blackstrat

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[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 1 points 8 months ago

Maybe its different now, but it didn't used to be possible to do that.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 12 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Namecheap because they've lived up to their name. The DNS for my domains is all on Cloudflare though as I can automate my letsencrypt renewal that way that I couldn't on plain old namecheap.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 1 points 8 months ago

Yay, there's another Tilix user out there! Been a fan for a while and the tiling is great!

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 4 points 8 months ago

I dont think extra traffic to one website would be that significant and I dont think there are enough Steam Decks out there

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 4 points 8 months ago

If it helped significantly then either there are a lot fewer computer users that I thought, or your parents visit a LOT if websites.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 9 points 8 months ago

I'm very excited for when it's finally ready. It feels like a long wait, but I'm sure it'll be worth it and there's a lot to check to make sure it's stable enough for prime time.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 11 points 8 months ago (11 children)

If it has gone from 3% to 4% that would mean there are 33% more linux users and just don't see that as being true. That's the kind of increase you would definitely notice if you're the kind of person who hangs around linux haunts on the internet.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 3 points 8 months ago

I've been using Lychee for photo sharing with family for the past few months. Works really quickly, simply, plus it looks good.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 3 points 9 months ago

I probably have more accessible from outside than not. Many are required: hosting a website, a media server I can access from anywhere outside the house, my phone system, etc. Some I used to use more than I do now: podcast service, that sort of thing. Then a bunch that are internal only. My phone connects home over Wireguard so that's pretty convenient when out and about for accessing internal only systems.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 8 points 9 months ago

As soon as you have a requirement for large reliable storage then you're on to at least the small desktop arena with a few HDD at which point it's more efficient to just have the small pc and ditch the RPI.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 3 points 9 months ago

Depends where you draw the line of the home lab. I'm drawing 160W at the moment, but that includes a dedicated CCTV PC (running Proxmox in a cluster) and POE switch. The CCTV I don't consider part of the home lab really, the alternative would be an off the shelf box and no one would consider that.

The 160W also includes a 24 port switch (I'm only using 8) and the FTTP power, plus the rake from the UPS. So probably total the actual homelab server would be about 80-100, I guess. But even then it runs my router using opnsense, so I don't have a separate router box to power. It also serves as my "cloud" storage, so I'm not saving watts, but I'm saving the cost there.

I could get the power down quite a bit by changing the 6 HDD for 2 mirrored HDD, but the cost of large enough disks means it'd be years before it paid for itself, so I'm sticking with 6 small disks for now.

I've thought about trimming things down and going lower powered, but it all comes back to storage and needing the large storage online all the time.

Plus I consider a 100W a big saving when before I ran a dual Xeon Dell R710 which used around 225W under the same workload.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 12 points 9 months ago

I use clonezilla at work for imaging and deploying laptops. It works like a charm. Great piece of software. It's not normal backup software though.

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