I had to do it for my atom d2550s because of the odd hybrid x86/x86-64 systems they are. I had to install what ended up being linux mint debian edition 5 because that was the best way to get an OS on the odd bootloader system for various reasons, then upgraded to 6 to get to the latest debian, then I installed proxmox and removed all the debian stuff.

What do I do with something as weak as a pair of D2550s? Don’t you worry about that. I’ve found uses for both. :P

It’s an unusual use case, but it’s one reason you might need to install debian before proxmox.

I have to admit, it’s something I’d like to see done a bit better (not that I’d be the one posting about it typically)

“Crocoslut version 12 released!”

Uh… great?

Though sometimes you go to the website and it’s not much better.

Yes.

I use nextcloud and I love it.

You want to follow the 3-2-1 strategy: 3 copies of your data on at least 2 different forms of media, and 1 backup being off-line.

Speedrunning destroying your platform.

Something that I have been warning about for years now is that all of these establishment voices that claim to support a thing are just going to use that thing up and then discard it like a used tissue.

The sooner people realize that, the better off everyone will be. Global megacorps are not your friend.

Amen.

Nextcloud with a 3-2-1 backup strategy is ace. Proxmox can auto-backup, it’s slick.

“what did you think would happen? I’m fuckin evil! I killed kids! You think I’m too nice to use some f-slurs?”

They might be, but most AAA games for many years just haven’t been worth playing at all, much less forever.

Like 95% of my gaming is pre-pandemic.

“we based this off of actual historical Japanese battles”

“So here’s a giant enemy crab, you flip it over and attack it’s weak spot for massive damage”

I started on Plex and even considered a lifetime Plex pass, but I felt like it was more interested in showing their content than my content. It was a lot of effort just to show music and movies.

My family and I use jellyfin every day now, and a key thing is it starts off boring but it shows your music, your movies, your books, your photos.

For folks who migrate who were paying, consider a donation to projects you make heavy use of. They don’t usually have big companies behind them and can use the help.

Discord is like the dread pirate Roberts combined with a used car salesman. “I’ll probably kill you tomorrow, you should buy nitro”

I think Apache has an enterprise resource planning software, but it’s exactly as complex as you’d expect enterprise erp

Depends on the SSD. I’ve only ever had one SSD become read only, and I’ve seen a lot of failed SSDs.

SSDs dominant failure modes of catastrophic failure?

No lies detected…

I’m brave. I’ll run anything on the bleeding edge. I main Debian sid.

But that thing, it scares me.

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I’ve got a similar problem at home, and I use a really straightforward solution: since the problem manifests on my pcs, I just add my services to the hosts file. It’s particularly good when I’m working on my next cloud, because sometimes you end up with a lot of data moving back and forth, and you don’t really want to hit your router to hit the outside world to hit your internal server when you don’t need it. I just sent it to resolve my main services to the internal IP address, and the best part is that even when the internet is down and DNS isn’t available, my services keep on humming away. I might not even realize.

The n280 is specifically limited since it’s 32-bit, but low powered machines can be useful regardless. Two of the servers in my empire of dirt are atom d2550s, and I’m even able to run proxmox on them (since that model is 64-bit), but in terms of bare metal, they were able to run Matrix conduit, ejabbered, a nostr relay, and for a while my searx and yacy instances. (Though as I recall the cpus lack of instructions eventually stopped me from running searx on that hardware) I think I was even able to run invidious.

If it’s just for you, it would surprise you how much you can do with a very small amount of CPU power.

Another thing that a machine like that might be useful for is a jump box. You can just put a very light distribution on it, and make it accessible to the outside world and one way or the other (secured of course) so you can hop into it if you need to do any remote administration.

The one thing that I found when I was using stuff that was particularly low powered is drive latency matters a lot. If you are using an SSD for storage, even much faster processors end up spending a lot of time sitting there waiting for the spinning hard drive to get to where it needs to be so you can be a lot more efficient with less CPU power.