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1. Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 02-Mar-2018 00:56:47 UTC Hallå Kitteh

   • Cryptocurrency
   After wrestling with various alternatives for hours, and clearing tens of gigs of space on my disk, I finally went with a LineageOS x86 VM and Coinomi for the company's Ether wallet.
   
   !cryptocurrency
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 02-Mar-2018 06:45:14 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • yukiame
     @yukiame Just any normal x86_64 VM will do. I'm using Parallels because on Mac it's, well, unparalleled. I'm not using it a whole bunch though these days as I have ready access to real Linux machines in my vicinity, so I may drop that subscription and use VirtualBox whenever I need a VM.
     
     Ether because my customer prefers paying in Ether and I don't mind.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 02-Mar-2018 06:50:15 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • yukiame
     @yukiame The distro is http://www.android-x86.org/ .
     
     I first looked at android-sdk and the emulator, but that seemed annoying to get working for another user than the one that owns homebrew.
     
     Then I looked at #bluestacks, but that looked very game-oriented and semi-fishy and you had to register a Google account to get it to the point where you can access any apps.
     
     Didn't even occur to me to just run a normal virtualization until I saw someone mention it in a forum somewhere, now lost in the sea of tabs, open and closed.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 02-Mar-2018 08:00:33 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • yukiame
     @yukiame I used Xen a long time ago, before the vmx extensions in x86 CPUs came out. I don't see much point to it now that KVM is all grown up and much more convenient. You can choose to not do very much in the mothership and treat it sort of like a pure hypervisor if you can be bothered to.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 02-Mar-2018 08:02:03 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • yukiame
     @yukiame For this wallet, I'm satisfied just putting it on a separate user from the one where I develop and where I run web browsers. If it holds too much money, I'll move that out to a paper wallet.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 02-Mar-2018 08:03:56 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • yukiame
     @yukiame I don't see that the Levels are very important to me, like I just said.
     
     If I'm on Linux I won't run Virtualbox, I'll just use virt-manager.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 02-Mar-2018 08:04:52 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • yukiame
     @yukiame If you're running stuff in e.g. proxmox, I don't see what's bad about proxmox being a Linux rather than a specialized hypervisor.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 02-Mar-2018 08:06:57 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • yukiame
     @yukiame No. 10% this way or that won't make it wait for me, the network or the disk faster.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 02-Mar-2018 08:09:52 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • yukiame
     @yukiame You can create KVM and OpenVZ instances.
     
     OpenVZ held it back for a long time, but I see that the latest #proxmox, 5.1 from last October, runs Linux 4.13, so I guess they solved that.
     
     https://www.proxmox.com/en/news/press-releases/proxmox-ve-5-1
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 02-Mar-2018 08:10:19 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • yukiame
     @ayy @yukiame Yeah, it's all just me. And there are no millions of dollars in there.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 02-Mar-2018 08:14:38 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • yukiame
     @yukiame @ayy Or rather, won't be. Right now it's even zero.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 02-Mar-2018 08:15:38 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • yukiame
     @yukiame LVM on a LUKS partition. The network is a crappy gifted Russian router.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 02-Mar-2018 08:15:58 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 02-Mar-2018 08:35:56 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • yukiame
     @yukiame I run Parallels on the Mac. When I run KVM on the Linux box it'd be on that LUKS+LVM.
     
     I don't run Proxmox, I just played with it ten years ago and liked it. If I had a need for many VMs and didn't want to just run them as VPSes on Someone Else's Computer, I'd probably use it.