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If you don’t mind loud and hot, check out old Arista devices.

This.

I found a picture with a single set of ears on the front. But the spec sheet says it weighs 50lb. Personally I’d put it on a shelf or universal rails, then use the ears to keep it in place.

And you can mount the partition in your live USB boot?

It sounds like your bootloader doesn’t recognize the file system at that device path.

That’s fantastic. I’m taking notes for if/when I get a cat again.

I’m not sure how Ansible made it on your list. Ansible lets you apply configuration and ensure applications are installed on groups of machines. It works across a variety of Linux distros.

Thanks for the AI tag

I recommend this too. I’m using kubernetes for other stuff, but HAOS for Home Assistant. Super easy to manage. And it works great on small, appliance machines (I’m using Home Assistant Green).

I’m mostly a lurker. I’ve also been selfhosting for at least a decade, and I’m a professional in the IT sphere.

I wholeheartedly support this rule change. Hardware is a big part of selfhosting/home labs. And for some people, it’s a hard leap to make.

If we end up seeing lots of redundant posts (e.g. “Can I use my old laptop to host stuff?”), we can always start an FAQ or something. But until and unless it becomes a problem, keeping the rule simple sounds perfect.

Remap it to escape if you’re a vim user.

One rule of thumb I’ve heard for estimating repairs as a homeowner is to take however long you think it should take, double the number and increase the time unit

• “I can do that in two hours” --> 4 days
• “It should take a day” --> 2 weeks
• “It’s a short project. Maybe a month.” --> 2 years

Do this.

Whether it would fry the NFC tag or not, you want as little distance as possible between the wireless charger and phone. More distance is less efficient (more heat, more wasted power, slower charging).

On the CPU side, the only Intel procs I’ve used are old enterprise gear for my homelab. No issues there.

On the GPU side, I’ve exclusively used Nvidia for… Actually I don’t remember the last time I used a non-nvidia GPU. The most common problem I’ve run into is updating my drivers and forgetting to reboot. the only other problem I’ve had is years back, I bought the latest gen card, and Nvidia hadn’t updated their official Linux drivers yet.

With your hardware, I’d expect things to work fine.

This. Smart thermostats are pretty straightforward to install.

I don’t know anything about that specific model, but one option for most mini split and window AC units is to get a smart IR blaster.

Alternatively, “No” is a complete sentence.

Which logs did you look at already?

If you’re using journalctl, I think you should have shutdown messages in the log. You might need to filter by the previous boot for them though (https://linuxhandbook.com/journalctl-boot-logs/).

For dmesg, you might have old, rotated logs from previous boots in your /var/logs folder.

I’d expect any logs around power management to end up in one or both of those places.

You could also try manually triggering a suspend or hibernate to see what happens. I remember having a machine that would suspend fine, but if it was suspended too long, it would hibernate. And for some reason it didn’t know how to come back up after a hibernate.

In an enterprise setting, you shouldn’t trust the server firewall. You lock that down with your network equipment.

Edit: sorry, I failed to read the whole post 🤦‍♂️. I don’t have a good answer for you. When I used docker in my homelab, I exposed services using labels and a traefik container similar to this: https://docs.docker.com/guides/traefik/#using-traefik-with-docker

That doesn’t protect you from accidentally exposing ports, but it helps make it more obvious when it happens.

If this needed a permit + inspection, that could be a good route to getting the contractor to fix the work. Or having it inspected by the engineer.

Also, if you have a trusted third party fail the inspection and the contractor doesn’t fix it, you have good documentation for whatever next step you take (court, refusing payment, etc).

You’re completely right. The contractor either doesn’t know what they’re doing or they’re cutting corners to be done sooner.

“Eat my shorts”?