhception 24d ago
I have already limited the "warehouse" SSID to 2.4GHz, 20MHz channel size and made an optimized channel plan that keeps the neighboring APs on channels manually chosen for minimum overlap. Anything else? Speed stepping? Reducing t
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by avhception 25d ago
I'm no RF expert, and we're not a big company. I wear many hats, from DBA to local WiFi expert. And while there are certainly limits to what can be achieved without dedicated experts, I want to stress how DECT in the very same sce
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by avhception 25d ago
We have about 20 client devices, I would very much prefer to throw a bunch of APs into the warehouse and it just works - DECT can do it, so wifi should, too. I'd settle for 10mbit/s!
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by avhception 25d ago
One of many, yes!
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by avhception 25d ago
On paper, yes. In the real world, that random Android client is clinging to an AP that can barely hear it while a better one would be available.
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by avhception 25d ago
Yeah, I guess I draw the line at the workplace. Some of these "Internet kaputt" cases turned out to be a rejected login to our bespoke ERP website.
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by avhception 25d ago
We need reliable, real-world ~20mbit/s for our warehouse scanners, not 382722 theoretical Gbit/s 5cm from the access point. And roaming that works instead of stupid clients clinging to somewhere or being thrown into a reconnect lo
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by avhception 25d ago
My family doesn't know that the WiFi AP is not the DECT base. They understand when I tell them, but that's gone after a week. They use the words WiFi (or, as we say in Germany, WLAN) and "Internet" almost interchangeably
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by avhception 25d ago
For me, it was Gentoo. I was a little bit lost after a bad time in the public school system, and not sure what to do with my life after that. I was fascinated by Linux, but never really got the hang of it. Used SuSE, which was fine, but I n
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by avhception 1mo ago
Anecdote time re: Over-regulation: We had a side-hustle, automatic sorting machines. Mostly nuts and bolts, but other stuff, too. About 10 employees. By some miracle, it managed to survive the loss of it's biggest customer (the aforeme
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by avhception 1mo ago
Sidenote: "AMD Drivers", in the sense of "something you have to download and install manually", are not a thing any more, fortunately. It's just nvidia now.
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by avhception 1mo ago
I guess it depends on where you would draw the line with respect to what still constitutes "Mittelstand", but in the small-town circles where my family operated our company, outsourcing wasn't really a thing. Most of the comp
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by avhception 1mo ago
My original Minecraft account got lost in all these shenanigans as well.
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by avhception 1mo ago
In 2023, spent multiple hours setting up a Microsoft account for my GF just so she could play Minecraft. The process involved HTTP 4xx, 5xx, missing emails, activation codes that were "expired" even though they were less than 30 s
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by avhception 2mo ago
That's what I thought as well, I manage a small (50-ish) fleet of Linux Desktops using Ansible. Not perfect, but good enough that it mostly gets the job done.
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by avhception 2mo ago
Haha, I'm trying to figure out how to get in!
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by avhception 2mo ago
I wanted to read it, the topic is super fascinating. But it's almost time for work, and I will have to sift through a lot of Claude's jabbering for the better part of the day. I just couldn't stand it, I found myself starting

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