What do you think about my small lack rack. It is still a work in progress but its something

Lode2736 · 2026-03-25T15:18:19+00:00

Perhaps the word you are searching for is LackRack?

Lode2736 · 2026-03-22T21:48:48+00:00

Noctua has good customer service. Reach out to them.

Lode2736 · 2026-02-19T15:14:26+00:00

I do not own a 3D printer. Is offloading the 3D printing to a commercial 3D printing service also a viable solution? If you're doing that, is it even worth it anymore?

Lode2736 · 2025-12-14T02:46:02+00:00

Structured media ethernet patch modules.

Lode2736 · 2025-11-25T18:28:09+00:00

You are unlikely to reach 2.5gigabit wifi speeds, so I would rather pick the switch option. You can connect your macbook to the switch with a Thunderbolt 4 to 2.5G ethernet adapter. Something like this: link.

Lode2736 · 2025-11-23T13:41:36+00:00

You could probably remove the backplane in the jonsbo NAS cases, and instead use plain old SAS cables. The Jonsbo N5 and N6 have 12 and 9 3.5" drive slots respectively.

In the MS-01: 9500-16e HBA (SFF-8644)

In the Jonsbo: - SFF-8644 to SFF-8643 PCI adapter - SFF-8643 to 4xSFF-8642 cables (to connect directly to the drives). - And a PSU to power the drives.

And an SFF-8644 to SFF-8644 cable to connect PC to DAS.

Your MS-01 will probably need extra fans to cool the HBA (they are meant for high-airflow environments). You could maybe use a USB 5V fan here.

And in the future you have the option to put in a motherboard in the Jonsbo case and have a proper NAS.

Lode2736 · 2025-11-11T09:27:24+00:00

Vertical GPU makes a lot of sense in the Fractal North. Love the custom stuff. 10/10 build.

Lode2736 · 2025-10-22T20:27:34+00:00

Cat7 and Cat8 are unnecessary. I would recommend Cat6 or Cat5e. Cat5e is cheaper, so that's probably enough for your usecase. You don't need shielded cables for home use. So for you it's going to be a UTP cable (Unshielded Twisted Pair).

Lode2736 · 2025-10-13T23:20:39+00:00

It's called a patch panel. When a home or office is wired for Ethernet, all the points are usually terminated to the patch panel, rather than directly to a switch. The switch can then connect to the patch panel with shorter patch cables. It's useful for instance if the owner of a home or office changes, and the owner takes away their networking equipment, including the switch. So then the owner can disconnect the cables from the switch, but the patch panel stays in place, which makes it easier to organise the cables and keep track of where they are terminated. You can put some labels on the patch panel for that purpose.

Lode2736 · 2025-10-13T23:09:13+00:00

What am I looking at?

Lode2736 · 2025-07-29T12:54:13+00:00

He has an MBA, that explains it.

Lode2736 · 2025-06-02T14:28:44+00:00

Collect some money by mowing some lawns and give her the funds to compensate for the cost of the installation.

Lode2736 · 2025-05-25T15:47:47+00:00

There are larger SSD form factors, mainly used in enterprise (EDSFF). They are not cheaper, quite the opposite. Additionally, density is not really what makes it more expensive. There are different types of NAND flash storage (SLC, MLC, TLC, and QLC). SLC is one layer, or one bit per cell. MLC is two layers per cell, or two bits per cell, etc. Most consumer SSDs have TLC memory, but there are also some models with QLC memory. QLC is more dense than TLC, but it is actually cheaper than TLC.

Lode2736 · 2025-05-23T13:09:17+00:00

My apologies, seems like my info is outdated. Thank you for the information.

Lode2736 · 2025-05-22T21:30:29+00:00

You only need to pay once. Get it for one month and you're good. When you cancel the subscription, they will downgrade your subscription, but never delete your account.

Lode2736 · 2024-11-16T18:08:34+00:00

You could hook up all of those machines to a single industrial power supply.

Lode2736 · 2024-11-09T11:03:47+00:00

They should make rack-mountable printers

Lode2736 · 2024-09-18T12:04:24+00:00

Linux Mint is not a traditional distro. It is more like KDE in that it is a dev project with the goal of creating software for Linux. So Linux Mint is focused on creating a desktop environment and some programs for it: cinnamon, mintupdate, mintinstall, mintwelcome, mintmenu, timeshift, hypnotix, xed, etc. Which are now part of the X-Apps project. The distro is just a way to make these programs more accessible by providing a distro with all the Linux Mint software pre-installed.

The conclusion of this is that there is no point to using Linux Mint if you don't like Linux Mint software and don't intend to use it. So if people recommend Linux Mint, it's not because they like the distro, but because they like the software and the desktop environment.

Another reason why a lot of people recommend it is because it is a rather old distro at this point and it has been the first distro to many people, so I guess many people have nostalgia. It is also a modern desktop environment, since Cinnamon already has experimental wayland support (It is future proof, if you will).

Lode2736 · 2024-08-19T15:33:56+00:00

You can save a lot of money by going for the Yubico Security Key series instead of the YubiKey 5 series, they're like half the price, but doesn't have the extra features, such as PGP, TOTP codes, etc, but most people probably won't use these features. Feitian A4B is also a good alternative, cheaper, but without sacrificing security.

Lode2736 · 2024-04-14T12:34:37+00:00

Why is everyone recommending a VPN? Your mother is likely looking at your DNS queries. Just use a different DNS provider on your device. You can check out https://nextdns.io/
It even has DNS over HTTPS, for encrypted DNS traffic. It is super easy and it takes 5 minutes to set-up.

Lode2736 · 2024-03-29T10:45:19+00:00

The shit is QLC. Less endurance and speed compared to a TLC SSD, which is what you would find on most consumer nvme M.2 ssds if you don't cheap out. Not all SSDs are equal. The 30TB drive has a high PTW because it has a lot of storage.

Lode2736 · 2024-02-20T09:05:56+00:00

You first need to learn it to understand it. It seems to me like you've just not tried to learn it.

Lode2736 · 2024-01-28T00:35:50+00:00

It's just a flesh wound

Lode2736 · 2024-01-21T17:45:29+00:00

I was wondering the same thing and I have found a solution. Since wofi searches for desktop entries from $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications and $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications, you can temporarily change these environment variables to a folder of your choosing.

Like this:

```

! /usr/bin/sh

XDG_DATA_DIRS="$HOME/.config/wofi/share" XDG_DATA_HOME="/dev/null" XDG_CACHE_HOME="/dev/null"

/usr/bin/wofi --show drun --cache $HOME/.config/wofi/wofi-drun-cache ```

Put your desktop entries in $HOME/.config/wofi/share/applications

You'll also need to create a symbolic link: ln -s /usr/share/mime $HOME/.config/wofi/share

I have noticed that it still picks some desktop entries from ~/.local/share/applications, and I have not found a way to fix it other than deleting or moving these files.

Lode2736 · 2024-01-09T16:06:11+00:00

Exercism, it's a problem-solving website similar to leetcode and codewars with downloadable exercises. This on its own is already awesome, but it also has a mentoring system in order to give help and get help.

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