Little update. Tried out this 2 dbi antenna tonight, and got probably about a 50% improvement in range. About 4500 feet before, to 1.25-1.5 mile depending on direction. So, definitely appreciate the suggestion!

In terms of layout, there were a few decisions. For antennas, it’s because I didn’t want to put too tight of a bend in either cable, preventing a crimp. Not sure if it matters. Likewise, the rak boards are pushed up as far as I can to keep enough room to easily access the USB ports should I need serial access.

Awsome! Yea, I’ve still got a lot to learn about antennas. I’ve been working towards my general HAM license, and antenna design starts to come into play at that point.

I’ve also been trying to incorporate a raspberry pi into another node I’m working on, but it’s a pi zero 2w. I’d like to build a fully off grid, solar powered ADS-B node. The current build is too much for even 3 18650s. Not sure it’ll ever work out. The ultimate goal is a mesh repeater set up with a pi for occasional serial control and updates. We’ll see if I ever get there.

Yes, as mentioned in another comment, I understand the impact. The mesh traffic in my area is extremely light, and I expect cross node interference to be extremely rare. But, it’s something I plan to address in the next version.

That makes sense. My understanding is gain is expressed relative to a perfect omnidirectional antenna. So, higher gain means you’re making trade-offs in the area covered by the antenna. I’ve ordered some 2 dBi antennas to test with before deploying these.

Yea, it’s definitely not ideal for a high traffic repeater. My area’s got pretty minimal traffic, so I don’t expect there’s enough traffic to cause interference right now. When I get to a V3, I’ll probably be upgrading to a wider enclosure to get better spacing. The same company has a 200mm tall box I could mount horizontal, and put the antennas on the long side.

I work at an Infrastructure Cloud company. I design and implement API and Database schemas, I plan out backend workflows and then implement the code to perform the incremental steps of each workflow. That’s lots of code, and a little openapi and other documentation. I dig into bugs or other incidents. That’s spent deep in Linux and Kubernetes environments. I hopefully build monitors or dashboards for better visibility into issues. That’s spent clicking around observability tooling, and then exporting things I want to keep into our gitops repo. Occasionally, I’ll update our internal WebUI for a new feature that needs to be exposed to internal users. That’s react and CSS coding. Our external facing UI and API is handled by a dedicated team.

When it comes to learning, Id say find a problem you have and try to build something to improve that problem. Building a home lab is a great way to give yourself lots of problems. Ultimately, it’s about being goal oriented in a way where your goal isn’t just “finish this class”.

This is because there isn’t a job shortage. It’s offshoring. The company I (thankfully willingly) left 2 years ago has shifted all of their software hiring to Europe. And since I left has had multiple US focused layoffs. All while the Euro listings keep popping up. And I get it, the cost of living is much lower and the skill set is equivalent. So yea, get your bank. But, this is companies exploiting Europe/Asia, rather than it being something Europe/Asia is immune to.

I mean, what is a constitutional government if not a set of rules written down and delegated to “the government” to enforce? If we got rid of delegation, the construction and thus government would cease to exist.

Yea, it’s the combo of the chiller and cooling tower is analogous to a swamp cooler. The cooling tower provides the evaporative cooling. The difference is that rather than directly cooling the environment around the cooling tower, the chiller allows indirect cooling of the DC via heat exchange. And isolated chiller providing heat exchange is why humidity inside the DC isn’t impacted by the evaporative cooling. And sure, humidity is different between hot and cold isles. That is just a function of temperature and relative humidity. But, no moisture is exchanged into the DC to cool the DC.

Edit: Turns out I’m a bit misinformed. Apparently in dry environments that can deal with the added moisture, DCs are built that indeed use simple direct evaporative cooling.

Practically all even semi-modern DCs are built for servers themselves to be air cooled. The air itself is cooled via a heat exchanger with a separate and isolated chiller and cooling tower. The isolated chiller is essentially the swamp cooler, but it’s isolated from the servers.

There are cases where servers are directly liquid cooled, but it’s mostly just the recent Nvidia GPUs and niche things like high-frequency-trading and crypto ASICs.

All this said… For the longest time I water cooled my home lab’s compute server because I thought it was necessary to reduce noise. But, with proper airflow and a good tower cooler, you can get basically just as quiet. All without the maintenance and risk of water, pumps, tubing, etc.

I’d take a look at packer and ansible. Packer can be used to prepare a new base image for your VMs. And ansible can be used to automate the provisioning of a VM once it’s booted.

Slightly educated guess. True organic cork is produced by cutting the bark off specific trees. There are limited climates it grows. I would guess the scale with which we produce bottled drinks would require significantly more trees and labor that we currently have. And thus cork prices would skyrocket.

If you’re considering video transcoding, I’d give Intel a look. Quicksync is pretty well supported across all of the media platforms. I do think Jellyfin is on a much more modern ffmpeg than Plex, and it actually supports AMD. But, I don’t have any experience with that… Only Nvidia and Intel. You really don’t need a powerful CPU either. I’ve got my Plex server on a little i5 NUC, and it can do 4k transcodes no problem.

You really don’t need an AIO with a 5600X. Just grab a reasonably sized tower cooler and call it a day. There’s less to fail, and less risk of water damage if it fails catastrophically. I’ve found thermalright to be exceptionally good for how well priced they are. Not as quiet as Noctua, but damn near the same cooling performance.

Another thing to consider is that a 5600X doesn’t have built in graphics. I think you’d need to jump up to AM5/7600X for that.

A coworker of mine built an LLM powered FUSE filesystem as a very tongue-in-check response to the concept of letting AI do everything. It let the LLM generate responses to listing files in directories and reading contents of the files.

Honestly, I don’t mind them adding ads. They’ve got a business to support. But, calling them “quests” and treating them as “rewards” for their users is just so tone-deaf and disingenuous. Likewise, if I’ve boosted even a single server, I shouldn’t see this crap anywhere, let alone on the server I’ve boosted.

After repeated failures to pass a test, I do not think it is unreasonable for the business to stop paying for your attempts at a certification. Either directly via training sessions and testing fees, or indirectly via your working hours.

In the US, salaried engineers are exempt from overtime pay regulations. He is telling them to work 20 extra hours, with no extra pay.

Commentary from someone quite trusted in the historical gun community and who’s actually shot multiple Welrods/VP9s: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/POubd0SoCQ8

It’s not a VP9. Even at the very start of the video, on the first shot before the shooter even manually cycles the gun, gas is ejected backwards out of the action rather than forward out of the suppressor.