• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Wait til all these projects crash, burn, and get liquidated. Gonna be an amazing secondary market for brand new, unused bulk hardware.

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      7 months ago

      Yes, of course

      Except, i doubt anyone will be doing much with a 32 code Xenon CPU Windows snobs cant even run Windows on without a super giga 1000€ license for more than 16 Core CPUs

      And the cuda only fanless and outputless GPU will also be kinda useless, especially because they all need a special setup to force feed air through the entire rack to not overheat

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        7 months ago

        Windows snobs cant even run Windows on without a super giga 1000€ license for more than 16 Core CPUs

        I’m not using Windows servers at home but if I did then a license wouldn’t be a factor when deciding what hardware to buy.

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          7 months ago

          And on top: ROK ISOs by hardware vendors by HPE (and probably lenovo) don’t have the trial time limit and can be run indefinitely without a license.
          You only need to satisfy the requirement of running a supported motherboard during boot of the iso.
          Well…Too bad that I can (unlike in ESXi) modify the manufacturer string in proxmox to say whatever I want ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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              7 months ago

              At work we sell servers by HPE.
              We create Install-ISOs from the included install ISO.

              At boot the Installer checks if the system is manufactured by the vendor.
              If it is: It continues boot and offers you the installer options
              If it is not: It will fail with a message that the manufacturer doesnt match.

              On ESXi you need to pass the argument smbios.reflectHost = true (or something along those lines)

              Dunno how HPE customized the install.wim
              But you can probably get those for cheap on ebay and maybe compare the wims for differences.

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                7 months ago

                Yeah I’ve reinstalled Windows on Dells and it just works without any hassle because it reads something in the bios that says it already has a Windows license. I was wondering what it reads that would be configured in Proxmox to allow the same. I would be nice to be able to create a Windows VM on the fly without any license setup or license bypass tricks during/after install. Instead it would just work because Proxmox tells it to.

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                  7 months ago

                  Once installed it doesnt bother anymore with those checks.
                  So right now my state is essentially an eternal windows VM that doesnt let me change the wallpaper ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    7 months ago

    I declare all resources mine purchased with a fancy loan. Now that all resources are mine, they are all worth 100,000 times more then before. Dont worry, if you cant afford to pay 100,000x more you can rent some if my stuff! Also now that I own everything, I’m To Big To Fail and will need a bailout when I cant pay my fancy loan.

    This is the healthiest, most efficient economy possible. To desire an alternative way to live our lives is now added to the DSM and will trigger involuntary institutionalization in a re-education camp.

    Aliens visit earth and you want to know why? To study our highly advanced economic system of course!

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    7 months ago

    They could garner good will by setting aside a % of their stock to sell to red-blooded people at a lower price…

    If someone walks into a grocery store before a storm and wants to buy 10 pallets of water, the store tells them to fuck off.

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      7 months ago

      That’s because they’re guaranteed to sell all the water when there’s a storm anyway. There’s a reason there’s laws against raising prices in an emergency.

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        7 months ago

        limit to one per customer per day like most tcg sellers do with pokemon and magic.

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          7 months ago

          I’m sure there’s ways around that. Different cards, PO boxes, email addresses, names. Even if they had only 4 ways of buying that’s still almost 30 buys a week times however many scalpers there are.

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            7 months ago

            obviously there will be a handful of people pulling that shit but every system basically assumes that 10% of the people using the system will use it unethically to their advantage. just balance around that, as the vast majority aren’t exploitive scumbags.

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    7 months ago

    3 months ago, watching ram prices skyrocketing, anticipating this exact scenario would happen, i bought 5 10tb drives.

    best decision i’ve made in a while.

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      7 months ago

      Bought a bunch of 20s a while back. My only concern now is if (when) one of them dies, I might not be able to get the same one (or any at all).

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    7 months ago

    I guess my combined 12TB across five drives ranging in age from 13 to six years old will have to suffice. The only reason I’d need to buy a new drive is if a couple of my current drives die. Which does happen on occasion, of course.

    Also, fuck AI, and the assholes who made it, and everyone who currently, personally profits off it. This bubble popping will be the catalyst to take down the entire world economy. MMW.

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      7 months ago

      Wdym? Do you believe the manufacturers would try to congincr you they’re out of stock to create scarcity and increace prices?!? Do you jnow how silly that idea is?! \s

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    7 months ago

    The end model will be the 70s Arthur Clarke prediction. Just a dumb terminal with no processing capabilities at home, hooked to a mainframe (privately owned of course) which you’ll have to use your all your daily needs.

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    7 months ago

    I just have bouth 12TB WD off their site last month. Checked right now - Sales Inquiry instead of Add to cart. Rip…

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    7 months ago

    The HC530s drives I bought in Nov are 40% more expensive now. My local computer store used to sell 16TB Barracudas for CAD $250 last year. They’re $400 now and only available in-store.

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    7 months ago

    I really hope this is a temporary supply bottleneck. I understand the constraints of producing chips and highly specialized hardware but AI demand is only going to go up from here.

    I’m optimistic a game changer gets whipped out of thin air