HOLY SHIT. +1 on the glad yall are good, but that's nuts.

A few years ago, my buddy bought a house and about a month later a house down the street exploded (propane explosion). Made national news. He had to clean the boards off the whole property. We found pieces on his roof months later.

Critical, not pessimistic XD

Yeah, but what are the odds you're going to bump into him, without seeking it out? lol

That's a 50/50 in my experience. XD

It feels really weird owning a server new enough to have native m.2 support and only USB 3 ports.

Seems like a bad idea to answer this question honestly.

Just a reminder to have redundancy in your cloud environment. One of my hosting providers had a hardware failure and needed to offline migrate some services. My instance was mostly unaffected, but for maybe 20 minutes. However my service as a whole were completely uninterrupted, users shouldn't have noticed whatsoever, and all I had to do was keep an eye on my logs, everything else was automatic. The server came back online and traffic was restored.

That's rough. Could have been a thousdanare

I don't like to share active hardware, but it's replacing a Dell r330 as a witness.

I just traded a 64gb kit of consumer DDR4 for a new server XD. Then I'm about to sell an 8 year old machine for just shy of the price it was new. Hardware prices are wild.

That's where I really wish the OSS devs were moving toward. AI is focused on fast, consuming MW of power just to give you a smart response on demand. I don't need that all the time. I need predictable automation that can run 24/7. I don't care if my server runs all night (that's it's job) automating tasks predictably. Just add things to my calendar, schedule phone calls, import and filter my emails, organize my notes, organize my filesystems, fetch and store relevant extra information. Just automation tasks that require some consistant reasoning that can be written down, and so long as it's reasonably deterministic, and the tools have error checking and correction, shouldn't be a problem.

For coding, I've found qwen 3 coder to be the "best" but even the 27b model is not very useful when things like Claude 4.5 are just becoming useful. It's good for checking for typos, or very basic single file changes, and even with a beefy server it's going to take a few minutes to submit a single patch, assuming it gets the tools correct. I've found the smaller instruct models know how to use the tools a little better, but they're dumb and direct.