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My Overkill Home Network

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Re: My Overkill Home Network

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The "using electricity is bad" meme must be one of the stupidest ones in the last few years

Why? IMO we should all avoid waste, whether that's plastic or energy.

Then you must hate that almost all of sun's energy hitting earth is wasted

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Why? IMO we should all avoid waste, whether that's plastic or energy.

Then you must hate that almost all of sun's energy hitting earth is wasted

This is such a bad faith comment. The sun isn't causing climate change; we are.

Do you disagree that humans need to minimise waste in order to fight climate change?

Re: My Overkill Home Network

#264
My first thought is - imagine hiring this guy to architect your corporate network. The cost would probably be 10x for hardware, for the "just in case" factor and coolness to the setup...

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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How is it an act? Caring about the climate is clearly morally superior than not doing so.

How do you know the man’s power is not cleanly generated?

Looks like he is powering at least part of his installation through solar: https://blog.networkprofile.org/17kw-enphase-solar-install/

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Then you must hate that almost all of sun's energy hitting earth is wasted

This is such a bad faith comment. The sun isn't causing climate change; we are. Do you disagree that humans need to minimise waste in order to fight climate change?

Using energy doesn't cause climate change. Producing energy from fossil fuels causes climate change. Humans don't need to minimise energy usage to fight climate change, instead they need to produce energy from non fossil sources. I wish we produced 10x energy that we do now but from renewable sources.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

#267

I find this really disturbing. On the one hand this looks really nerdy and cool but then I see the immense amount of hardware that also relies on power... so much power. This is completely unnecessary but then I also see the pictures of an F150.. so yeah it makes sense. I have to categorize this as a (un)typical American person that does not care about the environment. Do like the fact that he runs a RIPE probe thoug…

I dunno, a lot of people on here use more power without noticing it, because it's on whatever cloud provider they use. Every time I push some commits, an array of servers spins up in an AWS datacenter somewhere to run all of my verifications and do a build.

Second, this person seems to have a very large house anyway. My house manages with a modem, a wifi router and two IP cameras, but that can just scale up linearly.

When I grow up I want a switch rack like this in a basement or closet, wired network everywhere and PoE security cameras. Bigger house also means I can get an array of solar panels and become net positive.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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I find this really disturbing. On the one hand this looks really nerdy and cool but then I see the immense amount of hardware that also relies on power... so much power. This is completely unnecessary but then I also see the pictures of an F150.. so yeah it makes sense. I have to categorize this as a (un)typical American person that does not care about the environment. Do like the fact that he runs a RIPE probe thoug…

I find your comment to be at the absolute peak of sanctimony. Who are you to decide if it is necessary or not? Furthermore, why are you justified in negatively stereotyping Americans – a diverse group of individuals?

That particular comment was "the absolute peak of sanctimony"? Like, the most sanctimonious comment you have ever read on the internet?

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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I hope you're trolling. Power can be generated without an environmental impact. There are companies (and F150s) dumping kgbjillions more CO2 than this person's homelab is. Let people learn something and have some fun.

Power cannot be generated without an environmental impact. Even solar panel and wind turbine generate a non negligible amount of pollution when produced, and a non negligible amount of waste when they have to be decommissioned. Also, it is highly unlikely that he is using his own grid, he probably pulling most of his power from the U.S grid, which (like most grid to be fair) contains a fair amount of CO2 heavy source…

There, it's in mind; what can we do now to stop the big companies from making things worse?

Individual accountability is important, but self-flagellation or (vicarious) shame because forces bigger than us are causing problems is a waste of energy (ha!).

Re: My Overkill Home Network

#270

My first thought is - imagine hiring this guy to architect your corporate network. The cost would probably be 10x for hardware, for the "just in case" factor and coolness to the setup...

For a corporate network I would love to have more "just in case". We had a day long wifi outage at the office once, productivity plummeted and the cost of that far outweighs the cost of buying and setting up back-up hardware.
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