I’ve heard this dude named @Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it he uses them. I’ve never heard of that. TIL

14TB for $140).

Link me up, Scotty

(raises hand)!

Really. I would have never guessed. I mean, I’ve always viewed bad sectors as a sign of a failing drive. Just a really bad day in the future, marked as an appointment.

What kind of millage on the average do you get out of something like that?

Even used stuff is expensive nowadays.

No shit! I was shopping NewEgg for some used drives. Found a 500 GB HDD for $36 USD which I immediately clicked on only to find this warning:

Used - Very Good Erased (DoD 5220.22 M Compliant) and tested. There may be drives that have up to 25 bad sectors. There may be writing or >markings on the drive or the label may vary slightly from picture.

WTF. Who would buy a used HDD with up to 25 bad sectors?

Nothing fancy—I’m looking for 1 or 2 mini servers or SFF with at least 16GB of memory and a decent CPU (4–6 cores)

Not in the EU, so…

The Optiplex 7020 SFF with the i7-4790 chip are pretty robust little computers, regularly sell on Amazon for less than $200. The 9020 MT is a bit older, however still capable @ well under $200 USD on Amazon. I’d upgrade the 9020 to a i7-4790 chip which you can normally find, used, on ebay for less than $50 USD. The models in that range take DDR3 which you can find good prices for at https://www.memorystock.com/. I’ve been using them for years. The bad part about shopping for used computers on ebay is that, while you might be able to find some killer deals initially, most often they stick it to you good with shipping.

Also: Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro Not too shabby either.

I just recently got a Optiplex 9020 MT 16 GB RAM for $124 USD / free shipping off of Amazon. Shopped around ebay for the i7-4790 which cost me $35 USD, and 16 GB DDR3 RAM for $50. Not a bad little set up for right at the $200 USD mark. I’m setting it up for a friend of mine’s son who wants to get into selfhosting at the age of 10. It’s no threadripper but a solid piece.

Money for nothin’ and your chicks for free. What a blessed utopia that must be.

Yeah. Lots of good info there.

That looks pretty cool. Doctor says no more lifting weights, but I do resistance training and speed walking. Might have to give it a go.

Am I technogrouch for continuing to watch video at no more than 1080p?

I rarely watch any video. Video tutorials just aren’t as informative to me, than if you read the exact same material. If it’s a tutorial on something mechanical, where part x has to line up with part z, or the wheels fall off, sure.

I understand economy of scale, but how much could you actually mine over nite on a little droplet before junior sysadmin notices that there is an influx of nasty grams in his in box and his little 4 banger VPS is maxed out on resources.

Didn’t down vote, and I get what you’re saying to a certain extent. I’m not touting my server as hack-proof in the least, but it would take some work. My concern wouldn’t be someone hacking in and listening to my personal music collection I’ve been working on for decades…it goes all the way back to 1937.

I would be more concerned that my compromised server was used as a zombie attack on some other server. The first VPS server got ransacked and used over-nite to (unsuccessfully) DDoS another business site.I got a ton of nasty grams for that boner. I didn’t loose anything but time.

Bitcoin miners are easy to spot. I’ve never really understood why someone would hack into a small server and deploy a nefarious miner. On a huge corporate server farm, sure. But not some small selfhost VPS somebody found on lowendbox.

I’ve got whole home audio. 150 watts…just crank that bitch up. LOL Never heard of SnapCast but I bookmarked the link for later on this evening. I like the site. Very clean and easily readable.

If you’re old enough and you live in North America, you probably remember Ronco

Ron Popeil…very interesting pitch man/entrepreneur. His infomercials were cheesier than Wisconsin, but you remember them.

Thank you for sharing

@Kairos@lemmy.today over here downloading the whole internet.

Got to be a hoarder, or a subcontractor for the WayBack Machine.

My ISP doesn’t cap, so I never really noticed/checked. If I had to swag, I’d say 300 gb to 500 gb just depending on what’s going on. A large majority of that is streaming music from Navidrome on a daily basis. Just one user. No mass downloading of Linux ISOs.

Ahhhh the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor). I don’t have those issues, so I’m free to run amuck as I please.

PVE helper scripts

+1 for the helper scripts: https://community-scripts.org/

Just get a new rack Jack

Install the 'arr stack

Cancel your sub bub

Set your self free

Please do not conflate me with the bullshit that is going on. Not all of us have hive mind.

750 reasons not to get back with your (Pl)ex

750 ways to leave your lover

As a kid I always thought the basement model train set ups were cool. Then as I grew into a young man, I thought it was kind of weird that some grandpa had a train set in his basement he played with. Then as I got older, it started making more sense to me. I don’t have a train set in my basement, but selfhosting I would imagine, is along the same lines at least for me.