My rack is finished for now (because I'm out of money).
Last time I posted I had some jank cables going through the rack and now we're using patch panels with color coordinated cables!
But as is tradition, I'm thinking about upgrades and I'm looking at that 1U filler panel. A mini PC with a 5060ti 16gb or maybe a 5070 12gb would be pretty sick to move my AI slop generating into my tiny rack.
I'm also thinking about the PI cluster at the top. Currently that's running a Kubernetes cluster that I'm trying to learn on. They're all PI4 4GB, so I was going to start replacing them with PI5 8/16GB. Would those be better price/performance for mostly coding tasks? Or maybe a discord bot for shitposting.
Thoughts? MiniPC recs? Wanna bully me for using AI? Please do!
Thanks for the info. Some day I'll try the shiny modern distros and learn the little peculiarities. I use a weird mix of Debian, NixOS and LMDE and it's relatively straightforward to add firewall rules to those, both dynamically to nftables and to the persistent config... And I believe Debian didn't even come with firewalling out of the box... But I understand Debian might not be the best choice for gaming and there is for example some extra work involved to get the latest Nvidia drivers. Neither is it an atomic distro.
Honestly if you're not gaming or playing with new hardware, there is absolutely no point.
I've considered swapping this computer over to Fedora for a hot minute, but it really is a gaming PC and I should stop trying to break it.