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[-] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

brb, installing Linux on my Wii to host my own instance, send knee high sock pictures to be allowed registration

[-] rem26_art@fedia.io 10 points 2 months ago

HP wishes they had that kind of build quality

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

I mean... the enterprise zbooks are fairly nice, a used one ran me about $200-$300 on ebay. I'm pretty content with it.

[-] rem26_art@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

I think usually enterprise stuff does have a good build quality, yeah, at least compared to consumer stuff

[-] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

I experienced the same with Dell laptops. Consumer grade practically disintegrated and couldn't be repaired; enterprise grade could be dropped or even thrown and likely still be repairable with readily available parts. That was 10 years ago though, so I can only imagine the enshittification current techs are dealing with

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago

Nahh that's really the same deal on their current laptops. Consumer grade is disposable and fragile, meanwhile their corporate sub-brands are tanks

[-] Rooty@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I really like the jury-rigged, DIY nature of the Fediverse. It reminds me of the old times, when the internet was smaller but had more heart.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Absolutely. I wish I had the time and knowhow to take on lemm.ee when they were shutting down.

[-] 87Six@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

Network security: max

Physical security: the front door and hope

[-] teuto@lemmy.teuto.icu 5 points 2 months ago

On one hand my instance is hosted on a mostly self-contained box, but it does have a GPU hanging out the back

[-] Deebster@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

Is the integrated graphics card broken or are you running something that needs more GPU? Graphics or AI?

[-] kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Quite a few desktop CPUs dont have integrated graphics

[-] teuto@lemmy.teuto.icu 1 points 2 months ago

No integrated graphics. The server has a pair of old E5-2695 v4 CPUs and I picked up an 3060 to run some local AI but it didn't fit in the 2u chasis even though I had a spare PCI-E slot. Absolutely would not recommend a single part of this setup.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks, I always wondered how other people solved this exact problem.

Now I know.

Poorly.

Carry on.

[-] teuto@lemmy.teuto.icu 1 points 2 months ago

There's a correct way to solve the problem. You can get a GPU dock for like $100-300. Or you can get a long PCIE riser for like $20, and hook up an unused PSU and jump the start pins on the ATX cable with a paperclip. There's a correct way to use multiple psus too, but I had a paperclip and didn't have a jumper cable. Anyways it's stable enough that uptime is at a year and it hasn't started a fire yet.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What the esp32 under the ssd doing??
Emotional support?

Also the monitor is PiP of three machines?

[-] Matty_r@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

Looks like they are running tmux which has been split into 3 panes, and then running btop in each pane per machine - probably SSH'd into them to run btop (not sure if btop has remote monitoring)

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 months ago

That makes more sense, lol

[-] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 3 points 2 months ago
[-] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Like an SSD deserves.

It's not like an HDD, you don't need (9") nails.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, can't have a magnetic harddisk without the work of Trent Reznor!

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Wow, those images loaded so slow that it felt like I was back in the dialup days. Must have a lot of requests or something

[-] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 points 2 months ago

The esp32 is probably to keep it off the table. I would have just used a piece of styrofoam.

[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Is that the MacBook Air that fits in a folder I have been hearing about?

[-] CoffeeTails@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Lovely. If it works, it works!

[-] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 2 points 2 months ago

looks hardened af

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I might get into self-hosting, with some of the PCs people dumped onto me.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I don't see a problem?

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Looks slightly worse than the server that hosts my instance, with an Intel i7-5960X from 2015.

[-] sureshot0@discuss.online 1 points 2 months ago
[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Ubuntu Server 24.04.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

This is the server version of wearing a barrel

[-] wabafee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Is covering it with paper used to start a fire?

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago
[-] wabafee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Did not thought about that, OP basically gave his community the ability to decide if it wants to burn down the OP's house.

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