ramielrowe

@ramielrowe@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨datacenter liquid cooling solution⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, it’s the combo of the chiller and cooling tower is analogous to a swamp cooler. The cooling tower provides the evaporative cooling. The difference is that rather than directly cooling the environment around the cooling tower, the chiller allows indirect cooling of the DC via heat exchange. And isolated chiller providing heat exchange is why humidity inside the DC isn’t impacted by the evaporative cooling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨datacenter liquid cooling solution⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Practically all even semi-modern DCs are built for servers themselves to be air cooled. The air itself is cooled via a heat exchanger with a separate and isolated chiller and cooling tower. The isolated chiller is essentially the swamp cooler, but it’s isolated from the servers.

  There are cases where servers are directly liquid cooled, but it’s mostly just the recent Nvidia GPUs and niche things like high-frequency-trading and crypto ASICs.

  All this said… For the longest time I water cooled my home lab’s compute server because I thought it was necessary to reduce noise. But, with proper airflow and a good tower cooler, you can get basically just as quiet. All without the maintenance and risk of water, pumps, tubing, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virtual Machines- is there a better way to jump start a VM?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d take a look at packer and ansible. Packer can be used to prepare a new base image for your VMs. And ansible can be used to automate the provisioning of a VM once it’s booted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over Synology, and looking to build my first home lab. Could use some advice on parts...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You really don’t need an AIO with a 5600X. Just grab a reasonably sized tower cooler and call it a day. There’s less to fail, and less risk of water damage if it fails catastrophically. I’ve found thermalright to be exceptionally good for how well priced they are. Not as quiet as Noctua, but damn near the same cooling performance.

  Another thing to consider is that a 5600X doesn’t have built in graphics. I think you’d need to jump up to AM5/7600X for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A coworker of mine built an LLM powered FUSE filesystem as a very tongue-in-check response to the concept of letting AI do everything. It let the LLM generate responses to listing files in directories and reading contents of the files.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord plans to roll out third-party ads on its mobile apps, starting with a mobile pilot for Video Quests, video ads that let users earn rewards, in June 2025.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I don’t mind them adding ads. They’ve got a business to support. But, calling them “quests” and treating them as “rewards” for their users is just so tone-deaf and disingenuous. Likewise, if I’ve boosted even a single server, I shouldn’t see this crap anywhere, let alone on the server I’ve boosted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US, salaried engineers are exempt from overtime pay regulations. He is telling them to work 20 extra hours, with no extra pay.