agile_squirrel 5d ago • 100%
To clarify for others, that's just for motor and AC loads. Rated capacity for resistive loads is 1800 W (15 A). Aside from a portable induction stovetop and possibly portable AC units, this is likely fine for most things people will connect to it. Its probably not a good fit for OP though.
agile_squirrel 1mo ago • 100%
How "big" are your movies and tv shows? If they are 4k UHD remuxes then Nvidia Shield Pro or Apple TV 4k behind a firewall to block external internet is your best option for performance, usability, and privacy. You will want to ocassionally allow it internet for software updates. Kodi, a mini pc, raspberry pi, etc. would be more private but you trade off a seamless remote, easy interface, and streaming codecs (e.g., dolby vision).
This is a decent writeup on applying "Zero Tust" principles to a home lab using mostly open source tools. I'm not the author, but thought it was worth sharing.
agile_squirrel 2mo ago • 100%
The pine64 Pinecil is a great starter soldering iron.
agile_squirrel 2mo ago • 66%
I thought it needed to be connected to the internet in order to send prints to it? Does it work fine if never connected?
agile_squirrel 3mo ago • 100%
You've already received some great suggestions. Another one is Netdata. Personally, I use glances to collect the data and Home Assistant to display the dashboard. But I only do this because I already had Home Assistant running.
agile_squirrel 1y ago • 100%
Video version of this review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfFpXEY1Y1U
agile_squirrel 1y ago • 100%
I just started using it but I made a mistake on one of my submissions. Is there any way to undo or edit a submission made in the app?
Edit: There is an undo button on the bottom left in the app.
agile_squirrel 1y ago • 100%
Latency tested using librespeed.org is about 50 ms.
I recently got a Dell Optiplex XE3 second hand and set it up as a home server. It's working great and I wanted to share some info on it in case it's a helpful reference for other people's home labs. The Dell Optiplex XE3 tower is configured with a i7-8700 (6c, 12t), 32 GiB DDR4 RAM (2 sticks), 2 2.5" SSDs, and 1 M.2 NVMe SSD. I installed Debian 12 minimal and services are deployed via Docker. I'm currently running 20+ containers, with some of the heavier containers being Jellyfin, Nextcloud, Paperless NGX, Home Assistant, and Immich. I haven't performed any software power optimization; it's just a standard Debian install. When idle with no significant load on the containers, power consumption is 14-15W measured with a Shelly Plug. While not fantastic (my previous server had 6W with similar loads), it is lower than I expected and is quite reasonable. Overall, I'm impressed with this system. It currently has 4 unused PCIe slots, 2 unused SATA connectors, and 2 unused DIMM slots so it has solid future expansion. I have it laying on its side on a rack shelf and it takes up about 3.5U of space in my rack. While I wish it was smaller, fanless, had lower idle power, and had 2.5G Ethernet it has better idle power than I expected for its configuration and options for future expansion.
agile_squirrel 1y ago • 100%
For RAM, I would preorder without memory. I would wait until Framework updates their knowledge article on memory compatibility before buying RAM from a 3rd party (https://knowledgebase.frame.work/en_us/what-dram-memory-is-supported-by-framework-laptop-16-ryS2Xr3ch). Since the FW13 is also a 7040 series chip, I expect them to update this FW16 article well before the FW16 ships.
I think the charger is pretty cool and will be one of the first of it's kind. I would have no issues ordering that since it's fairly priced and will be useful for almost all USB-C devices in the foreseeable future.
I'm new to Nix and wanted to get my feet wet by using the Nix package manager. However, I wasn't sure how these packages were made. Are these packaged by the community? Who do I need to "trust" when installing these packages? In general, I was looking for info on how nix packages are made and maintained.
agile_squirrel 1y ago • 100%
I'm glad they included the thickness (18mm, 0.7in), but I was hoping they'd share the other dimensions as well.