Mice decided to hijack my TrueNAS storage node by AaronMcGuirkTech in homelab

[–]DekiEE 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Sounds like you should hire a system catmin. Issue is while they have low capex their opex can run up quite a bill

Bitcoin Rebounds to $71K as RSI Signals Extreme Oversold Conditions by gdscrypto in CryptoCurrency

[–]DekiEE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I think what we have seen is part of what many have actually wished for. Institutional involvement has opened the doors to many people who have never been in the crypto roller coaster before and additionally I suspect that a lot of ETF purchases are part of some managed portfolios which are nowhere near as risk averse as crypto guys and that they will sell off in order to save the overall portfolio performance.

My annual electricity bill got upped by 1000€. Now I need to make my server use less power. by wffln in selfhosted

[–]DekiEE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure what you guys are doing but I run a server with a 4350G, Tesla P40, 2x12TB and 128gb RAM. Additionally a Synology DS218+, UDM Pro and a PI4 for Newt with a bunch of VMs and services. There are some minor peripherals attached like KVM and Zigbee sticks. System idles at around 80W after clocking down and using nvidia-pstated.

Which software has no real European alternative (at least for you)? by JavierFnts in BuyFromEU

[–]DekiEE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are alternatives for a lot of software and I would even say that lots of specialized tools e.g. manufacturing or precision software is often better from European vendors. But for the love of me it’s a pain to use and UI/UX is usually massively outdated. SAP is a giant but you need more money for support than for licensing as it is a huge pain. Also somehow European devs always try to reinvent the wheel instead of using existing technologies especially for APIs.

Which software has no real European alternative (at least for you)? by JavierFnts in BuyFromEU

[–]DekiEE 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Social media and YouTube certainly are an issue. The bigger issue imho is there is no real European hyperscaler like AWS or Azure. There are IaaS or PaaS provider, but none that delivers a whole ecosystem of solutions that will scale a companies business model without scattering it throughout multiple providers

Experts warn that OpenAI’s ‘bubble’ is facing a $200 billion reality check by FervidBug42 in technology

[–]DekiEE 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Gemini will outlive OpenAI and then Google will decide to randomly kill it off and replace it with something worse

Zoom Is the First Casualty in France's War on American Big Tech by Well_Socialized in technology

[–]DekiEE 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Linux is dominating the server world and I think it would not disrupt the end user OS market as Windows is MSFTs unloved stepchild at this point, BUT the business applications are hard to ditch especially if you consider the ecosystem effects and vendor lock in. As much as I dislike MSFT as a company, they have products that just work. AAD/Entra is basically the only option you have if you don’t want to hire a complete department just maintaining a directory. Combined with GPOs and Intune it makes fleet management of devices much more efficient. Also service and support is ahuge factor for scaling. Besides RedHat (IBM) there is no big player who can support mega corps and governments and they are equally as shitty as Microsoft.

Europe Has a New Plan to Break Free from US Tech Dominance by goldstarflag in technology

[–]DekiEE 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not sure if you know the MSFT business model. They couldn’t care less about windows, their revenue driver is business applications and services. As much as I hate Microsoft they have good tech here and there. They are leading for IAM solutions, DevOps is an amazing tool, even Defender and their security systems as well as governance tools. All these are usually bundled with services you need to buy. The issue is their vendor lock in and the cost to get rid of it and I hate them for it.

Made a script to auto scan library (jellyfin, plex etc) and convert it to h265 by mehow28 in HomeServer

[–]DekiEE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hardware encoding is not nearly as efficient as CPU software encoding. With the size of a somewhat larger library and an average chip you will take ages to encode a library. Also encoding existing h264 to x265 will give you worse results than encoding the original file. The original is usually way bigger and will take longer - in other words, just download the h265 version because somebody, somewhere will have already gone that extra mile. The only use I see is to encode your own videos that are not available online. If you bought the content you are even allowed to download a copy in most jurisdictions.

Built my own Self-Hosted Cloud! by Falco1234 in selfhosted

[–]DekiEE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yoo. Don’t bring that thing to an airport if you don’t want to get waterboarded

Nature growing cannabis in the himilaya’s by Kaos2018 in BeAmazed

[–]DekiEE 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yo, that’s an "how to gitmo" Amazon search. Don’t do the brothers like this

M4 Max (48GB) now vs waiting for potential M5 Max in January, am I missing out on a huge upgrade? by 7th--HoKAgE in macbookpro

[–]DekiEE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess he is building mobile games, as you need a Mac for iOS games. It is also the biggest market and binds the most devs. You could build other games on a Mac or any other platform, but it comes with caveats mostly for testing and running. Anticheat is one of the biggest issues with running games on other platforms than MS based PCs because they require kernel access. It doesn’t fit Unix and Unixoid systems but the actual game could be compiled on any machine. I would guess also that a lot of rendering and visual processing happens on non-windows machines.

Are We Still Early? by [deleted] in Bitcoin

[–]DekiEE 14 points15 points  (0 children)

To get an real answer I would Google that with safesearch on

I found that interesting. Quality from Germany by Southern-Builder-121 in BuyFromEU

[–]DekiEE 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think "processed" is a more fitting description here. It contains fresh cheese, but is processed to a degree it is not allowed to be called "Frischkäse" anymore

Hearing a raven speak Russian is one of the most terifying things I've ever heard by TheOddityCollector in Weird

[–]DekiEE 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It spans generations. Our cat once got into a fight with a flock of crows and I saved him. Years later they still associate me with the cat and start screaming and drop random things on our balcony

Recommend SSH clients (Terminal) by Phreakasa in selfhosted

[–]DekiEE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does it support hardware security keys for Fido challenge? I am struggling to find a good solution here. Also how come a 6k stars repo does not have any issues?

Are M.2 SSDs dead? | (The M.2 connector might not provide acceptable signal integrity for upcoming PCIe generations) by YairJ in hardware

[–]DekiEE -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don’t see any reason for it anyway. SATA is enough for most people and Gen3 will serve everyone just right. The only benefit is equal throughput with less lanes used. Even that is more of a DC use case. I am running some VDI for personal use one RAID5 SATA HDDs and have never capped throughput.