What's with the overkill hardware setups?
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Racks? None
Screens? Attached
Fans? Full blast
Oh yeah, it's server laptop time
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Speak for yourself
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Modern tech is so wasteful. Why'd you ever need all that stuff for.
Back in the day I used to host all my stuff on a dinky little router (ASUS Wl500g, 300mhz 32MB RAM) with a powered USB hub and a spare USB HDD hooked to it. It handled downloading torrents overnight, hosted a few websites, an FTP/SAMBA server, an image/screenshots hosting and galleries for me and my friends, including that one script that generated a GIF of all my epic gamer stats on each access, a couple of bots, sent me weather reports via SMS, hosted a webcam to be used as IP security camera, and also a dumb printer so that it could be used by anyone on the network, besides working as my actual router.
When it died I moved all that stuff to an old UMPC. And nowadays, I host my shit on $30 smartwatches with Termux.
Meanwhile, one of the commercial projects I've been working with lately, which is basically just a glorified image dump, with all the modern bells and whistles, doesn't even launch if the machine has less than 32GB RAM... smh
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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.
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Mine was my SOs grandmother's Pentium PC from like 2003 until something just stopped in it. Like can't even tell what is wrong with it cause it's just inconsistently down and then back up.
So now it's a small PC I got from eBay that came with like a free monitor and keyboard and stuff for like $60
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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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Because we forgot optimization in a world that celebrates maximalists and constant upgrades to feed shopping addictions that make people feelore in control of their space in a world with less and less opportunities for self determination.
When I remember I was the cool kid for having a 4GB flash drive that could fit all of my call of duty game and homework and I look at the 560GB games now that aren't even as fun to play I think we have made some mistakes along the way that instead of prioritizing the experience of life we prioritize the ease of it.
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Poverty computing takes more balls. Like yeah, you got a nice Plex server and you can play Skyrim at max setting because you can afford a big NAS and a nice graphic card - no skills needed. I’m spending two hours trying to get the Sims to work on a fifteen year old laptop that I don’t think can even run a DE or running Puppy Linux off USB while waiting to afford a new hard drive.
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If I didn't need a large amount of storage I'd totally do this. As it stands it's hard or prohibitively expensive to get 30TB of storage connected to a laptop with reasonable read/write speeds.
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Hey, free heat in the winter...
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Money?
Noise?
Power consumption? -
No, for me I love it, like how some sailors can't sleep without the sound of the engine
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Btw you can set it up to turn the screen off without sending it to sleep. I use a screen lock to do this, but other things probably work too
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Mine is my 6th gen i5 gaming PC stuffed into an early 00's tower server chassis. It's got an ebay IT mode HBA hooked up to a bunch of drives I pulled from an old Lefthand node we were recycling.
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That sounds like storage failure.
I actually ran into something similar with the RPI 2 weeks ago. It was running incredibly slow, certain file directories refused to load, DNS resolution was failing 1/3 of the time and was super slow when it did work...
Pretty sure the 6 year old sd card finally gave up.
Having a script automatically write a bootable backup of the SD card to an SSH server once a week makes that recovery super easy. Literally just write the last backup to the card, swap them out, and all's well again.
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To be completely fair, it's hard to overstate the durability of an old Thinkpad. They're so ubiquitous, Linux compatibility is almost guaranteed. Then, after the battery goes, attach it to a UPC and ride that setup for another decade at least.
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Is that the award winning IBM Thinkpad
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It's an earlier Lenovo, sire.
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What's with it is probably "I'm doing this because I love hardware."
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Angry Thönkpad whirring intensifies
