Monkeyclock1234

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What is your favorite operating system and what do you like about it? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Monkeyclock1234@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Personally for me it's that it's not as resource heavy as windows whilst offering a similar out of box 'it just works'. Sure it's not the best tool for the job in a lot of regards but for example I have two laptops from early 2014. A macbook air and a windows laptop running windows 10. The macbook air runs smoothly when browsing the Web, or studying whereas the windows laptop ends up slowing down a lot and chugging.

I will say I am a fan of the best tool for the job approach though. Doing a lot of office based work and need word editing or spreadsheet editing? Windows. Gaming? Windows. Server work? Linux. Music/video production? Macs

Test thread - please help in c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
[–] Monkeyclock1234@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hello world!

What's a big tech product that you actually find useful? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Monkeyclock1234@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have, but you can still find them on the second hand market. I m not looking forward to the day they stop supporting them however

Hey lemmies, what are your plans for today? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Monkeyclock1234@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chocolate and pistachio tart I made a couple days ago

What's a big tech product that you actually find useful? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Monkeyclock1234@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Ah this isn't the chromecast streaming devices I'm talking about. It's the older pucks that plug into an aux cable that you can stream music from your phone to

What's a big tech product that you actually find useful? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Monkeyclock1234@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Honestly.. I might get some pushback for this but Chromecast audio. Being able to get full home audio streaming for a fraction of the cost of a normal system with a few of those and a few old hifis. Worth it for me

Hey lemmies, what are your plans for today? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Monkeyclock1234@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well it's night here so sleep. But after that I've got work then I might study a bit, eat some cake. Nothing much really

Be honest, do you still use reddit? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Monkeyclock1234@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Now and again I jump on for niche information for my hobbies. But only on desktop, and only on old.reddit.com

How it Started, vs how it's going. in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] Monkeyclock1234@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Ah it's all good it's holding on with the power of sheer will... Plus it was flexing that bad before the hardware got put on it and barely moved after.. I hope..haha

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How it Started, vs how it's going. (i.imgur.com)
 

On the left, my first 'proper' rack. Specs - Router - Cisco 887VAMW Unmanaged Netgear switch Two laptops (Asus X550Jk and HP Pavillion DV6) both running proxmox which has Pihole, Nextcloud, Bitwarden, Roundcube webmail and Nginx proxy server. Both laptops have their batteries removed to avoid them swelling too much. A Phillips Hue hub and TP Link Deco M5 router at the bottom. On top is a mishmash of leftover parts which is currently running TrueNas and Jellyfin. This is going to eventually replace the D-Link sharecentre hidden in the back. Specs of the pc on top - CPU - AMD FX 6100 (An older model but still has it where it counts) RAM - 8Gb DDR3 (Plans to upgrade it to 16Gb at some point) GPU - GeForce GT 710 (Honestly just there so I can get an ouput) Storage 2x 1Tb WD Red drives (With plans to add 2x 4tb WD Red Drives from Sharecentre)

On the right is the mess that is yet to be fixed. On the top shelf is a selection of cisco switches and routers which are being used as a lab for me doing my CCNA (Hence the mess there). On the bottom is the same Lack rack as on the left just with slightly different components. Specs - Router - Cisco 887VAMW Switch - Some managed Netgear switch from 2004 (It's on it's way out and will be replaced very soon) First Dell Poweredge R420, with two Xeon E5-2403, 80Gb RAM and about 3Tb of Storage. This is my new Proxmox host. Second Dell Poweredge R420 with a single Xeon E5-2403, 64Gb RAM and 7Tb Storage running TrueNas. On top is an old AMD Bulldozer machine I only use for ripping and encoding DVD files.

Bonus pic of my bottom rack.