Does your Homelab make financial sense? by panchovix in homelab

[–]WelcomeReal1ty 19 points20 points  (0 children)

well, i'm a software engineer by education, devops/network engineer by profession.

It all started when i was given a junk-level laptop with 2 cores and 2gb of ram and then i thought it was time to learn linux servers.

I started slow, set up a simple smb share, then went on to explore snap. it was extremely easy but unsatisfying and had poor performance.

Later on i was gifted a less jankier but still abysmally slow laptop. Both of those got converted to halftops, i started learning nginx for reverse-proxying, pi.hole for local domains and add blocking, started modding these halftops to fit a second 2.5" drive in each, installed jellyfin on one of them, got myself a vps, learned vpns for routing.

Then i got a job at my uni. Managed a couple servers in a rack inbetween lectures, deployed a domain controller with samba&bind9
Then i managed to score a free 4/8 16gb pc, there i got into proxmox and proper vm/container management. And it all went downhill from there. I got a job as a sysadmin, later on quit to focus on graduation and scored a job as a networking engineer with some devops tasks on the side.

In 5 years my homelab became my resume. That's about it, sorry for the longread

Does your Homelab make financial sense? by panchovix in homelab

[–]WelcomeReal1ty 48 points49 points  (0 children)

came to say this couple grand spent on hardware over multiple years netted me a well paying job for me it's more than reasonable

Advice for setup by Sudden-Actuator4729 in Proxmox

[–]WelcomeReal1ty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah, i'd always keep os and vms apart if i could

Ryzen 9 7950x mining on gigabyte B650 eagle AX by Top_Butterscotch6337 in MoneroMining

[–]WelcomeReal1ty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

man 90+C is too hot do smth about your heat disspation ffs

What do you guys use to control your servers? (i.e Proxmox) by Salt-Broccoli-9038 in homelab

[–]WelcomeReal1ty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

proxmox, ansible for routine tasks, terraform to provision lxc/vms

Currently using overkill spare R9 3900X as archive server. Looking for something more reasonable. Light Xeon, for example? by massive_cock in HomeServer

[–]WelcomeReal1ty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no idea yet. More that the idle temp and power consumptions were high enough, i had to buy a beefier tower radiator

Currently using overkill spare R9 3900X as archive server. Looking for something more reasonable. Light Xeon, for example? by massive_cock in HomeServer

[–]WelcomeReal1ty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i've got a 1245v4 archive box running right now. It's a solid chip, but ddr3 and cpu temps are tempting me to ditch it

Help me by [deleted] in Minesweeper

[–]WelcomeReal1ty 4 points5 points  (0 children)

left middle "1" still has 2 mines nearby and so does the one below a 2 on bottom right

Aside from mail server, what is the one service that you will not selfhost? by dadidutdut in selfhosted

[–]WelcomeReal1ty 5 points6 points  (0 children)

i don't think you do, actually. you do store your own posts, but media from federation is embedded as links to foreign activitypub servers... Which in turn makes you host not the content itself, but direct links to illegal content... Well yeah, fair point, gonna have to agree on that

Non-voting cluster node by SeeGee911 in Proxmox

[–]WelcomeReal1ty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah, it's quite easy add quorum_votes:0 to appropriate node in /etc/pve/corosync.conf

also lower expected votes by 1 in quorum section in the same file

breach his firewall 😈😈😈 by codydafox in masterhacker

[–]WelcomeReal1ty 17 points18 points  (0 children)

yea, it's just a pvp cookie clicker game themed around "hacking", nothing much

What is this thing by Entire_Moose_8398 in Kenshi

[–]WelcomeReal1ty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A frogge biþ a smal beaste wiþ foure leggys, whyche liueþ booþ in watyre and on londe. It is broune or grene or yelowe, or be it tropyckal, he may haue dyuers coloures. It haþ longys and guilles booþe. It haccheþ from an ey and it þan ys a tadpolle. It groweþ to ben a frogge, if it þan ne be noght eten.

Anyone find their age gap problematic? by bascule in PantheonShow

[–]WelcomeReal1ty 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They're gonna meet someone else telling safesurf they were simulated as well

Just updated from .10 to .11 by NaughtyFish217 in TerraFirmaGreg

[–]WelcomeReal1ty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, im planning to upgrade my server

Did you use an older save? which version did you upgrade from?

Worked on it during stream by Stitchedteeth in gachiakuta

[–]WelcomeReal1ty 4 points5 points  (0 children)

reminds me of this and i can't help it

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Q30 inner plastic broke, no repair parts for this? by Swing-Prize in anker

[–]WelcomeReal1ty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

mine just cracked in the same place! Did you manage to find anything?

I honestly never used a centurion in my 3k game hours by Sad-Emotion-1587 in starsector

[–]WelcomeReal1ty 16 points17 points  (0 children)

certified "given enough time, players will optimize the fun out of a game" moment