What a dumb take.

I like the idea, but these types is minipcs are meant to large use environment cooling. Cramming them into a rack is definitely going to accelerate their demise. RAM and SSD especially. I’m not seeing any mention of this accounting for extra cooling.

No, but Biden says he wasn’t going to enforce, so the incoming admin would have to do it.

Exactly

It really isn’t. I’m not digging on PopOS, but articles like this make it seem like there is a world of difference in performance between distributions, and that’s just not true.

Bluesky has videos linked to a static host by a different site or provider. They are not themselves the host of those videos. Different scenario.

NAS: little box of disks that sits on a shelf or rack Media Server: just something that makes media files available for whatever. Could be a network drive you attach to from your desktop, or a streaming server for music or video RAID: mirrored drives. If you have two drives in a NAS, you can mirror them with RAID1 so if one fails, you can replace it with the data on the second drive UPS: just a battery backup device you plug things into

So these are just various things you can combine to make a larger system. You don’t NEED a NAS for instance, you can just have a machine that serves files to your network. You don’t NEED a media server unless you want those features.

You pick and choose what you want to do, then piece all these things together to make a larger functional system that does what you want.

Maybe a better approtis asking here what you actually want, and then people can suggest solutions for that.

That’s not how this would have to work though. Even with dedicated seeding instances, the instantiation of a session for a torrent is LONG. Like 5s+ long. A request and response from a CDN is in the milliseconds. Users wouldn’t use a system that takes 5s just for the initial request for a single video, plus the additional time to sort for segments and recombining before it plays. Even in a fast-ish scenario, that’s like 10s alone.

Imagine waiting 10s for a stupid internet video to even start playing to watch some kid dance with a rubber chicken in their pants.

Yes, and it’s incredibly slow and wouldn’t scale to millions of users. If one user is high bandwidth, and another low, you’d have uneven distribution of traffic for a newly connecting user, meaning the entirety of whatever you’re about to watch won’t be completed in time for a good user interaction flow. The issue isn’t whether it’s technically possible or not, but if it’s functional enough for similar traffic as TikTok.

The other issue with torrenting is that a lot of users may incur data charges if the service were to be constantly seeding other users on limited data plans or with data or speed caps in general. It’s just not the right tool for the job.

Yeah, and people ask about suicide on the Internet as well, but I would never help them.

Big nope. It’s not a technical hurdle, it’s a viability problem. Just search on why you should never host your own SMTP service.

Because one costs money and another doesn’t. Simple fact.

CDN distribution of content is 2X the cost of static hosted files. This isn’t a pendant saying “I CAN DO THIS” scenario, it’s “can it be monetized”, and in the case of of a video service on AT, absolutely not. Who do you think is paying for the hosting costs of a popular video in this scenario?

Cuban doesn’t know WTF he’s talking about about at all, but if he wants to launch competition and pay for that, there is certainly an expectation that a return will be built. Ads all over the place.

109ms response time was the goal circa 2009. Now, with the advent of Kubernetes, response time as are in seconds. Proxies on top of proxies cost request time. Users will abandon.

Can you reform this question?

You apparently do not internet. Anything with a wait time is not an app platform people will use.

CDN won’t scale to millions of users all uploading videos on a decentralized system. Article is specifically talking about AT Protocol which doesn’t account for video. Making a global CDN distribution of videos from decentralized sources is whole other ball of wax.

Video will not work for AT whatsoever. Text and images, fine, but I’m pretty sure leveraging edge delivery of video is just not going to work out well for users. I think they’ll need a centralized host for that portion, or some fancy ways to offload bandwidth otherwise to prevent constant hammering of popular videos.

Networking isn’t specific to Linux. It’s just networking. Nginx configs work the same on every OS.

No special knowledge needed except the very basic ability to understand and run commands from documentation.

Some proton versions are compatible with some games, or some versions of games. Use whatever works, but generally, the newer the Proton version, the better performance you’ll get out of a game. Check for compatibility notes and tricks per game here: https://www.protondb.com/

Evolution is fine. Thunderbird is fine. There’s a bunch of others as well. Use whatever you like!