The centre being all black would have added a nice touch

Y

You can get this as a snack in Taiwan, broken instant noodles with seasoning ;)

LGR has a nice review of this and a similar machine: https://piped.video/watch?v=6bODiZ5bP84

It's produced by Chris Morris, so: both ;)

I can't really tell you what to use, but from my personal experience - stay away from glusterfs and drbd. both have caused me serious trouble when trying to run them in a production setup. ceph seems to be pretty solid, though.

TIL Descent and Saints Row came from the same studio.

You spelt "That one mistake I made in some random conversation 5 years ago, that no other participant could remember if their lifes depended on it" wrong ^^

nvidia has always been hostile to open source, as far back as i can remember.

back when nvidia bought 3dfx they took down the source code for the open 3dfx drivers within days, if not on the same day. i remember because i had just gotten myself a sweet voodoo 5 some weeks before that, and the great linux support was the reason i chose it... of course the driver code survived elsewhere, but it told me all i needed to know about that company.

also: linus' rant wasn't just a fun stunt, it was necessary to get nvidia to properly cooperate with the open source community if they want to keep making money running linux on their hardware.