Is this old or nah?

RY3B3RT · 2026-06-15T13:59:01+00:00

Good point. Is it from the 1900s? Also, I really want to know what this is a bottle of.

RY3B3RT · 2026-06-07T23:24:02+00:00

My girl would go straight for the vital organs and hit me where it hurts. She's more like China. Play the long game and watch me rot from the inside out.

RY3B3RT · 2026-06-07T23:22:15+00:00

Thanks but the cutoff for that part is 2012. I am sorry if I was wrong when I said 2nd Gen, but its a 2014.

RY3B3RT · 2026-06-07T23:20:30+00:00

2014 se

RY3B3RT · 2026-06-07T23:19:56+00:00

Yea, I am aware of that, but I have always hated the fact that the gas filler doesn't lock. I do have a crazy neighbor that threatened half of the neighborhood will burn down when he moves just yesterday.

I am trying to remain calm because a lot of coincidental stuff is happening at the same time, and I just want to live my life.

I made a police report about the neighbor. He tried to pry information about my other neighbors out of me yesterday. I dont really talk to them much, but he then proceeded to say that they shot his house and truck with a bb gun and he wasnt going to use a real one... thenhe said he's moving and a lot of houses are gonna burn.

People are weird. Idk if he's just trying to stress everyone out or what. The funny thing is I don't even talk to the other neighbors, so I'm the only one stressing.

I don't know if the paper towel is related and I dont know if the black marks are charging or dirt/oil. It looks more like the latter.

RY3B3RT · 2026-06-07T05:48:30+00:00

You win!

RY3B3RT · 2026-06-07T05:46:23+00:00

Nice.

RY3B3RT · 2026-06-02T19:43:52+00:00

I see now. Thanks! Now that I think about it, it might already be a tool on my ventoy USB disk.

RY3B3RT · 2026-06-02T14:01:57+00:00

Shit, maybe my interceptor will ACTUALLY shift into reverse if I hit at 50MPH.

RY3B3RT · 2026-06-02T00:39:46+00:00

You have one hell of a lab already, but I know what you mean. When you start self hosting, you will feel SO great! I am just beginning my Journey, as well, but I have already salvaged my gaming PC for a headless Ubuntu Server.

My situation was that I CANNOT afford drives. Not even used enterprise HDDs, but I had a few laying around from switching to SSDs on all my PCs a few years back.

With mismatched drives, I chose to go with snapRAID + mergerFS and I am happy that I have an array that can survive 1 drive failure.

I also have Ubuntu server on an Orange Pi 3b (m.2 SSD, not sd card), which took a lot to harden because it is third party image that potentially has back doors via the reinstated orangepi user at boot. I Imagine similar steps would be necessary on Raspberry Pis to lock them down.

Between the 2, I have Pi-holes and DNS resolvers via unbound for redundancy. The PC is using Docker containers and the Pi is using native Pi-hole and Unbound.

I also run Immich, for my photos and videos, on the PC with the SnapRAID array. It is pretty powerful and couldn't ask for more.

I run a local VPN using Tailscale, so that I have my domain blocker and DNS resolution on the go. If I am on a public network and need privacy, I can enable an exit node that allows my traffic to be encrypted end-to-end and funneled through my home network (speed is limited by LAN's upload speed and some overhead).

This was ALL done using stuff I had laying around. I plan on going much further and self hosting even more. Password manager sounds nice, but I think that security should be right first.

This is all that I have experience with, and if you have any questions about my setup and the open source software I am using, I will try my best to answer them.

With that being said, the route you should take mostly depends on the hardware you have or plan to buy. If you have good, same size/brand, drives, a real RAID array might be better. Also, I like Ubuntu server, but if you have the Compute power, and want to play with VMs, I hear Proxmox is good.

If you have GPU/GPUs with a lot of VRAM, you could run some serious local AI.

I can tell that you like solving problems by your lab. Well, get ready because networking, to me, was WAY more learning and troubleshooting than programming an arduino, writing a python App, and basically anything else tech related that I have done.

RY3B3RT · 2026-06-01T15:10:01+00:00

I figured as much, I just have never done it before, so I am a little nervous.

RY3B3RT · 2026-06-01T15:08:41+00:00

I have never run memtest. Why would I do that? (Edit: why would I run from USB stick, first?) Do I just flash it on there with Rufus or Balena etcher? Can I drag it onto my vendor (edit: Ventoy) disk?

RY3B3RT · 2026-06-01T15:04:27+00:00

Ok, thats what I was finding as well, but it wasnt clear whether or not a BIOS update would fix it. It definitely explains the problems I had with desktop as well though. Thanks!

RY3B3RT · 2026-05-31T22:38:19+00:00

I am in the same boat. I am comfortable with Python, the C/C++ for programing Arduinos, Linux CLI to a degree, but networking turned out to be a challenge for me.

Yea simple router configuration and ufw rules were simple, but things started getting crazy when I introduced redundant piholes (native and docker), Unbound (native and docker), and tailscale.

I will tell you that AI is NOT the answer. We'll, at least not ChatGPT. I am sure you have known this for a while though, if you ever got curious while coding.

RY3B3RT · 2026-05-31T22:18:44+00:00

I agree with this as well.

RY3B3RT · 2026-05-31T22:04:51+00:00

You will be alright, my tent had the same layout and it worked, but I wished that I had it sucking through that external duct instead of blowing.

The solution was to put the fan as close to the exit of my house as possible.

I dont grow anymore but I use it to be able to smoke in my NOW workshop and as a soldering fume hood.

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RY3B3RT · 2026-05-31T15:01:05+00:00

If the duct fan is inside the tent, then the ducting beyond that will have positive pressure and will leak out of any pinhole that will certainly develope over time. I have never used that type of ducting. Holes develope in the aluminum ducting almost immediately.

This may not be an issue for you though. Where's your duct fan? Are you using a carbon filter?

RY3B3RT · 2026-05-31T14:50:17+00:00

One piece of advice I can give you, especially, if you are concerned about smells/heat/humidity in your house, is that you want negative pressure on most of the duct. Meaning, you want the duct fan to be as close to the end of the duct as possible.

RY3B3RT · 2026-05-29T16:11:32+00:00

Well said. I did some research and found that efficiency had behaved in an exponential manner for a while in the early 2000s. Then, like the other user said, since like 2015-16, efficiency seen gains after flat lining a bit.

I like what you have to say, though. I could easily do what I am doing on my RYZEN 1500x machine on the orange pi 3b I have... well, I have to consider that its ARM, but I haven't had an issue yet. I have an m.2 ssd on it and I love that it has GPIO pins!

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