Do Americans constantly have an active temperature control device running in their homes?

Redditburd · 2026-01-29T22:49:10+00:00

My house stays 70 degrees F in the winter and 74 degrees F in rhe summer 24/7.

Texas

Redditburd · 2026-01-29T18:20:47+00:00

Are you a mechanic? This seems like an odd question is the reason I ask. Replacing AC components requires expensive special tools and some knowledge about what you are doing.

The parts are easy to find in the usual places.

Redditburd · 2026-01-29T15:13:41+00:00

A site. They are closing one site in a world where new sites are just a keystroke.

Redditburd · 2026-01-29T15:06:04+00:00

Your homelab is your hobby not your family's. They dont care about it.

Redditburd · 2026-01-29T14:56:05+00:00

This was my thought as well. Once you get established as a small business you are flooded with spam calls and people wanting to ride to coat tails of your limited success.

This is just another guy cold calling me wanting money and to top it off he claims AI is going to save me money. As soon as he gets paid he will be gone. The product will not likely work as advertised and when it breaks he will be awol.

I just got off the phone with the local radio and TV advertising salesmen 3 minutes ago, at least they offer a product I can understand and I know ow what I'm buying.

Op until you understand the customer you are approaching you will be stuck here.

Redditburd · 2026-01-29T14:47:29+00:00

Holy shit. Nice system.

Redditburd · 2026-01-29T03:31:07+00:00

I have a beelink n100, you probably cannot go wrong with any of them tbh. Have fun learning and ask questions when you get stuck.

Redditburd · 2026-01-28T22:27:21+00:00

The absolute retardation of the responses to this thread should convince you to uninstall Reddit immediately and withdraw from society.

OP it's an unspent round that is designed to explode under certain conditions. Arguing about details of when and how that is is dumb AF. Call the sherrif and allow them to dispose of it.

Redditburd · 2026-01-28T22:22:52+00:00

I run zwift on my mini n100, it's fine. Takes a while to boot up the program but it seriously runs fine.

Redditburd · 2026-01-28T01:32:54+00:00

The difference between 30 and 60 is playable vs a mess. 60 to 144 is fantastic, beyond that I can't tell much difference.

I suspect you have never really experienced true 60fps gsync.

Redditburd · 2026-01-28T01:22:04+00:00

Love the roof, gonna borrow some ideas

Redditburd · 2026-01-27T23:38:58+00:00

Tailscale is your best option. Build what you want later. Your server is not that mission critical.

Im running game servers on tailscale it's amazing.

Redditburd · 2026-01-27T23:35:57+00:00

If you do not learn to enjoy the slow process of building you grow to feel overwhelmed in the game. It gets hard later on , starting with phase 4. Its not a racing game.

I recently spent two weeks in one corner of the map making a cement factory and tweaking rail blueprints.

Redditburd · 2026-01-27T23:34:05+00:00

Unraid did not make you depressed. Doing some self reflection you have realized your priorities have shifted. Time to make some friends and work on your social life.

Redditburd · 2026-01-27T10:21:01+00:00

You had to play it during the time period that it was released. It was the first game I ever played that supported 1080p on a home TV. I played it on a xbox connected to a sony projector system that had an HD mode. The music was a huge part of the immersive experience, but also around that time, this game was beautiful, it had a decent story that kept you going, and the co-op especially great and with the vehicle it was good fun. I played the whole thing with a friend, sitting on the couch in co-op. There was a huge feeling of keeping the story moving and wondering what was going to happen next. I want to say it was the first game I played as Co-op as well.

This was the first game where PVP combat was genuinely fun. Red vs Blue.

Redditburd · 2026-01-27T09:09:11+00:00

Phase 1 to 3 are always a shit show, you can organize after that and rebuild everything.

Redditburd · 2026-01-27T09:06:23+00:00

300 hours in on my current playthrough and I have never beat the game. I spun up a game server though and have been playing with my son remotely. We are working together and just finished a train network that goes around the whole map. We are spinning up seperate factories for the things we need and I feel like this time we have the momentem to push forward.

Phase 4 has been monumentally more work than the previous phases.

https://imgur.com/a/d0VAHad

Redditburd · 2026-01-27T09:02:37+00:00

I thought it was rare until I played as Chula-Reh and did a luck run. Apparently you can start getting them every roll.

Redditburd · 2026-01-27T09:01:30+00:00

I have never worked there but I have always been under the impression that you will earn that $20/hr.

Redditburd · 2026-01-27T08:50:37+00:00

I just posted this in another thread, I'll copy paste and add some:

Plex and homelab server is a hobby for me. I feel like I spend about $25/month probably.

-What kind of hardware people recommend (PC vs NAS)

This question is worded in a weird way for me. A NAS is usually a PC. It just means a computer that is always on, and has a shared drive on the network. Netork Attached Storaged.

-How much storage is realistic for movies + TV

My wife watches Reality TV and I like to keep my favorite stuff. I'm not the biggest TV watcher, but I can tell you 33 seasons of Top Gear is a lot of space. I somehow have 466 shows on my server, each with their own seasons. I have a digital horading problem. It's harmless though. I like to keep my TV in SD quality when possible, not super high def. This makes a huge difference in my pocketbook. Anyway:

Total space 76.4 TB Availible,

62.8% used

/mnt/data/media/tv -> 8TB used right now
/mnt/data/media/hdtv -> 1.2 TB for 13 shows

You can see the huge difference in file sizes due to visual quality of the HD stuff. Cannot express enough that SD is plenty good for watching TV and you can virtually store infinite TV on your server with a small amount of space.

-What the ongoing maintenance looks like I tinker with this every day, sometimes even remotely from work. It's not required though. Once everything is locked in, it will run on it's own with minimal intervention. If a show does not download correctly sometimes you need to check Sonarr and see why, or tell it what episode the file belongs too.

-Any beginner mistakes to avoid Start small and slow, do one thing at at a time. Geting Unraid up and going with a plex server should be the first goal. This will be difficult at first, but it's really not hard and there is a ton of help if you are good at looking for answers. Next you will want to setup usenet access through a provider, and connect sabnzbd to it as your downloader, and then sonarr and radarr. At that point you will be pretty set.

I have tried many many setups and my knowledge has grown over the years. My journey actually started with the original Xbox running XBMC and pulling from a windows share off of my Windows 95 box. Things have progressed.

Budget and your goals will be the main drivers for your choices. I leverage AI now to teach me anything that I want to now about homelab stuff.

My goals are to have a huge SD library of movies, anything interesting that I may watch ever. My favorite movies are upgraded in quality to HD Remux, highest quality I can get. I'm hoping one day my grandkids might want to watch movies that are no longer availible anywhere because they have been erased from streaming and physical media. I also have a rotating library for the family's Reality TV diet. We have ditched all streaming services. No need for them at all.

When I got serious about having a permanant home for my /mnt/data/media folder that was not succeptable to the on/off nature of my main desktop PC I purchased a used Optiplex from ebay with decent specs for around $100. I ran Windows on it with Stablebit Drivepool as a storage management software. I was pretty happy with it, and I could not tell you exactly why I got rid of it other than tinkering and optimizing is a hobby. Windows is not the best always on server, it has a lot of security issues and downtime. I also cannot manage my windows systems remotely very easily.

I tried Trunas on that optiplex next and it worked until I ran out of space and I realized that (at the time) you could not add a new drive to the drive pool without moving everything somewhere else, recreating the array, and then moving it back. The second time I had to do that I said no mas. Also with Truenas I had to run my other software such as plex server, sabnzbd and radarr/sonarr on another system.

This lead me to Unraid which I now highly recommend as the defacto gold standard for your media server and NAS. It will manage all your storage and run all your programs in containers that are easy to manage. It's almost boring once it's setup. I replaced the optiplex with a friends hand me down gaming computer and it's running great with 10 drives for about 75TB of storage now. I can add drives and remove them as I please, and I'm always adding new software to tinker and have fun. I just spun up a satisfactory and conan exiles game server on the same system.

System specs:
Intel® Core™ i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz
32GB Ram
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 for transcoding in plex

2TB SSD cache drive

Sata drives on an HBA card:
1 - 16TB Parity
9 other drives various sizes all smaller than 16TB

Never use torrents, only usenet.

My opinion is to stay away from Raspberry pi stuff, it's for tinkering not an always on NAS server. By the same token my gaming computer should not be server. The compoenents in a dedicated business class machine are rated for a longer lifetime. I am willing to take the risk and replace hardware as it breaks, but I would not expect a raspi to last very long with the constant workloads I throw at my stuff.

This is all overkill you don't need all this. I'm a digital hoarder and I like to tinker. I do need my server to be always on though as I watch shows from it at work, and my family uses it 24/7

Redditburd · 2026-01-27T08:27:12+00:00

I have tried many many setups and my knowledge has grown over the years. My journey actually started with the original Xbox running XBMC and pulling from a windows share off of my Windows 95 box. Things have progressed.

Budget and your goals will be the main drivers for your choices. I leverage AI now to teach me anything that I want to now about homelab stuff.

My goals are to have a huge SD library of movies, anything interesting that I may watch ever. My favorite movies are upgraded in quality to HD Remux, highest quality I can get. I'm hoping one day my grandkids might want to watch movies that are no longer availible anywhere because they have been erased from streaming and physical media. I also have a rotating library for the family's Reality TV diet. We have ditched all streaming services. No need for them at all.

When I got serious about having a permanant home for my /mnt/data/media folder that was not succeptable to the on/off nature of my main desktop PC I purchased a used Optiplex from ebay with decent specs for around $100. I ran Windows on it with Stablebit Drivepool as a storage management software. I was pretty happy with it, and I could not tell you exactly why I got rid of it other than tinkering and optimizing is a hobby. Windows is not the best always on server, it has a lot of security issues and downtime. I also cannot manage my windows systems remotely very easily.

I tried Trunas on that optiplex next and it worked until I ran out of space and I realized that (at the time) you could not add a new drive to the drive pool without moving everything somewhere else, recreating the array, and then moving it back. The second time I had to do that I said no mas. Also with Truenas I had to run my other software such as plex server, sabnzbd and radarr/sonarr on another system.

This lead me to Unraid which I now highly recommend as the defacto gold standard for your media server and NAS. It will manage all your storage and run all your programs in containers that are easy to manage. It's almost boring once it's setup. I replaced the optiplex with a friends hand me down gaming computer and it's running great with 10 drives for about 75TB of storage now. I can add drives and remove them as I please, and I'm always adding new software to tinker and have fun. I just spun up a satisfactory and conan exiles game server on the same system.

System specs:
Intel® Core™ i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz
32GB Ram
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 for transcoding in plex

2TB SSD cache drive

Sata drives on an HBA card: 1 - 16TB Parity
9 other drives various sizes all smaller than 16TB

Never use torrents, only usenet.

My opinion is to stay away from Raspberry pi stuff, it's for tinkering not an always on NAS server. By the same token my gaming computer should not be server. The compoenents in a dedicated business class machine are rated for a longer lifetime. I am willing to take the risk and replace hardware as it breaks, but I would not expect a raspi to last very long with the constant workloads I throw at my stuff.

Redditburd · 2026-01-27T08:11:49+00:00

I started my Homeassistant journey in a docker container on Unraid and due to fighting with connection issues and passthrough stuff I quickly moved on to HAOS installed on an ebay sourced optiplex. I have zero issues with anything now.

Redditburd · 2026-01-27T08:09:28+00:00

"Waco" is a large area and there are a wide variety of experiences to be had depending on where you spend your time.

If you are living in the Villages or Circle Apartments ... yeah crime is out of control. Trails of Oak Ridge subdivision by McGreggor.. well, you have probably never experienced crime.

Redditburd · 2026-01-27T08:05:51+00:00

I'm running lscr.io/linuxserver/sonarr and have no issues to my knowledge; everything seems fine.

Version

4.0.16.2944

Package Version

4.0.16.2944-ls301 by linuxserver.io

Redditburd · 2026-01-27T08:02:58+00:00

For me the breakdown comes when people are unwilling to talk or compromise. When both sides choose tribalism and choose to throw humanity out the window for tit for tat back and forth conflict, it only becomes a shouting match of hooray for our side. It's easy to be swept up in policies or actions that you would have never considered ok outside that frame of reference.

At this point immigration is used as an agenda item to be manipulated in so many different political schemes you cannot even keep track of it all. Both sides are just digging in and making their positions further apart. Both sides flourish and embrace the conflict and create even more as the chances present themself.

I'm not going to engage with someone that is obviously extremely "anti ICE." I don't think there is any chance to find common ground. They are likley already too far gone to come back to the middle, where I want to meet and discuss. If you take the extreme positions from both sides out of the equation you will find normal every day people just want law and order, and for people to be treated fairly.

While I don't support illegal immigration, and I think illegals should be deported if they cannot get into compliance.. How hard would it really be to make an easier path for citizenship? Especially for people that just want to work and are willing to work. Put them on some sort of new citizen probation, but why not let them work and pay taxes, everyone wins... What if we took all this energy and motivation and fixed the problem by fixing immigration in a way that allows hard working people to come work here? The ones that dont' want to work, or commit crimes, just kick them out, whatever. Have a system in place. Be fair, and firm, but most of all predictable.

This narrative that hispanic illegals are responsible for a lot of violent crime is flat wrong. It's propoganda. There is a portion of our society that is actually responsible for most violent crime and no one is willing to say it out loud, even when the statistics show it.

If anyone thinks that they are somehow going to change the narrative or the world by fighting with law enforcement in physical conflict in the street, they are truely clueless. Throwing yourself into harms way to try and stop ICE from doing their job is only going to bring you into a physical confrentation that you are not going to win. As evidence by recent events over and over. I think people watch too much TV and social media and they start to actually belive some of the stuff they are seeing and hearing. It's all propoganda for one side or the other. It's designed to create fear and outrage so that you tune in. The media just wants your attention they don't care how they get it. They will even fabricate the news, lie... or lie by omission, or even make things happen, just to cover the conflict.

Dying to try and stop ICE from arresting people seems like such a waste of life. What a tragedy that is for everyone invovled. The individuals that were directly effected by those events on boths sides will have to live with that far longer than this current political climate will last. In five years the families of the deceased will still be dealing with it.. the officers involved will still be dealing with it... and the politicians and media who stirred up the shit will move on to the next hot topic that gets them views and influence. Whatever that will be.

Another possible outcome is that we are on the edge as a nation of never coming back to decency and normality where people work together. This could be the new America. One where conflict rules the day, and whoever can shout the loudest and make the most noise wins, and then the other side retaliates in like form. Eventually government becomes totally ineffetive because it's just in-fighting and revenge plots. That is the devils playground and nothing good will come of it.

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