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dogma11

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  • How much sleep do you get a day and how much would you like to get a day?

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  • Good days and bad days. I have a car, place to live, food in my fridge and cupboards and money in my bank account. Maybe one day I'll be able to pick up and move somewhere cheaper but in the meantime, one day at a time.

  • How much sleep do you get a day and how much would you like to get a day?

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  • Some days I honestly don't know. I work for AWS in one of their many data centers as a critical facilities technician.

  • How much sleep do you get a day and how much would you like to get a day?

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  • 3-4 hours a day, working minimum 12 hour shifts, usually 13-14, 4 days a week, 3 days when I can.

  • What way does your thumb bend?

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  • My thumbs used to bend back 90° or more but after years of abusing them and a few injuries, severed tendon here and there, they only bend forwards and straight up now :/

  • Should I just lie on job applications and say I have a college degree?

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  • No. Put real world examples of your work. Homelab shit, word some shit you did for friends or family as work experience. Anything that isn't just an outright lie.

    Just to help make you feel a bit better about your job hunt, I finally got a position with AWS after some 6 years of actively sending out applications and resumes to anyone and everyone. In the end what got me the job (I think) is real experience and good understanding of the basics needed for my position. No real experience in my new role but a lot of related experiences in previous. Also a lot of practice with Amazon's STAR method of story telling, it really helps lay down the information that interviewers want to get out of you, even if they aren't Amazon.

    It also doesn't hurt to find and get certifications! There's quite a few out there and can be gotten fairly easily and cheaply (and some not so cheaply lol)

  • Looking for advice buying a laptop - lists of requirements inside

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  • This 1000%. I picked up a t480s a number of years ago and I couldn't be happier with it. Came with a half dead battery that was easily replaced. Lasts a good 6 hours on a charge and does everything I need a laptop to do.

  • Moving servers and rack equipment

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  • lol I feel small and inadequate.

    Have you had much in the way of bad luck with the move being done piecemeal?

  • Moving servers and rack equipment

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  • Thanks for all the information and tips everyone!In the end I'm gonna end up doing a combination of things.

    Spinning disk drives and power supplies are removed from all systems, large unsecured cards removed from desktop so they can't flop around on the PCIe connection, servers removed from rack, everything wrapped and strapped down as needed.Drawers mounted in the rack will also be removed as well as UPS, everything else weighs next to nothing and can be safely left in the rack. Most likely store stuff in the cavity of the rack and then wrap the whole rack tight in a plastic packing wrap. I'll get a moisture control box for closets, bathrooms, mud rooms and storage stuff to help control the humidity inside the trailer during the move.My trip will end up being around 1,600 miles in 2 parts. From Texas to Iowa to Virginia, so who knows what all kind of weather I'll be hitting.

    Thanks again for all the help, I'm pretty confident I'll be able to get everything moved safely.

  • Moving servers and rack equipment

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  • Thanks for the information!

  • Moving servers and rack equipment

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  • I like the plywood and felt pads idea, thank you.I'll definitely be taking all the hard drives out and wrapping and packing them in boxes.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    dogma11 @lemmy.world

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  • Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery

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  • Hard drives, especially spinning discs, and RAM are probably the biggest factor at idle. I dropped my servers' idle draw from 220w to 180w by dropping it's RAM and replacing some older drives.

  • What are your Homelab goals for 2025?

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  • Nginx is pretty simple to run as a reverse proxy. Caddy is even easier but not as scalable.

    HAProxy looks intimidating at first but it's pretty easy and very scalable and performant. Wendell from Level1Techs has a nice writeup on their forums

    Oh, there's also Nginx Proxy Manager that is very clean and very easy to work and manage with it's nice web UI

  • What are your Homelab goals for 2025?

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  • Frigate and a Coral TPU work amazing. I've had them and Home Assistant setup for the last year or so and have been quite happy.

  • Self hosted solution for phone photo backup

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  • Yunohost seems pretty good. I've only had experience with CasaOS as a self hosting framework.

    I run all my stuff in Proxmox

  • Self hosted solution for phone photo backup

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  • Probably be Ente even if it does take a little bit to configure it and get a web UI and stuff. PhotoPrism was easy for me to get up and running with Proxmox and the great community scripts to setup a container but having to have photosync is a drawback I don't care much for.

    I believe both have something to like a memories feature

  • Self hosted solution for phone photo backup

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  • Self hosted solution for phone photo backup

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  • I've been using Ente Photos, and PhotoPrism and I've been liking Ente pretty well. Little bit more work to get things setup and going but I've been enjoying it for the last few months

  • Tell me why I shouldn't use btrfs

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  • I've been running a btrfs storage array with data on raid5 and metadata I believe raid1 for the last 5 or so years and have yet to have a problem because of it. I did unfortunately learn not to fully trust the windows btrfs driver but was fortunately able to restore from backups and redownloading.

    I wouldn't hesitate to set it up again for myself or anybody else, and adding a UPS would be icing on the cake. (I added UPS to my setup this last summer)

  • Immich vs. PhotoPrism

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  • I've been testing Ente out the last few weeks and so far it's pretty good. Easy enough to setup and point the app to my instance. A little annoying to keep seeing a free tier limit being listed on a self hosted instance. Hopefully it doesn't actually do anything, we'll see when I hit it though