Starting to Catch Up: Linux Finally Addresses the Epochalypse that OpenBSD Fixed in 2014
The Year 2038 problem is well-known among Unix users. Debian is rolling out a fix in Debian 13 "Trixie"...11 years after OpenBSD fixed it.
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Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day!
Today we celebrate System Administrator Day! This holiday falls on the last Friday in July and salutes all of the hard-working sysadmins around the world.
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Wikipedia to UK Residents: Keep Calm and Stay Out
If you're in the United Kingdom, get ready to fight against your fellow citizens for access to Wikipedia. Why? Because quotas are coming. What...quotas?
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Pssst...Have You Seen This Secret Megathread on LowEndTalk?
What do you do when you've got a lot of LowEndBoxes that you've accumulated over the years? Let them all expire? Naw...if you're FAT32, you start a MegaThread to trade!
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Dell Wishes Its Employees Hadn't "Told Dell" to Business Insider
The "Tell Dell" survey is supposed to be confidential. The results are definitely supposed to be. But they were leaked to Business Insider...
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1000 Comments - 87,000 Views - The LowEndTalk Birthday Party Continues!
Our Happy 15th Birthday, LowEndTalk thread is still going gangbusters. Lots of great celebration deals shared by providers. Check it out!
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Don't Fall for This Domain Renewal Scam That is Bombarding People's Postal Mailboxes!
You have a domain renewal bill for $265 that shows up in your mailbox. Is it legit?
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Figma Spends $300K a Day on AWS and Signed a 5-Year Contract for $545 Million - Is That Too Much?
Figma is spending a boatload on AWS every month. Is this the best use of 15% of their revenue?
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Huge Datacenter Fire in Cairo Kills 4 Employees and Disrupts Service Throughout Egypt
A little less than 24 hours ago, a catastrophic fire erupted at Telecom Egypt’s Ramses Exchange in downtown Cairo, resulting in the deaths of four employees and injuries to at least 27 others.
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How to Get Laid Off By AI Even When a Robot Isn't Taking Your Job
Microsoft has laid off 15,000 people in the last 60 days. Is that because AI is taking people's jobs? Not exactly.
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Not So Fast, Tovarisch: Can a Westerner Legally Buy a Russian VPS?
The Internet is not one flat network where anything goes. Humans gonna human, which means erecting all sorts of barriers. One of the biggest walls is between the outside world and Russia. Can you buy a VPS in the Motherland?
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The Weird World of Distraction-Free Writing Devices: Paying Hundreds of Dollars to Strip Features Out of Your Laptop
Writing is hard. Perhaps you need a $1,100 typewriter to make it easy?
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Age Verification for Porn is Here to Stay: So Says the US Supreme Court. Are You in One of These 23 States?
On Friday, the US Supreme Court ruled that states can require age verification for pornography web sites. There's 23 states with these laws on the books nowl
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Is Meta Discontinuing the Free LLaMA Model Series? News Reports Suggest LLaMA Drama
If you love Meta's free series of AI models (LLaMA), sorry to inform you that its days may be numbered. Meta is considering "de-investing" in LLaMA as it overhauls its AI strategy.
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Before You Click ‘Buy’ on That Hosting Deal, Read This Checklist And Avoid the #1 Mistake People Make!
We've all done it: seen some incredible offer that checks a couple of our desire boxes and done a speed run through purchasing...only to end up with a system that doesn't meet our needs because we made assumptions. Be smart and double-check the details before signing up!
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The End of Uniprocessor Configs on Linux - It's a Multicore-Only Kernel Now
Back in the day - waaaay back in the day - unicore systems were the norm. Today, they're a rarity. The Linux kernel is being updated to reflect that.
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RackNerd Expands to Toronto, Canada! KVM VPS in Toronto & More Locations from $10.96/Year!
RackNerd has landed in Toronto, Canada! And of course, they've got amazing cheap VPS offers for you. Come to the Great White North!
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Hollywood Unleashes on Midjourney Because...Some Reason I Guess? The Epic Lawsuit (Read the Juicy Lawsuit PDF)
Well, it had to happen eventually. AI services are being sued left and right by authors, artists, and musicians. And now Hollywood has entered the fray. Disney, 20th Century Studios, Universal City Studios Productions, and DreamWorks Animation have jointly filed a lawsuit against Midjourney accusing it of rampant copyright infringement.
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Dead Horse Beating Itself: CharityHost Rebranding as ExactVM
CharityHost is rebranding (again), this time as ExactVM. So now we're waiting for ExactVMgate, which should happen any day now.
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Not Quite Jimi Hendrix but Getting Closer: Move Over Simply Guitar, Yousician Blows You Away
If you're trying to learn an instrument, gamification is a concept that could play a huge role in your success. It's worked very well for me. A followup on an earlier post from last October.
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The Time a Dutch University Made Huge Profits When It Suffered a Ransomware Attack
Ransomware is always a rough experience. Do you pay? Do you go through a laborious recovery? How do you manage outraged users? And what if you made over €300K in profit in the experience?
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Huckleberry Finn's Ray Gun: How Mocking AI Puts Dollars in an Advertiser's Pocket
Remember the part in Mark Twain's 1884 novel, Huckleberry Finn, where Huck uses a laser sniper rifle? Me neither.
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"Hey, That Was My Open Source Project That Just Blew up a Third of Russia's Strategic Long Range Bombers!"
As you've undoubtedly read by now, a sophisticated Ukrainian operation (Operation Spider's Web) launched drones from prepositioned storage crates outside four Russian air bases and blew up about a third of Russia's strategic long-range bomber fleet. What's been less noted is the open source software that powered these systems.
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MinIO Gives the Finger to Its Users: Pony Up $96,000, Suckers!
Everyone knows MinIO, a popular S3-compatible object storage platform. It used to have a lot of love in the community. Then it decided it didn't want its community any more.
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[Community News] RackNerd Restocks Ashburn VPS with Major Network Upgrades
Popular LEB provider, RackNerd, consistently voted as a top provider year over year by the LowEndTalk community, and recognized multiple times on the Inc. 5000 list for its rapid growth, has today announced a significant restock of their popular Ashburn VPS location after being sold out for several months in a row. Read on to learn more...and get in on their cheap VPS deals starting at under $11/year!
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Think You Need a VPN Subscription? Here’s Why You’re Dead Wrong
VPN has become so mainstream a lot of people don't even known what "VPN" stands for, but know they need one. From streamers looking to bypass regional restrictions to security-conscious netizens evading trackers to people looking to get around the recent craze of laws requiring registration to view porn, everyone is using VPNs in 2025. The market is saturated with commercial VPN providers promising anonymity, speed, and security. So if you need a VPN, it's just a question of searching for the right coupons to sign up, right? Not so fast.
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The Latest BackBlaze Drive Stats Report Out and One Maker's Numbers are Troubling
The latest BackBlaze drive stats report was released today. The quarterly reports offer invaluable insight into real-world, hard-use hard drive statistics.
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LowEndBoxTV: FREE AI-Powered Video Content for Your YouTube Channel!
Want to generate high quality AI-authored videos at home, for free, without sending any data to the cloud? Piotr walks us through using Wan 2.1, an awesome model from Alibaba.
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