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What do you use as a wattage meter?

I still got my PS2 with the HDD modded to load backups. Haha.

Going prehistoric on us. Nice.

I remember growing up and hitting the radio shack components section. Bought new motors for a remote control car, modded it to fit with super glue and twisted/electrical taped a stronger battery on it.

It worked great for like 5 min before the magic smoke came out 🤣

Edit: I think I was 8-10 years old

And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.

That’s my favourite part to quote.

When the lights are out. Pussy is pussy. And old pussy is often better. 😉

It’s dangerously close to “In the dark a hole is a hole.”

Benjamin Franklin, Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress (1745)

Its a good read and many points are still valid today.

Another one that is true but sounds like an onion.

He enjoyed the company of GILFS

Everything I’ve ever heard about Franklin makes him a boss. This is a new one.

Wow now that sounds like a bad ^dragon dream

First thing I learned in a video course was setting a spending budget for your account. I set a $10/month limit and never broke it in 6 years.

My actual issue is I need approval to install anything on any server. This might get approved since it’s MS though! Thanks.

I’ve recently started administering windows headless. PowerShell over SSH.

Don’t have this problem on windows server!

It doesn’t even have a terminal text editor

I have to install nano or use powershell commands through hoops of fire just to edit a line in a file.

Or download the file via scp, edit and reupload.

Pure Insanity.

They’re eating cats and dogs!

7/11 with rice

I have a peer that manages his father’s IT needs.

He setup loads of server stuff there with an IPSEC tunnel to home so he does cross backup back between the sites. He’ll setup something like a game server at the office on a VM mapped to an obscure port then a registered domain so the family can game together. Fun stuff.

He doesn’t charge his dad for IT needs. They just expense all the server stuff to the business along with a secure location (building has proper physical security) with managed AC for his heavier 24/7 server needs. He can also order decent gear for the rack.

Damn. Ethernet is indeed your bottleneck there. I love your rack but I’d go more for a higher storage configuration.

With B2 offsite backup.

Shopping aliexpress most are 2.5 drives. I get that they’re lower power but 3.5 drives offer much more storage…

I’m most impressed by the printed rackmount SFF mounts. Great idea.

This specifically depends on what you want to run.

I’d say grab any unused PC in your home or off the street and it’ll work. Raspberry Pi are good for low wattage so it’s not expensive to run 24/7/365.

The electricity savings would pay for itself over time vs a 10 year old random desktop.