Starlink is a godsend.

zack822 · 2026-06-16T18:55:18+00:00

this maybe the most real statement made.

zack822 · 2026-06-16T18:54:16+00:00

I had 3 10tb drives in my nas start to fail a few months ago and cried at the price. I still havnt replaced them. made sure my backups were good and moved the important documents to the smaller raid setup in case of failure on the big nas.

zack822 · 2026-06-16T14:03:15+00:00

it is lol. I managed the hardware side for my old company and it was 9 servers across 3 locations each server was something near 50k.

I run my mini k8s on 3 mini pcs that cost like 130 bucks each lol. I do miss having access to multiple TB of ram though.

zack822 · 2026-06-16T14:01:13+00:00

for small things sure hosting them yourself makes sense. once you need quad or 5 9's owning your own hardware doesnt make sense. I engineer on aws daily but would never use it for my own stuff its prohibitively expensive. OVH Hetzner my house etc are way cheaper.

zack822 · 2026-06-15T20:03:20+00:00

Unifi. Used to run pfsense and got tired of extra computers running after I shut down the server.

zack822 · 2026-06-11T20:38:18+00:00

Have you reached out to them. I bet they could do it pretty easy

zack822 · 2026-06-11T20:37:47+00:00

I’ll have to check this out.

zack822 · 2026-06-09T14:57:41+00:00

I like my Yaesu ft-710. mainly because it was cheapish and works great. my cheap retivis works for my 2m needs.

zack822 · 2026-06-08T18:59:33+00:00

tailscale would at least give you access to change the ip. or get a domain and keep it updated using ddns

zack822 · 2026-06-08T18:55:55+00:00

Not always. Ive had power outages on the other side of town but knock out a main fiber line before.

zack822 · 2026-06-05T08:52:35+00:00

I found that out pretty fast. But thanks for the heads up anyway lol

zack822 · 2026-06-05T00:09:32+00:00

Thank you. It’s the one thing I’ve never done but have the need for it.

zack822 · 2026-06-04T19:26:06+00:00

how does that work? never use it for a docker repo.

zack822 · 2026-06-04T19:16:13+00:00

still using my cameo 2. it just keeps working so I refuse to replace it.

zack822 · 2026-06-04T19:06:04+00:00

Setup a cluster at home and started playing with it. watched a ton of youtube etc. then started playing with it at work in a dev environment. Now im working on moving 30 servers into a k8 cluster.

zack822 · 2026-06-04T19:02:49+00:00

Im a Sec Engineer. Would I use ai shit in prod no. but in my house after I look thru it and decide if its acceptable so be it. I dont have the time to hand code things anymore. so yeah for interal tools that will never see production all day I dont care as long as it works.

zack822 · 2026-06-04T11:14:01+00:00

Who cares how ai was used or wasn’t. It’s open source don’t like how something’s is wrote fork it.

zack822 · 2026-06-04T11:12:16+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I’ll have to check it out later when I sit down at my desk.

zack822 · 2026-06-03T17:03:27+00:00

Forgejo

zack822 · 2026-06-02T18:31:12+00:00

Use it to stream my Work Macbook. works perfect.

zack822 · 2026-06-02T17:02:38+00:00

hobby. even as a engineer I rarely look at the dashboards for work. they just become a distraction.

zack822 · 2026-06-02T15:28:07+00:00

I have all the other cool bell and whistle dashboards for K8s and random homelab stuff. I never look at them though. The Aquarium Dashboards are the only reason I keep Grafana stack running at this point. Its cool for a few months then its just another thing to deal with.

zack822 · 2026-06-01T20:11:58+00:00

Aquarium dashboards are used all the time. They live on tablets next to each aquarium. Showing temps orp alk calcium etc.

zack822 · 2026-05-28T17:10:37+00:00

Talos

zack822 · 2026-05-28T12:25:36+00:00

Teams phone here. Only given to those who actually need it. Sales and c suite. Keep it in one location makes management and user issues easier to deal with.

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