Uh, the X is probably in reference to Musk-Twitter.

I mean, that kinda goes against the self hosted ethos, but it'd probably run fine on Oracle always free.

Like, I host everything on my local server, but I've got symmetrical gigabit, and all my user (family, some friends) are on my tailscale network.

If your friends are willing to use tailscale, or something like that (you can do most of what tailscale does yourself, but that involves quite a bit of work), it'd be pretty easy to host at home. There are several ways to make whatever you host reachable from the public internet, but that usually makes everything a much bigger hassle.

My power costs for my server (Ryzen 5 3600, GT710, 16 GB RAM, 10TB storage) are usually 10-15€ a month, which is worth it to me. You could do a lot with a way lower spec CPU, but that's what I had lying around.

Not quite comparable, because long distance, but for someone usually bouncing around Germany, the TGV network is kinda crazy. A bit envious after returning.

Like, the ICE is usually faster than driving, and I don't have a car anyways, since I don't really need one, but having a separate network for high speed rail means the French are just on another level.

Darling, please.

You are policing, that was my point.

Liking the concept of a small, utilitarian pick up doesn't make you right wing. Liking big pick ups might make you a bit misguided in my eyes, but still doesn't mean you can't be on the political left.

I am vegan, and could very easily make arguments why you are unethical and aren't "properly" left wing if you aren't. I just don't think that it's productive, and that you can't nail down a person's whole world view over some general issue like this.

For me - not necessarily for concentrated viewing, but I can deal better with some boring tasks when I have something in the background that keeps my brain occupied, be it a podcast, a long video essay, or whatever else.

Here's an one hour video essay, if you like one hour video essays.

Ya know, Pick Up Trucks aren't inherently evil (though I'd argue many current designs are rather destructive in several ways), and there's, like, lefty farmers, contractors, non-city people, etc. I think policing what people are allowed to like will get us nowhere.

Those are blackbird, sparrow, cuckoo, eagle owl, owl. The one in the meme is a Gelbkopf-Schwarzstärling ("yellowhead blackstärling")

So, not that different, I'd say.

I mean, you probably heard of PowerPC. IBM kept working on that, is still working on it. They're at Power10 now, but that has some proprietary blobs, as opposed to POWER9.

I'd say that it's mainly cool because it's an architecture with enough performance for modern stuff, that is completely open source. No proprietary BIOS, no Management Engine running unknown code. Also, pretty stable, supposedly.

Only supported by Linux, some BSDs, and some proprietary IBM *nixes, if you wanna say you have a system that literally can't run Windows.

If you want fun facts, the currently 9th most powerful supercomputer, Summit, runs on it, I guess.

The hardware is too expensive for pretty much anyone to actually wanna use it, but oh well, what do you do.

You can get yourself a workstation for about $10k here. https://www.raptorcs.com/content/TL2WK2/intro.html

What about POWER9? You can buy a complete workstation right now, with an open source CPU, Board, BIOS. It'll cost you an arm, a leg, and probably some more internal organs, but it is currently more functional than RISC-V.

Look at the way Tesla collects and treats customer data, and the way Musk seems to unilaterally abuse his control over the companies he owns for personal reasons.

Now think about the capabilities of the Intel Management Engine that pretty much every Intel CPU requires.

Bad vibes, I say.

For those feeling out of the loop, see here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

Tldr - it's a little always on processor, running a Minix OS, with direct access to all board devices including the Ethernet Controller.

AMD has something similar in form of their Platform Security Processor.