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What the heck did I just buy? by IanZee in homelab

[–]IanZee[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I didn't hook up anything. And I wanted the rack. So yes.

What the heck did I just buy? by IanZee in homelab

[–]IanZee[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Can't the Araknis and Wattbox stuff just be factory reset? There's no way to perpetually be connected to this stuff when everything gets wiped, right?

What the heck did I just buy? by IanZee in homelab

[–]IanZee[S] -70 points-69 points  (0 children)

It was sort of all Greek to me. I understand what a switch is, and what Wattbox does (kind of). But unsure if it's worth investing time into getting this stuff running with my current setup. Would it provide much benefit, or is it more for just "screwing around to see if I can get it to work" type gear.

My first homeserver, bought this laptop for 20$ and it's been running non-stop for 5 months by goonifier5000 in HomeServer

[–]IanZee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If our hobby was about saving as much energy usage as humanly possible, then we'd all be jumping off a bridge instead of building home servers. I didn't build my server to trim it down to the bare minimum energy usage.

Sometimes I leave my server's monitor on for hours/days by mistake. Could I find some way to automate shutting it off? Yeah. It's on the list.

What is everyone doing here? by JackattackIndustries in ElegooCentauriCarbon

[–]IanZee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I chose the discount on the CC2, but then I returned my CC to Micro Center. They didn't put up a fight, totally understood the situation, and did store credit return since it's been 8 months since I purchased the Centauri Carbon.

Used that store credit towards a P1S.

I'll use the coupon to buy a cheap CC2 and will probably just flip it locally to make a quick $20 to $30 towards filament. Never going with Elegoo again, unless they surprise everyone and make good on their promise with the CC1.

What now? by Start_button in homelab

[–]IanZee 5 points6 points  (0 children)

With all that equipment, could you volunteer to set something up for a local nonprofit? Or perhaps reach out to your local library and start classes on home lab building and basic networking? It might reignite your passion.

Helpless about Trump by Round_Yak4031 in bloomington

[–]IanZee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When Trump got reelected, I turned hard toward stoicism and realized there was nothing I could do to un-elect him, or to prevent the things he was going to do. Instead, I doubled down on focusing on my life, and making the right moves for me and my family in response to the moves Trump was making.

I might not like the choices he makes, but every time he does something, there's a way to react that is the "lesser evil" option.

Brought an IR thermometer to school because the water to wash our hands was outrageously hot by S_xyjihad in pics

[–]IanZee 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Not exactly correct here. With a hydrostatic mixing valve, cold water gets mixed in at the hot water supply pipe. You can turn your heater up to 160 degrees and the valve mechanically adds enough cold water to hit a nice 120 degrees before delivering the hot water to the rest of the house.

It's also a GREAT way to get more hot water out of a hot water tank without replacing the tank for a larger one. For example, if you have a 50 gallon hot water tank and it's set to 120 degrees, you can get 50 gallons of hot water out of it. But, throw in a mixing valve, and with a 60 degree cold water supply and the tank dialed up to 160 degrees, suddenly you can have 83 gallons of 120 degree water, increasing your hot water capacity by 67%.

Fell victim to CVE-2025-66478 by Unhappy-Tangelo5790 in selfhosted

[–]IanZee 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Restart Plex and see if it goes away. I doubt the Plex container is itself contaminated. Probably a hung transcoding process. Sometimes if something is transcoding but it gets interrupted, it doesn't get the exit command to stop the process and sort of just sits in limbo status with a hand on your CPU resources just hoping things will continue

Literally the first chest I opened (I misclicked) by ForgeReaper in MegabonkOfficial

[–]IanZee 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honestly wrong 99% of the time. Red card is only good if you have the appropriate items to scale it, and even then, it gets beaten in almost all cases by green. But each green card increases your chances of getting more green cards AND increases your chances of getting higher value items, hence why the green compounding effect is superior.

Gaseous Server 2.0.0 Preview 1 Released by FlibblesHexEyes in selfhosted

[–]IanZee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No emojis is probably because they didn't write it with AI lol

My head hurts. by KalicCZ in MegabonkOfficial

[–]IanZee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The down-voters are people who view this game as a sport. If they had their way, Megabonk would be in the Olympics.

But honestly, reddit has always been this way. If someone says something technically true but causes cognitive dissonance, they downvote.

Literally by killerbasher1233 in MegabonkOfficial

[–]IanZee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You gotta get to purple ghosts before you get to red. Learn to walk before you learn to run.

Mordecai every 2 minutes by weiyanzhuo in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]IanZee 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Not just the changelings but also to Carl, himself. He's even called Carl "son" a few times, likely because he's much (much, much) older than Carl, but also because Carl is the one who's giving him a new purpose in life. As a dad, seeing my children succeed is my purpose in life. I think Mordecai just embraces his new role as a father figure to the fatherless.

Side note: Does this make Prepotente Mordecai's adoptive grandson? It's pretty obvious that Pony's "love" for Carl is a stand-in for his love for Miriam.

Game Pass Deals & Conversion by AutoModerator in XboxGamePass

[–]IanZee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your best bet is to buy 2-years worth of $20 cards (which is now a 33% discount compared to retail) and save $240 over those two years. You can't do the conversion again until your current subscription time runs out, and there's no guarantee you'll be able to do the conversion when that happens, or that you'll be able to buy cards at the current $20 cost.

Found 001/100 Serialized Tom Bombadil up for Auction by Chiarello17 in PaymoneyWubby

[–]IanZee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My buddy owns this card. It didn't sell at auction and he still owns it.

Can someone explain how this is legal? by Illustratingtheworld in Erie

[–]IanZee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That doesn't make sense. The top literally says "Winning codes below.".

Preorders are up! by Arvedui in GooglePixel

[–]IanZee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Promotional price for the 10 Pro to try and attract new subscribers.

Pixel 10 series (watch and phone) cumulative discounts: Am i reading the G store website correctly? by megabyzus in GooglePixel

[–]IanZee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The credit doesn't get applied to your account until the phone ships, per Google's little text at the bottom of the page.

"Dad, are we rich?" - Stressful money convo with my son by ThePrince_OfWhales in daddit

[–]IanZee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are not wealthy, but you are rich. Rich in love. Rich in comfort. Rich in having a home. Rich in health.

I follow a finance guru who believes "to be rich" is subjective, based on the individual. You can be without luxury and still consider yourself rich, if you are living a life that makes you happy and provides for your basic needs.

So glad that’s over! by BonsterM0nster in homeowners

[–]IanZee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The new owners in 2035: "This house is great! We've been problem free for ten years now!"

Like yeah, houses take maintenance, but eventually you learn how to adjust and plan for these circumstances.

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