“Task failed successfully” was actually uttered numerous times earlier this week at work; we were testing this robotics and automation system and trying to detect various failure modes, and this was declared every time we managed to produce a new fault. This was so that we could write procedures on what the operators should do under various circumstances.

He’s missing the wedding ring

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It’d probably work if they started killing the topmost million

Which filesystem are you using? Some filesystems are better at handling power failure than others, and some write a backup partition table to the disk in other locations. It could be that you were just really really unlucky, but the partition table just needs to be restored. Hard to say for sure without examining your filesystem.

Nice coc bro

Let’s see…

Factorio: 7526 hours
Dwarf Fortress: Untracked, as I bought it on steam only to support the devs. When I worked on a ship, Dwarf Fortress was my go-to when I was off shift, as it was a great way to unwind, but it must be well over a thousand.

I actually only have 100h in Dyson, and maybe 3 in satisfactory.

Other noteworthy titles:
Kerbal Space Program: 1582
Rimworld: 1048
HoI IV: 1200
War Thunder: 1768

And you seem like the kind of person who were actually invited to said house, and tells the HOA-wannabe who showed up just to complain about the lawn to sod off.

In other words: You’re a hoopy frood

You seem like the kind of person that goes to other people’s houses uninvited just to complain about their lawn being unkempt.

Damn, I had the popcorn ready and everything…

Heh, someone downvoted you as if they think you made that up. Can’t blame them for that assumption.

A wild lemmygrad appears.
Which instance do you choose as counter?

Depends if you’re hosting something public, or something private.

For public, a webserver is a simple start. Can be anything you want it to be, but as complexity increases, so does the amount of potential attack vectors, so keep that in mind of you’re considering adding things like WordPress and the like.

For private, a NAS and/or a simple game server is a simple and useful start.

As for how, there’s a million ways to do it, and I’m an old stubborn BOFH that still cling to the old ways of doing it (as in, no VMs, no containers), so I’ll defer to others for that.

While purpose built server hardware is always nice since it comes with some useful additions, the truth is that “any” machine will do. Old discarded PC will do just fine.

I would like to emphasize the first part of my previous comment. As I am a hillbilly occasionally cosplaying as a smart and educated person, I am incapable of exploring my statement further than just making the claim. And for that I must insist on referring to it as an hypothesis, unless someone shows me some math that it could actually work. And I hope anyone showing me said math brings the necessary crayons and puppets to explain it in a manner that I can understand.

I’m not smart enough to prove my hypothesis, nor am I smart enough to understand any proof that I am wrong, but I’m not entirely 100% convinced that dark matter exists as an attractive phenomenon inside galaxies the way it is often described.

The way I see it, it might as well be a repulsive force between galaxies. This way it could also help explain Dark Energy.

Not sure if this could instead count as meiosis. But yeah, one of the two.

Pfeffergrat erinnert?

I know you meant that a joke, but upon further research into this, I discovered that it’s actually true.

Source: I also made it up

It was reasonably common in the floppy disk era. Some games allowed you to play for a set amount of time, after which it asked you for something external to the game itself. Some examples I remember:

• Dune 2 asked for some units stats that could be found in the games manual
• Day of the Tentacle needed you to complete a battery blueprint sketch in game. The missing info could be found in the manual
• Monkey Island 2 asked for a voodoo recipe. To find the correct measurements, you had to spin two overlaid sheets to align something, which revealed a value.

All of the above could of course be copied and/or guessed, but it did at least introduce some bar of entry.

This mostly comes down to your preferences, but my rule of thumb is that everything should be on mgmt vlan for mgmt, and then you choose which of those to expose to other VLANs via secondary interfaces. This has the benefit of allowing configuration when you’re on the management vlan only, and limiting access to the service itself.