A Reddit Refugee. Zero ragrets.

Engineer, permanent pirate, lover of all things mechanical and on wheels

moved here from lemmy.one because there are no active admins on that instance.

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  • Don’t abuse it and do all your own work. I keep most of my stuff running by inspecting frequently and doing repairs before it’s an “oh shit will this get me to work” kind of failure. Also motorbikes are a bit different than cars, they run way closer to their mechanical maxes and are just lighter overall. They typically break down quicker.






  • Debian is what you make of it, definitely. But it is also inanely stability focused to the point of being a detriment. It takes many months for simple package updates to hit Debian repos and it leads to frustration when stuff I expect to be updated is still very much not. As a server distro I recommend it, but as a play around distro it’s a bit more annoying and you have to do a ton more self maintenance on packages to get the latest and greatest.







  • Memory and CPU’s are about it.

    GPU’s have all shifted to bespoke hardware that is physically impossible to run on consumer hardware platforms. All the Blackwell etc type chips are insanely dense. Most GPU’s built for datacenter use don’t even have video output hardware so it’s somewhat useless.

    Memory (DIMM’s) are somewhat standard. Most servers use registered ECC which doesn’t work in consumer platforms, but the actual memory chips themselves could be removed and replaced onto normal consumer DIMM’s as they are basically univsersal.

    x86 CPU’s are still CPU’s at least. You might need weird motherboards but those can still be run by us plebs.