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What do you mean?
Many laptops have bad thermals in general under load and often even worse with case closed.
if you need a heavy duty machine, use it, but most of the time you don't, that's the point.
(for comparison; skylake laptop uses about 20W under max load, my 12-gen desktop uses 40W while idle)
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Looks like he is powering at least part of his installation through solar: https://blog.networkprofile.org/17kw-enphase-solar-install/
What is the CO2e ROI on producing and installing solar, including all the transportation and installation equipment being used? When is it net-negative compared to pulling energy from the grid?
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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?
But why? I looked at the page but could find no understanding of what he gained from doing all this? I have a single wifi router and power everything through that and still have much faster bandwidth than the author does. It seems like a lot of energy, time, and effort (especially for maintenance) for something with minimal gains. I get 1 Gbit down and 500 mbit up and even in the worst signal rooms it only drops to 6…
I’m in a very similar situation when it comes connections, FW and needs. I’m about to get a backup line for internet and it’s between Verizon (just like you) or Spectrum (same price, 500mbit down). What was your reason for VZW? Was ATT your only wired option?
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because those 3rd-party resolvers are not under your control, which is usually interesting for someone running a homelab, and lie in responses. "it's always dns" should ring a bell :)
For a homelab yes, but I figured GP was referring to a robust home network, not necessarily a homelab. "it's always dns" goes both ways as I've had local resolvers add huge amounts of latency to connection establishment.
not really the fact that some domains i don't care much about are blocked, but this is a dangerous precedent in deviation from facts.
But why? I looked at the page but could find no understanding of what he gained from doing all this? I have a single wifi router and power everything through that and still have much faster bandwidth than the author does. It seems like a lot of energy, time, and effort (especially for maintenance) for something with minimal gains. I get 1 Gbit down and 500 mbit up and even in the worst signal rooms it only drops to 6…
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I've done this a few times, and the killer has always been the RAM. By the time you're buying decommissioned enterprise hardware, it's hard (or just expensive) to source RAM from its QVL list - even harder so when you want ECC, which not all of the QVL'd SKUs will be... And, in my painful experience, if it's not QVL RAM there's a good chance it just won't post.
I've had no problem with getting the RAM (either new or just more eBay stuff) - and even got a replacement mainboard for relatively cheap when one burned up (it was easier to swap the mainboard than reconfigure everything for a new server). The killer is the power consumption. It's better now compared to old enterprise gear of 20 years ago, but you can sometimes still pay for a brand new low-power system just in powe…
Especially putting one of these not in a rackmount chassis, you can opt for quiet cooling and fans that do not draw 10s of watts each. The idle loads can get fairly low, depending on your additional peripherals.
For very low power, I actually prefer small form factor machines, either used 1L SFF machines from the big OEMs (see STH's Project TinyMiniMicro[0]) or one of the many AliExpress mini PCs[1]. These sorts of machines tend to use low-power CPUs and a lot of the AliExpress ones are laptop parts.
As with all things, there are always tradeoffs. If you enjoy researching and bargain hunting for hardware, then this is a viable path. If you just want a machine that works, then this is onerous work.
[0] https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimic...
[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-mini-pc.html?catId=0&...