thomas

Since they have come back in stock, I bought a Pi 4 2GB and a Pi 4 4GB. the 2GB model had 2 bent GPIO pins and rattled when shaken, so I opened an RMA request for it. the 4GB model has arrived, and it has small solder blobs on the back of the board (see images)

Is this normal or have I just got unlucky with both Pis? I managed to scrape off solder on the first image but they have left a mark on the board.
The 2GB model seems to be completely working and the 4GB one boots to the bootloader but I'm out of SD cards to test it any further. Should I also RMA the 4GB model or am I being silly here?
Thanks.

Oops! I just nuked my lemmy instance and the other post wasn't in by backups, sorry about that! please don't reply to the other post because I can't see it

Reposted:
Hello, I’m looking for a good first server for a homelab. I do already have an old Dell poweredge 1950 I got for £30 but it’s:

Loud
Draws 350W
Costs too much to run
Only has 2 HDD slots
DRAC card needs Internet explorer

I’m not too bothered by the noise because I can just move it, but the electricity cost is quite ridiculous for something less powerful than my PC in every way. I live in the UK so electricity prices are a huge factor for this.

My Ideal specs are:

~16 cores (total)
>= 128GB RAM
~100W idle power draw
>= 4 3.5" HDD bays
Preferably HBA mode on RAID card
£100-200
2U

Is this completely unreasonable? I have found servers that match this all except the 3.5" bays and 2U. Initially I found a Dell server with 128GB of RAM and two 12 core CPUs for about £200 but I realised it only has 2.5" bays. There is a nice R720 on ebay I am watching but it will probably skyrocket near the end of the bid. Also, it probably draws a lot of power. Any suggestions? do I just need to raise my price? Thanks

Hello, I'm looking for a good first server for a homelab.
I do already have an old Dell poweredge 1950 I got for £30 but it's:

• Loud
• Draws 350W
• Costs too much to run
• Only has 2 HDD slots
• DRAC card needs Internet explorer

I'm not too bothered by the noise because I can just move it, but the electricity cost is quite ridiculous for something less powerful than my PC in every way.
I live in the UK so electricity prices are a huge factor for this.

My Ideal specs are:

• ~16 cores (total)
• >= 128GB RAM
• ~100W idle power draw
• >= 4 3.5" HDD bays
• Preferably HBA mode on RAID card
• £100-200
• 2U

Is this completely unreasonable? I have found servers that match this all except the 3.5" bays and 2U.
Initially I found a Dell server with 128GB of RAM and two 12 core CPUs for about £200 but I realised it only has 2.5" bays.
There is a nice R720 on ebay I am watching but it will probably skyrocket near the end of the bid. Also, it probably draws a lot of power.
Any suggestions? do I just need to raise my price?
Thanks

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Just adding my main account as mod

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/120708

I made a flag waver bot for this community.
call it with !wave in the comments or post body.

EDIT: there seems to be a bug in the bot library i'm using and it will reply anywhere on lemmy as long as I am subscribed to the community. I may shut the bot down until this is fixed to prevent spam.

EDIT2: It should be working now, I added a workaround for the library bug and opened a github issue.

Update: I have added body text waving and waving of multiple links in a post. Also waving links in comments.
Example (see comments):
test image
another link

Update 2: It's open source now!!
github

Update3: lemmy.world is not federating with my instance for some reason, I can make comments but none of your comments are reaching my instance and the bot is not responding.

I've run some tests and the issue here is lemmy.world, I can see a post I made to !vexillologyjerk@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz but not !vexillology@lemmy.world the issue seems to be intermittent starting and stopping throughout the day, needless to say there isn't anything I can do about this, sorry.
~~It might be because I'm still on 0.17.4 but my server won't run 0.18.0 and the bot won't run on that version.~~ nvm lemmy.world is also on 0.17.4, I have not idea what this issue is