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   Garrett Wollman (wollman@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 13:19:20 JST Garrett Wollman

   Hey, it's Friday night! So what am I doing?

   Oh, right, I'm waiting for rust to build. It'll be a while...

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 13:19:18 JST feld

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     • Peter Wemm
     @karinjiri @wollman I have two of these systems and use ECC RAM and the onboard NVMEs. They are so fast. And mine are also headless and were remote installed / managed. One has the 10gbit NICs, the other is the gigabit variant.
     
     One went bad when I tried doing 128GB of RAM and they had an engineer ask me to ship him the board for him to analyze. They shipped me a replacement at no cost.
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     Garrett Wollman (wollman@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 13:19:19 JST Garrett Wollman

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     (This poor old server is a 6-core Dell R415 from 2012 with only 16GB of RAM. It has served me pretty well but modern software is just too resource-intensive.)

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     Peter Wemm (karinjiri@soc.crashed.org)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 13:19:19 JST Peter Wemm

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     I updated my decade-old hands-off remote HP DL160 westmere-era system to a modest ryzen 5600 one earlier this year. It was cheap, had a massive power consumption reduction, and was astonishingly faster. Yes, a desktop grade cpu in a budget server board (with decent IPMI/remote management, Asrock Rack x570d4u). But it was totally worth it.
     
     It has never had a screen, keyboard, or media plugged in. It was remote installed literally by booting off a virtual DVD image from the freebsd.org https server over the internet. Mostly to prove to myself that the remote control was complete. Not that I particularly recommend it but I wanted to know for sure what the worst case was if I had to have somebody swap a board for me. It was actually easy.
     
     I was tempted to get a used server via ebay, but this way I know its new hardware and should be good for 5-10 years before hardware age becomes an issue.
     
     Also... compiling 4+ versions of llvm as well as gcc, rust and node all together is quite a stress test. Yay our ports system.
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     Garrett Wollman (wollman@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 13:19:20 JST Garrett Wollman

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     It'll probably finish some time on Sunday, this machine is ancient and slow and small and I would really do well to replace it with something more modern. I guess I could shop for a new build server (more affordable than the one I have at work, anyway).