Honestly.. I might get some pushback for this but Chromecast audio. Being able to get full home audio streaming for a fraction of the cost of a normal system with a few of those and a few old hifis. Worth it for me
Oh no the left picture is the before... Its gone downhill in terms of the mess
Apologies Mods I just realised this might fit better in a homelab community, please remove if it is not suitable
This is actually my second foray into IT work. I went to college for software development, failed that, went to work as a printer technician, left that, went into retail and now I am here. Thanks!
Now and again I jump on for niche information for my hobbies. But only on desktop, and only on old.reddit.com
For anyone who is interested on the software I'm running through my proxmox server -
I'm going to shore it up
Good luck on retraining!
Those are the best places to find hardware to be fair. That and ebay/Facebook around the end of the financial year
Honestly, I just got lucky with a lot of the hardware. The two Dell servers cost a total of about £140, and I got three for that money. Sadly one needs a new motherboard but the rest of the hardware works fine
Nice! That is a decent setup, what are you using it for?
Hey that's my old CPU which I just retired from my old pc. If it wasn't somewhat set aside for a pc for my SO it would be my new video encoder. The two servers I do have running do have some issues. The proxmox machine has a dead RAM slot and several dead fans or dead fan connectors. (Enough run to keep it cool at least). The Truenas box keeps showing an error with the second PSU and the vga out does not work (Either on front or back). Both work well enough for me.
Reattaching my towel rack to my wall. It was held in with drywall anchors but those have failed so will either repatch and reattach or glue it back on. Depends on how done with it I am
Ah this isn't the chromecast streaming devices I'm talking about. It's the older pucks that plug into an aux cable that you can stream music from your phone to
Ah it's on three bits of wood screwed into the wall. Can still unscrew it and flip it over though so I may do that.
Thanks! I'll check it out
Prism is my go to ..it's allright but I am still looking for new options. Have heard good things about Immich so might look at that
Well it's night here so sleep. But after that I've got work then I might study a bit, eat some cake. Nothing much really
Honestly, throw a couple services running on ubuntu servers on the proxmox machine. It's not the same as book learning, but it does help a lot with the basics and patchy knowledge I found. Not saying I'm an expert or anything, but I do know a lot more about managing Linux servers now than I did 5 years ago from running 15 of them on Proxmox
They have, but you can still find them on the second hand market. I m not looking forward to the day they stop supporting them however
Personally for me it's that it's not as resource heavy as windows whilst offering a similar out of box 'it just works'. Sure it's not the best tool for the job in a lot of regards but for example I have two laptops from early 2014. A macbook air and a windows laptop running windows 10. The macbook air runs smoothly when browsing the Web, or studying whereas the windows laptop ends up slowing down a lot and chugging.
I will say I am a fan of the best tool for the job approach though. Doing a lot of office based work and need word editing or spreadsheet editing? Windows. Gaming? Windows. Server work? Linux. Music/video production? Macs
Ideally yes.. This is a previous owners mistake I'm fixing. My options here are: reattach back using another drywall anchor (not my preferred option). Anchor one side into a stud and if the other side reaches it the other side into another stud and patch the holes or glue it back in place (again not ideal). I'm leaning towards option B here.
That reminds me I need to take a look at the flusher on my toilet. It's being intermittent
I have an email server but it is not my main email account. I'm purely only using it to learn and to have email notifications sent out from a few services. I do not trust myself or my setup enough to have my main email account hosted on it
Chocolate and pistachio tart I made a couple days ago
After my first job as a printer technician I can believe some of the horrors to expect. Training on a nice shiny new printer vs one that had been installed upside down, backwards and whilst drunk...20 years ago haha
Ah it's all good it's holding on with the power of sheer will... Plus it was flexing that bad before the hardware got put on it and barely moved after.. I hope..haha