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

I think the mods deleted under rule 3 which really doesn’t make much sense to me. If you are going to self host and you are starting with equipment recomendations, who better to ask than the people who selfhost. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Personal food database with photos, barcodes, categories, and custom labels

Where do you source your barcodes from? The reason I am asking is that I would like to give Grocy/Barcode Buddy a better barcode pool to draw from. As it is now, it’s kind of hit and miss. Most brand names are fine, but off brands or store brands are kind of iffy.

OP, Don’t let ‘em give you shit about your ponytail. Keep on rockin’.

@DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world recommended this on is the last similar thread to this one: Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro. The price seems right and you could probably run good many other Docker containers in the future.

Anything much newer than that will consume less power per core (usually) but will cost more up front

I did a little passive research on the Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro that @DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world recommended. For my locale you could run that 24/7 for about $2.00 USD per month. I like to stay in the DDR3 range of equipment because those are not nearly the same price for units using DDR4 or higher, and as far as performance goes, are still on the green of newer DDR4 & 5 units. Plenty enough computing power to handle a lot of Docker containers, etc.

Not sure where you are located OP but, eBay, CraigsList, Goodwill, local Refurb shops, befriend a local IT person…business are always throwing out decent stuff. Just stay away from enterprise equipment. In my locale there are ‘flea-markets’, FaceBook Marketplace. @DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world suggested a Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro, and if you do some dilligent searching of Amazon, you can find some good deals on Used or Refurb computers.

That is totally awesome and cool bro. You’ll never hear me throw shade on someone for charting their own course in life or choosing a different path. In fact, to drop a little relevant Hendrix up in here:

“I’m the one who has to die when it’s time for me to die. So, let me live my life the way I want.”

As long as my life doesn’t interfere with your life, we’ll be just jippity jippity. Rock on! Git sum! It’s a big world. We can all coexist.

<shrug> It was there when I went and took a screen shot without refreshing.

It’s not acknowledging that part which seems out of touch.

I assure you, I am fully cognizant of what for-profit corporations do. It’s one of the reasons I turned off the TV over two decades ago. There just wasn’t any ROI for me.

There are a handful of things I do not self host.

• arr stack
• password managers
• anything financial

It’s not ‘out of touch’. It’s paying for (if it comes to that) a service that houses all of my business accounts, investment accounts, personal accounts, etc, and all with a pretty damn good track record. As with any technology, you must constantly evaluate it to see if what you are spending is justified for the service you are receiving. If at such time I feel the service isn’t worth the price, then sure. As of now, it’s not really an issue to me.

Man, I tell you, I wish I could live in a fantasy world where everything is free.

today it’s 1.65… tomorrow it’s 4.99… next week it’s 12.99… stop being a mindless sheep giving them any sort of leeway. you’re enabling the scammers to literally scam you more, and more and more.

‘Mindless sheep’. That’s hilarious. But I get it. Nobody likes to pay for shit.