JeanValjean

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[–] JeanValjean@piefed.social 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Phineas and Ferb. That's Dr. Doofenshmirtz.

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[–] JeanValjean@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If ours sold flamethrowers, I'd currently be out burning things that don't necessarily need burnt, but alas.

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[–] JeanValjean@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I'm guessing so. I'm in the Northeast US and our Aldi stores have a Hispanic end cap, but don't sell chickpeas; I just looked earlier this week.

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[–] JeanValjean@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Check the bottom shelf of the Hispanic end cap. That's where they are in the 3 Aldi stores nearby.

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[–] JeanValjean@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago

I had my appointment today, and got some chemical help, so progress is happening.

What's a realistic, low-power home server setup in 2025 for Plex/Jellyfin, Nextcloud, and reliable backups? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] JeanValjean@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

I started with your tier 3 and moved down to tier 2 because of power costs. I work for an MSP, so I have essentially infinite free last gen hardware from the ecycling pile, but the power consumption was too high. I'm in the process of moving from a Dell 720 rackmount to an HP EliteDesk 800 G5-SFF with 32 gigs of RAM that I put a pair of 4TB drives into, plus the 1TB on-baord NVME. Once I finish this migration I should save on the order of 250 watts, or 6 kWh per day, for a savings of about $40/mo in electricity. It's worth taking your electric rate into account when you size your hardware, and figure out how long your ROI is for that decision.

For storage, I have a 16-bay rackmount server chassis for my NAS with 8TB drives (see MSP comment above) so I don't have a good suggestion for consumer-grade hardware there. I know 16 spinning drives are pricey power-wise, but I just can't give up 100+ TB. I'm pondering adding another DAS shelf to grow the array even further, though that will eat a bunch of the power savings moving off of the 720. For the time being, the inertia of not ordering a PowerVault enclosure is saving me money,

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[–] JeanValjean@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've got an appointment later this week to talk to professional types because I'm not handling it well and I don't think they'd like to see me in the state I currently am.

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[–] JeanValjean@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

I hope that you can be too, even for just one person could mean all the difference.

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[–] JeanValjean@piefed.social 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

My person like that died last year and I'm still not okay.

Edit:
I appreciate the outpouring of support here.

Story time:

I grew up in an abusive household. My mother had BPD, and my sibling was the golden child. I was the scapegoat.
When things got too hot, I could just show up on my person's couch, middle of the night, and the only question ever asked was what I wanted for breakfast.

I've since moved across the country, but I ache for that sense of security again. Somewhere where I was always welcomed and never made to feel less than. Now that they've died, I fear I'll never find it again.

It's so hard to deal with, but I need help since it's been 14 months and I still cry near daily.

I've got an appointment later this week to get some professional help, because I don't think they'd appreciate the mess I've become since their passing.

Wish me luck.

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[–] JeanValjean@piefed.social 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I need 13EEEE and I found New Balance to be the easiest to find in that size, since I prefer fabric uppers.

Edit: looked at the shoe when I got home and it's a 481v3.

I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against. in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] JeanValjean@piefed.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

From an earlier post I made much like yours, I decided to go with incus. I'd be fully migrated if real life hadn't kicked me in the taint for a few weeks.

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Docker or Proxmox? Something else entirely? (piefed.social)
 

New server has been acquired. Debian 13 has been installed.

GS308EP switches have been acquired and installed.

Now, I'm working to migrate to the new machine. 3 1/2 years ago when I started futzing with Docker, I sorta followed guides and guessed, abused it trying to make it do things it wasn't designed for, and flipped switches I likely shouldn't have flipped, so the set up is more than a little shabby.

As a result, I'll likely end more redeploying than migrating the containers.

So rather than go forward with Docker blindly, I want to reassess whether I shouldn't look into Proxmox, LXC, or Podman instead of Docker, or maybe something else entirely?

Work is just about done dumping ESX for Nutanix, but both of those seem overkill for my needs.

Of course the forums for any of the solutions make their own out to be the best thing since sliced bread and the others useless, so I'm hoping to get a more nuanced answer here.

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Replacing switches (piefed.social)
 

I tried asking this in a different sub, but it got deleted, so trying here; if this is also the wrong place, I'm not sure where the right place is.

Working for an MSP, I have enterprise grade switches for my basement distribution and garage access switches, which came free from the e-cycling pile, but recent utility hikes have me rethinking things.

I'm currently running a HP 3500-48G-PoE+ yl Switch (J9311A) for the basement distribution switch, and a HP 3500-24G-PoE+ yl Switch (J9310A) as the garage access switch. My 2nd floor access switch is a USW-FLEX-MINI, though I'm looking to add a second one of these in the attic, both using PoE.

I try to keep one access switch in the same hardware class as the distribution switch in case of hardware failure. I don't really need 8 ports in the garage, but if the SHTF, I can do without internet in the garage, not so much in the house.

In the garage, the access switch is only hosting a PoE camera and access point, so there 8 ports is overkill, but redundancy.

After doing a hardware inventory, I can get by with 8 ports for the distribution switch, with at most 3 for PoE/PoE+, though I may need to move a raspberry Pi from the Distribution switch to an access switch.

I'm looking at PoE+ over straight PoE for future-proofing, Wifi 7 etc.

My current switches together idle at 226 watts, according to their spec sheets. I want to reduce that as a cost-saving measure.

I'm looking at the Netgear GS308EP and the TP-Link TL-SG108PE V5 as good enough replacements, as they both seem to do VLANs, which I use to keep IoT things on their own VLAN.

Anybody here have a preference, or something I haven't pondered which would be a better fit for my needs?

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New server sanity check (piefed.social)
 

So, for the last couple decades, I've been lucky enough to be a professional geek doing server support for what is essentially an MSP. Every few years when they cycle their servers, I get a free upgrade from the e-cycling pile. That's worked great, but the third utility price increase in the as many years has me looking to rightsize my home server.

I'm currently running a Dell 720 which was a VDI server in its previous life, meaning 384G of memory and 40 cores of Xeon E5-2680, but I'm only using 20G of memory running about a dozen Docker containers, including Jellyfin; my load average is less than 1. I've been using Debian on that server, but I'm comfortable in any distro.

Unfortunately, the iDRAC says this is running between 200 and 250 watts at base. The hardware is vastly overspec'ed and I'd like to lower my power usage, if possible, as I'm certain it's not going to get any cheaper as time passes.

I also need to retire an old W10 box running BlueIris and migrate to a Frigate Docker container before October, because I'm not buying a Windows 11 machine just for that.

So I need a sanity check for my plan, as I've been on the server-side so long that my knowledge of desktop technology is sorely lacking, and I suspect some people here are running the EliteDesk 800 as a server.

I want to pick up an HP EliteDesk 800 5g SFF with an i9-9500 or i7-9700, such as: https://www.amazon.com/HP-EliteDesk-800-G5-Desktop/dp/B0BZ9J54WK

I'm not beholden to buying from Amazon, it was just the first link I found at a reasonable price.

I've chosen the EliteDesk because of the AMT KVM, and the SFF to add 3 1/2 HDDs.

I have DIMMs I can borrow or buy to get it to 48 or 64 gigs.

I'm using less than a TB of local storage on the 720, as it uses expensive 10k SAS drives, so most storage is NFS from the NAS. As a result I'm looking at a 1TB NVME for local OS storage.

I plan to use a couple 4TB spinning rust SATA drives for Frigate storage in the new system.

Are any of the M.2 slots on the board compatible with the Coral M.2 accelerators for Frigate? Preferably the Dual Edge variety? I'm having a hard time finding what kind of slots they are. I know I can get a PCI-E adapter, but native is better.

Is the i5-9500 enough, or should I pay the extra $150 for the i7-9700?

Is the i5/i7 iGPU strong enough for Jellyfin or should I be looking for a discrete GPU?

Those of you running one, what does your power consumption look like?

Am I going about this completely wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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