What's with the overkill hardware setups?
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I had a spare gpu lying around so I didn’t need integrated graphics
Then next thing I knew I had 16tbs of data
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I went overkill because i had money, no hardware i could dedicate and wanted flexibility for my volatile interests.
So overkill (except storage until i upgrade) that i plan sharing it with my family (when i set it up properly)
I could have made a less overkill choice but that way i probably wont need to change my setup for some game -
It was the same in my house, with a 19" rack and old workstations. I'm downsizing to a 10" rack and so far it's quieter and cheaper (in the long run!)
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Heavy-duty applications? Lots of devices in the home? Reliance on PoE? There are plenty of reasons to use big equipment, it's not just for show.
I couldn't run multiple game servers off of a laptop the way I do on my spare Ryzen 9 5900X. I also have it transcoding media and it has 30tb of storage, of which I'm currently using over 2/3s for media/steam cache.
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Please tell more about those watches
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My first services were running on an old laptop from 2006/2007 standing on an old leather chair in a corner of a room. The laptop was standing on four old and used skateboard wheels so there was some space between the laptop and the leather.
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Ahh man that's a pain, my old notebook has no sata and only 32gb of emmc (which I'm tempted to remove and add a larger chip), but it's only being used for my 3D printer so it's not really a pressing need yet.
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W&O X9 Call. It's a terrible watch, basically just a shitty android phone inside of a knockoff applewatch case. It runs Android 9 on 2" screen, 4GB RAM and 64GB of space (didn't even test that one tbh), battery life - nonexistent (less than a day). But I've been looking specifically for stuff like this and bought a load of them at wholesale for like $28.5 a piece... and the specs didn't even exactly match between all of them. Loaded them up with cheapest plans for IoT devices, installed termux, nodejs and moved some of my personal scripts over to them. One app/script per piece, no need for VM's or containers
And they got their own links so firewall is also not necessary.None of them have static IP's accessible from outside though, so for stuff I need public access to I jam that into the remaining RAM space on one of the few of my $1/mo lowendboxes that I'm using primarily as VPN servers. Got them all on tailscale, so I could theoretically use Funnel to route traffic from public internet to those watches (haven't tried yet). And still to figure out some way for them to failover onto each other for internet because the plans are extremely limited, will probably have to learn android app development for that when I get to it.
There is also HK Ultra 2 which I believe is essentially the same thing, and I saw a few other variants on the market without even a brand name, so the only way to find them would be to search for "sim card" or sorting smartwatches category by bad reviews first
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I just found what server #loops run on.
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I just got a Nas with 4hdd and 4 nvme. That's pretty solid for my current needs
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I meant with the servers too, not just an empty rack.
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