brb, installing Linux on my Wii to host my own instance, send knee high sock pictures to be allowed registration
this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2026
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HP wishes they had that kind of build quality
I mean... the enterprise zbooks are fairly nice, a used one ran me about $200-$300 on ebay. I'm pretty content with it.
I think usually enterprise stuff does have a good build quality, yeah, at least compared to consumer stuff
I experienced the same with Dell laptops. Consumer grade practically disintegrated and couldn't be repaired; enterprise grade could be dropped or even thrown and likely still be repairable with readily available parts. That was 10 years ago though, so I can only imagine the enshittification current techs are dealing with
Nahh that's really the same deal on their current laptops. Consumer grade is disposable and fragile, meanwhile their corporate sub-brands are tanks
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They're as heavy as the universe
I like my laptops nice and thiccc (and with a frickin' numpad)
Eh, I was issued multiple ZBooks at work, but I travel for work, and it's not fun carrying the weight of a mobile workstation on your back, plus everything else. At least I can put the power brick, which weighs about the same as an actual brick, in the checked luggage.
I really like the jury-rigged, DIY nature of the Fediverse. It reminds me of the old times, when the internet was smaller but had more heart.
Absolutely. I wish I had the time and knowhow to take on lemm.ee when they were shutting down.
On one hand my instance is hosted on a mostly self-contained box, but it does have a GPU hanging out the back
Thanks, I always wondered how other people solved this exact problem.
Now I know.
Poorly.
Carry on.
There's a correct way to solve the problem. You can get a GPU dock for like $100-300. Or you can get a long PCIE riser for like $20, and hook up an unused PSU and jump the start pins on the ATX cable with a paperclip. There's a correct way to use multiple psus too, but I had a paperclip and didn't have a jumper cable. Anyways it's stable enough that uptime is at a year and it hasn't started a fire yet.
I'm not saying I have a better solution or a better setup at home. I'm doing something extremely similar. I would 100% say that my solution sucks.... But it works.
There's plenty of ways to do it.
I wanted to get an x16 to dual oculink 8x connector card with a matching dock, so I wouldn't have to give up any bandwidth while getting high end graphics going, but I can't find anything that fits that bill. So I have a riser cable bodged together with the case of my system perpetually open.
It works. I don't love it, but I don't have the time/money to find/buy what I feel would be more ideal. So this is what I've done.
I don't want to give up half the PCIe lanes and I can't find a way to do that with anything that's not a riser cable.
So here I am.
Oh I had a gaming computer once with two PSUs like this once.
Is the integrated graphics card broken or are you running something that needs more GPU? Graphics or AI?
No integrated graphics. The server has a pair of old E5-2695 v4 CPUs and I picked up an 3060 to run some local AI but it didn't fit in the 2u chasis even though I had a spare PCI-E slot. Absolutely would not recommend a single part of this setup.
Quite a few desktop CPUs dont have integrated graphics
Network security: max
Physical security: the front door and hope
Lovely. If it works, it works!
Needs more blahaj
looks hardened af
Is that the MacBook Air that fits in a folder I have been hearing about?
Looks slightly worse than the server that hosts my instance, with an Intel i7-5960X from 2015.
OS?
Ubuntu Server 24.04.
This is the server version of wearing a barrel
I don't see a problem?
Is covering it with paper used to start a fire?
Only if you post a lot
Did not thought about that, OP basically gave his community the ability to decide if it wants to burn down the OP's house.
I might get into self-hosting, with some of the PCs people dumped onto me.
Framework laptop?
Yeah this is the new Framework. They had to cut some corners due to the price increases
This makes my NAS made up of a loose RPi and two USB HDDs thrown on the floor look like a proper setup.
But did it crash?
Edit: probably not cool to ask attm.
No, but it doesn't seem too hard to do.
Nice setup 😁
snac, my beloved. I used to run it but sadly I don't really have a use for it. It's amazing how resource-efficient it is though!
I gotta self-host me a Snac
just need to put an adapter from the wifi slot to 10gbit nic
Is this NEMA 5 rated