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My rack is finished for now (because I'm out of money).

Last time I posted I had some jank cables going through the rack and now we're using patch panels with color coordinated cables!

But as is tradition, I'm thinking about upgrades and I'm looking at that 1U filler panel. A mini PC with a 5060ti 16gb or maybe a 5070 12gb would be pretty sick to move my AI slop generating into my tiny rack.

I'm also thinking about the PI cluster at the top. Currently that's running a Kubernetes cluster that I'm trying to learn on. They're all PI4 4GB, so I was going to start replacing them with PI5 8/16GB. Would those be better price/performance for mostly coding tasks? Or maybe a discord bot for shitposting.

Thoughts? MiniPC recs? Wanna bully me for using AI? Please do!

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[–] GirthBrooks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Waveshare 1.51” transparent OLED. Comes with driver board, ribbon & jumpers. If you type it in Amazon it’s the only one that pops, just make sure it says transparent. Plugs into GPIO of my Pi 5s. The Amazon listing has a user guide you can download so make sure to do that. I was having trouble figuring it out until I saw that thing. Runs off a python script but once I get it behaving like I want I’ll add it to systemd so it boots on startup.

Imma dummy so I used ChatGPT for most of it, full ..ahem.. transparency. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’m modeling a little bracket in spaceclaim today & will probably print it in transparent PETG. I’ll post a pic when I’m done!