honestly, systemd isn’t that bad. I’m finishing some free labs for the CompTIA Linux+ sysadmin course and learning how to compose bash scripts into services is going to be great for my homelab.

I completely ditched windows at home in early 2020 and used fedora until last year when I took the plunge into NixOS. I knew how to do things in Linux, but I wanted to understand the underlying system structure. NixOS helped pull back the veil a bit.

Using NixOS was when I finally felt like I started to understand Linux. I don’t think I could go back lol

If using Linux is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

I appreciate the kind words! Until recently, my day job was CAD monkey. I wanted to consolidate the hardware I was cobbling together, found a cheap 8 GPU mining rig and some extra 2020 extrusions to play with.

The seller for the mezzanine said it followed the mATX mounting hole pattern, (it does but is ~75% in the width and doesn’t use all the points). I have a tendency to overthink designs and kind of stalled for a bit before finally taking the plunge and whipping up these struts. I used some brass heat set inserts to accept the standoffs and everything pretty much went right together lol

I am using PTM sheets and they idle at decent temps, though I did ziptie some high CFM fans behind them lol

eBay has some rad Chinese mezzanine boards for these guys too. Nvlink works and everything lol