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    23 days ago

    My PC is never on when I’m not using it.

    My server, however…

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        23 days ago

        Well I have a VPS to run lemmy just because I don’t want something that public near my home network but I haven’t found the limit to my little i7 HP mini PC… Yet

        MORE CONTAINERS

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          23 days ago

          No redundancy? No high availability? No clustering? What are you even doing man? One server? Those are rookie numbers. You gotta bump those numbers up.

          /s, obviously. You do you, and whatever works for your needs/budget.

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            23 days ago

            Yeah I’m trying not to fall further down the rabbit hole at the moment. Want to get a big raid cluster going so I don’t have to be so skimpy on my Jellyfin library but I have to stop myself everytime I start pricing parts out lmao

            The call of the upgrades will claim me one day though

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            23 days ago

            I’m addicted to raspberry pis and have six of them for various purposes. Hard to say no to 5 watts when you wanna spin up another thing.

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              Are you able to easily attach spinning rust hard drives to those? If so, how? I think those things use more than 5W on their own. Biggest question I have before planning a horizontal raspi setup. Currently I use old x64 PC boxes for self hosting.

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                I’ve used a 2.5" hdd on a rPi before using a usb-to-sata adapter (powered from rPi’s USB port). I’ve used a 3.5" hdd using an hdd enclosure that’s externally powered.

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                  Ahh, externally powered. Thanks for the info! I’m gonna look into such external HDD enclosures…

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                23 days ago

                I attached little portable USB SSD drives to them when they need the storage; otherwise I have been using raspikeys. Though I am excited about the new m2 chips on offer nowadays from RPi.

                Currently my pis are used as:

                • Two separate pi holes
                • Shakenet
                • Birdnet
                • Homebridge
                • Torrent client
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                  Yep those m2 hat things look pretty useful. Thanks for the info! Portable USB drives are something I’d overlooked.

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        NAS running a bunch of docker containers; a ThinkServer running Proxmox, which is in turn running Debian, which in turn is running more docker containers; a VPN running Debian, running docker containers…

        It’s docker containers all the way down.

        Spoiler

        Send help.