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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know if you've mentioned this somewhere, but what's the purpose of the GPS on a home server?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Might be for time synchronization in order to not have to rely on a public NTP server.

[–] BearPear 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is the advantage of self hosting an NTP server?

After all, it just tells time

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Knowing the time is pretty important to (networked) computers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

One example:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/security-policy-settings/maximum-tolerance-for-computer-clock-synchronization

Another use case: when you look at activities that flow across multiple devices and you're correlating the sequence of events, having every device set to the exact same, ideally correct time makes correlation of events less confusing.

[–] monotux 1 points 1 year ago

After all, it just tells time

It's for making your computers clocks be very, very close to each other. Not milliseconds close, but nano seconds. That is more important than one might think, especially for networks.

I'm going to have something similar at home at some point, just need to make a few more cable runs so one GPS can see the sky (= more accurate)

[–] GiantPossum 8 points 1 year ago
  1. Its cool. Imagine being able to get data from 12 satellites at the same time to get super accurate time, with a $10 GPS board. What a time to be alive!
  2. I'm trying to reduce the amount of stuff I'm relying on the internet for. Time is pretty important, and having a local server solves all that.