Jonteponte71

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[–] Jonteponte71@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

This is they way. At least in the US where these things are very cheap. In my country you need to bee very lucky to even find the old ones for under $150…

 

So I got myself a HP Elitedesk 800 G2 Mini on a whim. My plan is to install proxmox on it and see if it can replace my NAS as my primary docker host. In the meantime it serves as my torrent box since it came with a W10 Pro license and can stay on 24/7. One of my first discoveries is that this thing is relly cool and silent even under load. My 10 year old gaming PC is almost twice as hot and sounds like a vacuum when under load. While the performance is actually similar. The second one is that the NIC in this is really great. It can consistetly saturate my 1gbps connection. Which my (apparently) shit realtek integrated NIC on my gaming PC does not do. When transferring large files from it, the transfer rate is all over the place and very rarely actually saturate the connection….

Looking forward to making even more interesting discoveries!

[–] Jonteponte71@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Proxmox cluster. And you can run all your services in LXC containers instead. And not have to bother with docker? And have cetralized storage to your NAS?

Lucky you. These are fun machines!

[–] Jonteponte71@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I lived in a dorm room at uni. And we didn’t pay for electricity in the common areas. One christmas they turned off the heating for some reson. I got so frustrated I turned on the ovens in the kitchen and opened them up to heat the kitchen/living area. Which worked. But it was probably not cheap for them after a few days :)

[–] Jonteponte71@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Bigger powerbricks with splitters perhaps?

[–] Jonteponte71@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s similar to the story about a lady that spent 24 hours a day recording live stuff to VHS from tv channels in the 80’s onwards. Turns out a lot of it was never saved by the broadcasters. She had some of it on literally thousands of tapes. Apparently she had like 6 recordings going on in parallell, all the time. Spending a lot of her time switching out tapes…

I guess you could call her an analogue horder? :)

[–] Jonteponte71@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago

Got myself NVME SSD read cache for my DS918+. Hoping to improve speed when browsing media libraries in apps like Jellyfin.

[–] Jonteponte71@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

It actually automatically tracked every container on my local docker host by default on install. But you need to configure the notifications and the triggers for more granularity. Very nice!

[–] Jonteponte71@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Google 3-2-1 backup and and make it happen, and you will be resonably safe without going overboard. If you haven’t got a NAS yet, I would suggest at least a cheap one as primary storage.

[–] Jonteponte71@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I just find new great software to tinker with every day on this sub. Luckliy I am on sickleave and have plenty of time. Othervise this sub is anxeity inducing 🤓

[–] Jonteponte71@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If you want to track docker images, I just found ”What’s up docker” and am using it as we speak :)

[–] Jonteponte71@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I think that was the longest feature list I have ever seen! 😁This looks more complete then any of the other popular ones. Do you agree?

[–] Jonteponte71@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That’s why I pay for some streaming services but never actually use them to watch shows. If you know what I mean? ;)

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