JustEnoughDucks

JustEnoughDucks , 3 days ago

But to be fair, even 2 ASUS WiFi 6E on their zenwifi like for example are like >300€. A Cloud gateway ultra + U7 pro + PoE injector is around that too. For me the router/AP entrance is in a place that barely gives a signal so it makes so sense to have an access point there.

So I would get more or less the same signal with 1 access point + a wired router than 2 access points.

Depends on your situation of course.

JustEnoughDucks , 21 days ago

My simple itx 2700X server with 2 HDDs was idling significantly less than 55W that his synology was and it isn't even have low idle power consumption like the synology.

Definitely something off with his method or configuration.

JustEnoughDucks , 7 months ago

For the casual selfhoster, The Node 304 is hard to beat. Great cooling potential (U14S) with a 140mm exhaust, ATX power supply, 6 3.5" + 2 SSDs, and GPU all in <20L. I can literally sneak my server in anywhere!

JustEnoughDucks , 7 months ago

Yeah that is quite a few drives! But then you are reaching datahoarder levels.

I have been selfhosting for 3 years now and I am still on my first mirrored 4TB drive set 😅 I will get an 8 or 10 next and probably be set for like 10 years with 4 drives. If I pass that, I will need to saxrifice my M.2 boot drive for an M.2 sata controller. iTX problems.

Node 804 has something cool, 10 drives in a complete seperate chamber with separate cooling than the “normal” parts, plus micro ATX for a PCIe SATA controller.

JustEnoughDucks , 8 months ago

For us Europeans, we have to consider efficiency a lot.

My server with a b450 + 2700X + Arc A380 + 2 HDDs idles at 60W with no power tuning.

With a 0.30€ per kwh assuming always idle, that is 160€ per year.

You might be better buying an Intel NUC.

You van get a nuc13 with an i5-1240p that has decent transcoding power and idles at 8W. That is a ton of power savings per year vs consumer desktop hardware. I would do that if I had to make my server over again. Essentially the same cost with much lower power costs.

JustEnoughDucks , 8 months ago

Really depends. If you have 1 device that uses 10W with 90% efficiency, you lose 1 W. If you have 10, 1W devices with 90% efficiency, you lose 1 watt.

It is less efficient if X device has lower efficiency or if you have DC/DC converters in series (which is likely with PoE), but likely it is negligable difference.

JustEnoughDucks , 9 months ago

I work in belgium now. Electronics Engineer

The car is because they don’t pay you shit for actual salary and a car is a huge tax cut (they budget 500 euros per month at my company). However, CoL is lower than America in most places.

They don’t pay your transit costs, some jobs have “meal check” compensation so 8€ per day or so. Not bad. Only some companies give phones. Probably ad many give work phones in America.

Also there is minimal or no pension fund contribution in many/most jobs and the pension system is on the brink of collapse it seems. No Roth IRAs here or anything. Don’t get paid enough to invest in anything. Everything goes into the house here because almost every single house that is affordable to people under 40 has to be stripped and fully renovated.

Also jobs are scarce right now. 2 companies hiring for PCB design stuff within 25 km of my house…

But as a whole, 32 required days of holiday by law, going to the doctor costs 4€ instead of 400, there isn’t any stigma about using all of your holiday, and consumer and worker protections are very good! Plus great public transportation.

JustEnoughDucks , 9 months ago

What’s more efficient? Heating a small home that id well insulated and geared towards economical energy use or heating massive empty spaces of a practically non-insulated office building with massive heaters while at the same times the homes are being heated? (Albeit to a lower temperature)

JustEnoughDucks , 9 months ago

No it means that a single distro won’t, by default, use X11. You are free to install it yourself if you choose to use that specific distro.

It doesn’t say anywhere that KDE won’t support X11…

Also the fact that Nvidia works so badly in so many scenarios on linux is 80% of the fault of Nvidia, not KDE…

JustEnoughDucks OP , 10 months ago

I realized I never took any great pictures of it since this was lower priority, but here is a few that I have that include the bench to give an idea imgur.com/a/KgiqHrC

JustEnoughDucks OP , 10 months ago

I looked into this and it seems there are 0 food safe concrete sealers available in Belgium that I can find. Strange.

JustEnoughDucks , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

We are renovating our Atelier to be a temporary house while we strip and redo the main house. My girlfriend’s parents have done a full renovation, he is an industrial electrician, her brother is a woodworker just out of school and a modular house designer. They are all super helpful and I am so grateful and learning a lot.

During the 2 weeks I worked only 2 days per week and a few weekends before we have:

• trash removal of previous owner
• ripped out electrical in the main house
• tore down the gyprock in one room and found that the main house and atelier both have a moisture blocking barrier after the first brick layer
• washed away the gritty loam paint that the previous owner had used over much of the house
• primed and painted the entire 44m^2 atelier stone walls
• placed 6cm cheaper insulation in the storage area since there it was only 1 brick thick instead of 2 bricks plus a space.
• cut a hole in the brick wall for the gas heater stove
• got a quote for switching to 3-phase 25A, 400V and prepared the site
• made a temporary fence to keep our dog in the first piece of our garden that is closed on the sides
• cut and dug trenches inside for gas, water, electric and internet
• broke up and hauled away 6cm thick concrete slab where we had to route things under
• placed and hooked up electrical in the atelier loft, storage room, and the outdoor storage shelter behind it
• made technical drawings for electrical, gas, sewer, and water
• found a quality 2nd hand gas stove to heat during our mild winters
• dug out and mapped sewer and gas lines through the property
• dug a 24 meter trench 70cm deep and laid water, gas, and 3-phase electric (in a flexible pipe) in that layer, and laid internet and sewer at ~40cm deep with a measured 1cm per meter “afwatering.”
• Quotes for redoing the asbestos filled roof in the main house and currently setting up asbestos testing for the slanted wall since the attestation documentation seemed to be wrong and there is asbestos-based insulation according to a roofer + asbestos remover we got a quote from
• temporarily rennovated the small bathroom, repainted, replaced the broken toilet, removed the leaky sink, and re-silicones the tiny sitting bath/shower and replaced the shower head
• Found 30m^2 of click laminate for 40€. Proud of that find. Good condition too.

Next up is hooking up the gas and water fittings fully inside, getting a plumber to come test and hook us up to the main 22mm line to the boiler in the house, place and hook up the electrical in the kitchen/living room and for the appliances, find a 2nd hand oven, stove, and fume hood, and fill in the inside trenches and re-pour the concrete, place the floors and finish up for the year in the next month.

JustEnoughDucks , 11 months ago

Over the pond here on belgium we have 2 main consumer brands that are quality: Makita and Bosch.

Then for more professional use there is Festool that is a pretty penny.

Less options but in the US, most of the “options” are owned by the same 2-3 companies anyway.

JustEnoughDucks , 1 year ago

I found out that short flat green lawns ate a British nobility thing. Lots of other cultures had elaborate gardens and other cool things, bit the British were boring as fuck and colonized everyone.

Back before lawn mowers you had to be super rich to hire someone to pretty much full time take care of your lawn. It propogated to all of their colonies, including Africa where they would use a ton of water and non-native species to “make it feel like home.”

Then the US took this shit idea and ran with it