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My home server was a totally justified purchase

2 months ago by cannedtuna to c/linuxmemes

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akunohana 89 points 2 months ago

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djdarren 52 points 2 months ago

People buy home servers? They don't just find them lying about and say to themselves "I'll put Debian on this old piece of shit and see what I can get away with running"?

Huh.

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cannedtuna 24 points 2 months ago

I mean, parts gotta come from somewhere.

The real trap of the home server is the ever increasing need for more storage space

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ranzispa 7 points 2 months ago

I often find computers in trash, a stick of ram here an HDD there. Didn't spend a euro on my server.

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4grams 11 points 2 months ago

I mean, mine is a dumpster dive. It’s an old small form factor office pc. Tore out the guts and stuck them in a silver stone case with a SATA backplane and loaded it up with refurb hard drives.

Previous iteration was a broken g5 tower case I got for free, hacked with an old server motherboard that had been decommissioned at work.

So, definitely spent money on it with the additions, but all my home servers have started out with free spare parts.

Oh, I do of course run Debian.

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djdarren 4 points 2 months ago

Mine is my dad's old 2014 Mac mini with a bunch of USB hard drives hanging out of it.

Ideal? Probably not.

But it mostly works pretty well. All I've bought specifically for it are the NVME adapter so I could drop my wife's old 256gb M.2 drive in, a 1tb SATA SSD for the internal bay, and a 3.5" enclosure for a 2tb HDD I had knocking about.

And she's rock solid. Mostly.

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Zink 10 points 2 months ago

Yeah it's less like something new and more like "Thank you, ancient me, for deciding it was always a good policy to go heavy on the RAM."

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dejected_warp_core 2 points 2 months ago

See, this is why I'm afraid to go to the local recycler. I'd wind up coming home with more potential Linux systems than I know what to do with.

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Funkt4st1c 1 point 2 months ago

My lifehack was to work for a small IT company. I got first dibs on all of the trashed servers

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notthebees 1 point a month ago

Mine is currently a not so old pavilion laptop. Runs debian and has 2 drives in it. I need to upgrade it bc it has no storage space but upgrading the m.2 is a motherboard out procedure.

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juipeltje 1 point 2 months ago

For me it was old parts i had laying around from older builds, but still relatively modern stuff. Makes me kinda happy i didn't sell it off. The only new thing i actually bought was a 12TB HDD.

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tyler 34 points 2 months ago

Pssh. You bought your home server instead of just assembling it from a box of scraps you had lying around?

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cannedtuna 20 points 2 months ago

Ok, hear me out. Yes it was built from scraps, but see what had happened was:

I had to replace the motherboard and got a good deal on one bundled with RAM at MicroCenter. Got it home to do the swap and realized I’d bought an ATX board when I had a mid tower.

So then I went and bought a nice big new case so I had space to work in. Then I found my power supply (which was reused, but missing cables and this wasn’t an issue before) was missing cables I needed.

So another trip to MicroCenter and coming up empty on these damn cables I needed for the power supply I said fuck it and bought a new one. Only to get it home of course and find out the fucking connectors were non standard mini connectors and the cables that came with it were too short.

So I had to run back to MicroCenter and swap it.

So more money than I tracked later and I basically ended up with the Server of Theseus.

Oh and then after a couple of months my reused RX480 started triggering thermal shutdowns (I think) so I ended up replacing my 1080TI with a 3080 and tossed the 1080 in the server.

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yardratianSoma 3 points 2 months ago

look at this blessed individual who has a MicroCenter within reach, lucky you!

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cannedtuna 4 points 2 months ago

It’s a bit of a drive tbh. Like 45 minutes, but still within reach.

I miss Fry’s tho.

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f314 25 points 2 months ago

On a related note, is Serial Experiments: Lain actually available to watch anywhere, or would I have to take to the high seas?

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shininghero 33 points 2 months ago

Probably, but it's also the perfect excuse the relearn sailing the high seas if you haven't done it in a while.

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f314 6 points 2 months ago

Haha, I guess!

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hamsamrich 6 points 2 months ago

fmhy dot net!

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Sabata11792 9 points 2 months ago

Wait, there are legitimate anime sources?

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cannedtuna 5 points 2 months ago

I don’t see it on Netflix or Crunchyroll currently.

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Mountainaire 3 points 2 months ago

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MonkderVierte 3 points 2 months ago

It's on any of the myriad of anime sites. You also shouldn't pay for media that could legally drive.

Edit: myriad

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Mountainaire 3 points 2 months ago

*myriad

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shweddy 3 points 2 months ago

High seas or check fmhy I got the series about a month ago its still out there

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Dultas 2 points 2 months ago

I have it on DVD but I heard it was reposted on Usenet recently.

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Ooops 1 point 2 months ago

Thanks for reminding me. I spend far to long trying to remember where that picture was from.

(Also: setting sails for the high seas...)

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rob_t_firefly 1 point 2 months ago

If you watched it long ago and liked it, you might wish to just leave it there. Just my entirely-worthless opinion here, but I recently rewatched it for the first time in decades and for me it did not hold up at all.

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MonkderVierte 1 point 2 months ago

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renegadespork 17 points 2 months ago

I like the detail of her ditching the sweater due to the heat of all the computers.

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shininghero 16 points 2 months ago

"Finally... Now I can compile Firefox and use it in the same afternoon."

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ekZepp 10 points 2 months ago

Home servers are a very valid solution to a whole new series of modern problems.

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url 7 points 2 months ago

My home server is just my old android device, cleaner than any of your weird stuff

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MoffKalast 2 points 2 months ago

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myszka 1 point 2 months ago

Can you describe your setup? Termux with proot docker implementation (forgot the name)?

I'm about to get a bunch of old phones and want to make some use of them.

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url 2 points 2 months ago

It's udocker

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razen 6 points 2 months ago

Homeserver in this economy?

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cannedtuna 10 points 2 months ago

Yeah man, think of all the money you’ll save on streaming subscriptions once you build it

(Just ignore the usenet, VPN, and indexer costs)

/s

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bridgeenjoyer 13 points 2 months ago

My take is, I'd rather spend double on all that (becuase I can), support and share with other users, than give a dime to fucking corpos pushing ai slop and promoting fascist military invasions (that'd be Spotify).

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cannedtuna 4 points 2 months ago

Oh I’m right there with you.

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bridgeenjoyer 6 points 2 months ago

Not only that, then I own my media. Sure its more work, but I actually find it fun so win win

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KernelTale 1 point 2 months ago

Uhhh... I just pirate it.

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Funkt4st1c 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah. Youd be surprised how many people just throw away computers. Ask around, im sure someone you know has one lying around theyd like to get rid of (maybe with some minor problem like needing a new hard drive or something)

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InputZero 3 points 2 months ago

Hard drives are so expensive I'm considering buying a 2U chassis and using old drives to expand my NAS as opposed to replacing small drives with larger ones. The only thing holding me back is the effort and the noise.

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robear 4 points 2 months ago

I have 20 500GB HDDs I got for free off a client who was disposing of some old desktops, daisy chained through a series of powered USB hubs currently hosting my Jellyfin and Immich content.

I regret nothing.

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Scrath 1 point 2 months ago

I would regret the power usage of running 20 small hard drives as opposed to a few big ones but the cost of electricity is definitely still smaller than the cost of big hard drives

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tetris11 6 points 2 months ago

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rob_t_firefly 2 points 2 months ago

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ruuster13 5 points 2 months ago

I have high availability that requires 2.5x the maintenance. My CPUs draw 0.1-0.6 times the electricity and I have 10 of them. My base OS is more secure but my VM OSes pull from repos in 5 sanctioned countries. I don't have to pay for tokens because I self-host my own LLMs using 4 rtx5090s and 256GB of RAM (that I purchased in summer 2026).

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nehal3m 2 points 2 months ago

Well la di fuckin da! 😂

All kidding aside, nice!

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tetris11 1 point 2 months ago

Well ooh lala mr money bags. (Also: nice!)

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Jaycifer 5 points 2 months ago

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Imgonnatrythis 5 points 2 months ago

I really enjoyed it, hope you like it.

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BlackLaZoR 5 points 2 months ago

Totally worth it.

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Evotech 5 points 2 months ago

Cheaper to rent a decent vps than to pay for the electricity for some old slug of a machine in your house in this economy

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thanksforreading 4 points 2 months ago

Riskier too if you care about privacy, sovereignty and self-determinism.

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Evotech 3 points 2 months ago

Barely

Higher chance that your machine dies

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thanksforreading 2 points 2 months ago

All factored in. Backups 3-2-1 etc etc. No chance of your cloud service provider suddenly deciding to lock you out of services etc. Not your computer not your data.

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HotsauceHurricane 5 points 2 months ago

She got another Stuffed bear! Thanks linux!

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MalReynolds 5 points 2 months ago

Eh, just use what you have lying around. My first was my kiddos beat to shit school Thinkpad X230 (figured it was indestructible, wrong, but it still goes, so sorta, with dings, got 'em another cleaner one which still gets used long after school) renewed with Debian. (still a backup, much power saving virtue to laptops as home servers).

These days it's just a bunch of podman services (that I can literally drag and drop) on immutable OSs across a few devices, some of which are on all the time (and low power, laptops with gluetun proxies, SearxNG, etc). Some higher power, Immich etc. on the desktop, with shit tons of storage (pre idiocy), that gets turned on for gaming weekly or yeah, local LLM experimentation. I get ppl wanting to play with local servers, more power (heh) to them, hope you've got solar and batteries.

Suppose I was just arguing against the justified purchase premise, or at least the less considered version. If all you have now is a phone, have at it. But consider old (especially business class) laptops. Who doesn't love built in battery power supply and easy serviceability.

Good luck OP.

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TrickDacy 3 points 2 months ago

Disagree, more like the opposite. Now all my machines can be managed with portable scripts that handle common tasks. When I used windows I didn't even bother scripting usually because it's a shit show. And fuck powershell before anyone says "it's totally not that bad despite the non standard... Practically everything"

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anotherpos 3 points 2 months ago

this is not realistic in the current economy 😭

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