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unattended-upgrade does the security upgrades and I occasionally upgrade the rss reader (as it is not packaged)

mail was pretty much fire-and-forget postfix+dovecot on file config, no DB for list of accounts + some catchalls.

If I had to pay say $5 for each of those services vs pay myself to manage that it would more less come out the same, minus ability to fix any little annoyances I had directly vs hoping cloud provider gives an option for it.

I do use syncthing for file sync so no annoying dealings with PHP apps

> 4 is basically having my data stored on a crappy Core2 Duo server under a staircase, managed by a teenager

... isn't 1 the same then ? Aside from teenager part

> but we are used to great actors taking pride in details no layman would notice. Imagine a James Bond actor stating he doesn't care about the watch he wore, or Keanu Reeves mistakenly wearing the wrong type of belt for a suit and answering with "I don't know anything about belts, and I don't care"

The phone type is completely irrelevant to the plot tho, could be typing on 3210 and it wouldn't make difference.

I could use any existing XMPP server, or even start one, and be able to contact directly with any of my both Google and Facebook contacts

It was wonderful glimpse of what it could be if greed and drive to herd consumers into their own walled gardens wasn't the main driving factors.

As for others, I only visit twitter if it is a source for update of something I care about, and that's near always coming from some other site like HN

Both could disappear tomorrow and nothing of value would be lost.

I tried some FB groups related to hobbies but they're generally garbage with no way to bury useless/low effort content.

zero-copy is harder as one system upgrade on one of them will trash it, but KSM is overall pretty effective at saving some memory on similar VMs

There are projects doing that althought qemu is the de facto standard and best bet if you don't need to boot your machines in 20ms

> Can you do libvirt stuff without QEMU?

Libvirt have many backends so yes. IIRC it can even manage virtualbox, althought I'm, not sure why anyone would want to

> Hoping the answers to both aren't useless/"technically, but why would you want to?"

...why? Is there a problem kvm+qemu+libvirt doesn't solve for you?

"API to virtualization system" would probably be closest approximation but it also does some more advanced stuff like coordinating cross-host VM migration

If you actually played with Xen you'd know it's not actually easier to manage. And increased security claims are dubious at best, as same thing that would be attacked (dom0 managing the whole thing and running linux) have direct unfettered access to xen microkernel. There is reason many sites migrated away from Xen to KVM. Also many Xen drivers de facto run part Linux dom0 instance so you don't even get that isolation.

We ran Xen for few years, as KVM at first was still not as refined and Xen was first to mature market, and it was just million little annoying things.

KVM offers far simple and straightforward management. A VM is just a process. You can look at its CPU usage via normal tools. No magic. No driver problems.

* correct ttps:// to https://

* stop searching internet for local hostname I type into the bar

But the solution is internal CA, not self signed certs that defeat near-entire point of encrypting communication.

That's a horrid idea, why would you do that ?

I could see a lot of use out of it in setting a test jigs, as you can both generate and receive signal while having some digital IO to control DUT/the testing jig.

If I was doing audio stuff only and had to choose I'd probably pick this over a scope then just make a jig with a bunch of sockets common to audio stuff.

But for more generic stuff, eh, scope gonna give you soo much more.

For example I have SDS-1104X-E and SDG1025 and I can from the scope setup a frequency sweep on the generator then have scope make frequency response graph