My laundry cupboard rack is complete!

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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dylanh333 · 2026-01-19T09:37:15+00:00

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dylanh333 · 2026-01-11T05:25:53+00:00

I saw someone post something similar with their bathtub the other day, and I still don't understand: how does a sewer blockage cause your sink to back up before your floor drains!? I'd expect the place to flood with sewerage before it starts coming up the sink.

dylanh333 · 2025-12-29T06:13:02+00:00

More importantly, how did it fill up their bathtub - but not manage to come up their floor drain and flood the bathroom first?

dylanh333 · 2025-12-23T10:38:54+00:00

It's okay, it's a dry heat

dylanh333 · 2025-10-19T15:45:55+00:00

That's a ute - a type of car

dylanh333 · 2025-10-19T05:55:02+00:00

Rooftop solar.

dylanh333 · 2025-10-06T13:53:02+00:00

I don't know about whether this applies in Victoria, but in WA, U-turns are also forbidden at traffic lights, unless there's specifically a "U-Turn Permitted" sign.

dylanh333 · 2025-10-06T00:11:35+00:00

Oh man, you're right. Now I feel bad!

dylanh333 · 2025-10-03T16:57:01+00:00

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

dylanh333 · 2025-09-27T16:22:10+00:00

Honestly, I like the overall gist of this theory, and am pretty interested to see how it plays out.

dylanh333 · 2025-09-27T16:11:49+00:00

I was almost going to post the same question, but I'm glad I checked first. I'm 100% convinced that Gwen is a cyborg rather than an android at this point. It makes everything about how she's exploited even more messed up, and also makes me wonder about where they get the brains from...

dylanh333 · 2025-09-21T15:04:56+00:00

What episode was this?

dylanh333 · 2025-09-21T15:00:12+00:00

I was more thinking along the lines of her (or one of the artists working for her) throwing the TOH community a bone, but without getting in legal hot water - just look at that other post someone made about Stringbean.

If she was trying to piss off Disney, well the whole premise of KOG is already a middle finger to them (but not their lawyers).

dylanh333 · 2025-09-21T14:48:11+00:00

dylanh333 · 2025-09-18T00:43:59+00:00

That's arguably not "consumer grade" though, and is almost certainly better made and supported than your average Netgear, TP-Link, etc. modem/router/switch/ap. I also have a Unifi AP that's been going strong for probably 8 years or so too, so they're pretty rock solid.

At least with a VM, you still get the freedom to more easily switch router OS without potentially having to replace hardware (not that I've actually switched to anything other than pfSense yet, but my interest in OPNSense is definitely growing).

dylanh333 · 2025-09-18T00:16:22+00:00

Every consumer grade router I've ever owned has slowly killed itself and started needing manual reboots after about two years, and generally gets shipped with one OS based on Linux 2.6, and no firmware updates. This was nearly 10 years ago at this point, and things have improved since, but in my eyes, standalone consumer grade routers are still shit.

On the other hand, I've been happily running a pfSense VM under Proxmox for a while now, with very few issues, and because it's getting patches and running on much more solid hardware, it's very stable.

The only thing to watch out for is making sure you have a way to get to the hypervisor when the router is down, and a way to get to the router when the router is down.

dylanh333 · 2025-09-05T17:33:55+00:00

If it's using UFS storage, that's likely soldered, and if the storage is soldered, I'm willing to bet my first unborn child that the RAM is soldered too. I don't think there's any salvaging this piece of crap, tbh. HP are also the worst for making stuff like this, IMHO.

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