First, I don’t really care if you pirate whatever. I don’t, but I don’t preach at others who do. I figure, you’re all fully autonomous adults, capable of making your own decisions and living with them. I just found the statement ‘I love piracy as much as anyone’ while calling those that profit from piracy ‘criminals’, rather dichotomous.

The duality of man.

I don’t dabble but I just thought the cognitive dissonance was thick.

I love piracy as much as anyone

are basically criminals

Didn’t down vote but damn…

Just yanking your chain. I don’t run the arr stack but I’m constantly amazed how it all works together.

Ahhhh competing spammers this morning

Ahhhh competing spammers this morning

will keep it short !

10 paragraphs later… /s

I’ll make an addenda to my notes. Thanks.

I had one back in the day like that. My notes on that event are old so maybe someone can modify or clarify.

First you’ll have to find the UUID of the external drive. (lsblk -f) Then create a mount file like: sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/mnt-data.mount. In the mnt-data.mount file, insert something like:

[Unit]
Description=External HDD Mount
Requires=dev-disk-by\x2duuid-<YOUR_UUID>.device
After=dev-disk-by\x2duuid-<YOUR_UUID>.device
After=local-fs.target

[Mount]
What=/dev/disk/by-uuid/<YOUR_UUID>
Where=/mnt/data
Type=ext4  # Change to ntfs, xfs, etc., depending on your drive format
Options=rw,noatime,nofail

Enable and reload:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable mnt-data.mount
sudo systemctl start mnt-data.mount

Verify status:

systemctl status mnt-data.mount

Should say ‘active’. Reboot and test. Let me know if that works. Like I said, that was a while ago. If it works, it’s just another reason why you should doccument your server setups. If it doesn’t, well shucks I tried. LOL

Reason I ask is that I have a line on a Dell Optiplex 5060 SFF with 16 GB DDR4 / no drive, for around $175 USD (local IT guy). I’m getting an itchy finger. LOL

Optiplex

How’s that working for you? I don’t need 8 of them but after doing some passive research, the Optiplex seems to be a favorite in the homelab/selfhosting arena.

Dell T320 idles out at 54–99W, but typical use would be in the 101–158W range. In my locale, one Dell T320 will cost about $35 USD per month to run. I shut them down before retiring for the evening as I couldn’t justify running them while I’m sawing logs. I’m the only user and I have no late nite/early morning Linux ISOs downloads scheduled.

I use this fairly often. Simple, effective, no complaints really.

There are so many people in this world I’d rather not ever hear their voices. Lmao.

100%! It’s a pain in the ass when I create music tho. Some frequencies I just can’t hear well enough to make a decision. I lean on AI to assist me in the mastering process.

If your current machines are working fine and the $35 a month isn’t breaking the budget

Good point. The T320s are running fine. In fact I’ve not done anything to them since the beginning of the year except enjoy them. If I were to boil the ox down to the bouillon cube, I’m a little bored, and I’ve learned a lot since I first fired them up years ago, and I feel I could do things a lot better, cleaner, and more efficiently. Mostly bored tho. I like a good project.

What infrastructure or operational costs do you think people underestimate the most?

In a former life I was an Mech Eng specializing in HVAC. I was a designer, project manager, estimator, and ran the IT dept (deceptively small company) and trained old codgers to run computers and laptops. In my experience, most owners underestimate the cost of construction. When I did project estimates, I read the spec book cover to cover, even the sections that weren’t related to HVAC. I would do a nut and bolt take off and derive a cost + overhead and profit. I understand, everyone wants the best bang for their buck, but there is always a reason why low ball numbers will bite you in the ass, because you will be hounded by change orders until the low ball price will match mine.

Ever since you posted that, I’ve been tinkering with the notion of replacing one of my Dell T320s with just such a unit. The Dell T320 have been good servers but cost me about $35 USD per month to run, whereas the Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro you recommended would cost me about $3 to $5 to run per month. So, just in power savings alone, would pay for itself in less than a year. The Dell T320s put out a decent amount of heat as well, and aren’t so quiet…which doesn’t bother me as much since I’m clinically deaf. LOL

Why are you getting packet flooding? DDoS? MAC address table overflows? Unknown unicast traffic? Broadcast storms? Multicast flooding? Undetermined? Ntopng will detect packet flooding, and it can be configured to send out notifications. Maybe Wireshark, tho it does have a learning curve and doesn’t send out notifications that I know of. Do you have a stand alone firewall like pFsense or Opnsense? Both Snort and Suricata are IDS/IPS that can block based on rule sets.

Dude, I do not pretend understand the inner machinations of a Lemmy mod. Rule 3 seems a blanket coverage for a lot of threads. But, I’m still out here repeating your recommends. Seems like it would be a jammy server for Docker containers at a good price.

I think they nuked the whole thread.

Thanks man! Nice looking project BTW