Trainguyrom

joined 2 years ago
[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 10 hours ago

Oh yeah it would never actually happen but a person can dream, right?

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I did some measuring on Google Earth and the distance from sidewalk (or on roads without a sidewalk from the road) to the front of houses in a major city nearish to me and found a few neighborhoods 50 feet to the house was about the standard. They also had 50 foot deep backyards!

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 9 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

Most suburban streets are 50 feet wide, many suburban front yards are 50 feet deep. That's a wasted space 150 feet wide and however long the street is long. Think of how much housing could be built in that space if you tore up that road, and in its place put a pair of alleyways housing in the middle

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Choosing to have kids means you're going to have a tiny human that you can shape and nurture into an incredible adult. The choices you make as a parent directly impact how your kid grows up, what they do professionally or for fun, their values and their moral compass. Its a huge responsibility but also its incredibly rewarding when you see the choices you made actively make your child into a better person. Every time you see your child make the right choice on their own based entirely on your earlier guidance, every achievement that they make, every little improvement in their capabilities

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm guessing my kids are younger than yours, but I've taken the approach of simply keeping a loose eye and ear on what they're watching to make sure they're not on too bad of content and of course limiting how much time they can spend on brainrot content. They spend most of their TV time watching PBS kids or some ripped DVDs on my Jellyfin

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The family thing can be a pain, Microsoft has a lot of half baked ideas

I concur, Microsoft forced me to create a family to setup my daughter's Minecraft account and even then I had to configure it incorrectly to add the game because it's age rating was too high for a 5 year old and Microsoft's own parental approval feature doesn't override that. (I at least could change it back to being a 5 year old's account afterwards) I need to figure out what setting I have to enable to let her do multiplayer at some point but so far she doesn't have anyone to play with yet

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago

Win+Shift+arrow to kick the active window to another monitor is handy when remoting into a PC with multiple monitors.

Also, when did windows get rid of the idea of a primary display? It seems to just open software on whatever screen it feels like now...

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago

It would probably helpfully suggest LinkedIn after you so much as type the L

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago

It just feels weird that this car is the line people draw.

To me the problem is that it's an expensive, oversized, poorly made vehicle designed by a Nazi who even at the time of announcement was expressing some pretty distasteful views.

Other older Tesla's I can give the benefit of the doubt to as they're some of the cheapest and at times most ubiquitous electric vehicles available, but the cyber truck is not cheap and it doesn't predate Elon's obvious slide into being a nazi

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

At least it wasn't decided by a strange woman lying in a pond distributing swords. That would be no basis for a system of governance!

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago

I recently dined at a place in Belvedere called Taqueria El Molcajete that was really good and was to the best of my knowledge quite authentic. They specify iAmerican vs Mexican style tacos (lettuce cheese and tomato vs cilantro and onion) in the taco section, and brought out a variety of homemade salsas with the complimentary homemade chips

 
 

I placed a low bid on an auction for 25 Elitedesk 800 G1s on a government auction and unexpectedly won (ultimately paying less than $20 per computer)

In the long run I plan on selling 15 or so of them to friends and family for cheap, and I'll probably have 4 with Proxmox, 3 for a lab cluster and 1 for the always-on home server and keep a few for spares and random desktops around the house where I could use one.

But while I have all 25 of them what crazy clustering software/configurations should I run? Any fun benchmarks I should know about that I could run for the lolz?

Edit to add:

Specs based on the auction listing and looking computer models:

  • 4th gen i5s (probably i5-4560s or similar)
  • 8GB of DDR3 RAM
  • 256GB SSDs
  • Windows 10 Pro (no mention of licenses, so that remains to be seen)
  • Looks like 3 PCIe Slots (2 1x and 2 16x physically, presumably half-height)

Possible projects I plan on doing:

  • Proxmox cluster
  • Baremetal Kubernetes cluster
  • Harvester HCI cluster (which has the benefit of also being a Rancher cluster)
  • Automated Windows Image creation, deployment and testing
  • Pentesting lab
  • Multi-site enterprise network setup and maintenance
  • Linpack benchmark then compare to previous TOP500 lists
 
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Trainguyrom@reddthat.com to c/homelab@lemmy.ml
 

I'm just going to be vulnerable for a minute here. I met the first person in real life who had similar server-y linux-y obsessions to me and we'd send eBay links of systems to drool over to eachother. They ended up being a terrible person but hid it from me pretty well until they couldn't anymore and now I no longer have someone to chat with about those things.

So um, I guess I'm open for applications for the position of "nerdy friend who I nerd too hard with about network infrastructure and Linux packages" now

Edit: Autocorrect errors manually corrected

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