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I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Ummm … how?!? I just copied that text and it worked. 🤯

I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

I like xitter… which someone told me was pronounced “shitter”. Seems right.

There are sane people with this many VMs on a personal machine, right? RIGHT? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Man this thread has taught me all sorts of things. I will definitely check out UTM. Thanks for that!!

There are sane people with this many VMs on a personal machine, right? RIGHT? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

On the cheesegrater(2019 MacPro) it’s a little convoluted. During covid times it was my single box lab since it had so much memory (768TB). So I was running nested ESXI hosts and then VMs under that. I also have a M1 MacBook Pro that I had parallels run ARM VMs (mostly MacOS, Windows, and a couple of Debian installs I think).

I have been looking at VMWare alternatives at work so for the hypervisors I’ve been playing around.

I do this stuff for a living but I also do it home for fun and profit. Ok not so much profit. Ok no profit but definitely for the fun. And because I love large electric bills.

There are sane people with this many VMs on a personal machine, right? RIGHT? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Ok I’ll have to try this. The weird thing is my little test proxmox server is a 2013 trashcan. So this would be like a hackintosh running on Mac hardware. Would that technically be a hackintosh? I’m not really sure. According to the Apple license you can virtualize MacOS if it’s running on Mac hardware. I’m not sure if that requires MacOS as the hypervisor. Regardless this is not something I knew about. Very cool. Thanks for the info.

There are sane people with this many VMs on a personal machine, right? RIGHT? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Well I do but I have a machine with 3/4 of a terabyte of memory on it.

Work scraps are great sometimes.

How are you running the MacOS VMs. The machine I have is a cheese grater so that makes it easier.

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Oh you said gas…. Sorry I misunderstood for a second.

A TV reporter was doing a live hurricane report when he rescued a woman from a submerged car in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

Anytime there is an unknown like this and you put yourself in danger, regardless of how small it might be perceived, to help another human being, you did a very brave thing. That dude is awesome.