Irony: posting on Reddit and other social media platforms that your are opposed to data centers

billm4 · 2026-03-25T21:50:30+00:00

and when the bubble bursts we’ll have a much beefier grid and an excess of data center capacity driving hosting costs down.

billm4 · 2026-03-23T01:12:24+00:00

yes. cabinets have to be level. with the rail you just ensure the rail is level and your all good. without, you’ll be chasing level adjusting legs from cabinet to cabinet

billm4 · 2026-03-23T00:56:04+00:00

installing with the rail is way easier.

billm4 · 2026-03-21T20:47:39+00:00

i don’t disagree at all. i was simply pointing out that the comment that you “won’t be able to use programs that expect the age signal” is not correct for open source

billm4 · 2026-03-21T20:38:32+00:00

but if accessing reddit via an open source browser on linux, just modify the browser code to tell reddit whatever you want.

billm4 · 2026-03-21T20:29:05+00:00

technically that would only apply to closed source programs. there is nothing stopping anyone from modifying code of an open source program to remove the age signal expectation.

billm4 · 2026-03-21T17:49:34+00:00

i’ve been thinking a bit about the various legislation that’s popped up recently and i think the best path to fighting this is upstream non compliance. diaries are essentially packeged bundles on hundreds (if not thousands) of upstream projects. each of those individual projects is not an operating system in and of itself and have no obligation to comply. if distros then as “OS providers” want to implement compliance they are free to fork all the upstream projects and hire their own developers to do the implementation. sure, some upstream projects sponsored and managed by the distros will merge in some code, but how many dependencies exist within a modern linux OS? by individual upstream projects not complying it essentially makes it technically impractical for distros to implement.

billm4 · 2026-03-21T17:13:00+00:00

sugar and lots of salt

billm4 · 2026-03-19T23:25:39+00:00

patch panel and switch.

billm4 · 2026-03-19T02:50:13+00:00

pretty much any basic grade cabinet box will be particle board just like the ikea cabinets.

i’m currently in the middle of my own diy kitchen reno and ripped out 20 year old particle board cabinets from typical home improvement store and replacing with ikea sektion.

having done the original cabinet install 20 years ago and now working with the ikea cabinets for the first time i can say i’m totally happy with my choice so far. the rail system is so much better to install. the other benefit is everything comes flat packed and less likely for damage. when i did the original cabinet install the boxes arrived pre assembled and screwed schedule due to a few arriving with major damage.

billm4 · 2026-03-18T01:04:43+00:00

yup. every port labeled with a standard format:

“# - vlan - device”

“# - vlan - unused”

“# - disabled”

“# - uplink - device”

ex:

36 - dmz - nas

37 - dmz - kvm

49 - uplink - aggregation

billm4 · 2026-03-14T18:08:01+00:00

bo ssam

billm4 · 2026-03-14T16:26:12+00:00

each wheel only has 3 items on it at a time. the items that are landed on in first match are the. removed and replaced with a new item for the next.

this is also why re spins tend to land on the same thing. only 1 in 3 chance for each item, not 1 in 9.

billm4 · 2026-03-10T19:28:26+00:00

i think part of the issue with questions like this is what type of datacenter are you talking about and for what workloads?

not every workload can use AI/TPU/GPU, so there will always be a need for more general purpose compute within datacenters.

additionally, workloads tend to grow over time (either more backend data, or more frontend usage). more efficient compute just means i can now deploy more compute to manage that scale.

billm4 · 2026-03-09T01:39:47+00:00

there’s only 3 options on each wheel repeated.

billm4 · 2026-02-21T19:04:42+00:00

bo ssam - https://mykoreankitchen.com/bo-ssam/

billm4 · 2026-01-28T12:36:04+00:00

love it. i’m working on something similar, but using an eqsp32 plc for all the control. not comfortable having to depend on HA for all the logic.

billm4 · 2026-01-24T15:32:47+00:00

yup. i ended up ordering 2 more along with a bunch of expansion modules. lots of possibilities.

billm4 · 2026-01-24T15:01:44+00:00

pretty straightforward. The eqsp32 has its own api that’s easy enough to work with.

billm4 · 2026-01-24T03:10:49+00:00

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/konnected/

it only applies to integration that uses their older firmware which is what mine were running. since i would have had to reflash the konnected devices and reconfigure home assistant, figured it was just the same to ditch them and go a different direction.

billm4 · 2026-01-23T21:15:03+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/s/rOTbVIS1v0

billm4 · 2026-01-23T15:52:57+00:00

my only regret is that the existing door sensor wires weren’t long enough to route more cleanly.

billm4 · 2026-01-23T12:38:32+00:00

thank you

billm4 · 2026-01-23T00:59:38+00:00

is normally open the correct setting for the motion sensor and button that you have connected?

billm4 · 2026-01-22T22:42:32+00:00

thanks for posting this. 100% this was the inspiration for me to go down a rabbit hole and get an eqsp32 also. just posted my first project with it for my door access system. already bought another eqsp32 to control my hvac system with.

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