EDIT: i had an rpi it died from esd i think
EDIT2: this is also my work machine and i sleep to the sound of the fans
People who are proud of their gear post it.
You seldom hear from the folks running a half dozen VMs on a laptop.
We use containers now btw
My home lab is my windows gaming PC running containers on a Ubuntu VM as a guest os in Hyper-V.
We are all over the shop.I wish I knew how to do that. Can’t get my VMM or Virtual Box running well.
I run a cluster of VMs that run kubernetes and manage those VMs with containers that run Terraform and ansible. Along with baremetal RISC-V workflows and ASICs.
A tool is a tool and one should pick what works for them.
Why? Wouldn’t the VMs add extra complexity? Couldn’t you just run the containers on the machine?
I’m one of those people with an overkill setup.
Do you have experience with kubernetes or kubectl and DR or ASICs? Not everything should be a container or can do what an ASIC is built/designed for.
If I want a three node cluster for redundancy and speed I’ll need three baremetal machines. Or one hypervisor hosting 3 VMs that run my cluster nodes. I think there is a knowlege gap. Check out these links if you have more questions.
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/architecture/
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/kubespray-deploy-kubernetes
https://rudimartinsen.com/2023/12/29/kubernetes-cluster-on-vms-2024/
Also some things cannot run as a container due to having architectural differences. These are specifically designed chips for prototyping and software development.
https://www.ijert.org/asic-design-for-a-32-bit-risc-v-processor
Lastly we all have different needs for our home labs. I have to research new tech and processes for my job. It’s a lot of political overhead to get some stuff working on company hardware. I’m very lucky to have a good relationship with systems and storage so that I can buy older retired hardware to run at home. This is not everyone’s usecase and that’s fine.
I keep my laptop in a bookbag thanks.
You seldom hear from the folks running a half dozen VMs on a laptop.
That’s probably me. Blame it to working with automation systems that span from the early 90s to present day.
You seldom hear from the folks running a half dozen VMs on a laptop.
That’s probably me. Blame it to working with automation systems that span from the early 90s to present day.
PTSD flashbacks of trying to get CFEngine configured for deploying Windows 2k, Redhat 3 and Solaris 8 lmao.
I used to sell a product that OEMed CFEngine. My condolences.
I want to hear from them because that’s the setup I’m aiming for.
Where are you all discussing your shit so I can eavesdrop and steal ansible playbooks?
it’s the reason people post pictures of their cyber truck which can’t move when it snows while my ford has been plowing out neighbors since '97.
I feel so seen rn
I also host my stuff on oscilloscopes.
That pic looks very much like the corner of a memory validation lab I worked in at one point. Wouldn’t surprise me at all if someone who’s really into server hardware had a home setup like that.
I have setup like that because i do a lot of repairs and I’ve yet to acquire minipc for server purposes, plan to buy n100 fanless one, for now i have rented vps for 2 years for selfhosting purposes
Doing something scrappy with an old laptop is cool. Hey, built in UPS if the battery still works!
Doing something powerful and reliable with server class hardware is also very cool.
If it is meeting your needs, I’m happy for you.
Sorry to tell you I never had a battery
It even has an integrated UPS.
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Yeah, right, like UPS would be here this quickly (ba dum tss)
I never received the battery
Missing a Raspberry PI 4 setup which hosts a print server, an RTP server with two surveillance webcams and no password, and also seeds a terabyte of torrents over the local flower shop’s unencrypted WiFi.
Wow, that was a journey… :)
I just have an old laptop with a tui screen saver on it to prevent burn
also, the ssd doesn’t work with linux so i have to put the os on a usb stick
Try booting your installer without UEFI - I have an old x99 WS IPMI board I spun up with NixOS and has so many issues using the EFI / UEFI installer.
Admittedly that thing pulls 60w at idle, so promptly turned it off 😅
nah, it’s not uefi. linux straight up doesn’t even see the drive when it’s in the pc. according to archwiki, all laptops in its series work perfectly with Linux except for this one. the SSD does work externally in an enclosure though, so I’m using it for storage.
Ahh man that’s a pain, my old notebook has no sata and only 32gb of emmc (which I’m tempted to remove and add a larger chip), but it’s only being used for my 3D printer so it’s not really a pressing need yet.
Btw you can set it up to turn the screen off without sending it to sleep. I use a screen lock to do this, but other things probably work too
Poverty computing takes more balls. Like yeah, you got a nice Plex server and you can play Skyrim at max setting because you can afford a big NAS and a nice graphic card - no skills needed. I’m spending two hours trying to get the Sims to work on a fifteen year old laptop that I don’t think can even run a DE or running Puppy Linux off USB while waiting to afford a new hard drive.
I have an overkill hardware setup because it’s fun. No I don’t really need 4 servers in a Proxmox cluster with 64GB RAM each… but it’s cool lol. Besides the hardware was just gonna become ewaste anyway, I’m repurposing it
How did you get multiple 64 GB RAM sticks that would’ve been ewaste?
As it’s obsolete server hardware, I’m guessing each one has a bunch of low capacity ram sticks in it. And they’re probably not the regular consumer grade stuff, but some other spec.
Electricity meter go brrrrr
Hey, free heat in the winter…
You’re not wrong. Currently running 4 “servers” (describes their role, they’re really just repurposed desktops) and averaging 350W. Oof. Time to try ARM soon I think.
It was the same in my house, with a 19" rack and old workstations. I’m downsizing to a 10" rack and so far it’s quieter and cheaper (in the long run!)
They’re not even real servers actually, 2 of them are my old gaming PCs I built in 2012 and 2017 and I have many Dell Optiplexes and the like lying around I reuse for various things
I have upgraded some of the parts in them - including the RAM, because ballooning VMs are annoying - but it’s still true they’d be ewaste otherwise
64GB total each across 4 sticks haha. Well, one only has 32 but details.
BRB just making a backup
Just because you can afford to lose your weird niche fetish porn doesn’t mean I can afford to lose my calendar and contacts
Wow look at Mr FancyPants over there, your server has a screen, I just got something (RPi) the size of a matchbox! /s
Overkill is underrated.
I mean you aren’t going to host 100tb of porn in that laptop…yet 😘
Don’t even have 256G installed in that thing
Racks? None
Screens? Attached
Fans? Full blast
Oh yeah, it’s server laptop time
Less power is more power!
