US based provider so eww

MicroServers are really quiet (basically silent, the HDD are noisier)

I got one 1-2 years ago for ~250€, with a Xeon and 4GB of RAM.

I use it as a “NAS on steroid”: basically a NAS-like storage + data processing server (Paperless-NGX, downloader (games I bought on DRM free stores + Usenet), Syncthing middleman…)

It’s exactly what I wanted (with the limitation I had) so it’s perfect for me (it’s still on the 4GB of RAM and I don’t need more even with the dozen of container I run).

If the form factor is irrelevant for you, just get the equivalent tower (normal HP Proliant Gen8, or something more recent) for half the price with the same spec, you’re paying basically double for the MicroServer form factor.

From a security standpoint, it’s irrelevant. Yes the CPU are vulnerable to all the shitty Intel flaws (that Intel thought would never be discovered), but they’re all solved via kernel mitigation (that cost you 50% of the performance the CPU originally had)

Be warry of 3 things if you buy it:

• Finding the cable to use an SSD in the ODD slot is harder than you think (only a single brand make it), it’s also harder than you think to configure the raid card to use it (and it sometimes but rarely resets) - this is only relevant if you want to use that slot

• First 2 sata slots are SATA3, others 2 are SATA2 (and they’re not fast), ODD slot is SATA2, I think, I might be wrong

• The motherboard chipset has a bug: you must disable one of the virtalization option (I don’t remember which) if you virtualize / run a RDP docker container, otherwise the system will freeze after 30-1h of running said virtualized stuff in the background (took me days to find the solution, it’s not documented anywhere on the internet except for like one place)

I don’t know why projects set up the compose file to build the image when they already have a publicly available image to use

Because the compose that’s in the repository is the development compose, it’s not meant for users… literally the first line: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/blob/master/docker-compose.yml#L1

TheFrenchGhosty ( https://invidious.io/team/ )

Nothing exist if you want to use FIAT.

Read the contracts, it’s information that is well documented by them.

Docker Compose as is.

I used Portainer for like 2 years when I first learned Docker (I only used to deploy compose file and motoring the container), but it’s really shit when you know how it works.

The fact that this comment is implying that “centralization in major corporate platforma is better” with valid argument deeply bother me.

Especially because I don’t really have a counter argument…

Damn.

You can also use better server providers that aren’t absolutely overpriced.

So it’s Tor but worse.

Because it’s proprietary and borderline spyware.

Use ViolentMonkey.

A lot: https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-Firefox-Configuration

https://scribe.pussthecat.org/@attilavago/theres-more-to-the-reddit-meltdown-than-meets-the-eye-e42cedc6daca

Here, no paywall and no trackers.

This. Domain whitelist are the worse thing you can do.

Tidal proprietary lossy codec, that they advertized as lossless.

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=pRjsu9-Vznc

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=NHkqWZ9jzA0

If you have even just a bit of fame… you more than likely have a website that show all the way to contact you… so this is a non-issue.

Example, me: https://thefrenchghosty.me/contact/

MQA is literal garbage, so no, Tidal doesn’t.

Qobuz and Deezer do however.

Let’s do that in Lemmy instead!

iTunes is literally the same as streaming though.

You rent access to the content for as long as the platform wants.

DVD/Bluray are the solution to this… except not everything is released like that…

In the end, piracy wins… again… like it always has…

“I disagree with it, so it must be fash”