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[nils_]

There are still some issues, for example no support for TRIM / Discard and double caching with L2ARC and Linux Page Cache. Solaris is pretty much dead,...

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The VPC alone will run you $15 a month on AWS......

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Yeah the "hidden" costs is usually where they get you.



They seem to use pretty old (as in used) hardware though....

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Amazon can give you spinning rust storage as well: $0.045/GiB for normal spinning rust, $0.025 / GiB for "cold storage", presumably SMR HDD...

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I'm mostly using Hetzner for my own stuff (mailserver, backup, web server etc.). It's okay if you don't need fast / private networking....

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It's already supported on POWER9....

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I can rent a physical server for a lot less than that in Germany (EPYC 24 cores, 2x1.92TiB SSD, though not NVMe, 128 GiB RAM for less than €200 for...

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I think it's hard to make these linear comparisons (in Germany it's around 800 EUR for the 1080 Ti vs. 1300 EUR for the RTX 2080Ti), but if those 35%...

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As long as it's at its lowest clock / power draw.... I currently have a GTX 980, had a GTX 780 before which drew a lot of power even when not in use....

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That made me wonder, if I don't want to game in Linux (I boot into Windows for that, currently using my Intel GPU with Linux and NVidia with Windows),...

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I would add to that, why is not okay to use the social construct of two genders (male, female) but it's completely fine to categorize someone in such...

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This kinda sounds like the already annoying videos that auto-play on every other news site....