I don't use arch btw
Young me: Finally gets a chance to try Linux for the first time with Ubuntu What's this? βwβ
Me today: Turned his Steam Deck into a backup desktop π
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i was not ready for the furry posting, but here i am
I've saved every laptop, PC, portable device I've ever owned ... and when they got too old and outdated with no more updates from Windows, I converted them all to Linux machines, most were just fun projects to see what I could or couldn't do or to test all kinds of things I was trying to learn ... now I have a closet stacked with devices
Just watch or dispose of those lithium ion batteries! I wish they weren't such a pain in the ass to open, removing them leaves that hole with exposed contacts, and phones/tablets with custom ROMs could be perfect little servers for 3D printers and the like, but often won't power up without their batteries.
it really is so true.
you install linux on one machine, and then suddenly every other machine you own has linux on it, ssh, and you use shit like rsync to manage shit over the network. Before you know it you're running a snapcast server to manage multiroom audio automatically configured into your smart home network. (i haven't gotten this far yet, but it's eventually going to happen lol)
The pipeline is real.
Before you know it you're running
This is gonna be my first project when I move lol
I'm in the "hmmm, I bet I could connect that appliance's sensors and power to a Raspberry pi and get telemetry and automate it with Home Assistant, something something local Deepseek" stage.
Half the electronics in my house have little parasitic RPi4s reaching into their guts.
Luckily I live in a rural area so I have all of the wifi channels to myself...
personally im not a fan of IoT devices being on my lan, so i would prefer to use things like zwave or zigbee, or just ethernet, minimizes attack vectors which is good.
You really can just put a network connected raspi on just about anything and integrate it into some form of centralized automation.
They're isolated on vlans and my clients primarily communicate over a VPN and don't see the LAN. Things talking on the, wired, client LAN that are not speaking wireguard have their ports turned off.
Each of those server chassis in the 3m high stack is probably some combination of power intensive, loud and hot. Assuming around 200w median, that one stack would continuously draw 34A. Loading the individual servers could be 2-4x that amount.
That's going to be a toasty room.
It's water cooled.
Like a sauna
God I wish American apartments were legally required to let you do this.
No, she uses pure carbon.
It runs on so much stuff!
So accurate, I have 5 towers right now set up for re-purposing as servers, with a half dozen more coming in a few days saved from e-waste. That doesn't count my homelab rack server, networking gear, main gaming tower, and 4 laptops...
It's insane how many perfectly usable machines get designated for e-waste.
Ikr. I've got two 12 year old towers that have Debian on them. One is a Docker box and the other is just a raw Debian server.
I installed KDE on both because I like my servers looking a little sexy lol. They run smoother and more stable than any of the Windows machines I support.
They'll probably be fine for another 10 years, maybe even longer.
It's taken from the excellent 1998 anime "Serial Experiments Lain". It's so iconic, excellent intro (OP) theme. But a bit surreal, it's kind of Lynchian in a way.
Cool Lain splash screen for KDE
https://store.kde.org/p/2124792
Old 17 year old meme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq0_ApTwNH4
Also more like Linux + Networking.
You can't make all those devices work together in tandem if you don't know the networking.
I mean, I'm not into networking but I have a lot of computers. I usually clean them up and give them to other people and repair them.
Clearly the obvious solution is to use non transparent PCIe bridges to connect them together
Linux nothing. DOS is like that for me too.
I gotta dust that boxed set off and watch it again.
so true happened to me too
That has some rather disturbing implications for Linux.
Nah, just means you're more resourceful.
You can't just assume that, it's intolerant.
It was the second panel for me 20 years ago too, when I only slightly disliked MS & still used Windows.
Oh no
Where can I download the ISO for Copland OS?