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Cake day: September 1st, 2023

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  • You're more likely to solve the problem by yelling into a pillow

    You mean the Casper Original Pillow I'm buying with Klarna for 4 easy payments of $39.95 at 29.99% interest?

    I hear they're partnering with Amazon on a new version that has a tiny Alexa speaker in it that will whisper ads in your ear while you're sleeping unless you pay them $15 to turn it off. It's called the Casper Pillow Talk with Special Offers.

    Yelling: ALEXA! HOW CAN I GET CONSUMER PROTECTION IN THE UNITED STATES?

    Casper Pillow Talk with Special Offers: I'm sorry, I don't understand. By the way, did you know that Amazon Pharmacy is now selling antidepressants at a discounted price? To order, just say "Add Xanax to my next drone delivery". To receive the discount, say "I waive my right to sue Amazon via the justice system and agree to private corporate arbitration until the end of time!"









  • I have 4 ethernet cameras feeding into Frigate inside HAOS. HAOS is running in a Proxmox VM with 4 cores, 4GB RAM, 128GB storage and an m.2 Coral TPU passed through.

    The host machine is a Lenovo m910q with an i7-6700T processor that pulls about 35w, 32GB RAM and 1 TB NVMe.

    Frigate is set to retain clips for 5 days, after which they are deleted. I have a Samba Backup job that runs every night and retains 10 days of backups.

    With this setup, disk space never exceeds 50%, and CPU usage never exceeds 35%.



  • I use several separate small servers in a Proxmox cluster. You can get a used Dell or HP SFF PC from eBay for cheap (example). The ones I am using all came with Intel T series processors that run at 35w.

    You install Proxmox like any other OS (it’s basically Debian), then you can create VMs (or LXCs) to run whatever services you want.

    If you have existing drives in a media server, you can pass those drives through to a VM pretty easily, or any PCI device, or even the entire PCI controller.





  • Is there a window in the room the closet is in? I’ve got a similar setup with a server rack in a closet (no ventilation, though). I recently purchased an in-window Midea AC that can be controlled by Home Assistant.

    I have an automation that will kick on the AC if the temperature in the closet rises above a certain amount, and will shut down when it drops below that amount. I just leave the closet door open by about a foot and that seems to be sufficient.

    It’s probably worth noting that I’m running pretty efficient hardware (35w i7s and a 75w Tesla P4) so it doesn’t get super hot, even under heavy load.


  • I’ve been daily driving a Debian 11 Proxmox VM running on an HP ProDesk Elite SFF with an i7-6700T and an ancient Nvidia GeForce GT 730 passed through.

    I access it via ThinLinc running on a Dell Wyse 5070 Extended thin client. Works really well, even video isn’t bad, but it’s not for gaming.

    For gaming, I’m working on setting up a Nobara VM with an Nvidia Tesla P4 passed through.