It shouldn’t be significantly different from Linux, except maybe in what would be required to truly lock it down for a server. Assuming you’ll be installing normal server side stuff, all that should be nearly identical, especially if you use Docker or other containers/vm/interpreter based things.
Though it’s been yeeaaaars since I’ve touched a mac, so someone far more experienced will have to chime in if I’m off base!
Nah, you can trick them, it just takes tweaking a ton of settings that most GUIs don’t expose, basically passing through all hardware IDs and blahblah to the VM, giving them real MAC addresses, etc. It’s a huge pain and would limit what options you can roll with in the VM settings since the options have to be compatible with the real hardware underneath, since that’s what the VM’s OS will see, but it’s possible.
Definitely easier to just have a separate gaming rig.
Yea, symlink all the files to the same master log file. … /s
EA, Blizzard, Ubisoft, The New York Times, Fox “News”, Walmart, Amazon, Google…
The list is very, very big. They must just be blind as all fuck.
Yea, that’s why I added the, “not that they’re wrong…” part. Interesting how no one actually understands what those simple words mean.
Compared to a pure install that can run on an electric toothbrush it’s a massive pill to swallow for some.
I mean, they added “bash scripts you find online”, which are only a problem if you don’t look them over or cannot understand them first… Their post is very much cemented in the paranoid camp of security.
Not that they’re wrong. That’s the big thing about security once you go deep enough: the computer has to work for someone, and being able to execute much at all opens up some avenues of abuse. Like securing a web based service. It has to work for someone, so of course everything is still vulnerable at some point. Usually when private keys or passwords are compromised if they’re doing things remotely correctly, but they’re still technically vulnerable at some point.
Jellyfin and others transcode some videos to a more streamable format. Not important if it’s already a good streamable format, but if it’s some older file, it might not even be streamable (like AVI, and WMV). Those situations are where transcoding is necessary. It also comes in to play when the bitrate needs to change, like trying to watch a high bitrate video on old hardware that cannot handle it (like an old chromecast). It’s nice when the server can just transcode the video and send a less heavy or more compatible stream.
Hardware acceleration for the transcoding is simply more efficient these days. Most CPUs for the last decade can do software transcoding of 1080p without much issue (if that’s all it’s doing), but get multiple people watching older videos or some really high bitrate ones and hardware acceleration will become a tangible benefit, too.
Your situation only works for video formats that are streaming-friendly, meaning all the browser has to do is feed the stream of data to a video player, and it Just Works. The media player doesn’t need significant chunks of the file to start playing it, so as long as the connection is fast enough, it’s fine.
Google has been mask off since they removed “don’t be evil” as their slogan, and they’ve been proving it ever since. Apparently people don’t pay attention!
Depends on the workload, really. 120 users using small services? probably. 120 users sharing large files or bandwidth heavy stuff? Doubt it. Also a lot of enterprise hardware is about reliability. Multiple PSUs, NICs, more robust hardware for constant load/network traffic, etc.
Sure, a gaming rig can handle it until it can’t. Another question is what happens when the box crashes? Is the business down until a new PC is built and restored from backups?
A small business can probably afford two PCs, but scaling up and up eventually becomes a lot of trouble and space.
Floating point error? Yeaahhh no. No. Just… no. That is NEVER as big as 0.01 unless the number is also insanely massive.
The error is relative in scale. It’s not magically significant fractions off.
4gb isn’t so bad for a build, but wtf does it need to just run smoothly?!