All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It’s all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.
Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.
Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We’ll see if that changes over the weekend…
not that bad since I can just walk over and restart it.
You can try to use watchdog to automatically restart on crashes. Or go through RMA.
I could, but it’s a pretty rare nuisance. I’d rather just replace the CPU than go through RMA, a newer gen CPU is quite inexpensive, I could probably get by with a <$100 CPU since anything AM4 should work (I have an X370 with support for 5XXX series CPUs).
I’m personally looking at replacing it with a much lower power chip, like maybe something ARM. I just haven’t found something that would fit well since I need 2-4 SATA (PCIe card could work), 16GB+ RAM, and a relatively strong CPU. I’m hopeful that with ARM Snapdragon chips making their way to laptops and RISC-V getting more available, I’ll find something that’ll fit that niche well. Otherwise, I’ll just upgrade when my wife or I upgrade, which is what I usually do.
I just haven’t found something that would fit well since I need 2-4 SATA (PCIe card could work), 16GB+ RAM, and a relatively strong CPU.
4 SATA, 8GB RAM is easy to find. What do you need 16 gigs for? Compiling Gentoo?
Star64 for ARM and Quartz64 for RV.
Running a few services:
- NextCloud + Collabora (or maybe OnlyOffice, haven’t decided)
- Jellyfin - terabytes of data, need memory to avoid buffering
- Linux package mirror - higher RAM when running updates
- compile-farm for my personal Rust projects (e.g. CI/CD)
- in the future, HomeAssistant and security camera streaming
Star64 for ARM and Quartz64 for RV.
You got those backwards.
But yeah, I’ve had my eye on those, but I think 8GB will be a bit limiting, and the CPU in both the Star64 and Quartz64 may be a bit weak. I was about to buy one, then decided to upgrade my desktop PC to a SFF PC, which meant I had some decent hardware lying around. It’s mostly up and running now (still working on Collabora/Only Office), so I’ll be monitoring RAM usage to see if I really need 16GB or if I can get away with 8GB instead, but I have a feeling something like either of those two SBCs will be a bit limiting.
I don’t need all of those services, but I definitely want the first two, and they wouldn’t need to be used at the same time (e.g. if I’m watching a movie, I’m probably not messing with big docs in NextCloud). The last one is very nice to have, but it could be a separate box (I’m gusesing Quartz64 would be plenty, though I may want to play with object detection).
