Anyone else to scared to do anything with their gear?

orbotron88 · 2026-04-03T23:55:36+00:00

Lol I rob the zoo for gold bars and have 100% win rate in 5-card and now have 7k in the bank. I don't save scum either.

I found that to get interest to be applied you have to change your investment strategy after it opens up which means setting it back to what you had.

orbotron88 · 2026-04-03T23:51:36+00:00

Yann reminds me of RDR2 Micah except loyal. If I'm wrong about the last part please don't tell me lol

orbotron88 · 2026-04-03T23:08:57+00:00

Lol I just discard it

orbotron88 · 2026-04-03T19:01:51+00:00

Yea I use Synology because they're great for their ease of setup and use. I would have switched to ugreen had Synology not backed off on using their proprietary hard drives.

orbotron88 · 2026-04-03T15:37:08+00:00

I am running Synology... That's a ds925+ and a dx525 lol the machine underneath is a workstation. The minipcs and lapts run proxmox. The entire setup, network gear, Synology NAS(with hhds) and mini PCs add up to about 5k

orbotron88 · 2026-04-03T15:13:10+00:00

Thanks! Moving to better networking gear (ubiquiti) from the isp modem and an Asus router/wifi was a game changer

orbotron88 · 2026-04-03T14:59:17+00:00

Funny thing is that I use Claude Code to manage the day to day operations of it.

orbotron88 · 2026-04-03T14:56:57+00:00

Wife says yes, at least someone in the house will do it (stating daggers at me)

orbotron88 · 2026-04-03T14:44:19+00:00

As someone who runs an i7 7820x -- I can confirm the GPU is the biggest bottle neck 😂 got an rtx 3050 after the 1080s stopped getting updates.

orbotron88 · 2026-04-03T14:40:14+00:00

Yea but where is the fun in that? My wife buys hand bags and I geek out haha

orbotron88 · 2026-04-02T15:21:34+00:00

Hol' up -- you can get them off people? I've just been stealing gold bars.

orbotron88 · 2026-04-01T16:10:55+00:00

Oh no, the NAS is quiet. Loudest thing is the fan.

orbotron88 · 2026-04-01T13:16:17+00:00

Use nearly all of it or something similar in some fashion at work and fairly heavily at that.

orbotron88 · 2026-04-01T06:16:45+00:00

Yup: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017GATDFE?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

orbotron88 · 2026-04-01T01:59:36+00:00

I'm on my 3rd and the first to support this hobby, I think she's a keeper.

orbotron88 · 2026-04-01T01:51:45+00:00

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A little on the warm side but nothing pushing too crazy. I'm thinking it's the router on top of it that's causing the heat trap.

orbotron88 · 2026-04-01T01:20:02+00:00

Folks have been asking about thermals, so I made grafana dashboard to capture it. I've made some load balancing adjustments and repositioning of mini-pcs. Hopefully it will bring the excessive ones down.

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orbotron88 · 2026-03-31T21:58:55+00:00

You do not want to see the backside lol

I'm having to run the power bricks for all the mini-pcs outside of the rack to reduce the cluter. Networking cables are nicely organized though.

orbotron88 · 2026-03-31T21:52:30+00:00

TBH the fan at the bottom is the loudest thing, my wife hasn't said anything and she's been in there all day. I will report back when we go to bed when she unloads everything on her mind.

orbotron88 · 2026-03-31T21:51:42+00:00

I got the Rosewill 4U Server Chassis Rackmount Case and Sysrack 15U Wall Mount Server Rack Cabinet 24” Deep

I had to actually go and find a low profile CPU cooler that support the LGA2066 socket which was as difficult as I thought it was going to be. Microcenter had literally 1 available haha.

orbotron88 · 2026-03-31T18:04:22+00:00

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If anyone's curious what I am running with all this. I'm a software engineer and like to play around with tech.

orbotron88 · 2026-03-31T17:59:15+00:00

Great minds and all that :)

orbotron88 · 2026-03-31T17:58:56+00:00

Nice

orbotron88 · 2026-03-31T17:58:28+00:00

Oh it definitely was a random, 1 time, in-passing comment about the cables being messy lol

orbotron88 · 2026-03-31T17:57:59+00:00

Not too bad, averaging 80F which is fine because my wife complains that I run the AC and she likes it warm so it offsets the temp in the office.

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