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• Apparently they just changed all their VPS offerings. From one of the German YT channels assessment: Regular = current gen, about 20% faster cpu than budget, substantially faster storage Budget = prior gen Quite a diff in price so budget is proba…

  in Hetzner: Unfortunately, we are currently unable to offer any RX servers Comment by havoc November 5
• (Quote) (Image) Can't believe I was initially in favour of giving this dude a chance with his new venture...smh

  in C1v €30 price hike - heads-up for those still running a service Comment by havoc November 5
• Proton's specials are up...the links appear to be per person though so can't post (Image) Renews at full rate fyi

  in What do you wish for Black Friday 2025? Comment by havoc November 3
• (Quote) Yeah its been pretty disappointing thus far. If arm isn't winning on performance then it needs to do better on bang per buck. And 500+ dollar dev kits ain't it. There is also the Radxa Dragon Q6A coming. SBC form factor but sounds like it c…

  in Hetzner: Unfortunately, we are currently unable to offer any RX servers Comment by havoc November 1
• (Quote) Heavier ones are coming. e.g. Qualcomm's rumoured server tech sounds like a beast, esp on PCIE connectivity (Image) I was hoping to get minipcs based on the snapdragon X chips...and we did get one but way too expensive

  in Hetzner: Unfortunately, we are currently unable to offer any RX servers Comment by havoc October 31
• Too popular? Been seeing a lot of hetzner mentions in slight more mainstream places

  in Hetzner: Unfortunately, we are currently unable to offer any RX servers Comment by havoc October 31
• Slightly OT - my (75 y/o) dad phoned me today asking about a user friendly GUI backup tool on Windows. And I didn't have an answer. Can only think of Duplicati and the internet is full of reports of data corruption & sundry fails on it.

  in Rclone backup setup for my 'hit-by-a-truck' protocol Comment by havoc October 29
• After losing data last week I’ve been rethinking backups too Thinking mixture of zfs send, git and borgbackup.

  in Rclone backup setup for my 'hit-by-a-truck' protocol Comment by havoc October 29
• Mostly just set up tmux and nvim. Trying to learn nvim as dev platform but yeah...learning curve You're 77? Congrats...would have guessed much younger

  in How do you set up your terminal? Comment by havoc October 27
• Signal zoom and docker affected. Plus probably billion other things

  in AWS Down Comment by havoc October 20
• Maybe a VPS NAT bundle for a (low vol) scraping project. And perhaps one for a proxy in a fresh jurisdiction. UK blocking imgur and stuff kinda annoyed me. Currently using Germany but not convinced that's gonna hold long term. Question is where...ne…

  in What do you wish for Black Friday 2025? Comment by havoc October 15
• (Quote) Does this work in practice? Would have thought most places would be pretty quick to block webscraping etc on ipv6

  in Educate us: what do some of you use a /48 IPv6 subnet? Comment by havoc October 13
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