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[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 2 points 37 minutes ago

Hmm which depreciates faster?

[-] Rookeh@startrek.website 4 points 1 hour ago
[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 minutes ago

Opportunity cost

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

That's not mid-life, that's entire-life.

[-] TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Some of these cases are so expensive. I am wanting a Super Micro CSE-836 style case to upgrade my NAS and I have an eBay alert I set a few years ago when I couldn't quite justify spending the money. Turns out I should have because even used the prices are going up and up.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

A super fast car is a toy, fast electronics are useful tools.

[-] kamen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Sure, but from some point up enterprise-class tech stops making sense for home use.

[-] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

A super fast car is a tool to make me happier. Not that I'll ever be able to afford one.

[-] needanke@feddit.org 11 points 15 hours ago

Mid-life crisis? I'm in my mid-20s!

[-] Dhar@lemmy.ca 23 points 14 hours ago

Who's gonna tell him?

[-] DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 22 points 17 hours ago

Is it really a midlife crisis when you're just buying the toys you ways wanted because you can finally afford it?

I built a ridiculous computer with RGB everything a few months back... It's dumb as hell but I always wanted one and at this point why not?

[-] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Sorta. But I think the problematic part of a midlife crisis is the irresponsible reckless behavior (say unaccounted for big expenses) that affect the people around you. If you're not doing that then pop off, have fun, life is short!!

[-] dch82@lemmy.zip 47 points 21 hours ago

Meanwhile...

looks at old Thinkpad and raspi

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 27 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I have been an IT professional since 1995. Never have I ever had a personal PC that wasn't either a refurbished laptop or some sort of Frankenstein abomination that I put together from whatever was on sale and upcycled parts.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 14 points 19 hours ago

I have been an IT professional since 1995. Never have I ever had a personal PC that wasn’t either a refurbished laptop or some sort of Frankenstein abomination that I pit together from whatever was on sale and upcycled parts.

I've been in the game for about the same amount of time. I stopped doing that about 15 years ago when I saw that the electricity I was paying on older gear was equaling or exceeding the cost of buying newer, faster, and lower power consumption hardware.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Curiously, judging by my recent upgrade parts search, the peak of the capability-to-power-used curve on PCs (at least gaming ones) seems to have peaked about a decade ago.

Signed, a fellow Old Sea Dog Of Tech who has also gone through the same change over a decade ago

[-] Windex007@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Power costs is a poor tax in the same way skipping the dentist and getting a root canal later is.

Also in the process of power efficiency-izing my lab. It just wasn't a feasible option before, I didn't have the means. I just paid interest via electricity.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Do we need to update Sam Vimes ‘Boots’ Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness to Sam Vimes **‘Compute’ ** Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness?

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 12 points 20 hours ago

I swear it folk have the shittest hardware and jankiest setups and create more problems for themselves than any user ever could.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

The secret is to give yourself as Elitez Hacker objectives things like "least maintenance time required" or "maximum computing power lowest energy consumption" (or it's companion "silent yet powerful").

Maybe "I'm fed up with the constant need for tweaking and the jet-plane-like quality of my heater-that-does-computing-on-the-side" is the real mid-life crisis of techies.

[-] tomkatt@lemmy.world 18 points 20 hours ago

It’s why we’re able to fix all the things. We dogfood shit setups, unsupported configurations, and weird edge cases so you don’t have to.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago

I don't even restart when installing new software that needs it, I just reload whatever service or dependent software on the fly 😎

[-] dch82@lemmy.zip 8 points 20 hours ago

It is impossible to pull any enthusiast away from their 7-row Thinkpad

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 14 points 20 hours ago

You can get old servers on eBay for surprisingly little money, like this PowerEdge T410 for $200. Add some drives, install TrueNAS SCALE and you've got a good home server platform.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago

Also a space heater for the winter and some white noise so you can sleep better!

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Isn't that a bit like buying an old truck instead of a year old Miata?

Afaik those CPUs use so much juice when idling ... sure, you dont get all them lanes or ECC, but a PC at the same price with a few year old CPU outclasses that CPU by a lot & at a fraction of the running cost (also quietly).

Just something to keep in mind as an alternative, especially when you don't intend to fill all the pcie bussy (several users with several intensive tasks that benefit from wider bus to RAM & PCI even with a slow CPU).
Ok, and you miss out on some fancy admin stuff, but ... it's just for home use ...

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[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I have a ThinkServer with a similar Xeon, running proxmox -> Debian, so I was looking like "huh, interesting" until I saw the internals.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck all that. Damn it Dell, quit your weird bullshit. It's just a motherboard, cpu, cooler, and ram. Slap in intake and exhaust fans. Figure it the fuck out.

E: and it better have a goddamn standard psu, too. Fuck yourself, Dell. I've seen your shit.

[-] Benjaben@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

The one saving grace is that their one-off custom damn shit always feels well designed, and they move a lotta units (which helps with repairs when everything is GD custom). Dunno if that's changed in recent years.

With that said I avoid them for personal use usually for the same reason, why have a desktop if you don't get the benefit of parts compatibility?!

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 points 15 hours ago

Hmm, I don't have direct experience with ThinkServers, but what I see on eBay looks like standard ATX hardware... which is not really what you want in a server.

The Dell motherboard has dual CPU sockets and 8 RAM slots. The PSUs are not the common ATX desktop format because there are 2 of them and they are hot swappable. This is basically a rack server repacked into a desktop tower case, not an ATX desktop with a server CPU socket.

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[-] superkret@feddit.org 18 points 18 hours ago

It's not a midlife crisis!
I actually desperately need this, my current server's just not specced right for the 2 dozen VM's I still want to add.

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[-] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 20 hours ago

I hate this meme and yes absolutely

[-] draughtcyclist@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago

Why not both? My homelab supports car related activities.

Probably why I don't have the Porsche though.

[-] villainy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I went the route of modest homelab with some mini PCs/Pis/NAS, and a decidedly not modest sim racing rig.

I like to say that for my midlife crisis I bought all the cars. I'm very funny.

[-] denisde4ev@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago

makes same sound

Gento fans go brrrrr

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 16 hours ago

Me who finds really cheap eBay hardware:

[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 5 points 16 hours ago

Me who digs stuff out of e-waste bins in office building parking garages.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

at least a home lab can do things. people who's entire social life and personality are dedicated to internal combustion bullshit are depressing. vrroooom vroom vroooooom is not a replacement for actually having a life.

I love the self identifying vrooom vrooooooom downvotes rofls. you guys need to find a better hobby.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 12 hours ago

You DON'T unDerSTAND I must go vrrroom vrrroom on city streets regardless of pedestrian safety or my wife will remember my dick doesn't work.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

the wife left him years ago lol....

[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago

I have 4 DL360s with 96GB RAM each to run a K8s cluster with a handful of containers

[-] MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 23 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but your internal use only web-app for syncing your garage door with your media sever don’t need all that

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 19 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

YOU DONT KNOW ME

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago
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[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago

I have 4 DL360s with 96GB RAM each to run a K8s cluster with a handful of containers

If someone is paying you to host those and covering your costs, go wild! However, as a hobby you may be spending $925/year or more for electricity to run those in the Midwest. $1,387 if you're living in Boston, $1,850 if you're living in California.

In one year you may have been able to buy more new power efficient hardware from just what you're spending on juice.

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[-] TaintPuncher@lemmy.ml 5 points 19 hours ago

I watched my father go this way and I shan’t let it happen to me! I’ve bought a motorcycle like a normal fat, middle-aged man.

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