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Home servers are a very valid solution to a whole new series of modern problems.
Totally worth it.
People buy home servers? They don’t just find them lying about and say to themselves “I’ll put Debian on this old piece of shit and see what I can get away with running”?
Huh.
I mean, parts gotta come from somewhere.
The real trap of the home server is the ever increasing need for more storage space
I often find computers in trash, a stick of ram here an HDD there. Didn’t spend a euro on my server.
Yeah it’s less like something new and more like “Thank you, ancient me, for deciding it was always a good policy to go heavy on the RAM.”
See, this is why I’m afraid to go to the local recycler. I’d wind up coming home with more potential Linux systems than I know what to do with.
Pssh. You bought your home server instead of just assembling it from a box of scraps you had lying around?
Ok, hear me out. Yes it was built from scraps, but see what had happened was:
I had to replace the motherboard and got a good deal on one bundled with RAM at MicroCenter. Got it home to do the swap and realized I’d bought an ATX board when I had a mid tower.
So then I went and bought a nice big new case so I had space to work in. Then I found my power supply (which was reused, but missing cables and this wasn’t an issue before) was missing cables I needed.
So another trip to MicroCenter and coming up empty on these damn cables I needed for the power supply I said fuck it and bought a new one. Only to get it home of course and find out the fucking connectors were non standard mini connectors and the cables that came with it were too short.
So I had to run back to MicroCenter and swap it.
So more money than I tracked later and I basically ended up with the Server of Theseus.
Oh and then after a couple of months my reused RX480 started triggering thermal shutdowns (I think) so I ended up replacing my 1080TI with a 3080 and tossed the 1080 in the server.
look at this blessed individual who has a MicroCenter within reach, lucky you!
It’s a bit of a drive tbh. Like 45 minutes, but still within reach.
I miss Fry’s tho.
On a related note, is Serial Experiments: Lain actually available to watch anywhere, or would I have to take to the high seas?
Just came across these full series videos in a search:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHSbAz1hu9sRXDQasCqDcq1oQDIm0sf0M
It’s on any of the myriad of anime sites. You also shouldn’t pay for media that could legally drive.
Edit: myriad
*myriad
I don’t see it on Netflix or Crunchyroll currently.
High seas or check fmhy I got the series about a month ago its still out there
I have it on DVD but I heard it was reposted on Usenet recently.
If you watched it long ago and liked it, you might wish to just leave it there. Just my entirely-worthless opinion here, but I recently rewatched it for the first time in decades and for me it did not hold up at all.
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Thanks for reminding me. I spend far to long trying to remember where that picture was from.
(Also: setting sails for the high seas…)
Cheaper to rent a decent vps than to pay for the electricity for some old slug of a machine in your house in this economy
Riskier too if you care about privacy, sovereignty and self-determinism.
Barely
Higher chance that your machine dies
Homeserver in this economy?
Yeah man, think of all the money you’ll save on streaming subscriptions once you build it
(Just ignore the usenet, VPN, and indexer costs)
/s
My take is, I’d rather spend double on all that (becuase I can), support and share with other users, than give a dime to fucking corpos pushing ai slop and promoting fascist military invasions (that’d be Spotify).
Oh I’m right there with you.
Not only that, then I own my media. Sure its more work, but I actually find it fun so win win
Uhhh… I just pirate it.
Yeah. Youd be surprised how many people just throw away computers. Ask around, im sure someone you know has one lying around theyd like to get rid of (maybe with some minor problem like needing a new hard drive or something)
Hard drives are so expensive I’m considering buying a 2U chassis and using old drives to expand my NAS as opposed to replacing small drives with larger ones. The only thing holding me back is the effort and the noise.
I have 20 500GB HDDs I got for free off a client who was disposing of some old desktops, daisy chained through a series of powered USB hubs currently hosting my Jellyfin and Immich content.
I regret nothing.
I would regret the power usage of running 20 small hard drives as opposed to a few big ones but the cost of electricity is definitely still smaller than the cost of big hard drives
Cyberia Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dbi4N6NGn4
If you ever wondered why The Matrix tied EDM to the Hackerscene, blame this song
I have high availability that requires 2.5x the maintenance. My CPUs draw 0.1-0.6 times the electricity and I have 10 of them. My base OS is more secure but my VM OSes pull from repos in 5 sanctioned countries. I don’t have to pay for tokens because I self-host my own LLMs using 4 rtx5090s and 256GB of RAM (that I purchased in summer 2026).
Well ooh lala mr money bags. (Also: nice!)
Well la di fuckin da! 😂
All kidding aside, nice!
I’m two episodes into Serial Experiments Lain and this looks about right for where things are headed.
I really enjoyed it, hope you like it.
She got another Stuffed bear! Thanks linux!
Disagree, more like the opposite. Now all my machines can be managed with portable scripts that handle common tasks. When I used windows I didn’t even bother scripting usually because it’s a shit show. And fuck powershell before anyone says “it’s totally not that bad despite the non standard… Practically everything”
