Steps to repurpose old laptop as home server with Debian
  • TheHolm TheHolm Now 100%

    A4-6210 with build in GPU has TDP of 15W. There is no point to optimize anything it is seeping power already. may be try to use tlp to limit max charge level of the battery ( i'm not sure is you laptop is supported). You can play with governors too, but I personaly will not bother. You obviously need multiuser.target but not GUI.

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  • Is it a good idea to purchase refurbished HDDs off Amazon ?
  • TheHolm TheHolm Now 100%

    With raid 10 - i would not risk it . With RAID6 ( obviously not on BTRFS) it is fair game if you have solid return policy for drives which are DOA. Go for SAS drives, they are cheaper (but generally hotter and nosier). And look for old-new-stock on specialized sites, no one in enterprise needs say 8tb drives, so they selling them cheap at times.

    Get drive, connect , run long smart self-test ( for 18tb it is probably take a day). If it passed you are reasonably sure that it will not die soon. And keep running these test regularly, as soon as they start failing, replace.

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  • internal certificate distribution?
  • TheHolm TheHolm Now 100%

    Bump root cert to 10 years and use intermediate with shorter lifetime. root cert should be stored and processed off net.

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  • Steps to repurpose old laptop as home server with Debian
  • TheHolm TheHolm Now 100%

    It would be useful to know laptop spec. In general, do not bother power consumption should be lower enough as it is.

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  • Anyone running ZFS?
  • TheHolm TheHolm Now 100%

    to stop guessing what HDD to replace when one failed. VM can't see actual HDDs as SMART is not getting forwarded.

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  • How do you use only ipv6 server?
  • TheHolm TheHolm Now 100%

    I guess HE is still providing free IPv6 via IPv4 tunnels.

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  • Do you selfhost your own blog/website?
  • TheHolm TheHolm Now 100%

    Biggest problem will be BW and latency to your lab from the Internet. I would use dedicated hardware and subnet for it. Security wise, if you can make your site 100% static it will help a lot with security. I'm personally set on AWS S3 + CloudFlare combo with static site generator running in my lab. Yes it is not really "self hosted" but worries free solution for me.

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  • Gas power in future grid will be “tiny” and its cost exorbitant, report finds
  • TheHolm TheHolm Now 25%

    This is why we need nuclear as main green power source.

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  • Anyone running ZFS?
  • TheHolm TheHolm Now 100%

    both works. Just do not forgot to assign fake serial numbers if you are passing disks. IMHO passing disk will be more performant, or may be just pass HBA controller if other disks are on different controller.

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  • Australian families switching to cycling as car-running costs rise - ABC News
  • TheHolm TheHolm Now 25%

    Just imaging how much pollution this bikes on road generates, it would be way better if they continue driving.

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  • 'Could cars just be stopped?' Why the US government is blocking Chinese cars and why some want Australia to take notice
  • TheHolm TheHolm Now 100%

    you forgot one more option, penalties companies which force workers to commute on jobs which not requite personal presence. It will improve public transport and reduce car usage a lot. It will also make small business to move away from cities to places where people lives.

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  • Property investors fear forced sales under negative gearing changes | SMH
  • TheHolm TheHolm Now 100%

    Look how much any maintenance/repairs costs now. It may be true.

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  • What are good harddrives to use with servers
  • TheHolm TheHolm Now 100%

    ZFS or BTRF mirror will know which side is at fault due to checksums. I'm more concern about simultaneous falures of two disks. Rebuilding of a RAID puts lots of pressure on remaining disks, so probability that remaining one dies too is much higher. with RAID6 3 disks need to die to lost date, which is less likely but not impossible.

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  • What are good harddrives to use with servers
  • TheHolm TheHolm Now 83%

    I would not trust these kind of dives in the mirror. IMHO RAID6 is the only way.

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  • Kings Birthday
  • TheHolm TheHolm Now 100%

    I guess it just should be a week long celebration. He is a king after all.

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  • In a void of detail, two reports attempt to spell the challenge for Peter Dutton to go nuclear
  • TheHolm TheHolm Now 16%

    Yeh, just push all costs of using "classic" green generation to existing generation and for sure it will came cheapest. add transmission, over-provioning, and storage cost to it and picture is not that rosy. Go and find that that report, it is just bit of shit.

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  • Paid SSL vs Letsencrypt
  • TheHolm TheHolm Now 100%

    LE only certify your domain name, you may want to put more (like company name) to cert and it is where classic certs providers come to help.

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  • Questions on sexuality and gender have been cut from the 2026 census. Why are LGBTQI+ people saying it's an omission?
  • TheHolm TheHolm Now 20%

    Why it should be there? I guess at this time no one give a f%&k about someones sexual orientation in Australia. And I fail to see any reason to register it for healthcare/taxation or similar purpose. IMHO questions of nationality should go away too.

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  • www.tomshardware.com

    Here we are - 3600 which was still under manufacture 2-3 years ago are not get patched. Shame on you AMD, if it is true.

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    I'm looking for hardware for my new NAS. Is there any Intel CPUs which support Quick Sync and ECC memory at same time? And is there any MB which semi officially supports ECC? I usually use AMD CPUs for servers, but any AMD CPU with build-in video does not support ECC. And just to prevent ECC holy wars - I need ECC. :-) And adding GPU to AMD system is an option but I'm trying to avoid it.

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    https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-23:16.openzfs.asc

    Unless you are missed the news. Bug found in OpenZFS causing data corruption, FreeBSD, Linux and illumos are all affected. [Good description of the bug](https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-23:16.openzfs.asc) [Some good news from bug tracker on OpenZFS](https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/15526) > OpenZFS 2.2.2 and 2.1.14 released with fix in place. If you don't get your > OpenZFS direct from here, point your vendor at it. Patch your systems!!

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