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  • It is completely up to your local market and needs, ie for how much you can sell it, what you can buy etc…

    The only tips I can give you:

    • Do you REALLY need all of the compute power? Most people don’t and you would wast a ton on electricity. This point on it’s own is enough to push most to a mini pc. (Immich can run on basically any mini pc)
    • is there absolutely no other place for the server where the noise wouldn’t be an issue?
    • look into sound proofing, you could house it in a box lined with acoustic foam with a the airway taking multiple 90° turns to keep airflow while reducing noise.

    P.S:

    I personally went on an in-between, I have a large tower pc, basically a server but with hardware meant for mostly silent work, so it rarely get’s noisier than background.


  • That’s such a funny thing to say when like 90% of personal computers are basically used for browser and office, which both should be able to run perfectly fine on 8gb.

    Windows has been actively going down a ram thirsty route for some time now.

    You can easily have a fast and convinent system with 8gb of ram running most Linux distros with a browser of you choice and LibreOffice.

    My laptop right now is running CacheyOS with KDE with 8 tabs on librewolf (one of which is a playing 1080p video) libreoffice writer and a system monitor, all of this on a 4k screen and everything is snappy. My ram usage? 6.5gb and no swap.

    Windows 11 struggles to run smoothly on 8gb, let alone running multiple programs and videos playing.

    So what the hell are you talking about?







  • For docker compose I have a part of the script that gets all subdirs of “projects” dir and for each one does an update (that way any new service will be updated without having manually specify in the script) for everything else I just hard coded the update process.

    Generally 90% of my updates are just running the script, on the other 10% I do some manual work (like updating configs, etc)

    But for the most part this is me refusing to use already existing tools that could probably do most of this better





  • My worst rack experience was at an office I did IT in, the networking closet had 3 racks and like 20 switches/routers, each one with almost all the ports in use.

    There. Was. No. Cable. Management. None…

    Everytime someone changed something over the years, they would grab the nearest cable and connect it however they wanted.

    You literally had to craw between cables and follow them with your hand from one port to the other as there was no other way to find what went where.

    I’m talking 10-15 minutes to switch a cable from two switches on the same rack.

    I once spent 2 hours mapping out where 1(!) endpoint was connected because the cable died (they were all basically trash) and there was no mapping so I had to use a line tracer (tone generator)