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This is the exact argument I make about updating.

Without knowing, you’re just trading known risks for unknown risks.

Known risks can be managed.

Are you going to pay for a feature you’ll never use?

Engineering for 220v/50hz requires completely different wiring and componentry than for 110v/60hz.

True.

It really depends on a lot of “what ifs”.

I’ve been through the cabling thing in multiple places since 1996…

Today I run cable as-needed. If wi-fingers it done, I’m not putting in the effort for cable.

If wifi isn’t getting it done, I’ll run a single cable for the location with issues, and drop in a gigabit switch (if needed).

The days of running cable “just in case” are in the past, for me.

I have 53 nearby wireless networks. Lots of interference.

Channel scan charts just looks like a bunch of color mixed together.

Still, other than copying media files, it’s fine.

I certainly wouldn’t remove existing cables, that’s effort for little to no gain.

Surprisingly, there’s very little anymore that exposes the bandwidth difference between wireless and wired, and I run a media server at home.

I see the performance difference when copying files, but that’s about it.

I have multiple local devices streaming video (over wifi), while the devices that really need a wired connection get one via a single cable and small switches.

For example there’s a cat5e running to a 5 port gigabit switch behind the TV. So the TV gets a drop and anything else I may need there (Apple TV, dedicated media PC, etc).

Currently have 3 of these switches, with about 10 devices directly wired, but only 3 runs from the primary switch.

NAS sits next to my server, so they’re on the same switch with just patch cables. Pretty much everything else get wifi of it supports it.

Don’t buy any kind of drive from aliexpress.

Shop here: diskprices.com and even then pay attention to the source.

You have backups or replicants of your data, right?

Wouldn’t it depend on how fast that rope is pulled too, adding in the acceleration of the mass?

Wouldn’t it be 100, same as the mass being lifted (well more really, depending on the acceleration of that mass)?

What’s more important is redundancy, as all drives fail.

What’s your replication/redundancy/backup plan look like? That’s more important than “which drive” (other than SMR/CMR), as even enterprise drives fail.

I’ve had consumer drives running 24/7 for 10 years.

Drives are a lot more robust than most people think, but they still fail at seemingly random times, so having backup is crucial.

Backup, backup, backup.

I have an (old) NAS that frankly I don’t trust to not die. Then again, anything can die, so it’s just one component of my local data replication.

I also have my server which is authoritative for all data, which is then duplicated (on schedules) to the NAS and 2 external drives, so I have 3 local copies.

All of these drives are 5+ years old except the primary data drive which is 2.

I like your point about power monitoring - that would be an interesting secondary method for alerting to a possible breech, of you have a consistent power-use profile.

Oh, wow, F.E.A.R. now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while!

I have an Optiplex that at one point I had 4 2.5" drives in, had to use some duct tape and glue, but it worked fine.

I would suspect he’s getting relayed, and I suspect I was too for my test.

Connecting remotely to your home devices is dependent on your home internet connection’s upload speed, which is usually a fraction of the download speed.

Then add the overhead of the VPN (Tailscale) and how dirext of a connection it’s able to make.

Then the connection of the device you’re testing from - it may have some bandwidth limitations.

Hahahahaha

“Survive”

To add - by doing pulls the backup server uses different credentials to run than the credentials used to perform pulls.

Backup server has it’s own credentials database, machines being backed up have their own database. Backup service in backup server uses appropriate credentials from machine being backed up to access the data there (shares, etc). So credentials from compromised machine are unrelated to credentials for backup server.

And if backups are done properly (full on a schedule, daily incrementals, or something similar) you should be able to revert to a known-good state with minimal data loss.

I have a 10+ year old 10" photoframe with wifi and Bluetooth - I’m surprised how much I like it.

It rotates through hundreds of photos - each photo has a name with a date, so they serve as reminders of places we’ve been, things we’ve done.

On a good day it simply shows what’s in a network share it has access to. Sometimes it pykes and I have to reset the wifi on it.

Yea, the Broadcom crap really sucks. I feel bad for businesses being held ransom by them.

Hyper-V just isn’t an option for small businesses, unfortunately (it’s really designed for Enterprise where internal expertise is the norm).

I can ignore their nonsense for my home setup., fortunately.

Have you tried XCP-NG or Proxmox?

I don’t think laptops are much of a concern - virtually every laptop on the planet spends 90% of it’s time plugged in.

All of mine have since the mid-90’s (back then that really shortened NiCd life).

Since they’ve gone lithium I’ve had probably 20 laptops (with multiple running since 2019 as hosts) and seen one spicy pillow - and that was on a year old machine.

My newest machines have charge limit on by default in the hardware. I assume they all do these days as it would reduce support/warranty calls.

Good to keep an eye on them because it can happen to any battery, I just don’t think it’s a huge concern.

Oh, I’m sorry. Lol.

Hyper-V is just so bad. Decided to run it for a while as a test, I couldn’t get back to ESXi fast enough, haha. And I come from the Enterprise world where Hyper-V is common.

My ESXi box draws 20 watts at idle with 3 Windows VMs and 3 Linux VMs.

Guess which of those VMs draws the most power (hint: it’s not Windows).

1994 ish

BBS before that

Yea, I’d just revert the entire setup to 5v DC, and get a 5v DC power supply - less than the voltage it was all designed for, and an led lamp. Or even go 12v and find a 12v led.

Pumping AC, 230v at that, through switching and wires meant for 12v DC just yells “I want a big nasty shock”. (Not that doing it with 120v would be any better).

I can only imagine the arcing happening in that switch

Your (Windows) PC is also a server, as Microsoft included SMB (Server Message Block) and Share Services in the Windows workstation product.

Mapping/connecting to a share on another computer is using that machine as a server.

Linux machines can do this too, it’s just not a default thing like with Windows.

I’m shocked with what I’ve been able to do with an old Dell SFF desktop.

Upgraded to 48GB of ram it’s running ESXi hosting a couple Debian VMs, a DietPi VM, 3 Windows VMs, a massive data drive, idles under 20w and peaks at 80w when I’m doing video conversion.

At this point I’m shopping for some old mini PCs to run the VMs as independent servers because their idle power is so low.

8 watts… That’s RPi territory but with lots more actual horsepower when needed, in a useful package.

I love the concept of the Pi, but this stuff is so hard to compete with.

This was just posted to selfhosted, and does a great job showing what RPi is competing with.

It’s a tool for seeing actual idle wattage draw for a lot of mini-PCs.

Many are in the single-digit idle power - the RPi claim to fame - but have a lot more capability than Pi, plus come in useful packages.

Just thought it would be a useful link for here.

It won by having a single, common, consistent interface/UI/UX.

It’s long been not compatible with a LOT of stuff.