Here’s my beautiful unemployed-for-too-long-have-no-money-dont-care-about-looks lab :)

picture of a raspberrypi, switch, HP elite desk, KVM and mess of cables on a desk

Hey it’s more than good enough to run all this ¯_(ツ)_/¯

screenshot showing list of hosted apps and resources usage of servers

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    2 days ago

    Love this thread, here’s my contribution

    Just a pi4B and some external drives for Linux ISOs

    edit : they resting on a piece of foam to reduce vibrations

    Bonus pic of the zigbee dongle for Home Assistant

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        6 hours ago

        Oh! So you mean pointing it downward? Would you mind explain how that works? I’m clueless when it comes to these things

        Some context, the house is on two levels and this is level 0. The ceiling above is level 1. Also we’re on the edge of the house not the center, the tip of the antenna is pointing towards the center

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          Just letting it be straight, as if it didn’t have that joint that allows it to bend 90º, but test and see.

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      2 days ago

      I bought a 16U rack this year to organize stuff a bit. Zigbee dongle is still installed exactly like this. I’m not convinced there’s a better solution.

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        2 days ago

        Honestly, I doubt there is. You’re suspending it away from metal and wood, seems like the best solution other than replacing the antenna with something expensive and “mounting” that separately.

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        2 days ago

        Yea really happy with it. It only struggled some summers when I used to live in a small apartment in a large city.