Offering your opinion as an “actual argument with actual data” and a link to amnesty international does NOT constitute a coherent, well formed argument.
Reporting me with “uncivil comment” only shows your evasiveness to real discourse and that you will try to silence and put down anyone that disagrees with because you have no real argument to offer.
Good luck in the real world buddy, you’ll need it.
Given their religion
Definitely not an argument against a specific point, but a generalization against an entire population. Pretty much ad hominem on a large scale.
What a bigot with no actual argument. Begone now and thank you 😘
Bye
The setup seems quite beefy relative to anything I ever owned. I understand that my power bill will be more costly if I leave this running 24/7.
Compared to 4 RPi’s running 24/7, how much more energy do you suppose I’ll be expending?
I ask because my basic understanding of electrical engineering states that my system will only draw as much power as it needs (not the full rated 650W), so I’m not really sure how that compares to all 4 RPi’s running.
RPi Alternatives for Self-hosting
Hello everyone, I posted a couple of days asking for some advice on alternatives to RPi’s for self-hosting.
I guess I got VERY lucky and managed to buy the following setup from a surplus website for cheap (~$300). Here is the setup:
> MOBO: > > MSI B550 Gaming Plus > > > CPU: > > AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 4th Gen (8-Core, 16-Threads, unlocked) > > > GPU: > > NVIDIA GeoForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GDDR6 > > > RAM: > > 24GB (weird number but okay). They are all Corsair brand, not sure about the bandwidth and timing on them, haven’t had the chance to play around with them yet. > > > Storage: > > 512GB Samsung SSD > > > PSU: > > 650W (again, haven’t gotten to dig into the gritty-nitty details)
So far, on my random RPi’s, I have PiHole+Unbound, Homebridge, Wireguard server (will probably keep those three on a dedicated RPi), SearXNG, Paperless-NGX, Lemmy (duh), Nextcloud, Uptime Kuma, Plex (+Debrid) Server, Jackett, and a couple of other services I can’t really recall of the top of my head.
What and how would you recommend I set up my newest acquisition to host my services? Any specific OS to run to best handle all of this efficiently and with ease? It already came with Windows 10 pre-installed (and I’d like to keep it because my Ph.D. research uses many programs only available on Windows, SMH)
Thank you for your insight, I see your point.
Why do you say they abandoned desktop computers though? Aren’t they still designing and selling iMacs? Aren’t those considered desktop computers?
That is a great explanation. It makes perfect sense to me know. Thank you
Can you please explain to me the difference? How does a swapdisk compare to RAM? I don’t mind googling it but I highly doubt I’ll get a straightforward ELI5 style answer from there.
I would really appreciate it if you can elaborate, if you have the time that is.
Thank you.
Most of my services use a network mounted drive so storage isn’t really a factor (although the more the merrier of course).
My main bottleneck is computation power.
Just curious, why is an x86 architecture a sought after feature in your opinion? My understanding is that ARM is more “bang for your buck” in terms of computation effort to power draw.
I say this because my M2 (ARM based) MacBook does all sorts of heavy lifting and still lasts me more than a day on a single charge compared to my old Intel MacBook running the same services doing the exact same stuff.
Please correct me if I am wrong. I would really appreciate to learn more from people who have more knowledge than I am.
Where do people find equipment this cheap? Ya’ll are mind blowing with your ability to score things for such low prices.
Any links?
RPi Alternatives for Self-hosting
Here is the thing, I have 4 RPi’s of different generations (all the way from Zero W to 4B 4GB) that I use to host services at home for personal use.
Lately, I have realized I am running out of RAM to host more services, not to mention not enough switch ports to connect to.
Now I know the obvious solution is to get a more powerful setup (maybe a thin client) but electricity isn’t cheap and I am not particularly in the best shape financially speaking to shell out $300+ on a decent client to host my services.
Any suggestions?
New Generation OpenWRT Compatible Router
Hello everyone,
My current router from 2014 is starting to give up and I am searching for a new one to replace it. I have 3 criteria that I would like for my replacement to have:
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Be relatively new
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Less than a $150 USD
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Have enough power to run a network-wide VPN (my old router would max the CPU when running Wireguard and my speeds were very abysmal)
So far, I have found 3 routers that I am thinking of; Dynalink DL-WRX36, Linksys E8451, and Belkin RT3200. Truth be told, I am gravitating towards the Dynalink because it is the best overall for the price point it’s on.
I am hosting nextCloud, Lemmy, a plex_debrid serverc SearXNG, and so many more so I need hardware that is able to at least theoretically match my 1Gbps from my ISP over Wireguard with more computational power left over.
Your advice would be very appreciated.
Thank you.
Void Linux aarch64 chroot installation in VM on M1 MacBook
I am in the process of installing Void Linux inside a virtual machine on my M1 MacBook. I have followed the guide for chroot installation and I am having trouble getting it to work.
This is what I have done, and please correct me if I am wrong:
1- Created an empty virtual hard drive
2- Booted a live image of Arch Linux aarch64 due to the lack of Void Linux live image.
3- Using cfdisk, I create a gpt partition label and write 2 partitions (500MB /dev/vda1) and (Remaining free space /dev/vda2) with mount points (/boot/efi/) and (/), respectively.
4- Format as vfat and ext4, respectively.
5- Mount them as per the guide and then manually enter chroot.
6- Again, do pretty much everything as listed in the guide.
7- For (/etc/fstab), I do the following
```
Corresponds to /dev/vda1
UUID=1a2b.....uvw /boot/efi vfat defaults 0 2
Corresponds to /dev/vda2
UUID=3c4d.....xyz / ext4 defaults 0 1 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,nosuid,nodev 0 0
``` I am not using swap for sake of simplicity.
8- I install grub-arm64-efi and then issue the command grub-install --target=arm64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id="Void" --no-nvram. Note the --no-nvram because for some reason EFI variables are not available to me in UTM.
9- After the xbps-reconfigure -fa command, I exit and them attempt to unmount using umount -R /mnt only to be told that the device is busy. Using lsof returns nothing so I shutdown, remove the live Arch Linux image, and boot the system again only to be greeted with the UEFI shell.
I am not sure where my issue is and I would appreciate any help, advice, and/or guidance anyone can provide.
Thank you
Lemmy arm64 images for docker. Contribute to moe93/lemmy-arm64 development by creating an account on GitHub.
Feel free to use pre-built images or building your own