Dell Optiplex 7040

Full size tower or micro?

If micro, then is the 4TB HDD an internal 2.5" form factor or something else?

The moving parts of the garage door are on the bottom side of the rail, right?

From their GH:

Hollo is a simple, single-user microblogging tool powered by Fedify. It lets you run your own little corner of the internet: think of it as your personal Mastodon instance, but stripped down to the essentials.

I love the idea of Pixelfed and briefly checked it out a couple years ago, bounced off it b/c hash tags weren’t federated, and other issues that I don’t remember the specifics of. For example, when I click on #cats in a photo caption, I want it to show me photos across all instances w/ that hash tag, like the “All” feed in Lemmy.

I don’t wanna poo poo on something that is essentially a free service for plebs like myself, but I remember things being just broken/ incomplete enough and it seemed like its original creator had already moved on to other projects that I filed it under “things w/ potential that aren’t quite there yet (and may never get there).”

How do you connect your disks to your host machine? Are they in an external cage w/ SATA-to-USB adaptors or mounted internally to SATA ports?

raspberry pi and an HDD with family (remote)

Is this the way to go for off-site backups w/ family? In terms of low power draw, uptime, etc.

That’s a handy tool, thanks for posting it. Do you happen to know how the lists are sorted? It’s not alphabetical.

you can use one of a million Jitsi instances (Element has a publicly available one)

Is there a list of public Jitsi instances? I know about https://meet.jit.si/, but otherwise I’m stumped. Searching DDG for jitsi instances returns a bunch of results about self hosting.

It’s also important to make sure the code makes sense and is documented so whoever reads it 2 years from now (be that you, someone else, or I guess another llm) will understand what they are looking at.

Fair points, although it seems to me the original commenter addresses this at the end of their first paragraph:

Then review the entire git diff and have it refactor as required to ensure clean and maintainable code while fixing any broken tests, lint errors, etc.

Josh Meissner’s article about the acquisition of bike route sharing app Komoot is a sobering reminder of the risks of partnering with for-profit organizations and the damage done when their owners’ interests no longer align with the communities they serve.

Really enjoyed Rphyrin’s diary entry about their field mapping workflow while traveling along the west coast of Java. I often rely heavily on photos with location and direction data enabled, occasionally augmented by voice memos and GPX tracks, which I import into JOSM for my updates.

Lauren Leek’s post about London restaurants was a good read. Her description of Google Maps as more of a market maker than a simple directory is spot on.

10 commodity SSDs through a powered USB hub forming a poor man’s NAS with snapraid + mergerfs

How did you end up with this setup? Did you just already have a bunch of SSDs from over the years? That’d be cool af if you posted a photo of it.

For the NAS, what do you use for storage? Do you have an external drive hooked up via USB or something else?

As a fellow surveyor, oldnab’s diary post is so relatable!

Thanks for clarifying. If I understand correctly, you’re saying that in terms of energy usage, a thin client + external docking station for HDDs might have a smaller footprint than an ITX build, but at the expense of future upgradeability. On the other hand, an ITX build would likely draw more power than the thin client + external HDDs, but enables me to upgrade individual components down the road. Did I get that right?

I would only consider those thinclients if AI is something you are planning to run.

Do you mean b/c AI would require a beefy host for the thin client to connect to?

Thanks for clarifying that. One last question if you don’t mind – some listings (such as this one) say “no OS,” and “You must reload the unit to gain original factory functionality.” Are they just talking about installing my own OS or does “reloading” mean something else in the context of these thin clients that I’m not aware of?

Gotcha, although I’m in the US, so would something like this DELL WYSE 5070 THIN CLIENT Intel Celeron J4105 1.50GHZ 8GB RAM 64GB SSD No OS ($34 w/ free shipping) be comparable?

Beelink ME Mini

Would something like this be suitable as a NAS + Jellyfin + Home Assistant box?