Lenovo ThinkCentre M715q, Lenovo ThinkCentre M93p

separate cheap newer N100 cpu node for jellyfin, other encoding

Intel NUC NUC8i5BEHS for k3s control plane, little more expensive but reliable.

i usually replace Thinkcentre fans w noctua for power draw, performance, and noise. and remove wifi module, not needed, draws power, closed blob firmware, is a risk. pops out easy, no config changes needed in Debian.

amazing, well done! i run Debian on cheap used Thinkcentre PCs, run as k3s worker nodes just fine.

i invited my friends too. almost seems like if many people do this number goes up.

Everyone has jobs, families, and lives. What is your point?

We did start a nonprofit this year, https://electronica.repair/. We don’t have a lot of money so we do our due diligence on who we support.

https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin

use this instead of tailscale or other corporate options. tailscale is going for IPO, their service cannot survive investor greed.

just get a cheap n100 box, don’t overspend

omg and do NOT do fireside chats like you are a bunch of enlightened executives. no wonder you need to beg for donations.

start a nonprofit that hosts services, gather donations for equipment and other stuff.

what is so difficult here?

it would be amazing if geerlingguy was the one to make youtube go mask off

ansible has a learning curve but will save you a lot of time in long run over bash.

write playbooks rhat target groups of similar hosts instead of a playbook for each distinct host, target specific hosts with -l flag of ansible-playbook.

look into molecule for testing sooner than later. helps you be more confident your plays will work as expected vs running trial and error on a host and getting it into a bad state. i run on bare metal so more important for my workflow not to wipe a folder with a typo, etc.