Curious to know what the experiences are for those who are sticking to bare metal. Would like to better understand what keeps such admins from migrating to containers, Docker, Podman, Virtual Machines, etc. What keeps you on bare metal in 2025?
If it aint broke, don’t fix it 🤷
Thank you kindly, stranger! It wouldn’t surprise me though if we shared one view or another, I’m aware that corporations and rich people either find a way out of paying fines or that those fines are a set amount instead of a percentage of their wealth, which will always be devastating to poor folks and barely a scratch to the financially unchallenged.
Well, we’d be agreeing on that as well then. But don’t thank me for just barely adhering to baseline discourse ettiquette, I’d say that sets the wrong expectation :P
Fuck Newag. I hope they lose and have to pay huge fines in return for even writing software like that and imho endangering passengers for money. Imagine the train locking in full speed while approaching a curve. Or at an intersection where a car broke down and the conductors can’t brake. Arseholes.
I have strong opinions on the efficacy of fines in this context and had a long and snarky comment all laid-out but I don’t think that would be fair to you. Let’s just agree on the “Fuck Newag”-part, I suppose.
US applicant: “How many sick days do I get?”
German HR department: “I’m sorry what do you mean?”
US applicant: “How many days may I call in sick per year?”
German HR department: “Er… that depends on how often you get sick?!”
US applicant: “Wat.”
It’s so much easier to set up and install than Matrix.
Unbelievably so. Mumble is… basically one setup command. Don’t even need a domain. And it needs absolutely no resources, can run on a Pi Zero.
Setting up my own Matrix server was honestly one of the most difficult things I’ve ever attempted in decades of non-professionally using computers and I’m still not sure I’d be able to properly take care of the installation if it breaks. Sooo many moving parts. All the federation-oriented projects that rely on adoption rates reaaaaally desperately need setup wizards before any other additional feature.
Been running a server for my friends for over a decade now. Can recommend. It’s just one apt-get to set up, runs on a Pi Zero for a dozen people, has clients available for pretty much any platform and doesn’t really require any maintenance. Latency will depend on the routing between you and your friends’ ISPs, of course, but the whole purpose of the software itself was to provide a low-latency voicechat server for gaming.
But: That’s it. You don’t get anything else. It’s a barebones voice chat server. You can set up rooms and have basic text-functionality, but you don’t get any fancy user management, no full-fledged chatrooms, no persistence beyond the room setup and only limited backend options. Keep that in mind.