The mouse did not survive interrogation.
Also mouse not pictured.
I’ve had a mouse burn my generator coils while going in while running
What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server.
Submitted 4 days ago by Gekkonen@sopuli.xyz to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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tobebannedbygaymods@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
UltraBlack@lemmy.world 3 days ago
My server once randomly kernel panicked once (and only once) and it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that a ram stick (too poor for ECC) had gone bad. Also took all my proxmox backup server backups with it because the validation would always fail (also due to the ram stick). Still worked fine otherwise lol
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
for me it was the fact that the desktop case i used for the server had the power button on top and it was big enough to be pushed in, when my cat walked over it…
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 3 days ago
my cat currently loves hitting the “Sleep"-button on my keyboard every time he jumps on my table -.- at least i can wake it again, but it IS annoying. Haven’t had the time yet to reconfigure that button to instead run a soundfile of me scolding my cat lol.
rimu@piefed.social@piefed.social 3 days ago Nice chonky heatsink, goddam
Gekkonen@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
I used this, among other things, for my personal Blender renderfarm. Cooling was a must.
- rimu@piefed.social@piefed.social 3 days ago
haha looks like you’re aaalmost at the point where water cooling is compulsory.
Is it a Threadripper? I built a couple of those for rendering, such absolute beasts.
Buage_@piefed.social 3 days ago I dunno if that counts or if it’s the weirdest cause I rarely have any issue, but one day, I wanted to deploy speedtest tracker via docker on my 1st NAS..
So I tried, but it didn’t work (I forgot the reason). So I try to check the logs, but it turns out my NAS was insanely slow.
When I rebooted it, it couldn’t stop beeping and telling me there was a hardware problem, so I tried everything I could do to fix it, but nothing worked, so I ended up reinstalling the whole OS
Keep in mind this was the cost to see I had a bad result at the speedtest lmao 😭
Btw, I also lost all my important files, yayyy!
bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Way back in the olden days, we had a hard drive with out any backups go bad. I determined that it was the circuit board. So I took a working drive and basically connected the bad driver’s platters to the working drive’s circuit board.
It worked and I was able to back up the data and restore it on a new drive.
CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
I suspect you had a similar fun endeavor as me, where a media server with GPU passed through to a VM in Proxmox is also used as a gaming desktop. Admittedly I don’t use it often, so fiddling with it is almost as rewarding as using it when it works.
psycotica0@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I thought that heatsink and fan was a spindle of CDs! I thought that was an interesting place to store them I hadn’t seen before…
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I do not care to admit how many times when I was first getting into home labbing that I could not figure out why I could not reach a pi or the internet. All because I either killed an SD card for pihole or just plain out forgot to put one in!
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
I took my SD card out of the rpi to reinstall home assistant. Terribly annoyed because I had no backup of my configuration.
When reinstalling my SD I found out it was the ethernet cable that wasn’t plugged in.
Dultas@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I should really make a dd image of my card for the Pi I use for all my switch serial connections.
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I am so afraid of an SD card dying and killing my HA so I have a HD setup. I have one good SD card of the 10’s of cards I have killed and it is now running my ssh honey pot on a pi 0 2.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 days ago The mouse did not survive interrogation. Also mouse not pictured.
I thought it was the huge heat sink that looks like it extends past the side plane of the cover. Reminds me of something I did with a CoolAir Cosmos tower. I mounted two 300 cfm fans over each CPU and took the side panel, neatly cut out the area around the fans, then 3d printed a scoop, with a slot for filtration, to fit on the side panel and allow the fans to breathe.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Fitting a NAS on top of my cupboard. Been reconsidering putting it there though, may hide it under a table somewhere instead
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 3 days ago I use e self made wood cabinet in the attic where also the PV inverter is located. I used Velcro to strip on the wall (brick wall) stuff like switch firewall etc, only to find those collapsed on the server itself every time. No matter which glue or adhesive i used.
At the end, a strong unbranded Chinese double sided tape was better and still strong after all big western brand failed over time.
Maybe a mix of heat and uneven surface was the culprit, who knows.
luftruessel@feddit.org 2 days ago
The backup server at my parents house really did not want to run. Something kept breaking to the point that no web interface or SSH worked. Now I’m not new to self hosting, so I ran my fair share of HDMI and USB cables across my space to debug something on my server. But at my parents place it’s just that extra bit annoying, since I only bring my laptop. Finding a screen is doable, but the keyboard got me more than once. The only one they have kicking around has a freaking PS/2 cable… not even my salvaged backup hardware is old enough to support that. Not just once I had to wait for friends to get back from work so I could borrow their keyboard just to press ‘any’ key.
I decided to handle the issue by getting an IP KVM, which should help me deal with that, right? Wrong! I installed a new drive and that piece of **** goes into some secure boot loop or whatever that is too fast for my KVM to turn on…