Supermicro BMC

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2023–2024), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with Supermicro BMC, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Remote console requires Java Web Start or applet, dated and cumbersome to use2024-09-03
Java applet interface is very slow to use2023-10-29
Took a whole day to get the Java console working to mount an ISO2023-01-15
Remote console needs awkward launcher workaround and expired certificates trigger warnings to click through2023-01-15