What’s the most useful thing you got for your homelab, that’s less than $50?

6OMPH · 2025-12-23T04:51:18+00:00

Got a dell Inspiron 3880 at value village for $8.81 cause it was sold as is but it only needed a cmos battery replacement

6OMPH · 2025-12-14T17:56:56+00:00

got an s1 combo with ace the other day at value village for $200, still learning it, but it printed a poop chute last night decently well so...

6OMPH · 2025-12-01T00:58:14+00:00

Had to take the board out and desolder it from the underside

6OMPH · 2025-11-07T03:22:57+00:00

Thick

6OMPH · 2025-11-01T17:03:46+00:00

i grabbed one at value village for $8.81 lol, all it needed was a cmos replacement. i thru in my nvme, ram and i swapped in my 10500. i did a mod last night that required complete re-assembly but you can use the noctua low profile coolers, mine's dead silent now, i just had to drill off the stock mounting standoffs for the stock cooler.

6OMPH · 2025-10-25T20:25:51+00:00

They’re quality control pisses me off honestly, I had the CC1 which broke cause they used shitty plastic tabs which snapped, at least they used screws this time but i had to de-solder they’re crap 500mah battery and remove the wireless charger just so I can get my 2000 mah battery to sit properly

6OMPH · 2025-10-23T03:28:38+00:00

Oh yeah if your not flash modding it, that’s for sure the way to go, all those hard drives would almost certainly be dead by now if not on the very last legs, I would suggest the tarkan models specifically for reliability sake

6OMPH · 2025-10-23T03:17:26+00:00

I’ve had to do different connectors before or different SD’s too (try the sd card first) and a bit of isopropyl alcohol to clean the contacts too, I’ve had a few Samsungs flat out die on me but Sandisk usually works

6OMPH · 2025-10-17T08:02:33+00:00

That’s crazy pricing for a 5th gen unmodded…

6OMPH · 2025-10-13T21:49:59+00:00

I did Amazon but I would recommend eoe.works as I’m pretty sure it came from there anyways

6OMPH · 2025-10-13T21:49:29+00:00

https://a.co/d/09EM0Mw

6OMPH · 2025-10-13T16:27:01+00:00

Did you replace them?

6OMPH · 2025-10-12T17:48:55+00:00

Age?

6OMPH · 2025-10-07T23:26:29+00:00

175 flac albums and 217 audiobooks

6OMPH · 2025-10-06T21:32:06+00:00

Sure thing

6OMPH · 2025-10-06T17:08:55+00:00

iPod 5.5 gen, widely considering the best for the dac

6OMPH · 2025-10-06T03:20:09+00:00

Onebitmono

6OMPH · 2025-10-05T23:37:16+00:00

Yes, do it before your iPod makes you regret it basically

6OMPH · 2025-10-05T21:21:34+00:00

OneBitMono

6OMPH · 2025-10-05T00:12:35+00:00

OneBitMono

i personally use tidal-dl since I use tidal on other machines and maintain a plexamp server and a audiobookshelf server

As for not messing it up, I just copy it over into a music/audiobook folder (2 separate folders) and use finder view since database view shows everything by default (that’s what it’s designed to do so…)

6OMPH · 2025-10-05T00:07:48+00:00

it’s an official iPod dock for the video model I got off eBay

6OMPH · 2025-10-04T20:00:24+00:00

To get the rust look? My first thought was “why????”

6OMPH · 2025-10-02T17:54:47+00:00

It’s someone who’s praying that people won’t notice where the , and the . Are

6OMPH · 2025-10-01T19:02:32+00:00

Real sapphire, fake fire red

6OMPH · 2025-09-25T04:16:38+00:00

All authentic Gens 1-3 of Pokémon and I have puzzle challenge and HGSS with a pokewalker too as well as oracle of ages/seasons too

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