That too, yes. General game server for a few games I play with friends, plus some datacrunching from time to time.

I have one at the head office. I love how it’s adjustable, so I can stand up when I’ve been sitting for too long.

Plus when I’m doing something that involves more than just keyboard and mouse (sych as plugging electronics and hardware around me) it’s very convenient to be already standing.

Onlyfans after his business venture went down in flames.

It’d be legal if they just claimed it was part of the training data

Meh, as far as kings go, he was alright. I’ve also met the new king (Håkon), and he’s pretty decent too.

So did Ultima Online almost a decade earlier.

Why is UO so often forgotten when people talk about early online play? I’ve even heard Everquest described as the first MMO.

Same here, except on servers, where I prefer debian.

Because I’m old and tired, and I just want to install and be up and running in as short of a time as possible without dicking around.

Free except from the drive to get there. But the drive is a lot cheaper than those racks would cost.

Vent fans at the top and the bottom. But it can be next to my work desk without the hardware getting annoying.

Not working on anything particular, but I’m going on a road trip on Tuesday to this regional airport that is giving away two racks perfect for my use case. Deep enough for my larger machines, sound proofed and 42U tall.

Finally my hardware can have a proper rack instead of being in a stack/pile in this harrypotteresque locker under my stairs.

Not much these days. While it used to be “everything”, now it’s:

• Http/https
• dns
• Wireguard
• Minecraft
• beegfs

Ah, the days when it was still known as Windows Whistler, until someone leaked how it looked and everyone started calling it Teletubby Windows instead

My home servers have generally a lot smaller attack surface, as only a few ports are actually routed to them, so in theoey I could get away with a more relaxed approach. But I’m also a big believer in defense-in-depth, so I follow the same rules of thumb:

• iptables (or equivalent) that drops anything incoming that isn’t wanted. It also rejects anything going out that isn’t planned for.
• any public facing service (except ssh) gets its own user
• disable root login via ssh
• ssh login with key only on any user in sudoers

If I was on my laptop and not my phone I would post a screenshot with a P just for you

Well, there’s a footnote on my end: Me taking the drives home is a bit of a grey area, as the procedures say that the drives are to be mechanically destroyed when no longer needed. It doesn’t specify needed by whom. And I do attack them with my angle grinder, so it’s in accordance with company policy.

And yes, my employer knows and is OK with it. We go through a ridiculous amount of drives due to large storage needs, so pragmatism tends to trump bureaucracy.

I usually scavenge old drives from work. On one hand they’re a bit smaller than I’d like them to be, but on the other hand they’re free except from the minor work and documentation involved in ensuring that no company related data remain.

Yup, there’s no kinkshaming here

Well, he seems to be channeling some real Field Marshal Haig energy when it comes to losing soldiers

Same. My apathy of football is suddenly a virtue.

A few days ago I aked a dev at our subcontractor if this proprietary software would in theory run on windows. Not only “yes”, but me running mint on my worklaptop was perfect, because his dev and test environment was debian, so even though the software was built to run on windows, he could easily build a version specifically for me.