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Pelosi's visit to Taiwan megathread (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone, I'm creating this megathread to help regroup information about Pelosi's recent visit and the follow-up (currently the PLA is conducting military drills very close to Taiwan)

You're still totally allowed to make your own threads, this is more for things that do not warrant a thread by themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

There is no doubt that there backdoors built into these hardware but the extent to which the US state has control over these backdoors is not very clear. At least I haven't been able to find out some info about it.

Either way, I don't think the backdoor aspect is as important as the monopoly angle. The entire world is dependent on Intel and AMD to perform computations. It is hard to overstate how important computation is for the economy to function especially ones like China where there is more planning and technology is deployed everyday for both convenience and governance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There is also ARM. Nearly all my servers use ARM chips. I only have one Intel server and it's not even a new chip (3rd gen i7).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where do you get decent arm servers for cheap? I'm building a xeon workstation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well, they won't be as powerful as a Xeon system. That is why I have my one intel server. Most of the services I run (I run 26 services), can run on low-power hardware easily (things like Invidious, Homeassistant, Cockpit, Node Red, Jellyfin, etc.). For these, I have SBCs. I currently run 9 Raspberry Pi 4s (8 as webservers, one as a recursive DNS server with Pi-Hole in front of it), 2 Pine H64s (one as my reverse proxy that provides access to the rest of my servers and one as my TV box running Kodi), and a RockPro64 handling more intensive stuff like the Matrix homeserver. My Intel machine is an old Mac Mini which I've upgraded the storage (500GB HDD to 1TB SSD) and RAM (4GB to 16GB) on and installed Debian. On that, I run things that require either a lot of power or a lot of storage. For example, my Mac Mini hosts Gitea, Minio (open source Amazon S3 clone), Code Server (Online IDE), Nextcloud, Onlyoffice, and a Minecraft server.

SBCs are nice because they are cheap and very low power. All my servers connect to a single <$100 UPS and that lasts over an hour. Of course, the downside is that if you have a single service that needs a lot of compute power, you'll need to use a separate server for that, which is what my Mac Mini is for.

Edit: By the way, I've seen you on Matrix. My username on there is Heisenbug.