themadcodger

Aw, Mandrake! I didn't know what I was doing back then and chose it because of the root. Stuck with it until Ubuntu came out a bit later.

In college we had to take a certain number of bible classes. Senior year took one on the history of the old testament or something like that. Course compared the texts to older texts from nearby regions and it's all basically plagiarized. This was somehow supposed to bring us closer to god, but for me it did the obvious and was the straw that broke that particular camel's back.

I'm in a blue city in a blue state, though we have plenty of red. But we're where the proud boys and other majestically brain-dead champions of mediocrity love to come and cause trouble while the cops protect them. So yeah, it's all going to suck, and probably sooner than later 😮‍💨

While I would be open to a trade, I'd be more looking for something like the Synology that I already have, just not so walled garden. I currently have a number of 2.5 and 3.5 inch disks that I'd like to keep using, and I think the Optiplex is more of just a regular desktop than a server?

Huh, I'm also in the PNW. This could work out. I think it's a bit too much for my needs, and I really don't have the space for it. That said, I do want to learn how to use it, and get it up and running, etc. But after that I would definitely be looking to get something more practical. And quiet if it's as loud as people are saying.

I have Bazzite on my steam deck and Bluefin on my laptop and have been very happy with them. The atomic part is great for not messing things up as a noob, but if OP does decide to dual boot then these distros won't be the best choice as they don't play well with other distros.

Wasn't he going to cage fight Zuck at one point?

Uff, I wouldn't even know how to ship that without it costing an arm and a leg

Ugh that's unfortunate, because I do not have an out of the way place to put it. It didn't make any noise when I plugged it in, but I imagine that comes from the drives when I insert them

Hey, thanks for your advice, and honestly the permission to be okay with not using it. I lost sight of that and it's a good reminder. I am a little concerned for the noise and power consumption that everyone is talking about, especially since I don't have an out of the way place to stick it.

That said, while I might ultimately not use it, I will at least learn enough to get it running. And like you said, fail a lot. But if I don't have anything on it, failure won't be so painful when I inevitability have to start over.

I'll have to get some sort of adapter for VGA, and thanks for the talking about idrac. I had seen that mentioned on the server and had no idea what it was. So is the idrac website I'm connecting to like the website on routers used for configuration?

Hey thanks for the advice! Proxmox and TrueNAS seem to be what I should be looking into. Flashing with Rufus I'm familiar enough with, so that I can do. The one thing I don't have is an out of the way place to put it 🫤 without any drives it didn't make any noise, but I imagine that all comes from the drives doing their thing.

Thanks for the encouragement! To be honest, while it was a good place to start from its hand holding, I don't love synology for how walled garden it is. I'll definitely take a look at TrueNAS and see what that's like.