I always wondered how we planned for dissipating heat in space to be comparable to dissipating heat on earth. Feels like whatever they’re using to handle that heat is going to have to be huge and heavy.
Has to be great for avoiding any legal obligations on how you might handle the data though. Can do whatever you want as long as it stays in space.
I have comments about your first question, but they’re mostly stupid on my end. I think the problem for most is related to your 2nd question. Google is doing it’s google thing where they do a lot to force adoption with a goal of doing nothing to support it. Combine with a general distrust of Google.
I get the point that that’s where the people are, but also kinda feel like the selfhosted community should act as a vanguard to a point. Sure, maybe you have a ‘front door’ on a corporate platform, but kinda feel like in the case of selfhosted sticking to your principles and purposefully rejecting platforms that don’t fit the vision is kind of important especially when you’re currently in the middle of finding out why.
I’ve got my problems with Canada, but y’all sure know how to screw.
I think it’s mostly because above spelled it wrong and it made it just different enough that we thought it was a new word.
I get you and I’ve had similar thoughts for myself, but just want to make sure, you do realize that we’re the weird ones here right?
They’re both likely biased in different ways, different goals to a point. It sounds like statcounter is making some effort to verify unique devices for determining numbers potentially, but Cloudflare looks like it’s just raw requests which is going to bias you towards the noisiest devices. Still useful but I feel like that’s a harder sell if you’re trying to determine market share specifically. I’m not sure how you’d improve either one without drastically raising your overhead.
But, all these people in power keep telling us that violence is never the answer. They would never lie to us.
You can get x variants for under 100 too but you got to be more patient. Larger resellers don’t always understand the difference in models. Man, to be honest, I don’t either. You don’t have to go this in depth but look at the rear view for addons on the eBay listing. I usually don’t worry about buying ones with warranty/etc and I’ve only been burned once (probably water damage).
In my experience, if you’re wanting to use a USB Ethernet 2.5g or more, you may want to come up with at least a USB c port. I get that it should work with USB 3 but the speeds in practice just never worked out for me. I could have been facing those reliability issues you mentioned. Experiments in that area may eventually lead you back to scavenging for models that accommodate a riser card for 10g which is a very well weathered path. If you want Ceph, it’s not absolutely required but you’re probably going to end up there. I wouldn’t do Ceph again.
Somewhat similar on the CPU, I only discovered problems when I started experimenting with mass video re-encoding which is probably similar to the workload on Frigate. With the top on, I can only really use about half the cpus consistently without facing slowdowns due to heat. CPU upgrades are also mostly out.
Minor segue: If you haven’t checked out the servethehome forums, highly recommended. It’s probably the best source of knowledge on these.
So, there’s also a 4 port Ethernet card fitted specifically for the m series tiny lines that you used to be able to get from Lenovo with a riser (your specific model may not have a riser). You can still get it on eBay, but AliExpress is probably your spot if you’re not a big spender.
Some specific revisions in the tiny lines won’t even have the spot where you’d plug a riser card into populated, I think the 910q may be one of the ones where it’s missing. The qs sometimes indicate the lowest spec but not always. The m910x will definitely have it and most specialty models in the m9xx(x) range will also have a riser slot. The cards come with a specially fitted bracket you can use though that will fit pretty seamlessly. The bracket is purchaseable separately pretty often and is repurposable with a bit of planning.
My purchases of used Lenovo hardware became problematic long ago. If you can spend the extra money on the x variants, you’ll also usually get a better heat sink which might let you actually use all of your CPU without having to leave the top of the case off. The heatsink is real rough to buy separately.
I’m not good at it by any means, but it’s a process and it gets easier. I am also not at the point where it could save me money after year 1, but Ive learned and I can see it. The most important steps for me… First step, wait for snow and buy a greenhouse when it’s super cheap, you will want bigger than you think. Greenhouses can also get too hot, figure out a plan for that. Second step, buy seeds for plants farmers actually grow in your climate not just the ones in the store. There are more varieties of individual plants than expected and ones bred for your climate will grow drastically better.