Its also a vital part of software defined networking

Head-less is without screen (head). You’d need to install the desktop of choice. You only get a screen. It’s for server admin not daily use - even with a fancy one like that.

This is awesome, I just want to point out that once you have a pikvm connected it’s no longer headless. That’s kinda the whole idea about any kvm - to provide screen(s), keyboard and mouse to servers so they’re no longer headless

And do use their guide for spf, dkim and dmarc

I’m not talking about payment, I’m talking about if it’s stealing or not. It might be copyright infringement depending on local law, but it’s not stealing. Selling a copy might be counterfeiting.

The fact that no product is missing anywhere means it’s not stealing.

If you rent your car from Mercedes and I make a copy of it, the only change is that I’ve not copied your car, I’ve copied Mercedes’.

Just nobody talks about that - it’s all wonderful in the land of Linux. A breeze managing 600+ laptops used by non-it-literate execs. No error all the time!

Because of missing support and updates. These machines are not their concern though - they are running obsolete software and/or hardware that’s incompatible with an upgrade. No matter the requirements for tpm on win 11.

Stole - as in past tense

Good to hear. My last experience included at lot of fiddling, but it’s been quite a few years

Ok - must admit I haven’t tried dual booting since win7

Same - I’m a natural optimist and live a good life. But I can’t see any solutions for the horrors of the world. I only see new disasters brewing up, and being backed by more and more people.

But I’m finally starting in my new position at work next year and that good for me.

That’s an even worse idea imo. If you’re not very familiar with bcd and grub you will find it hard to boot into Linux once windows decides to “fix the boot issue”.

Better to have a separate drive so you can select by picking boot device on startup.

I know it’s possible to dual boot, but it will be some issues at some point

I bet I can do even better: PVV got 30 of 150 seats. They might be able to use these for something or they might not.

“I keep having packages that are not updated when I run apt update; apt upgrade - no matter how many times I type it!!1!”

The Debian installer can be pre-seeded and be automated. You can use cloud-init for non cloud installs but why would you? Preseed or use fai and let your config system handle the rest.

I get that you love this board and think that “the establishment” is evil. But you come off as someone not having the knowledge to back your assumptions.

Sometimes this will be the right board, sometimes a Pi is better. And sometimes 2-3 microcontrollers are a better fit. But the choice should not be based on telemetry in an optional imager, or the fact that your headless setup requires editing of config files.

How is a pi (or other single-board computers) less critical than “a full system”? Do you have any idea how many pi’s are out there running serious stuff? Where I work I bump into them all over - including in security systems and door-access.

This one has two 2.5gb ports, 8 to 32gb ram. This is serious stuff for an sbc, clearly overkill for your pihole install. What’s not equally serious with banana pi is support. I went to their wiki, it lists Android and Debian (previous version) “images” but no download links, so it’s hard for me to verify that this board boots with sshd running or not. Like I said Debian does not, and for a good reason. Raspberry pi os pulls from raspbian, and they pull from Debian.

You can run Ubuntu LTS, fedora or others on your pi.

The telemetry is bad news - soon we will be out of food because someone knows what size of sd-cards you use, and the number of installs you do. So better go buys a silly board, track down some ancient image of an install someone did at some point where they managed to compile the nic drivers and include the binary blob. Because nobody gets to force you to add an empty file to your sd-card!

Longest shower though I’ve seen for a while. While you seem somewhat clueless in what you talk about you manage to fit in many cool words. That’s a plus.

The extra menu in the flasher does the magic on the sd-card. I’ve been setting up headless pi’s since before 3b came out, and the same options are available today.

The idea that ssh being enabled by default is reasonable is just like your opinion. Did you know you have to enable it during installation on both Debian and canonicals derivative? Maybe it’s still on by default on fedora (with root login enabled to help you!)

If editing your config is fiddling then I struggle to see your use of an sbc.

This and support. My dad could set up a pi, and he doesn’t know what a kernel is or how to compile.