‘Was’ being the operative word.

But there’s a lot of bad AI content in there. Why bring in the shit that drives people away?

If you want reddit content on lemmy, go get it and post it yourself. Get the good shit that drives engagement, not the putrid slop that will make people block the posting account or sub entirely.

We are a subset of a subset of internet users, you rarely heard people in the wild advertising Reddit either.

Not to go full ‘Eternal September’, but I would almost argue that around the time reddit was talked about on more mainstream platforms is around the time that reddit started going down hill. Subs started getting harder to keep on track and moderation began going off the rails.

On the plus side, shit like “le narwal bacons at midnight” started to die off too, so it wasn’t all bad I guess.

No, I came here to get away from that shit hole.

Your brother was half your dad?!? Man, that’s crazy.

Do you have any resources on that kind of setup? I appreciate that constructive advice!

Do you have any info on the custom setup? Sounds like a fun project/learning experience.

And do you mean OCI like oracle cloud?

That’s actually doable. Thanks for that friend.

Hell 50 bucks you can get a decent SSD.

If only it were that easy, I would have already thrown a spare 2.5" into the system, but it’s only got a single nvme slot for local storage.

That’s really good to know. Do you ever have issues writing database files on those disks? Database files on nfs mounts have been the bane of my existence.

Interesting, it was running on this system, so it may actually have been wear that killed the drive. I’ll have to look into that config and see if it’s worth getting a new nvme to throw into the cook box.

Thanks for that info!

Yeah, pretty much what I guessed. The drive came with a cooling pad but it didn’t do much at all

Yeah, NFS bind mounts aren’t an issue. The issue I run into is database lock errors when I try to write a database file to the NFS share. I’ve got 1G networking as well and haven’t seen issues accessing regular files from my containers via the bind mounts.

Yeah, I didnt think that was a realistic possibility. Given that it was a bitty fan less nuc style system, I’m leaning more to a heat death as I originally surmised.

E: though another person suggested a frigate misconfig could have worn the drive out early

I docker’d all of my systems a few years ago, and I’m so glad I did. So much easier to manage, and when I lost a system I was able to get most of my services back up and running with minimal configuration on a VM same day.

As for hardware, you might check and see if you’ve got a local reseller of retired business equipment. Before I moved, I had a place I went to from my work that accepted shit we were getting rid of that disposed of stuff and resold at a bargain the stuff that was still good. I got more than one hp tower from a few years previous that ran (and still runs) like a champ. Felt like night and day when I upgraded to that from my Pi setup, and they were only like $35 each.

My ideal is something more like a netboot-able image that I can modify/recreate and have it pull on next boot. But those options aren’t a bad thought either. I’d just need to have the bootable image configured with the info needed to bootstrap it. I’ve got another VM that’s got a different automation platform running (Powershell Universal), but it would give me an excuse to learn another well known automation platform.

I might be able to hook it up to a usb NVMe reader, but when I initially tried I barely got any recognition of the drive from the OS. My primary system is windows, so I might get more info from one of my linux systems, just haven’t had the fucks to give to the dead drive. As for a replacement drive, funds are scarce and time/learning is (comparatively) free. Someone else suggested kubernetes, so I might look into that to see if that can accomplish what I’m looking for.

I’m leery about using a USB for long term persistent OS storage due to lifespan issues I’ve seen when just running a hypervisor from one. A ‘real’ usermode OS is probably going to have a worse lifespan than what I was seeing at work.