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Here's my beautiful unemployed-for-too-long-have-no-money-dont-care-about-looks lab :)
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Classic blue 5-port gigabit switch. Chef's kiss!
These things will be with us until the heat death of the universe. Still chugging along.
Right? Took it from a job I left 10 years ago.
Ha! Mine's the same! My job was dumping them and said take it if you want it. A v1 TP-Link TL-SG105. I don't think I've used mine in at least 10 years but I can't bear to throw it away.
Hard-drives deserve to be free to their cases! Free the drives!
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You want a double-backslash in Markdown.
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Indeed, I really should have caught that.
You need to add backslashes to your underscores since Markdown is turning them into italics.
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Is that usb mounted??
Whatβs that web interface thing? Is it home made? I keep thinking about doing something like that to save me having to remember port numbers for the different services on my home server.
It's just heimdall, behind haproxy (on the raspberrypi) so everything is on the same domain (and behind cloudflare because i'm a madman who exposes stuff publically)
Hey you know what, screw it, see for yourself how it performs: apps.lorteau.fr
BTW I'm really liking asciinema, I think it's a great idea.
Example:
Edit: OMG it's so annoying how lemmy just rewrites img links - https://share.southernlights.fr/u/northernlights/2026-04-08_19-04-1775678390.mp4
Those HP Elitedesks are all over Amazon as refurbished machines. I was actually considering getting one earlier today for a server.
Love 'em. Medical offices around me are selling them like hotcakes, fed up of Win11's promises of being capable of delivering a light terminal.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HA | Home Assistant automation software |
| ~ | High Availability |
| IoT | Internet of Things for device controllers |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NVMe | Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage |
| PSU | Power Supply Unit |
| PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) |
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I'm too lazy to take pictures, but I have a synology sitting in an Ikea Kalix and an older laptop mounted to the other side of the wall (that the kalix is against), which is a bathroom in my garage.
We had contractors working last summer and let them use the garage bathroom. After the 3rd day I overheard a few of them developing conspiracy theories for why we have a closed laptop mounted to the wall and with fans that would occasionally cycle up.
Haha i have a raspberrypizero screwed to a wall in the garage that turns my regular doorbell into a smart doorbell through a relay I plugged into the GPIO, plugged into a numpad to arm/disarm cameras, and into a little camera that takes a picture when a wrong code is entered, ran by a little python script I wrote. I've heard very similar comments lol.
