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Add a PoE switch and PoE splitters for IP-KVMs that don't already have PoE-in?

I went with Sipeed NanoKVM (PCIe) units across my homelab as well and I've also been happy with them. For a while it's been the best value option (not to mention the most consisten…

Have you played around with OpenBMC or any of the open-sourced BMC firmware alternatives? ETA: specifically on older server/workstation boards instead of the stock firwmare

The memory controller is integrated into the CPU, so the motherboard chipset is irrelevant. There are some OEM-only v3/v4 parts with dual memory controllers, but the E5-2620 v4 is …

There are some OEM-only v3/v4 parts with dual memory controllers (because of a RAM supply crunch at the time, funnily enough), but the E5-2620 v4 is not one of them. The classic ex…

They've been stable for me but I'd be lying if I said I'd only heard good things. Looks like prices on the E810-XXVDA2 have come up since the last time I looked while prices on the…

You can't punch down twinax and the connectors are too big for keystones.

> Nowadays I'm not actually sure if DACs are cheaper than fibre now Yep still are, although fiber transceivers are surprisingly affordable, and of course you can usually re-use jum…

> I'm getting a really bad taste in my mouth for 10GBASE-T RJ45 SFP+ modules mostly due to the god awful heat they pump out It's truly bananas especially in a homelab environment. …

If you start doing bonded links with DACs or if you have a bunch of servers, the cable management situation gets ugly in a hurry, and the usual solutions like patch panels and keys…

I've started buying E810s even for 10G links. PCIe Gen4, lower power draw, RDMA support, generally backward-compatible with SFP+ DACs and transceivers, and relatively inexpensive. …

I use UniFi for most of my home network so It Just Works™, but I've thought about mixing in Mikrotik for e.g. the compute rack so I can play around with 100G+ links and more esoter…

I've started buying Intel E810s for most purposes, even for 10G links. (SFP28 ports are generally backward-compatible with SFP+ DACs and transceivers.) The ones you can get on eBay…

My homelab has a 10G fabric (switched) for NFS, iSCSI, NVMe-OF, etc. and a 25G fabric (a mix of back-to-back and switched) for clustering (Ceph, DRDB, ZFS replication, migrating VM…

No. It's twin-axial. Think coaxial, but more axial.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Holy carp.

Is that a squeaker, or a squirter?

Yes, I want these for my kids so very badly. They have Yotos (similar to Tonie) for bedtime, and iPads for school work, but those are not ideal for a number of reasons. I want them…

Unfortunately you had to run Windows NT, which was a leap for most folks and had poor support for games and some other software written for Windows 9x (e.g. software that required …

> The Celeron 300A was the one most folks would go after for this. Yes but they got hard to find in a hurry once word spread. I had two 366s in my BP6 overclocked to 550 but IIRC I…

They just renamed everything... the Pro Plus series is basically Latitude.

It's... not great. It's a dual-boot laptop that I take out into the field so I'd like to encrypt the Windows and Linux volumes with BitLocker and LUKS respectively, and ideally I w…

I scored an "open box" Dell Pro 14 Plus on eBay for about 600USD. It's got two USB-A ports, two USB4 ports, built-in Ethernet, 4G LTE, upgradeable storage, and decent Linux support…

> Power management on Macbooks is unbeatable in my experience, both Windows and Linux have really serious issues dealing with sleep and low power modes. I've been dealing with this…