What's with the overkill hardware setups?
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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?
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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
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64GB total each across 4 sticks haha. Well, one only has 32 but details.
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They’re not even real servers actually, 2 of them are my old gaming PCs I built in 2012 and 2017 and I have many Dell Optiplexes and the like lying around I reuse for various things
I have upgraded some of the parts in them - including the RAM, because ballooning VMs are annoying - but it’s still true they’d be ewaste otherwise
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You’re not wrong. Currently running 4 “servers” (describes their role, they’re really just repurposed desktops) and averaging 350W. Oof. Time to try ARM soon I think.
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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
