EDIT: i had an rpi it died from esd i think
EDIT2: this is also my work machine and i sleep to the sound of the fans
I wonder how easy it is to get used server racks, and how cheap they are π€
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You can get them pretty cheap if you're patient.
Personally I use the IKEA alternative. It works really well.
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I mean you aren't going to host 100tb of porn in that laptop.....yet π
Don't even have 256G installed in that thing
All my gear is stuff I've saved from the dumpster at work except my hard drives and my UPS. I'm using the IKEA end tables instead of racks (I think they are called lakka?). My jbod chassis is huge and very loud, but it was free. I dropped cables into my basement and I only hear it when I'm down there.
I started off with just a desktop tower full of spare parts, but over time it's slowly become a pretty impressive stack.
What's with it is probably "I'm doing this because I love hardware."
Angry ThΓΆnkpad whirring intensifies
Is that the award winning IBM Thinkpadβ’ running Linux?!
It's an earlier Lenovo, sire.
Just because you can afford to lose your weird niche fetish porn doesn't mean I can afford to lose my calendar and contacts
Less power is more power!
Some people actually have the services they host get used by other people.
I'm currently using a ryzen 5600u mini-pc, which is more than enough for what I do. Although it'd be cool to have something more server-like. The thing is: those notebook cpus are very efficient and low energy consumption is a priority for me.
I just upgraded my daily driver laptop to a new desktop, so now I'm using the laptop as a home server. Much more powerful than anything else I could afford.
How are you going to know the internet is working with thet few blinking LEDs?
Let's be real though, What's someone doing with three oscilloscopes
An experiment because someone once thought "you know what would be better than two oscilloscopes?"
Sometimes one or two just don't have enough channels. The bottom one doesn't look like a scope though. It may be a spectrum analyzer, but it's hard to see.
Viewing multiple signals, signal generation, digital signal analysis.
You may be able to do most of that with the newer one on the top of the stack; but it's nice to have backups/spares to use or just to put things on separate screens.
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Best I can do is Samsung galaxy A71 with lineage os.
I just have a dell optiplex sitting in the corner running Proxmox. then I can spin up whatever I need.
Who says it's overkill?
That said I literally started selfhosting on a Thinkpad W520. With the full 32 gigs of ram it ran ESXI great. Plus you can't beat a built in UPS.
I was going to buy a mini PC to run along with it when I needed more, but I just opted to take old desktop parts and combine my NAS with everything else.
Embracing constraints makes you learn fast. I bet you could teach enterprise sysadmins a few things about performance monitoring and optimization.