bump.

@laserjet - I’ve never failed to fix an issue with beets using the docs.

I use beets. highly configurable, good documentation. cli, though. I think someone was working on a browser plug-in…🤔

no doubt.

I remember when you’d put a jacket on before you went in the halls… but now everyone wears shorts.

10-15 degrees is all you need to keep a “cold aisle” at 85degf, most places, on the worst day.

IIRC Amazon figured out that individual components could actually run hotter within an acceptable replacement window.

higher equipment replacement is more than offset by the fact they don’t have to do refrigerant based cooling which makes daily operation ridiculously cheap… no pumps or complicated mechanical devices to produce cooling… no people with special skills to maintain them, etc.

critical data centers use swamp coolers because they don’t have to treat the water or expose it to contamination from outside. they use straight domestic water… super cheap.

if the conductivity gets too high, they dump the basin and fill with fresh… rinse and repeat.

a chiller is not a swamp cooler.

picture a fan with a wet sponge in front of it… that is a swamp cooler.

oh man! I just poked ptsf@lemmy.world for a Austria!=Australia flub in another thread… my come uppins!

yes. I programmed and integrated swap coolers at Amazon data centers. when the cool air hits the hot aisles the humidity goes down.

is liquid cooking cooling really necessary? critical data centers I have worked in use swamp coolers. cheaper, more efficient, more reliable, uses same water as your house…

edit: d’oh! :)

this looks similar to beets.

have you tried that? top notch, IMO. actively developed, awesome documentation.

https://github.com/beetbox/beets

don’t LLMs create works of fiction most of the time anyway? 😜

https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php

oh, she was. found her several years earlier in a trash pile at an office building I was working at… with the protective plastic still stuck on the screen.

she met her doom against a concrete floor during a studio shuffle… sad day.

was going through some old pictures and decided I’d post a retro setup. pretty sure I took this picture with my android g1…so 2008ish?

here is a pic of one of my first selfhost setups. I began selfhosting for music and have never stopped. this iteration was stuffed behind a bar that was built in to the basement at my old house

the old fashioned was custom built and was running some flavor of windows server. the one on the floor was the first Linux server I had run to do something useful…torrents and subsonic IIRC. I pieced that server together with random parts, mostly donated from old family PCs. two UPS units were on the bottom rack of that metro shelf to battery back the servers and the tomato router out of frame.