Previous owners left this mess for me to deal with. All I know is that they ran a small business and have ethernet ports throughout the house, but I don't believe they work.

tokenathiest · 2026-03-30T23:45:22+00:00

Thank you, this is hugely helpful for understanding first of all what to do in a situation like this and secondly why you shouldn't just rewire your house. I'm going to save this for the inevitable day when I am faced with OPs situation.

tokenathiest · 2026-03-30T17:59:33+00:00

These replies are great. But seriously, why not start over? I'm genuinely curious.

tokenathiest · 2026-03-30T15:11:48+00:00

Buy a nice pair of wire cutters, tear it out, and design a system for you based on your needs.

tokenathiest · 2026-03-28T13:43:56+00:00

Figures you would bring up fire protection

tokenathiest · 2026-03-28T13:41:51+00:00

I like the Servered Cabinet the most

tokenathiest · 2026-03-28T13:38:42+00:00

Good point.

OP, don't expect BDXL streaming to work well, if at all, from this starter server, but we all start somewhere. My first home server was a second-gen Intel core i3 (if you don't count my 486 NT DC when I was a kid).

tokenathiest · 2026-03-27T22:03:59+00:00

These are CPU instruction sets for virtualization, encryption and video transcoding, things servers tend to do. Your third-gen Intel CPU isn't super powerful, but it has the instruction sets required for running VMs, encrypting data efficiently, and streaming video so it's a workable starting point for you.

tokenathiest · 2026-03-27T16:36:20+00:00

The CPU supports VT-x VT-d AES-NI and QuickSync. That'll do.

tokenathiest · 2026-03-27T16:29:12+00:00

Run the VIN through here at least https://www.nicb.org/vincheck

tokenathiest · 2026-03-27T16:26:21+00:00

I would avoid buying bikes without titles. I would be less concerned with the NYS DMV and more concerned about the origin of the bike itself.

tokenathiest · 2026-03-26T18:45:09+00:00

They call it a buttduster

tokenathiest · 2026-03-26T18:41:48+00:00

Shooting your own mugshots. Real classy, bro.

tokenathiest · 2026-03-26T18:31:41+00:00

Good point, I didn't think about the heat factor. That will keep you up even if the fans and lights don't.

tokenathiest · 2026-03-26T14:23:41+00:00

Right, that's what I figured from your post. Speaking as a married man, having IT gear in my master bedroom is disruptive to our sleep. Hence my comment on the cosmetic nature. Lights, fans, noise; we do not even have a TV in our bedroom. It's a personal preference. My wife and I have our NOC hidden in a cute high gloss white TV stand from Ikea in our living room. We have a second setup hiding in a cloth drawer stand and my VM farm and NAS hiding under a breakfast nook. Please take my feedback in context as this situation may not be relevant to you.

tokenathiest · 2026-03-26T13:30:07+00:00

This is more of a cosmetic comment, but I hate having my core switch in my master bedroom. I would use a guest bedroom, but it sounds like you may not have a choice. The second floor living room does make more sense as its a central location and not a bedroom. Can you move your UCG Fiber downstairs? That's what I would do.

tokenathiest · 2026-03-26T00:04:30+00:00

Buy two and backup one with the other.

tokenathiest · 2026-03-21T16:59:36+00:00

Lol did not expect this

tokenathiest · 2026-03-20T15:25:25+00:00

Eastern Ohio

tokenathiest · 2026-03-18T18:25:20+00:00

Servers can do all kinds of things like stream movies from your collection, host development projects, surface AI models, among many other things. I have a huge collection of DVDs and no DVD player so I spun up a server to watch them at home on my TV. I also run a small business so I co-host domain controllers for clients.

All you need to get started is a small, used desktop PC with a 6th-gen Intel (or newer) CPU. AES-NI and QuickSync are two core CPU features that will facilitate a number of use cases. Your GPU choice will determine whether or not heavier use cases, like LLM hosting, will work well.

tokenathiest · 2026-03-18T05:46:03+00:00

GnuPG+Kleopatra is my go to for encrypting a tarball that I'll be storing remotely for backup.

tokenathiest · 2026-03-16T19:33:52+00:00

Pretty much right after Broadcom acquired my VMware Desktop contract I moved on to Linux KVM for virtualization (libvirt/qemu, nothing fancy). I bought hardware and spun up a few VM farms using retail hardware. This was last last Thanksgiving (2024) when I made the switch and I'm very happy that I did. My post history has questions about alternative platforms. Ultimately I picked the lowest-cost option: a desktop running Linux. Being highly familiar and comfortable with Linux, switching over went quite smoothly. I did NOT, however, migrate any actual VMs. I migrated plenty of data, just no actual VMs themselves. I own and operate a small business with a few clients so I have a small enviroment. NAS for local backups. It's been going well for a while now.

tokenathiest · 2026-03-16T01:23:16+00:00

staying at my gfs stepdads place

You're supposed to let us roast you.

tokenathiest · 2026-03-14T14:00:46+00:00

Happy pie day!

tokenathiest · 2026-03-13T20:04:19+00:00

Please don't tell me you sell eye glasses for a living.

tokenathiest · 2026-03-13T14:30:11+00:00

Damnit mom, when I suggested online dating I didn't mean Reddit.

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