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I’ve taken to taping up most of the vents on my boxes, then putting air conditioner filter media in front of the vents I leave open.

This controls the flow to only come through those vents, so they get filtered.

I clean the filters once a month - it’s nice that you can see them to know they need cleaning.

I do change the fans to more powerful ones, usually compressor style (what people call squirrel cage) because they handle airflow restriction better. The trick is how to orient and duct them.

Wow, yea, that’s bad, haha

Novell??

Holy cow that’s something I haven’t heard in forever.

Because you’re treating every country as one thing.

As a westerner, even I find that demeaning and offensive.

Every country is its own thing. So even your question is crap, because you’re asking about a continent when it’s a country-level question.

Even asking this of the EU would be meaningless, and at least they have a more common plan about things than an entire continent that doesn’t have a single government (not that the EU is a single government, but it enables engagement and joint planning).

Plus, the info you want is easily found on Wikipedia or a simple search.

I get mine from a link on diskprices.com

Usually lead to ebay or Amazon - I’m not particular.

They’re almost always used business drives. Oldest one is now 4 years running.

Businesses replace drives and systems on a schedule regardless of true wear on them - their risk vs cost metric is very different than ours.

So used business hardware is a great value for those of us who have a sunk cost in labor/expertise.

Most drives I’ve owned have run for 10+ years, while any business won’t run them past 5. I can take the risk of losing a drive, while it’s more important for a business to prevent losing a drive. Business disruption is a more costly event.

It’s every single one I’ve ever encountered. I suppose you could say I’ve just encountered cheap ones - that could be true.

But I’ve never seen a single one (since the 90’s) that didn’t start failing in short order.

Some just sucked from the word go. Have one in my car that had hardly been used because there are separate controls on the steering wheel. Steering wheel ones are fine, the one on the head unit, that’s rarely used, is failing.

DietPi is such a game changer.

Currently running it in a VM just for PiHole, and the ease of installing anything is nice.

When people say America they are 99% of the time referring to the US - otherwise it’s made clear in the conversation that they are talking about “the Americas” or it’s already been made clear it’s about companies or people in the Americas.

Don’t be disingenuous - saying “Africa” has no comparison to talking about the US, and bands? Wtf do bands have to do with anything? And again, I’m sure a band from Uganda, playing traditional Ugandan music would bristle at being generically labelled “African”.

Yea, small business routers (think old Cisco boxes) use a 5A laptop-style power supply. I suspect this is what OP’s using, as I’ve never seen a consumer model with such power specs. Consumer stuff is built around the cheapest hardware they can get away with.

Thing is, I don’t doubt the Cisco box (or similar business units) may need that much juice at times. Put your hand over one that’s not connected but powered on and they get hot.

Stuff like that they really don’t care about power consumption during design, just capability.

10 years?

My friend, many of us have been warning about SaaS since long before the public knew it as Cloud.

So you’re saying that the current Minecraft servers are all running on desktop hardware and not on standard U-chassis servers in racks in data centers?

If anything I’d expect them. To run virtualized on standard rack servers.

Something here doesn’t add up. I don’t buy that enterprise server hardware that can out-perform desktop hardware by orders of magnitude can’t do what you need - especially since that’s surely how the existing servers run.

If this single-threading performance is really en issue, run some kind of virtualization on a rack server, build a VM with the exact hardware config you need, and the host hardware will make it happen (which I’d bet is exactly how current servers are run, because then they can be moved/Load balanced dynamically without missing a beat).

I currently have both single-core, single-cpu VM’s and multi-core, multi-cpu VM’s running on the same host for test purposes. The VM has no idea it’s virtual hardware is actually run on a different multi-cpu/core host.

Check out xcp-ng - it’s probably the best (arguable) open source virtualization platform today. VMware server can definitely do this, if you have a license.

That only works from PC to PC (it was my first thought too).

I mean it’s reddit. Nuff said.

Left that cesspool years ago

“If everyone were on the same page”

Yea, like that could ever happen. This is a denial of fundamental human nature.

Even worse is your hubris in assuming the priorities you believe are “right” everyone else should agree with you.

Hahahahahaha, holy fuck is that accurate!

I have a lot of stuff self-hosted.

Just no outside access. Well, that’s not quite true, I do have a Tailscale VPN for remote management, but only certain machines are allowed to join, joins require my authorization, and access to the account is via two-factor.

The big thing with external access is to never permit it directly through your local connection. Do it though a Virtual Private Server (VPS) - let it get hit with access attempts. And then only allow specific traffic from the VPS to a specific service in your network using a VPN of some sort.

Two approaches:

Network isolation/DNS blocking - put the TV on a VLAN and only permit specific ports through to a media server (whatever the TV will support). If you lack VLAN capability, run PiHole as your DNS server (it works best as DNS and DHCP, but that’s just my opinion for things I like, such as proper name resolution for all devices).

Second option: disconnect TV from network entirely, then run something like Kodi (or whatever media center you prefer) on an old laptop, mini-PC, whatever, and have that device connect via HDMI. HDMI can passthrough the navigation controls from the TV remote (not giantess, but it’s part of the standard).

Even my POS Samsung passes through enough of the controls to navigate Kodi on a 2017 laptop, while retaining power, volume, settings, etc for the TV itself.

My current setup is a Jellyfin server and Jellyfin client on the TV. I run PiHole with a blocklist for all the Samsung BS which has had the side effect of making the TV menus faster as it doesn’t retrieve any “what’s new” info from Samsung. Its actually kind of fun to monitor the FNS log and see the domains the TV hits, click Deny and see what breaks in the TV. On average about 30% of all DNS requests on my network get denied, and nothing of value has been lost. That’s how much crap is being sent all the time.

Hope that gives you some ideas.

Ah, you luddites amuse me.

The horses left the building a long time ago, and here you just now noticed and decide to play Don Quixote.

Yep.

The elders in my family have always said each kid was who they were at 2. These are people who’ve watched multiple generations grow up.

Yea, we change, but some core personality stuff is obvious that early.

I mean it’s a commercial product - if stability issues were a common thing, that would be well known and published.

It’s a mesh VPN so it generally has the same stability challenges as any other: Hamachi, Nord, Meshnet, Wireguard (which is the underlying protocol that Tailscale uses).

If the Tailscale client is running on the NAS itself, I’d consider that the first thing to troubleshoot.

NAS’s generally don’t have much extra processing power, and in my experience apps designed to run on them aren’t the most robust.

I have an ancient NAS on my network that could probably run the TS client, Injyst don’t bother. TD runs on all desktops and servers (for general access), but connectivity to non-TS devices goes through the server running as a TS router. That can be run on any device running TS - it’s just a feature to enable and configure.

I can’t imagine not using a proper internal DNS with split anymore.

I’m a big fan of Pihole (currently running it on a DietPi VM).

Being able to manage DHCP and DNS in a single place makes for much better control than the crappy DHCP from consumer routers. And almost any real DNS/DHCP server combo is better than those things.

Just rebuilt my PiHole over the last couple days, and it’s currently blocking 45% of DNS requests with no ill effects on any system - it’s a lot of Android app nonsense and a smart TV.

I’ve lost the Samsung TV on the TV, but I never used it anyway, and the TV is so much more responsive now.

Yea, smart TV… Bad news. It’s next on the list to get a Kodi box on it.

Guess what, ED drugs (really BP drugs because they were developed as vasidilators tor blood pressure management) aren’t legally available without a prescription.

I’m not - that’s a used price.

I don’t have a problem with used - all my drives are used, and they typically last 5-10 years. I have some drives from 2010 that are still running.

New drives fail too, so relying on drives being new to prevent failures is foolish. The only defense against failures is duplication (which 3-2-1 backup falls under).

Whats just as important is to use a file system that can detect and repair data errors (such as ZFS).

LTO tapes are 18TB today, raw - 48TB compressed.

How much data you got?

At that size I can probably build 2 Proxmox boxes with drives and compete very well on the costs.

A single 14TB disk is about $270 today - that’s in the same realm as a tape.

But tape also requires a drive, and that gets pricey fast.

This is the answer.

I haven’t done the math, but even SMB’s dontnuse tape today.

They may do a local replica and then some kind of local-hardware-based cloud backup solution, because cost and capability.

I think you just said what I was trying to say, only you said it more clearly. Haha

As best I can find, there’s no logo/mark to indicate compliance with PD3.0, nor for PPS.

If it’s compliant with those, I suspect it’ll be in the documentation.

You’re probably on the right track - they designed this for their devices, will publish what it can do but not claim compliance with a spec they didn’t build specifically too.

In the High Level Design meetings (or equivalent), they probably laid out charging time/performance requirements which included using exsiting commodity tech and general conformance to USB C.

This so any PD compliant charger could charge the laptop, but their own charger would follow it’s own specs.

I’m uovoting for your openness and directness about your approach, what you will and won’t do.

You built this for you and are sharing, for us to do with it as we will.

It’s an interesting idea for basic printing.

Someone else mentioned just using a calendar client that can connect to different calendars.

I use Fossify to connect to calendars through Davx, which includes my Google calendar (configured it through DavX).

This way all entries remain independent. And I can filter my calendar view based on source calendar, and all entries are color coded (automatically) by which calendar they’re on.

I know it’s not exactly what you were asking for, buy it’s one way to approach it.