anamethatisnt

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[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 hours ago

I went for a tiny Ryzen 7600 (no X), so it comes at the cost of a worse cpu and worse gpu. :)

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

My server has a gaming vm with gpu passthrough (6650 XT). With my vm powered on and idle the whole server draws about 60w-65w. Monitor not included.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

That's true, if there's no load then the difference isn't much money.
I'm running a NAS, some game servers, a forgejo instance and a jellyfin server and more on my machine so it's never truly idle and I forgot to think about that metric.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Ah right, that rings a bell. Proxmox and Ceph sounds like a perfect experiment for OPs hardware. :)
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pveceph.html

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Yeah, I focused on the I’m just looking for some fun experiments, projects part.
I wouldn't use the machines for anything other than experimenting for fun, they're power hungry too if counting per performance.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (14 children)

I would look into setting up a proxmox cluster ~~with high availability~~ on them and from there you can look into fun projects that you can run as proxmox vms or lxcs.
https://www.xda-developers.com/proxmox-cluster-guide/
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/High_Availability

edit: HA seems to require a shared disk, such as a SAN or NAS.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For those of us using Firefox there was a post on !youshouldknow@lemmy.world on how you can use uBlock Origin to create word filters.

To do so, open up the uBlock Origin dashboard, go to the ‘My filters’ tab, and add this filter:

lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)

For example:

lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk|nazi/i)  
[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Running games on Linux:
Using the Heroic Game Launcher you can install GOG/Epic Games games with a simple click, Steam works pretty much the same in Linux as in Windows today.
There's also Lutris that's great for running local windows installers (downloaded game installers from GOG f.e.). I used Lutris when my wife needed to install the EA App to run Sims 4 as a usage example.

PLEASE NOTE
The exception is some games actively blocking non-windows (Fortnite) and others using Anti cheats that requires Windows to work.

Gaming on Linux links
Where I usually check if a game runs properly on Linux - https://www.protondb.com/
A site that lists games that doesn't work due to anticheat - https://areweanticheatyet.com/
Game launchers for other storefronts than Steam:
https://lutris.net/
https://heroicgameslauncher.com/

Linux DE and Distros
If you want a desktop environment that is similar to Windows as default and uses the latest graphics protocols in Wayland and so on then look into KDE. As a bonus KDE is developed by a non profit based in Germany.
OpenSUSE is a distro developed by a german company that uses KDE as default - https://get.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/?type=desktop
Normally I recommend Fedora KDE as a distro but that is developed by Red Hat which in turn is owned by IBM which feels a bit contrary to "Buy European".