This is just another manifestation of the alternate reality Trump lives in. He’s so convinced that everything he does is golden, and he’s surrounded himself with yes-men who hide the truth from him (like Gabbard telling agents they need to change their intelligence reports to make Trump happy), so every time reality intrudes on his fantasy world he lashes out as if companies are doing this just to make HIM look bad. No dumbass, they’re doing it because you fucked things up so badly that the market cannot cover up your gross negligence.

You might check if a simple CPU upgrade would get you there. I previously ran some 2005 Poweredge servers that came with a Pentium D processor, and it cost me something like $8 from ebay to upgrade to a Xeon and start running KVM.

Keep an eye out for people trashing perfectly good desktop machines because Windows 10 is being retired.

If you want a server that “does it all” then you would need to get the most decked-out top of the line server available… Obviously that is unrealistic, so as others have mentioned, knowing WHAT you want to run is required to even begin to make a guess at what you will need.

Meanwhile here’s what I suggest – Grab any desktop machine you can find to get yourself started. Load up an OS, and start adding services. Maybe you want to run a personal web server, a file server, or something more extensive like Nextcloud? Get those things installed, and see how it runs. At some point you will start seeing performance issues, and this tells you when it’s time to upgrade to something with more capability. You may simply need more memory or a better CPU, in which case you can get the parts, or you may need to really step up to something with dual-CPU or internal RAID. You might also consider splitting services between multiple desktop machines, for instance having one dedicated NAS and another running Nextcloud. Your personal setup will dictate what works best for you, but the best way to learn these things is to just dive in with whatever hardware you can get ahold of (especially when it’s free), and use that as your baseline for any upgrades.

Wow, if that ain’t an appropriate review of the current administration…

My current desktop came from a co-worker, but you can also put the word out to family and friends that you’re interested in their old machines. Most people are happy to give them away because otherwise it costs them money to dispose of electronics. If nothing else, you could post on Nextdoor or a local Facebook page that you’re looking for a Win10 machine that would otherwise be trashed.

Older machines also mean dirt-cheap upgrades. The desktop I have came with a Celeron cpu. I dropped in an i7 for $10 from ebay, and recently upgraded it to 24GB of ram with sticks I had pulled from other free systems. When you switch to Linux you’re not wasting horsepower on Microsoft spyware crap, so this machine does just fine for my needs (although I’m also not trying to play games).

Later that day, the Russian space agency Roscosmos confirmed that the lander had harmlessly impacted the Indian Ocean at 6:24 a.m. UTC west of Jakarta, Indonesia. The condition of the craft is unknown.

Someone trusts flying in these conditions? That’s insane.

The article makes it sound like they expected the US Dollar to get stronger after the tariff announcements. Why would anyone presume such a ridiculous thing? Trump’s tariffs were never going to do anything but drive away businesses and make other countries stop trading with us.

Especially Win10 computers :-)

This was played before sentencing. It doesn’t say it here, but the article I read earlier today stated that because of this video, the judge issued a sentence greater than the maximum recommended by the State. If true, then it really calls into question the sentence itself and how impartial the judge was.

Crepuscular rays: shafts of light which are seen just after the sun has set and which extend over the western sky radiating from the position of the sun below the horizon. They form only when the sun has set behind an irregularly shaped cloud or mountain which lets the rays of the sun pass through a cloud in bands.

In this case, I think the light is making it look like the cloud is dark bands, when in fact the entire cloud is probably all dark but being lit up by the rays. (And yes, this affect can be seen both at sunrise and sunset.)

Ugh they sure screwed up the code on that page, I’m not sure how you viewed the article. I got the same results on firefox and chrome… a short paragraph ending in “CNCERT released a report on Friday regarding the attacks. Here are the details:”, followed by a full screen width banner “Summer in Paris”, and then I guess the footer for the site. I had to disable a max-height style on the article to actually read through it. Still not much detail unless there’s even more hidden blocks on the page, but thanks for trying.

What a very Russian thing to do…

Weird, I guess I had bad timing because I’ve been unable to reach this site for a bit, but it just came up again. Thanks for the info!

[Edit] The documents on that page ALSO do not actually provide information about the IP addresses carrying malicious content. Maybe they just don’t publish that information, despite how useful it would be to everyone?

I had assumed national treaties would have lawyers pouring over the details to ensure both parties got what they wanted, but it’s good to see some of the details pointed out. Thanks for the update!

Well this article is less than worthless. Where is the list of those IP addresses? I’d be happy to implement blocks on my servers with that information.

Well if the US is no longer involved in negotiations, then there is zero benefit being offered to Ukraine and thus there is zero reason Zelensky should even consider signing that mineral deal.

Assume you meant 3 1/2" floppies? Seems like you’re confusing these with the 5 1/4" size.

Funny how Trump keeps claiming rising economies are always his doing, despite who is president, but failing economies are someone else’s fault even when he is the president who caused it.

And of course the great economies under other presidents are always “terrible” while the downward-spiraling economies under his own leadership are always “the best in the world”. The man simply has no concept of reality.

Haha exactly! Or maybe Stephen Miller just coordinated the tariffs with a known event.

Back to reality though… It doesn’t look like there is even an estimate yet of what part of the globe it will hit? I’m also curious why they say there’s only a “chance” of it surviving reentry, since the atmosphere of Venus is a lot harsher than our own? Oh well, maybe it’ll hit Mar-a-Lago while Trump is there.