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[–] pete@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You need an OS app to run and a setting in the BIOS. The app at the OS level gives a heartbeat to the watchdog module on the mother board. If you miss some heartbeats, the firmware on the motherboard sends the reset command.

[–] pete@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

No, this is a tool that can be used in a well designed architecture. Would I do this with a single database server, probably not. Would I ever run a single database server? Also probably not.

Also, by this point, you've probably already kernel panicked or something. There's not much left that can be saved and you probably needed that backup five minutes before the host came up.

[–] pete@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago (12 children)

Check if your motherboard has a watchdog function. If the OS can't ping the watchdog every 5 min or whatever you set it to, the board resets.

[–] pete@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Myrecommendations is probably to host a next cloud instance. Does all the standard 'cloud stuff'. File, contact, calendar sync, plus a bunch if other stuff if you want to add it via plugins. If you're patient, and a single use you can host it on basically anything. If you decide you want to add users or have a faster site, you can go down the route of sorting out faster hardware or better specs and suck.

[–] pete@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I that nk a lot of people 'get it' but can't quite explain it. So they tell you they use arch and they they are excited about it.

I'm a pro, I've used basically every type of Linuxevwr made. Ive built and run linux from wcratch multiole times, as a lewrning experience, a teaching experience and even protypes for production systrms. I understand the packaging philosophies, I understand the opinionated administration decisions. I'm subscribed to most major distro mailing lists and i understand the political motivations that drive various teams to the different technical decisions.

Arch isn't for everyone. And I'm totally fine with that. But it is perfect for people who want to build something with well crafted and unopinionated tooling. Of everyone 'got' arch they'd be failing at what they ate trying to do.

[–] pete@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I have a roughly 13 year old install that I've moved through the transition to /usr/ and from sysv to systemd. Its my oldest install. I run almost everything except suse as a systems admin.

As a way to run Linux, I find arch one of the nicest. Rolling release, unmodified packages direct from the dev, unopinionated systems management, arch build system for any packages you want to compile, arch Linux archive that can be used for snapshotting or locking your rolling release, and AUR.

It's a completely different way to manage and build an OS that no one else is really doing. I find team 'I use arch btw' to be extremely annoying but at the end of the day, the arch tooling for building a Linux ypunlike to use means that people are naturally going to want to tell you they built something they find enjoyable to use. That's not really something a lot of people say about most OSs.

I have a range of issues and annoyances with most major OS, ranging from i cant use this to i wish this worked. Windows, MacOS, Ubuntu/deb flavors, redhat/fedora flavors, openwrt, alpine and other busybox flavors, iOS, Android, Graphine. All have things that mostly work but I'm always working around something.

And finding accurate documentation for issues on distros that have different configuration release to release is a pain, deb, Ubuntu and redhat flavors are especially egregious. I don't really care how to do this on RH6 or Ubuntu 11, lol, I want docs for the current version.

[–] pete@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Heh, imagine the US giving out 6 months for campaign finance impropriety. Lol, about to take a hard pass on straight sedition.

[–] pete@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Well, every instance has different mix of people interest and moderation. Which maybe I was over thinking it but it took a while to figure out where I wanted to be. And my initial experience wasn't great. My server was way out of date, had caching issues, was slow lots of defederation and perhaps arbitrary blocking that I didn't know was going on so I didn't understand why it didn't work.

I gave up and came back to a different server and it's been good since. But, no one is switching from threads or Instagram for that experience. Or at least going to stick with it long enough to find a home.

[–] pete@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I've built a place I find comfortable, took a couple tries. But I have found decent content, found some of my friends from twitter, found replication bots for people I used to follow but not really interact with.

It's not twitter, but it took me 5+ years to build out my twitter. I think over time, enough people will join defederated social media that it can be a pretty good experience if a little too much work for many. But it will take a little time.

[–] pete@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

There's a vast majority of the population that doesn't care.

[–] pete@lemmy.world 41 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Because even for me, a full time systems coder, just figuring out what server to join was a pain, I had to try 3/4 time before I felt like I had enough info to make the correct choice, and then finding other users from my previous twitter gang was a pain, the barrier to entry is much higher than some other options.

[–] pete@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not in an enterprise setting, so patato potato

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