Ek-Hou-Van-Braai

Here's a full write-up on the first year of my Home-Lab: https://piefed.social/post/1002037

Since then I've now added networking and a self built 10" rack, I was undecided between MikroTik and UniFi but ended up going UniFI and I'm quite happy.

Building the 2020 Aluminum profile 10" server rack was a lot of fun and I learnt a lot of lessons along the way like:

• Cutting perfectly straight with a hacksaw is a bitch and nearly impossible (or at least for me) would not recommend.
• Buy a table saw or have them pre-cut
• Tapping threads yourself is a lot of fun, and I would recommend doing it yourself, worked perfectly every time.
• Bolt length and head size matters, even 1mm matters (that's what she said)

It's jankey I know, but I love it and it's a lot less Jankey than when everything was just on my desk

Next step for me would be to buy a 3D Printer (Sovol S6 Plus Ace) and print custom racks for everything

Shout out to https://www.motedis.com/ for the Aluminum parts, they can cut and tap all the parts to your desired length if you don't want to bother with that, but that's half the fun (and frustration)

Here's a full write-up on the first year of my Home-Lab: https://piefed.social/post/1002037

Since then I've now added networking and a self built 10" rack, I was undecided between MikroTik and UniFi but ended up going UniFI and I'm quite happy.

Building the 2020 Aluminum profile 10" server rack was a lot of fun and I learnt a lot of lessons along the way like:

• Cutting perfectly straight with a hacksaw is a bitch and nearly impossible (or at least for me) would not recommend.
• Buy a table/mitre saw or have them pre-cut
• Tapping threads yourself is a lot of fun, and I would recommend doing it yourself, worked perfectly every time.
• Bolt length and head size matters, even 1mm matters (that's what she said)

It's janky I know, but I love it and it's a lot less Janky than when everything was just on my desk

Next step for me would be to buy a 3D Printer (Sovol S6 Plus Ace) and print custom racks for everything

Shout out to https://www.motedis.com/ for the Aluminum parts, they can cut and tap all the parts to your desired length if you don't want to bother with that, but that's half the fun (and frustration)

The game is simple:

Two photos side by side
One's made by a human, one's made with AI
Pick the AI one
See if you're right (plus the source/prompt)

I've gotten into selfhosting and have 3 mini PC's

ODROID H4+ for TrueNAS
One for Home Assistant
and another for Immich and Nextcloud

They're all just plugged into the router my ISP provided with network cables.

I'd like to get a managed switch or a router of my own that can function as a switch and router

I'll be putting everything in a 10" rack at some point so it has to fit.

Any suggestions or tips would be appreciated, I've done some research and looked at options but unsure what is right/wrong

I'm especially stuck on what Hardware to get. Is 2.5ghz managed switch overkill? Should I get PoE for future use?
What brands are good, what should be avoided?

A domain I'd like to use expired a week ago, It's registered at https://www.ionos.com/

It might be a domain other people are after, as it's something like mySurname.net

From my small amount of research, there is a 30 day cooldown period, and then another 30 days before it actually becomes available

I'd like to have the domain how do I go about it? I see there are some services that charge ~80 Euro to jump on it immediately when it's available, but that doesn't sit well with me.

The domain was only registered 2 years ago, and it's likely that nobody else is interested in it.

How do I best go about this?

Migration is a big issue, and it's been fueling the far right. I am a migrant myself and I agree with a lot of Denmark's policies, but I know others differ, what are your thoughts?