EDIT: i had an rpi it died from esd i think
EDIT2: this is also my work machine and i sleep to the sound of the fans
Let's be real though, What's someone doing with three oscilloscopes
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An experiment because someone once thought "you know what would be better than two oscilloscopes?"
Viewing multiple signals, signal generation, digital signal analysis.
You may be able to do most of that with the newer one on the top of the stack; but it's nice to have backups/spares to use or just to put things on separate screens.
Mad scientist shit.
Sometimes one or two just don't have enough channels. The bottom one doesn't look like a scope though. It may be a spectrum analyzer, but it's hard to see.
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An actual image:
How are you going to know the internet is working with thet few blinking LEDs?
Mine is my 6th gen i5 gaming PC stuffed into an early 00's tower server chassis. It's got an ebay IT mode HBA hooked up to a bunch of drives I pulled from an old Lefthand node we were recycling.
Best I can do is Samsung galaxy A71 with lineage os.
Embracing constraints makes you learn fast. I bet you could teach enterprise sysadmins a few things about performance monitoring and optimization.
Who says it's overkill?
That said I literally started selfhosting on a Thinkpad W520. With the full 32 gigs of ram it ran ESXI great. Plus you can't beat a built in UPS.
I was going to buy a mini PC to run along with it when I needed more, but I just opted to take old desktop parts and combine my NAS with everything else.
I just got a Nas with 4hdd and 4 nvme. That's pretty solid for my current needs. Scale your hardware to your needs. I won't be maxing out my setup maybe ever. I'll just update to newer hardware every 5 or 6 years and call it good.
If I didn't need a large amount of storage I'd totally do this. As it stands it's hard or prohibitively expensive to get 30TB of storage connected to a laptop with reasonable read/write speeds.
Working hardware is working hardware; form factor doesn't really matter.
My primary DNS server is a rpi.
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I just upgraded my daily driver laptop to a new desktop, so now I'm using the laptop as a home server. Much more powerful than anything else I could afford.
I just have a dell optiplex sitting in the corner running Proxmox. then I can spin up whatever I need.
All my gear is stuff I've saved from the dumpster at work except my hard drives and my UPS. I'm using the IKEA end tables instead of racks (I think they are called lakka?). My jbod chassis is huge and very loud, but it was free. I dropped cables into my basement and I only hear it when I'm down there.
I started off with just a desktop tower full of spare parts, but over time it's slowly become a pretty impressive stack.
I guess I'm somewhere in between with a bunch of RasPis xD
I went overkill because i had money, no hardware i could dedicate and wanted flexibility for my volatile interests. So overkill (except storage until i upgrade) that i plan sharing it with my family (when i set it up properly) I could have made a less overkill choice but that way i probably wont need to change my setup for some game
I have 2 old dell prebuilt boxes of shit things stacked on top of eachother. I do need some recommendations for storage as I currently just have everything on a single ssd.
Get a few scrap hdds and fit them in or idk wire the sata cables out of the case?
Then create a raid 0+1 configuration and you now have a couple tb of redundant storage.
Bonus points if you can get even more hdds (use usb adapters maybe?)
I can probably 3d print something to hold the hdd's and get a cheap pcie sata card. If u got any recommendations for where to get some cheap drives lmk.
What's with it is probably "I'm doing this because I love hardware."
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Is that the award winning IBM Thinkpad™ running Linux?!
It's an earlier Lenovo, sire.