I’m not tech savvy, was looking at some refurbished laptops through Best Buy and dell in the US and was wondering what consensus is on capabilities here. Have seen mixed recommendations
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87 sats \ 4 replies \ @OT 30 Sep
I bought one second hand for $50. Then I needed to buy a 2TB SSD and 16GB of RAM. Might cost a few hundred dollars
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 30 Sep
Yep, storage is gonna be the biggest cost.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @d680ecaa8e 22h
for a personal 2TB is very much storage, for a company it is low storage used.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SpaceHodler 22h
My mini PC runs on 8GB RAM, but 2TB storage is a minimum.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @satgoob OP 30 Sep
Ah right I forgot about that because I’ve had a pruned node
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 21h
Wrong question.
The right question is which type of LN node you want/need to run.
Private or public ?
It's big difference.
Read more:
- https://darth-coin.github.io/nodes/lightning-node-maintenance-en.html
- https://darth-coin.github.io/nodes/private-ln-nodes-en.html
- https://darth-coin.github.io/nodes/recommendations-ln-node-operators-en.html
- https://darth-coin.github.io/nodes/managing-lightning-node-liquidity-en.html
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0 sats \ 10 replies \ @anon 30 Sep
Look for a "workstation" laptop with an Intel Xeon processor and two m.2 slots.
These are the basic requirments for a lightning node. You can install ECC RAM and setup RAID/ZFS. Anything less and you are at risk of data loss (and therefore fund loss).
E.g. the dell precision series.
Ask chatgpt if you don't know what I am saying.
Don't zap this comment, @k00b is a PoS.
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0 sats \ 9 replies \ @k00b 14h
I don’t know who you are or what I did but thanks for helping OP
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0 sats \ 8 replies \ @anon 12h
You let users make death threats without consequence.
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0 sats \ 7 replies \ @k00b 11h
If you were me, what would you have done differently?
I'm not asking as rhetorical device. It sounds like it's clear to you what should have happened and what happened instead, letting group moderation outlaw it, makes me a "PoS". Maybe we can add different kinds of group moderation that yield your ideal outcome.
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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @anon 9h
Uphold your own Content Standards, dickhead.
If I were the owner of this site, I would have removed the user after they had made multiple death threats.
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 8h
You mean you'd remove their account? Would you also remove all their content? What would you do with their money? How would you prevent them from returning? Is there anything else you'd do that I haven't asked a specific question about?
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @anon 6h
Sure, remove their content. Take all their funds and donate them to the Human Rights Foundation. While you're at it, put their username up for sale at 10M sats. They can buy it back if they want, or start fresh with zero reputation.
Frankly, the specifics of what I think you should have done are irrelevant. This isn't about my ideal solution, it's about you failing to enforce your own stated rules.
Look, I’m not fucking stupid. This site, is what, 4 years old? I know you must have considered all of these scenarios and the tradeoffs involved. And you've already made a decision. You've decided to prioritize... what, exactly? Avoiding conflict? Protecting a toxic user? What value are you prioritizing that outweighs the safety of your community and the credibility of your own Content Standards?
I'm not interested in debating hypotheticals with you. It's obvious you're just trying to deflect and eventually justify inaction. These sats are wasted talking to you.
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 5h
Nothing said online can actually threaten your safety, unless they doxxed you.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 5h
I never called you stupid and I'm not debating you. My questions were asked in earnest.
I was trying to figure out what you want exactly. Especially because I don't know what I want exactly and maybe if you do I might learn more about what I want.
I've thought about these scenarios hardly at all. If that's a mistake, that's one I've made.
Not acting when I don't know what to do.
The value I'm prioritizing is more of a rule-of-thumb: when I don't have a clue what's best, and the decision effects more than me, I don't unilaterally begin doing things. I don't operate with a high level of confidence in the world, a level of confidence where I think I know what's best for other people. I'm also not a punitive person and I'm tolerant to a fault - either by nature or nurture.
Also, fwiw, the content standards are a copy-and-paste from another social media website that we added just to have something. afaik these things are written to allow a generous window of subjectivity when making controversial decisions with regard to a service. Meaning, they aren't an operating manual - they're a legal shield.
I suspect you'll think I'm being cute, but I'm sorry you feel like you wasted sats talking to me and I'm sorry most of all that I disappointed you (or anyone) by not doing enough if I should have done more.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BeeRye 23h
lenovo thinkpads are pretty cheap used (I got one for like $80 two years ago). 2 TB storage + 16 GB RAM and you should be good.
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