I run mine on digital ocean and it’s great. Mine is slightly more powerful, but you can always start small and upgrade. It’s much harder to downgrade

Woof after all that time making their slipspace engine? It worked super well! What happened to it?

The WD elements drives are pretty rock solid. The drives themselves are WD reds inside, which are very reliable. The only iffy thing is if the control board (the device that converts USB to the internal drive) can fail, but that’s true for any external. It’s my go-to backup solution.

Hell I don’t even buy “New” on Amazon anymore, it’s all way too shady. If I want a 3d printed novelty I’ll go there, but something I need to know won’t catch fire? No way.

Literally the only times I have EVER seen it was when I was at concert and a woman came in and exclaimed that the line was too long for the women’s. I have never once seen a man go into a womens room

There is no one size fits all for how someone should do their backups, it really depends on what you have and how much. What do I have? Over 100TB on a redundant unrais server with it backed up off-site. That’s probably overkill though. Most people would just benefit from an external hard drive with automated backups set up.

If you want to know it’s safe, the go to solution is 3-2-1. 3 total copies of your data across 2 different types of data storage, with one of them off site. That’s the only way to truly know your data is safe.

Woo. Or I’ll play dragon age 4. Or MS flight sim 2024. Or literally any other game that isn’t a cookie cutter or 20 games before it.

Have used it, it works well

I think they might be thinking of something like thin clients, if I were to guess, and a server they would connect to. But yes good call out for the XY problem.

Connecting multiple users to Ubuntu is probably pretty difficult. Setting up a server for thin clients is pretty easy

They really think billionaires are like them, the only difference is that someone else goes to Walmart for them

Oh something I can help you with! I put in 5 years at geek squad so I know bby fairly well.

So, first off go in confidently. Not arrogant, but confident. This position is going to be at its heart, a sales position.

They see sweaty nerds a dozen times over who are just arrogant and want to talk about how this processor is only more expensive because it’s an Intel when they don’t even have super hyper threads or something. They want you to know the tech, but more importantly they’re going to be asking soft questions on if you can SELL the tech.

Your customers aren’t going to be people who want to know the processing speed of this processor, or even how much ram it has. They’re going to ask if they can run word, or if their niece can do the tiktoks with it. Your job will be to sell surfaces and Microsoft products, and to grit your teeth and say yes, it’s the perfect machine to do the tiktoks with.

Just truly be yourself, they’re looking for people who are relatable. I was so nervous when I started that I was afraid to go talk to people, but it ended up being great for me. I was able to learn how to strike up a conversation with randos and talk about tech in a simplified way. On top of that I was really good at it it turns out, because I didn’t bullshit my customers. Oh you want to just email your grandson? Take this 300 dollar computer. Maybe get the tech support so if you get a virus you don’t panic. Oh you’re a gamer? Well here’s an 800 bad boi that can play most games, maybe not top notch but it’s in your budget. Don’t need accidental coverage? Don’t worry about it then, enjoy!

I went from not being able to even say hello to a stranger to the best part time sales person they had, simply because I liked feeling out with people a bit. So that’s the job. They’re not going to ask you what certs you have, but they are going to see if your likable, if your someone people would want to talk to.

Go online (or hell even chatGpt honestly) and ask it to do a mock interview based around retail sales focusing on soft skills. It’s going to prep you pretty well. “Tell me about a time you disagreed with a coworker”, “tell me about when you had a boss who was mad at you”, that sort of thing.

Okay I know that’s a lot, but I hope you feel a bit better. Just be you, don’t try to be who you think they want. That’s a trap a lot of people who get turned down at best buy fall into. They don’t want a sysadmin or anything, they want a friendly face who customers will enjoy talking to

Good luck, we’re rooting for you!

If you’re into self hosting check out Owncast. There’s a very small group of us who are trying to get it off the ground. You host your own streaming platform that’s shared to the fediverse

Neat! I’ll check it out!

Yeah I haven’t seen any mods who are for it, granted OP is on discuss.online and I have defederated a lot of hate instances. People on beehaw, lemmy.world, and quite a few others have been if anything overly accepting than not. However, it’s why I discourage browsing all and instead curating a list of communities.

Anything better you know of? Most of my usage now with it is through its api

I’m not 100% what you’re asking for, but I use text-generation-webui for all of my local generation needs.

https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

Entire tech industry is stupid right now. So many business bros trying to pump and dump for short term profits. Gamers specifically are already noticing the lack in quality over the last couple of years, and it’s only going to get worse. Fuck those companies, they just want to funnel the money to their shareholders.

Doesn’t anyone just want to run a business anymore?

I hit a weird depression last year, where I was laid off and was very melancholy. I was missing the UK for some reason and feeling general wanderlust, probably because I was stuck at home and couldn’t go anywhere or do anything. So I fell head first into… Jane Austen. As a man, it was honestly a lot of fun. I watched Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Becoming Jane (outlier I know), and honestly I loved a BBC only version of Northanger Abbey starring Felicity Jones and the Onion Knight from GoT.

Looking back, as a male, I don’t think I was dealing with my emotions well, and this was funnily enough a great outlet for me, where I could be extremely overly emotional while working through my anger and depression. It was… fun, in a way, wallowing in that, my SO and I watched movies like that every night for a week. Sometimes you just feel… sad. And you keep feeling sad until you’re not

Ah I’ll clarify that I set mine up next to the system drive in proxmox, through the proxmox zfs helper program. There was probably something in there that set up settings in a weird way

No idea why you’re getting downvoted, it’s absolutely correct and it’s called out in the official proxmox docs and forums. Proxmox logs and journals directly to the zfs array regularly, to the point of drive destroying amounts of writes.