What's with the overkill hardware setups?

[jyl@sopuli.xyz]

I also host my stuff on oscilloscopes.

[horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world]

I run a cluster of VMs that run kubernetes and manage those VMs with containers that run Terraform and ansible. Along with baremetal RISC-V workflows and ASICs.

A tool is a tool and one should pick what works for them.

[darkassassin07@lemmy.ca]

Working hardware is working hardware; form factor doesn't really matter.

My primary DNS server is a rpi.

[darkassassin07@lemmy.ca]

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.

[comador@lemmy.world]

You seldom hear from the folks running a half dozen VMs on a laptop.

That's probably me. Blame it to working with automation systems that span from the early 90s to present day.

PTSD flashbacks of trying to get CFEngine configured for deploying Windows 2k, Redhat 3 and Solaris 8 lmao.

[fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com]

I like my n100 mini and usb drives. A full fat server has little WAF when the selling point is an LLM. The n100 handles all our needs sadly.

A dozen or so LXCs. A dozen or so docker containers. A couple VMs, including a Mint VM to turn my android tablet into a desktop. They were sold as a great little home lab, and that they are.

Then again, it's a year old and I'm only beginning in this hobby.

[pedz@lemmy.ca]

It even has an integrated UPS.

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

Mad scientist shit.

[a_baby_duck@lemmy.world]

That pic looks very much like the corner of a memory validation lab I worked in at one point. Wouldn't surprise me at all if someone who's really into server hardware had a home setup like that.

[perishthethought@lemm.ee]

Wow, that was a journey...

[peoplebeproblems@midwest.social]

Man crazy fun is to be had with sillyscopes

Build your own breadboard with ICs and you can play doom on it.

Well kind of. But dude, you can get all sort of crazy ass signal information from your circuits with em. Like watching SPI devices talk to each other is wild.

[stinky@redlemmy.com]

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[ss2k_2003@lemmy.world]

I just have a dell optiplex sitting in the corner running Proxmox. then I can spin up whatever I need.

[stinky@redlemmy.com]

it's the reason people post pictures of their cyber truck which can't move when it snows while their neighbor's ford has been plowing out neighbors since '97.

[surp@lemmy.world]

I mean you aren't going to host 100tb of porn in that laptop.....yet

[muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee]

I have 2 old dell prebuilt boxes of shit things stacked on top of eachother. I do need some recommendations for storage as I currently just have everything on a single ssd.

[frostycaveman@lemm.ee]

I have an overkill hardware setup because it’s fun. No I don’t really need 4 servers in a Proxmox cluster with 64GB RAM each.. but it’s cool lol. Besides the hardware was just gonna become ewaste anyway, I’m repurposing it

[lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

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.

[bruhduh@lemmy.world]

I have setup like that because i do a lot of repairs and I've yet to acquire minipc for server purposes, plan to buy n100 fanless one, for now i have rented vps for 2 years for selfhosting purposes

[periodicallypedantic@lemmy.ca]

I wonder how easy it is to get used server racks, and how cheap they are