For a server os, do things like consider stability and ease of upgrading between major versions.

Debian does both of those things extremely well.

If you're playing around with changing distros and your data is valuable, I'd try and find somewhere to back it up to, myself.

It's only true if it's enforced, isn't it?

So you need the self control required to add this extension for those sites you don't have the self control not to visit too often?

If it prevents us having another crappy week thanks to the like of Crowdstrike, good.

Ok - and what sort of cpu load do they have?

htop will also show the cpu bars and the breakdown of that - whether it's pure cpu or iowait, which is when the cpu can't do anything because it's waiting on disk or network.

And how's your memory usage looking?

I'm guessing you've already turned it off and on again. If not, seriously, do that. It works more time than it doesn't for random weirdness.

Run 'htop' and sort by CPU (it's a friendlier and better version of 'top'. That'll show you what processes are using the most CPU

Whilst you're in there, check the free memory. If that's low, or swap usage is high, then use htop to sort by memory usage to find what's using the most.

If you see processes you don't recognise, hit google and find out why. It's very unlikely they're malicious, but it's far less common on linux than Windows to have random processes doing unknown stuff. If it's using a lot of cpu or memory, there'll be a reason. It might be a dumb reason, but you will be able to find it out.

And then when you know what the guilty process is, if it is that, and it's not critical - you can stop it with systemctl and narrow down what's afoot.

It's for the best, really.

Gosh, I wonder what stirred them up?

Blame the Romans.

Both words are derived from late Latin mentalis, from Latin mens, ment- ‘mind’.

Exactly. Yet another truly awful something is about to happen that'll get buried under his new patio.

YES!

UK lawmakers - please take note also. Not just in cities but we find them jammed up in our country lanes too, and regularly crossing the centre line on B-roads.

Before this year, the thought of an entirely arbitrary block to things like American cloud services by America to its European allies would have seemed extremely unlikely. It would make no sense, the damage to America and it's GDP would far outweigh any any political benefit.

All of those reasons still hold true, but I absolutely assure you, European governments and companies all over have that possibility firmly in their risk portfolio now. America tells microsoft to immediately not only stop selling products in Europe, but disable those already in use? Ditto Google. Ditto Apple. Ditto all the hundreds of IT hardware producers that are American. Want to cripple a foreign government that uses MS Office? Remotely disable it. job done. Sure, it would be illegal, but America's government has no respect for law.

(Even before this, several European governments were using open source (Germany, France, Austria, Portugal - there's a list but this is less about idealism and more about protecting themselves from the unpredictable as well as not trusting America with their data any more. Every thing like this can only be seen as non Americans distancing themselves from America every way they can, and with good reason.)

If you know, you know.

Known 35 years next month. Married 35 years in November.

after our kid was born she said I smelled differently and she was repulsed by me.

Oh, man, that's brutal.

Other have answered the runtime and load question very well already.

I have three other points.

1. Batteries degrade over time. Over-speccing your UPS means more likelyhood that things will hold up in three years time as the capacity given is for new ones. Plus, not running your UPS at 100% capacity reduces its stress. Again, more reliable.
2. You can get a much better quality UPS by buying a second hand one without batteries off ebay and replacing them yourself, typically for a fraction of the cost of buying new. Plus you know you have new batteries. UPS is something where quality genuinely matters. I've had to carry a cheap and badly made UPS out of an office whilst it was on fire, so now I spec more carefully. (And ensure they're metal bodied!)
3. Consider what you NEED to power. What sort of power cuts are you expecting? Does it matter if something goes down?

I UPS my servers and my main desktop, but not my routers, nor my wifi or IOT things. My internet provider also goes out when there's a cut (I'm on a mesh system so rely on neighbours, who will typically also be down) and I can't do much without power anyway, but it keeps the disks spinning. We typically get very short automated outages here of less than 10s (yesterday was a bad day, we had 9 within 2 hours)

I mean, we knew that anyway, right?

Because Musk has turned it into somewhere that hate speech is not only tolerated, but encouraged.

Lemmy is literally the antithesis of X, no wonder you're being downvoted.