_TheLoneDeveloper_

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[–] _TheLoneDeveloper_@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I got an Iphone 16e from work, and then also checked the normal iphone 16, both of those devices are above 700€ and doesn't support high refresh rate, which my 230€ android (now 180€) does, along with a lot other useful features, I felt very disappointed from the price/features performance that it had.

[–] _TheLoneDeveloper_@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

This is what I used in a small/mid sized company to replace a legacy VPN, generally we had only very few issues but probably the employee personal computer is to blame, right now is very stable.

[–] _TheLoneDeveloper_@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

To get to the gym, have a healthy diet and move across Europe.

[–] _TheLoneDeveloper_@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I can highly recommend Netbird selfhosted, it has SSO support, logins, complex network topologies, it uses wireguard under the hood and it's open source.

[–] _TheLoneDeveloper_@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

Same thing here, either tailscale selfhosted or Netbird selfhosted I'd the way to go for all the nice features, having the free tier or tailscale for personal data never sounded right to me.

 

I have an R320 that has 4 SAS drives 10TB each, which holds a lot of my data + backups from other systems, I also have an R710 which runs a lot of heavy workloads for my homelab, now I have to move to the other side of the EU and I don't know what to do with that lab, the electricy cost on the new country will be around 0.33c per Kw, while now I was paying under .10c.

Here are the options that I have considered

Take R320 with me As the SAS drives are in a unique configuration in xcp-ng it would be the safest option to transport the drives in a secure case with me and have the R320 moved to the new country, where I will set it up again and have some of my VMs and data.

Make current pc the new server I have a quite powerful and recent pc build from 4 years ago, I was thinking of buying SAS pcie interfaces for my PC so I can cinvert it to a server and be able to read the SAS drives, but this is a bit expensive and requires me to buy a new computer for my self.

Also, as I won't be keeping the R710, I was thinking of buying a few lenevo sff mini PCs and setting up a low power virtualization cluster and using the R320 or my PC as the storage medium.

I have also backed up everything to storj and the most important data are also synced to a few cloud storage providers for safe keeping.

How would you handle something like that? Would you start from scratch or try to bring as much as you can? I plan to invest at max 1k in rebuilding if needed but I would like to avoid it if possible, the SAS drives are enterprise grade and bought just a year ago so I would like to keep using them.

[–] _TheLoneDeveloper_@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

Yup, they work awesome, it even supports upscaling to 4k direct from the shields GPU, I haven't tried yet as I don't have a 4k tv but it's also nice, my favorite thing about it is the remote, the backligh is a godsend.

[–] _TheLoneDeveloper_@sopuli.xyz 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I will agree, I got an Nvidia shield pro two years ago, I was a bit afraid because it's a product from 2019, but damn it's been rock solid, it plays everything, it's quite open and not limited like some other boxes, it's even faster than the most Samsung smart TVs that I have tried, I can't recommend it enough, even at the end of 2024 it doesn't have any issues when playing YouTube and Plex.

[–] _TheLoneDeveloper_@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well actually no, the battery health is counted in charge circles, so if you charge from 0 to 100 it is one charge, if you charge from 50 to 100, then again from 50 to 100 it is again one charge.

Other than that when you use the battery and let daily to reach 0% it may be over discharged and start creating crystals damaging the battery, the battery would never actually be under 2-5%, but why stress that battery? I'm charging my devices at 20% and it helps with the battery life.

Also if you want long, healthy batteries you shouldn't charge to 100 as not to overcharge but who does that?

[–] _TheLoneDeveloper_@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 years ago

Why would you throw them away? It was to be fixed and some one could find a way to make it work.

[–] _TheLoneDeveloper_@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Also, you should never discharge a battery to 0, or do it regularly, as it will damage the battery and make it keep less charge.