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Here's my beautiful unemployed-for-too-long-have-no-money-dont-care-about-looks lab :)
Hey it's more than good enough to run all this Β―_(γ)_/Β―
Including sbcs there are 8 computers in there. There are 5 more laptops and another retired desktop joining. There are plans to get solar and batteries so I'm checking how much power I can actually draw
it's a mini pc, standing sideways, with a USB to ethernet adapter and USB HDD
My janky homelab lol. Mostly ebay secondhand Enterprise stuff and a Chinese SXM2 mezzanine board to run dual NVLinked 16gb V100s. I also have a TrueNAS Sacle mini itx server running upstairs with my "arr" stack and some other useful tools.
The server is the black box on top of the rack. In the rack it's networking and UPSs for both the server and my computer on the desk.
I think we have the same UPS
This is neat, doesn't take too much place so fits in a classic house situation.
Not as clean as I would like, but way better than it started!
5 node Kubernetes cluster and a NAS. Runs about 250 pods.
It's cleaner than 50% of what I've seen at work.
So clean, I'm jealous
Is this the βbeforeβ shot? Thereβs 190 spare ports. Iβm all for leaving room to expand, but thatβs a lot
Oi thats too clean for this thread. Get out of here! /s Nice setup.
people put too much "lab" and not enough "home" in homelab. we need more dust, more cables, more jank. love this.
Dust and jank you say? Behold, my old basement homelab when I rented just outside Boston with a very permissive landlord who agreed to let me have Comcast gig pro fiber pulled into the basement, running off an outlet I installed without asking on a free slot in our breaker box. The dust was terrible, the rack was a hodge podge, I had to put up that sign because maintenance guys kept plugging their power tools into the UPS when I wasn't around and tripping it. But Comcast fucked up the billing and the 2gig + 1gig symmetric internet is still active to this day for free, which I left behind minimally working for the next tenants after parting out the rack. The tower by the side was a friend who wanted to colocate on my fiber, and I had some fun stuff like a slide out vga console. I also pulled Ethernet into every room, most of them installed with nice wall plates all bundled down to the rack, so with a house full of gamers, you could have multiple people pulling a gig on a game download without anyone stepping on anyone else's toes.
Dang that's the dream. Never move out :D
This is the best thread so far. Really enjoying seeing peoples setups! Thanks @northernlights@lemmy.today !
I was too lazy to put on clothes and go out to my shack. This picture is a bit old. It's missing a lot of mess and my PeerTube server.
More specs / details available upon request.
(OT) what did you use to annotate the picture?
Projects that im running:
Old system 76 machine from a while back. Its what is running a majority of my services for self hosting. Only one screw keeps the case together, since I get into the insides quite often.
Solar powered web server. Its going to be repurposed into a meshtastic node soon.
Somewhat jank setup of a heltek which is also an ebook reader. It runs a webserver to upload the book in txt format, then I can take it on the go. I still have to do some work on the text.
That ebook reader is wild! Does the text stay in place while you read, or does it scroll past like a stock ticker?
If the latter doesn't exist, I guess I should go push a PR to make that happen on meshcore firmware haha
Stays in place. It was a weekend project so I still need to do some work on the text in particular. Im not sure if ill go any farther, but the code is here if you want to take a look.
the hardrive just out in the wild, living life like it was meant to be lived.
What are its natural predators?
Keys, paperclips and coins... they kinda work their way towards the PCB and short out crtitical things
Cats and very young humans
gravity
beverages
drunk sysadmins
Spill your beer on it and get all three in one go!
My little Raspberry Pi 5 with an old 1tb Hard drive connected to a WiFi extender. It ain't much but I like it.
I used to work in automation as an electrician so I'm all about those coils and curves.
Coils & curves?
From my viewpoint it looks like balance and counter balance π
Are those all balanced, pivoting around a power outlet?
Hey it works doesn't it :)
Nothing fancy myself as well. Not unemployed but I don't necessarily wanna spend a lot on something I'm really just cutting my teeth with so far.
The central hub is up top, a Bosgame P4 Mini with 16GB DDR4, 512GB NVMe and a decent last-last gen Ryzen 7. It's enough to run Jellyfin, HA, and PiHole all through Proxmox. Been rock solid outside of a planned power outage Peco was doing (and actually did it this time!)
I also have Jellyfin connected to an 8TB RAID1 NAS that resides upstairs in our shared space, and HA connected to the basement tech, mostly lighting and the TV and PC.
Bonus battlestation pic (not really lol)
Hey this looks how my setup would look like if I had the energy to clean :) https://lemmy.today/post/39171225
