EpicFailGuy
@EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world
- Comment on My apartment building gives me free water but I pay for electricity. What if I run the faucet nonstop and rig up a hydro turbine in my bathtub to generate my power from it? 6 days ago:
Most apartments with water included in the rent price (Sorry kids, there’s no such thing as “free water”) closely monitor their usage on a per building or floor basis. Whenever they detect irregularities they schedule inspections with the tenants to check for things like leaking toilet valves and such.
“free water” just means that they’ve calculated the cost of installing the meters and additional plumbing and determined that monitoring global usage and including it in the price of rent is cheaper.
Source: I have water included in my rent, I pay about $50 more a month than a similar apartment without.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 6 days ago:
Unfortunately soldered ram and non replaceable batteries are becoming more common on the ultralights … Thanks Apple
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 1 week ago:
I miss my clitmouse XD
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 1 week ago:
Replying to my own comment to give yall one more tidbit.
The latitude product nomenclature is still standard
- 2 first digits of the model number are the “class” the higher the laptop the more high end
- last 2 digits of the model number are the generation (we are current in 60)
So for example the Latitude 9460 is the very high end laptop that came out at the beginning of this year while the 3540 was the entry level economy latitude that came out in 2023
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 1 week ago:
Hijacking top comment to report that: This is true across the industry for (most) OEMs
The Secret is to buy “Enterprise level”
Check out the LATITUDE line en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Latitude
Those are enterprise fleet laptops … the ones they have to support for 5-10 years.
You know which line they don’t discontinue parts for? You know which line has repair manuals and driver updates available? wanna take a wild guess which line is usually more modular and powerful at the expense of being less sleek looking and thin?
And the best part is that you can usually buy them fairly cheap if you find them used.
I prefer Dell Latitude to HP Elitebook, Thinkpads are OK too but they’ve gone down in quality a lot since they got bought by Lenovo
TL;DR = Buy an enterprise level laptop, consumer line laptops are all trash,
- Comment on Is there anything of any interests for the tech bros in Greenland? 1 week ago:
Peter Zenyan has a really good breakdown of why they want it … it’s for geopolitical reasons (the northern passage)
- Comment on Microsoft just open-sourced bitnet.cpp, a 1-bit LLM inference framework. It let's you run 100B parameter models on your local CPU without GPUs. 6.17x faster inference and 82.2% less energy on CPUs. 1 week ago:
LOLOLOL I registered the bitnet.dev domain for my home lab … should I sell it?
Microsft … ring me up, let’s talk money
- Comment on Is there a self hosted mTLS manager? 1 week ago:
Give the Pangolin project a look.
It’s a reverse proxy with tunneling solution that can expose domain names to the internet without having to manage the certificates or open ports.
I use it in my home lab and it’s very very good
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 3 weeks ago:
Tagging /datahoarded
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Who the hell reneges where their CD keys are? That was 20 years ago
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 1 month ago:
I just bought aan IP KVM switch for a hundo, now heading to the store foir a case of frosty’s and re-rack my servers to make room.
- Comment on JWST captures stunning 3D view of a planet’s scorching atmosphere 2 months ago:
Json web token did WHAT?
- Comment on I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against. 2 months ago:
The one factor that no one seems to have mentioned yet that is key for many of us is LEARNING …
It’s a great way to learn virtualization and containerization
I use it exclusively to run Linux containers, it makes it very convenient to backup and restore as well as replicate environments.
We are now migrating our lab at work away from VMW
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 2 months ago:
That’s exactly what I have, and that’s exactly what I wanted … DARN … oh well. I guess it’s nice to have the document sync as well
- Comment on opencloud - I migrated from nextcloud. Screenshots and docker-compose-compose.yml included 2 months ago:
correct, it also has the benefit of allowing my IP to change without impacting public or private access.
- Comment on opencloud - I migrated from nextcloud. Screenshots and docker-compose-compose.yml included 2 months ago:
I do something similar I use Pangolin (Which is an EXCELLENT project) as a self hosted alternative to cloudflareD tunels. I host it on a public VPS and then thru it tunnel web traffic to my public resources, that way I don’t have to expose my IP or have a static. Then I also use netbird as an overlay network not only to access my servers remotely but also to “join” two sites via a VPN (Backup server at my mom’s)
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 2 months ago:
Is it better than NC?
- Comment on Good boah 3 months ago:
Interestingly enough … the Cuban slang for “gay” is the same word we use to describe one of these gender changing fish
“Cherna” … while more light heated than the English F word, it’s still a derogatory term so please don’t use it on your friends.
Actually now that I think about it, this is how it’s most commonly used … Straight males sling it to their other straight male friends.
- Comment on where to move for cheap VPS? 3 months ago:
This is bad news … I also host my Pangolin ingress node on Ionos … Can you let me know what you pick?
- Comment on I replaced my truck's rusted out muffler 4 months ago:
Should have installed a cutoff valve while you’re down there for when you feel the need for speed LOL
- Comment on Cybercrooks use Raspberry Pi to steal ATM cash 5 months ago:
Watch them try to ban raspberry pi now … like they did with the flipper
- Comment on Help me figure out the way to scale laterally? 5 months ago:
Interesting, thanks for sharing.
Any clue what the power draw on the disk array is? I did some basic measurement with the kill-a-watt and a spinner takes about 6-7W where as an SSD takes about 2, the price difference is too much for my use case tho, performance per watt per TB, I’m better off with 1 single disk (or a mirror pair) of 6 TB in spinning rust.
I’m not particularly concerned about data security since I’m syncing evrything 3 ways. Whenever one of the drive fails I’ll consider it a “surprise disaster recovery exercise” XD
- Comment on Help me figure out the way to scale laterally? 5 months ago:
Appreciate your input. K8 is on the roadmap. Currently on portrait using pangolin as a tunneled proxy.
Eventually plan to migrate from Joomla in LXC to a docker swarm load balanced by pangolin.
- Submitted 5 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Questions about DAS 5 months ago:
It does but there’s a lot of other stuff connected that I can’t unplug. I ended up getting a kill a watt and since the server has redundant power supplies I checked by unplugging one at a time.
I’m using 168W on an R430 with 2 E5-1220’s and 128 G and 8 spinners.
- Comment on The Commodore 64 Ultimate computer is the company's first hardware release in over 30 years — pre-orders start at $299 5 months ago:
Song name? I feel like it’s way too fucking good to be an ad jingle
- Comment on What else should I self-host? 5 months ago:
I don’t trust oracle at all. The guide uses them because they’re free (It includes a business generator so that oracle doesn’t reclaim your box)
I personaly went with IONOS because they have a 2.99 plan with unlimited bandwidth which is great for pangolin as that’s routing traffic for my “media” box
- Comment on What else should I self-host? 5 months ago:
Host a pangolin reverse proxy on a free oracle cloud VPS! It’s super nice to redirect online traffic to a LAN resource, that way you can share your home lab with friends and family without having to forward any ports or loosen your security posture.
blog.thetechcorner.sk/…/Connect-to-your-homelab-o…
I also highly recommend this suite of tools for downloading and streaming legal media via torrent because I would never endorse piracy.
- Comment on VMware’s rivals ramp efforts to create alternative stacks 5 months ago:
Interesting,
I’ve automated deployment with SDNET and templates, but the other stuff you’re doing with terraform is more akin “Orchestration” There must be some GUI for terraform that works with proxmox.
I guess you could do the same with expansible and playbooks but it sounds like you’re looking for something with a GUI that does the work for you.
I can’t think of any, but proxmox does have an API … wondering why no one has done this yet …
- Comment on Questions about DAS 5 months ago:
My previous experience is with dropbox and onedrive and I tend to limit bandwidth … I want sync to happen in the background. It’s not something I usually consider “high priority”
I found NC to be a lot more flexible and complete, specially with all the machine learning options. I also appreciate the privacy and price Hosting about 7TB of data for $10 worth of power a month and a $150 investment that allows me to host many other things.
The web interface in my case is a bit slow initially but that’s mostly because I opted to route it via pangolin reverse proxy / cloud flare tunnels, but I notice once the redis cache DB loads it’s blazing fast.
Overall I’m pretty happy with the speed, I’m sharing this with a family of 15 and I haven’t heard any complaints yet.
