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backtogeek
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About backtogeek
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Comment #48068001
Brilliant write up, just 1 correction, the TierHive VPS should only be $1.20 per year not $4 :)
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Show HN: Installing OpenBSD on any VPS via ipxe (128mb RAM, 1GB Disk)
I made this guide and posted it on the LowEndSpirit.com VPS/Hosting community forum, a guide to installing OpenBSD on any VPS with a console and ipxe support (pretty much any KVM b…
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Comment #47532195
Thanks I appreciate you taking the time to comment! I wonder that too. I have been a reader for YEARS, lost access to my old account, so I am cautious about posting content here, a…
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Show HN: Full graphical desktop running on a 128MB VPS Alpine+XRDP+WindowMaker
Built this as a guide for users of my hosting service. Everything here was run on a real instance. The Mesa/LLVM dependency is genuinely painful on a 1GB disk, and I couldn't find …
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Show HN: TierHive – Hourly-billed NAT VPS with private /24 subnets
This idea has been floating in my head for about 10 years. Some of you might remember LowEndSpirit.com back before it became a forum, I started that. I've been obsessed with making…
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Comment #46539682
All the deep state stuff aside, I switched to 100% unprocessed meals for a month sometime ago after finding out I was becoming insulin resistant. It worked I feel better and a few …
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Comment #46497634
I can't believe that article has no mention of SQLite ??
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Comment #46409425
Brilliant I will be adopting a few of these, I have been on a personal quest to reduce js use recently, I feel like I spend more time debugging js than producing the end result.
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Comment #46406948
Yep and I have kept it really basic and simple, I just store them in a folder in /home/$user/music and let jukebox scan and catalogue and I keep a subset on my phone, really that s…
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Comment #46403978
This sort of thing gives me a nice hit of nostalgia. I am pleased things like this continue to exist on the tinterweb.
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Comment #46403950
License arguments aside, pretty cool.
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Comment #46364802
Probably is, nice that people who do other things apart from learning to code all day can get their ideas out of their heads.
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Comment #46364793
looks pretty cool, will add it to the never ending list of stuff to test
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Comment #46354055
Give it a week, there will be a tool out of China that works just fine, the right to repair by brute force!