CC TLDs usually ask for proof of residence.

When there were ISP-owned routers, I just set a private router on the inside. As long as their box does their job, mine did work for me.

Basically, I do. Kubuntu everywhere. Only exception are the servers that run a UI less version of Ubuntu.

If it randomly locks up, try memtest86. It can often be found as a boot alternative in Linux installation images, but it is probably available solo.

As someone who has experienced double failure twice in my lifetime, I seriously recommend doing backups.

The problem is that the only serious backup solution is another HDD for this size. A robot array for tapes or worm drives is probably out of budget.

I’ve got a DELL server that I used as home server, but it was too loud. But it worked well, even at an advanced age. I moved the disks to a normal desktop machine (not DELL) that is much, much quieter.

Apt update and upgrade happen automatically.

Linux server administration tool, web interface based. Makes managing servers way easier.

I just repurposed one of our older PCs for that task. Slap Ubuntu on it, install webmin, and you’re set up.

Yes, but a lot of ZigBee stuff ends up in environments that use a cloud-connected “smart” hub.

That’s why I never went serious into home automation. Because any affordable system is based on cloud shit beyond my control. Cloud goes belly-up, and thousands invested ins such a system are suddenly scrap? Not with me.

Stick with NFS, and use e.g. rsync for backup. Or subversion, if you want to be super-safe.

Well, what he did was bringing something into the code base that might blow up the whole company one day in the future. Becuase what he didn’t do was thoroughly review the code that the AI made.

I would not try to access a server from China. Can’t you let someone else take care of the machine in the meantime? It’s always a good idea to have some backup admin just in case.

Good if you are rated by an AI that pays for LOCs.

This depends on what you are actually looking for, and how you are looking for it.

Do you really need pattern matching, or do you only look for fixed strings? Then other tools may be faster.

If you need case independent search on an upper- and lowercase data set, make a copy that is all upper or all lower, and search there.

If you only search in certain columns, make a copy that only includes these.

Or import the data into a database.

First of all, he should drop Python for anything resource intensive as such a simulation. And then think about how to optimize the algorithm.

The compressing and renumbering seems to be more common with embedded Chinese fonts - Space-wise it makes a lot of sense. But yes, mark and copy text, paste it into word or writer, and you get gibberish. Can’t verify the search, though. And, of course, Google translate can’t do anything with it, either.

If you ever need to edit a PDF that way, just use Inkscape. It is way better than LO draw for that.

It is not a curse. It does exactly what it is intended to do: Create an archive of a document that is universally reproduceable.

It is a very well designed cul-de-sac for exactly this purpose. Using it for anything else is calling for trouble.