RedBauble

@RedBauble@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old laptop died 🥲⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually never investigated. My guess would be yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old laptop died 🥲⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it’s because, in the very specific fault I described, at least one of the caps on the supply line are actually shorted. I don’t know how rare it is, I’ve had it happen on a couple laptops, both Dell now that I think about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old laptop died 🥲⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the power supply turn off, entering short circuit protection, when plugged into the laptop? If so some capacitors on the supply line may be shorted. Usually they are all in parallel so to find which one is shorted go by trial and error: remove each shorted cap test continuity outside the mobo. If it beeps it’s dead. You should be able to power the laptop without that cap.

  Note that caps under/behind the CPU/GPU appear shorted even if they are working when the laptop is off, do not touch them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also if you’re considering new hardware already I really recommend looking into surplus enterprise gear. I run my whole lab on an R730XD. It holds a ton of drives, has an IDRAC (I can’t live without it now), ECC for extra peace of mind during ZFS scrubs, and they hold an insane amount of inexpensive RAM. They’re fairly cheap on eBay or from refurbishment companies. Bring your own drives with warranties though, used drives are a headache. Servers like this can be really noisy though, I keep mine in the basement.

  I’ve briefly considered it but it is out of the question for me. Not enough space in the house and enterprise gear is way too noisy. This setup will probably sit next to the TV in the living room so it has to be as silent as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is really interesting, might be the way to go for me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had thought of that, I didn’t really like the idea of using a third party service to access my machines.

  Also I didn’t mention in the post, but, while my ISP gives me a public IP, I only use port forwarding to wireguard into my home networks. My services are exposed via a vps hosted on oracle cloud free tier free, which forwards public traffic to my server via another wireguard connection

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How is that different from a VM and using docker inside it? Any specific advantages/disadvantages to both approaches?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I wanted something that I could upgrade if I wanted in the future, especially for disks. I still have 4x 3.5’ slots available in the case and as for sata ports on the mobo I can always by a controller to plug in the pcie slots

• New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker?
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