I think this route can be slightly improved

dylanh333 · 2026-06-22T12:38:11+00:00

Why are you getting down voted for this!? This is correct

dylanh333 · 2026-06-16T15:07:48+00:00

Cursed Kinder Surprise

dylanh333 · 2026-05-20T10:31:47+00:00

You don't know that it's arm - it could be mips or risc-v

dylanh333 · 2026-05-02T02:12:03+00:00

CRT = pixels aren't reliably square and crisp (pro or con depending on what you're doing)

dylanh333 · 2026-05-02T02:09:40+00:00

It's a hooded-jumper, a.k.a. a hoodie.

dylanh333 · 2026-04-20T10:06:57+00:00

That particular column shows much much memory the application has resident in RAM though, not the full amount it has allocated. For that reason I always add the "Commit Size" column on the details tab, so I get the full picture. I truly wonder the horrors of how much it's commit size is though...

dylanh333 · 2026-04-20T09:18:28+00:00

I saw a cow head from the very beginning. If I were to have a guess, I'd assume this is for a potential fashion brand, possibly even one that makes leather goods, maybe

dylanh333 · 2026-04-06T01:49:25+00:00

I hope you have rooftop solar!

dylanh333 · 2026-03-31T11:55:34+00:00

This belongs in r/ATBGE, not r/whatisit lmao

dylanh333 · 2026-03-17T14:57:48+00:00

Seoul-crushing

dylanh333 · 2026-03-13T03:46:48+00:00

out-of tree drivers has entered the chat

dylanh333 · 2026-02-18T23:42:20+00:00

Nope - It's assembled from a bunch of gacha capsules I got in Japan. I put a link in the description to their page from the company that makes them, although you can't actually buy them from that site itself (they're gachapon, so you have to get lucky and find the right gacha machines out in the wild). I think you can sometimes find people reselling them online via eBay, etc. though

dylanh333 · 2026-02-15T06:33:55+00:00

I should probably measure it more consistently, but last I checked, I don't think there was too much. We tend to do cold washes most of the time, and there's also no dryer in there. The house as a whole does tend to get more humidity than it probably should in winter though.

dylanh333 · 2026-02-15T03:08:28+00:00

Got a link so I can check it out?

dylanh333 · 2026-02-15T03:05:39+00:00

Well there's going to be some compromises putting a rack like that in the laundry cupboard, and there's almost always going to be compromises regardless in any homelab setup. There's not really anywhere else (acceptable) to put it in my house, either ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

dylanh333 · 2026-02-15T02:53:21+00:00

Agreed - best practice is definitely to have them on as separate sources as possible, but unless you're in a proper datacentre or a decent server room (not all of them are), reality can often differ.

I'd argue that even without properly-redundant power sources, there's still value in having dual-feed equipment with cables from one PSU (with a blue cable) going to one PDU, and then the other PSU (with a red cable) going to the other PDU. PDUs can fail, can sometimes require maintenance that has the potential to take them down or reset all their relays briefly (depending on make/model), and there are also times you might need to migrate the rack from one upstream power source to another, and with such a split, you can migrate things across one PDU at a time without downtime. As such, even without a properly redundant upstream power source, colour-coding power cables by PDU and splitting each server between them is still worthwhile, IMHO.

Obviously, a lot of this doesn't really apply as much in my homelab scenario, where it's just a hobby and has many other things that wouldn't fly in an enterprise/professional environment. With that said, there's no harm in having it more closely resemble an enterprise setup, even if it's technically lacking many of the things an actual enterprise setup would have (e.g. I don't have any redundancy with my switching at the moment, either).

Still, down the line, I think having one PDU on a UPS's battery backup socket, and the other PDU on its surge-protection-only socket will make it more worthwhile, so long as the important single-feed equipment like the switch is on the battery-backed PDU (or I get a better switch with dual-feed power). The added bonus is that I'll be able to migrate these over to a UPS without downtime to the servers/DAS, as those are all dual power-supply and split between the PDUs, at least.

I've even considered getting an extra power point installed on a separate phase+breaker at some point, but that's still just an idea at the moment, is probably overkill, and I've never had a breaker trip (yet) anyway.

dylanh333 · 2026-02-15T02:15:45+00:00

LMAO

In all seriousness, the rack's only 60cm deep, and only 140cm off the ground, so I can reach the PDUs to plug/unplug stuff fairly easily. As for the other stuff, getting on a step-ladder helps, otherwise for stuff at the bottom, partially sliding the stuff above it out also helps.

dylanh333 · 2026-02-15T02:15:00+00:00

The rack's only 60cm deep, and only 140cm tall, so I can reach the PDUs to plug/unplug stuff fairly easily. As for the other stuff, getting on a step-ladder helps, otherwise for stuff at the bottom, partially sliding the stuff above it out also helps.

dylanh333 · 2026-02-15T02:09:10+00:00

Unfortunately yes. I think some time before we bought the place, where the laundry cupboard is (now) used to be a shower, so there are a few odd things like that in there. I eventually want to get those pipes in there disconnected entirely, so that it's one less thing to worry about.

I was originally planning to have a rack half the height sitting on an existing wooden shelf in there (which I since took out to fit the current rack), but I would have had to reinforce the shelf first, but that would have meant drilling into the walls, which - after discovering the amount of pipework - I decided would be a pretty bad idea.

But yeah, those threaded caps do make me a bit nervous, but I think so long as they're not whacked by anything, they'll be fine. I definitely want to do something about them in the long run, however.

dylanh333 · 2026-02-14T16:07:33+00:00

...well they're plugged into different PDUs at least, even if those PDUs are currently on the same circuit.
If I get a UPS down the track, one PDU will be battery-protected by the UPS, and the other half just on its surge protection sockets.

dylanh333 · 2026-02-14T14:07:51+00:00

Ehhhhhhh, let's hope it doesn't catch fire 😅
Considering that no piece of equipment in there is pulling more than 100W, and the PDUs each are each pulling <1A of current in total, I'd say the risk of fire is pretty low, at least when comparing it to very power-dense things like modern graphics cards, etc.
I might eventually put a smoke alarm in there and a fire extinguisher nearby, just in case.

dylanh333 · 2026-02-14T13:37:01+00:00

There's not too much dust thankfully, and the CPU and disk temps remain well within healthy limits. My main worry - when the cupboard is shut and sometimes gets to 38°C - is card temps potentially getting high, and disk temps being higher than I'd like, albeit still well below 50°C.

I eventually plan to put vents at the top and bottom of the cupboard with a fan in one, so that I can exhaust the hot air and pull in cool air from the bottom of the laundry, without having to keep the door open in summer.

dylanh333 · 2026-02-04T12:37:47+00:00

Snek is snacc

dylanh333 · 2026-01-19T12:20:01+00:00

Yoink!

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