@NuttySwiss

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Swiss/Canadian SRE. If you think I speak for anyone, you’re the one that’s nuts. He/Him.
Go vote! Please! Even if “it does not matter”. Be part of the message. Just because you’re not in a swing state, does not mean your vote does not count. It does. If you’re my friend, and wanted to help me during my sick time, thank you. I’ll ask you to go vote instead.
@medium it seems your “for you” tab is not really working, it’s the only tab that keeps saying I’m offline…
Der Computerpionier Niklaus Wirth ist gestorben

Sometimes I struggle to understand the simplest things. 11 months of grinding, attempting to understand something. And today the lightbulb finally just went on. It was blinding.

I guess I should add various words, such as:

* cheaper than the cloud!
* sub-$1k cluster!
* over 300GB of RAM!
* less than 650W of power!

Yeah, yeah, don't ask how many CPU cores (or GPUs) it has... :)

Some simple words and thoughts on this cluster I'm attempting to build... https://medium.com/@nuttyswiss/building-your-own-cluster-f2e1d1b7efaa
Builtin Wifi seems to work as well. Took a bit of poking to get it flashed to something more standard than Chromeos. Now to find some sort of USB-C octopus like thing to power a bunch of these, a 16 port passive switch, maybe a cheap SATA SSD with a bit more space, and these should make a decent cheap cluster.
Picked up some HP Chromebox G2 for $13/each, pretty low 2 core 1.8GHz Celeron in them, but they work with 32GB of memory. 64GB boots, but only sees 32GB. Seems to run Ubuntu fairly well. Oh, and they power on with a USB-C power supply. 😎
Vroom vroom needed new shoes. Good thing WD Garage had time to send out a mobile unit.
And I saw this weird contraption on my drive after. Corvette Stingray Wagon.