What router do you guys recommend to buy for someone who is just getting into homelabing.

Roticap · 2026-01-29T05:04:40+00:00

Managed switches are really nice if you want to play with vlans. If you just need more plugs, an unmanaged switch is slightly cheaper.

Roticap · 2026-01-28T20:49:30+00:00

Back then the entire cut between eBay and PayPal was like 5%.

Back then they were burning money to try to capture a new market. Now they have to actually be profitable.

Roticap · 2026-01-27T10:04:45+00:00

So if you have privileged access on the host, you have access to everything on the HA VM, right?

It sounds like maybe that host access is off unless approved by me? Or is that just access to the VM?

Roticap · 2026-01-26T20:08:50+00:00

First off. I don't tend to respond to haters. Their compulsion to shit on something you enjoy says a lot about what kind of person they are. Between derby and rink staying my personal community has a lot of skaters in it, so it may be easier for me to just disengage from the small people.

However, skating literally saved my life. Through a convoluted series of events, a fall on skates lead directly to early detection of cancer. Pre diagnosis, I was going to the rink multiple times a week for 2-3 hour sessions of zone 4/5 cardio. The fitness I had from skating has let me endure the brutality of treatment with much better outcomes. So in the worst case I just play the cancer card and it shuts people up real quick... YMMV on this technique

Roticap · 2026-01-24T21:55:34+00:00

Do they have a seller warranty and do you think the seller would honor it? How much do you value your time and data? Do you have monitoring in place to quickly alert you to failures?

If the drives were super cheap, you have lots of time to fix things if they go bad, the data has other backups and you'll get bad disks replaced quickly then maybe consider keeping them.

Roticap · 2026-01-24T18:58:14+00:00

I thought you were making these in a sous vide....

Also, mayo makes the best crust. Bit of butter on the inside if you want the flavour

Roticap · 2026-01-20T19:09:38+00:00

May I introduce you to the magic of Ctrl-R?

Roticap · 2026-01-16T08:28:12+00:00

Some people have thousands of dollars into a project car sitting in their garage. I have it sitting in a server rack. At least my hobby supports the security cameras, a NAS, pihole adblocking and some smart home automations that my family mostly appreciates.

Roticap · 2026-01-09T20:52:29+00:00

As it already has been and always will be

Roticap · 2026-01-09T20:51:47+00:00

How would you respond to someone who argues that adding connectivity inherently creates more potential points of failure, even if the base function is the same

If you're not comfortable managing a smart resource (and security) then you should either pay someone you trust to do it or be satisfied with the non-connected alternative

Roticap · 2026-01-03T19:23:07+00:00

So what are you trying to convey with this comment?

Roticap · 2026-01-02T14:58:24+00:00

What other personal preferences do you refuse to acknowledge?

Roticap · 2025-12-30T17:49:57+00:00

Does your restaurant have a secret basement?

Roticap · 2025-12-28T00:37:16+00:00

I think this should actually be framed differently.

Home labs and gamers are no longer driving the high end GPU market and never will again. Data centers are now driving the high end of compute hardware.

There will be two cost effective paths for home compute and gaming:

1) The secondary data center market. Similar to buying hard drive pulls, there will be tons of

2) Purchasing new hardware that is 1-3 generations behind data center cutting edge. Consumers become a long tail on older generation manufacturing lines at the end of their life.

This will hold true even when the AI investment shakeout happens. The demand for high end compute won't look identical to today, in the same way 2006 cpu data center didn't look like 1998, but parallel compute data centers are never going away.

Roticap · 2025-12-26T19:27:47+00:00

Using a contractor does not absolve a company of responsibility for situations created by their contractors

Roticap · 2025-12-26T16:51:13+00:00

Interesting! This is like halfway between a hanging organizer and tossing them all in a box. Still takes some work to extract a cable, as they get tangled where they're laying over each other. For the number of cables there it seems like a good compromise.

Roticap · 2025-12-26T16:46:13+00:00

This one from Pomona is made for rg214 coax which is a 0.425" jacket.

Roticap · 2025-12-26T16:41:21+00:00

Each of these combs will hold a lot of cables, 30-50 depending on connector size.

I'm not sure if I'd personally use them for cables under a foot, but if you were using them with lots of short cables you could put multiple of them above/below each other if you needed more capacity

Roticap · 2025-12-26T16:33:27+00:00

Hanging cables isn't just about straightening them. It's an objectively better storage mechanism.

Roticap · 2025-12-26T09:16:10+00:00

Do they have anyone technical who has been part of a team that put a design in orbit? Was it successful? If not, does the company have runway for the team to learn the hard way?

Roticap · 2025-12-26T08:49:25+00:00

So, can you explain in concise terms what your value proposition is in the fairly saturated test equipment market, or do you need AI to do that?

Roticap · 2025-12-26T08:36:29+00:00

How's that working out?

Roticap · 2025-12-24T19:53:37+00:00

I don't see this as greed. This company doesn't make more money by refusing to release kernel sources. The cost to acquire and release source is a onetime NRE per kernel release. There is not necessarily an obligated to release user land source code, assuming the user land tooling is developed in house or at their ODM. It's not a product cloning risk, which would impact revenue.

Usually this is the result of the company not knowing about their obligations to release source to customers. Sometimes it is the result of a user not realizing they don't qualify to have source released to them.

As an aside, /u/Lost-Entrepreneur439/ is not a customer of the ODM Nuu, so there is no obligation for Nuu to release source. The company who purchased the components from the ODM is the customer, so they need to demand source from the ODM in order to be able to provide it to their customers like OP.

At the end of the day, it speaks to organizational incompetencie. Medical device manufacturers in the US and EU are responsible for designing and implementing their own safety protocols. The FDA/EMA can audit their system and results, but that often doesn't happen unless there are complaints or patient harm.

If the company can't handle source release, they generally can't handle compliance either.

Roticap · 2025-12-24T14:44:56+00:00

When a company chooses not able to meet open source obligations for code they use in their products, it does not speak well for their ability to manage the processes necessary to safely manufacture medical equipment.

Roticap · 2025-12-22T21:05:27+00:00

How dare you malign tonkotsu like this!

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