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What is your favorite operating system and what do you like about it?
  • Personally for me it's that it's not as resource heavy as windows whilst offering a similar out of box 'it just works'. Sure it's not the best tool for the job in a lot of regards but for example I have two laptops from early 2014. A macbook air and a windows laptop running windows 10. The macbook air runs smoothly when browsing the Web, or studying whereas the windows laptop ends up slowing down a lot and chugging.

    I will say I am a fan of the best tool for the job approach though. Doing a lot of office based work and need word editing or spreadsheet editing? Windows. Gaming? Windows. Server work? Linux. Music/video production? Macs

  • Retro Battlestations @lemm.ee Monkeyclock1234 @lemm.ee
    The PS/2 Stack!

    Can you tell I'm a fan of these models? Despite all their quirks and diva behaviour

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    Retro Battlestations @lemm.ee Monkeyclock1234 @lemm.ee
    Moving my posts from reddit. The PS/2 Model 30 and 57Sx when I got them setup

    Sadly that CRT is no more...it seemed to have an issue with it's flyback coil and I am not brave to attempt fixing CRTs

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    Retro Battlestations @lemm.ee Monkeyclock1234 @lemm.ee
    Moving my posts off Reddit - This is the other addition to my PS/2 addiction - my 57SX

    Got this a while back and I am so glad I did. Massive fan of this pc

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    Retro Battlestations @lemm.ee Monkeyclock1234 @lemm.ee
    Beginning to move my posts from Reddit. This is the aftermath of trying to get a model 30 to read a 1.44mb floppy drive and a cf card

    I got the cf card working... never got around to the floppy drive again

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    homelab @lemmy.ml Monkeyclock1234 @lemm.ee
    Setup a live stream to my lab and now watching it like a fireplace

    There is just something relaxing about those blinking lights y'know?

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    How it Started, vs how it's going.
  • After my first job as a printer technician I can believe some of the horrors to expect. Training on a nice shiny new printer vs one that had been installed upside down, backwards and whilst drunk...20 years ago haha

  • DIY, what are you working on this weekend?
  • Ideally yes.. This is a previous owners mistake I'm fixing. My options here are: reattach back using another drywall anchor (not my preferred option). Anchor one side into a stud and if the other side reaches it the other side into another stud and patch the holes or glue it back in place (again not ideal). I'm leaning towards option B here.

  • What's a big tech product that you actually find useful?
  • Honestly.. I might get some pushback for this but Chromecast audio. Being able to get full home audio streaming for a fraction of the cost of a normal system with a few of those and a few old hifis. Worth it for me

  • How it Started, vs how it's going.
  • Honestly, throw a couple services running on ubuntu servers on the proxmox machine. It's not the same as book learning, but it does help a lot with the basics and patchy knowledge I found. Not saying I'm an expert or anything, but I do know a lot more about managing Linux servers now than I did 5 years ago from running 15 of them on Proxmox

  • How it Started, vs how it's going.
  • This is actually my second foray into IT work. I went to college for software development, failed that, went to work as a printer technician, left that, went into retail and now I am here. Thanks!

  • homelab @lemmy.ml Monkeyclock1234 @lemm.ee
    Cross Post - How it Started, vs how it's going.

    cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/1236407

    > > On the left, my first 'proper' rack. > Specs - > Router - Cisco 887VAMW > Unmanaged Netgear switch Two laptops (Asus X550Jk and HP Pavillion DV6) both running proxmox which has Pihole, Nextcloud, Bitwarden, Roundcube webmail and Nginx proxy server. Both laptops have their batteries removed to avoid them swelling too much. > A Phillips Hue hub and TP Link Deco M5 router at the bottom. > On top is a mishmash of leftover parts which is currently running TrueNas and Jellyfin. This is going to eventually replace the D-Link sharecentre hidden in the back. > Specs of the pc on top - CPU - AMD FX 6100 (An older model but still has it where it counts) > RAM - 8Gb DDR3 (Plans to upgrade it to 16Gb at some point) > GPU - GeForce GT 710 (Honestly just there so I can get an ouput) > Storage 2x 1Tb WD Red drives (With plans to add 2x 4tb WD Red Drives from Sharecentre) > > On the right is the mess that is yet to be fixed. On the top shelf is a selection of cisco switches and routers which are being used as a lab for me doing my CCNA (Hence the mess there). On the bottom is the same Lack rack as on the left just with slightly different components. Specs - > Router - Cisco 887VAMW > Switch - Some managed Netgear switch from 2004 (It's on it's way out and will be replaced very soon) > First Dell Poweredge R420, with two Xeon E5-2403, 80Gb RAM and about 3Tb of Storage. This is my new Proxmox host. > Second Dell Poweredge R420 with a single Xeon E5-2403, 64Gb RAM and 7Tb Storage running TrueNas. > On top is an old AMD Bulldozer machine I only use for ripping and encoding DVD files. > > Bonus pic of my bottom rack.

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    How it Started, vs how it's going.

    On the left, my first 'proper' rack. Specs - Router - Cisco 887VAMW Unmanaged Netgear switch Two laptops (Asus X550Jk and HP Pavillion DV6) both running proxmox which has Pihole, Nextcloud, Bitwarden, Roundcube webmail and Nginx proxy server. Both laptops have their batteries removed to avoid them swelling too much. A Phillips Hue hub and TP Link Deco M5 router at the bottom. On top is a mishmash of leftover parts which is currently running TrueNas and Jellyfin. This is going to eventually replace the D-Link sharecentre hidden in the back. Specs of the pc on top - CPU - AMD FX 6100 (An older model but still has it where it counts) RAM - 8Gb DDR3 (Plans to upgrade it to 16Gb at some point) GPU - GeForce GT 710 (Honestly just there so I can get an ouput) Storage 2x 1Tb WD Red drives (With plans to add 2x 4tb WD Red Drives from Sharecentre)

    On the right is the mess that is yet to be fixed. On the top shelf is a selection of cisco switches and routers which are being used as a lab for me doing my CCNA (Hence the mess there). On the bottom is the same Lack rack as on the left just with slightly different components. Specs - Router - Cisco 887VAMW Switch - Some managed Netgear switch from 2004 (It's on it's way out and will be replaced very soon) First Dell Poweredge R420, with two Xeon E5-2403, 80Gb RAM and about 3Tb of Storage. This is my new Proxmox host. Second Dell Poweredge R420 with a single Xeon E5-2403, 64Gb RAM and 7Tb Storage running TrueNas. On top is an old AMD Bulldozer machine I only use for ripping and encoding DVD files.

    Bonus pic of my bottom rack.

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