A lot of other people who took the test got largely the same result as when they joined the company — my results had worsened (by the HR Manager’s standards) — she later told me that I was anti-authoritarian and more likely to do what I thought was right rather than what I had been instructed to do. […]

She mentioned that my chances of securing the job upon re-interviewing at the company were slim due to my psychometric profile.

What a nice thing to say to one of your senior employees. HR people really are something else. They could’ve easily lost him that day because of some random bullshit.

NUCs make really nice homelab servers. They can give you a lot of power while not sucking too much electricity. I have used three NUCs to build a kubernetes cluster and I’m very happy with them.

The only thing that made me buy additional hardware was the need for 10Gb Networking and more internal storage, which I couldn’t realize with my NUCs. I also learned to love the IPMI feature of server motherboards, that NUCs don’t offer afaik. I would recommend to use a hypervisor like proxmox which makes it easy to spin up new servers inside virtual machines - this way you don’t have to re-install your OS on the NUC everytime something goes wrong or needs to be upgraded.

Generally a NUC is a great device for a homelab, especially if you’re just starting out!

Since you’re also located in germany, I’d like to share a site I found when I was looking for my own router based on OPNsense: NRG Systems. Some of their models use pretty old hardware, but I got the IPU651 with the 19" chassis and I really love it.

Use something like pgAdmin, DBeaver or the pg cli to connect to your postgres instance. Then run the command from the changelog as a SQL query.

Have you checked the SMART values of your drives? Do they give you a reason for your concerns?

Anyhow, you should never be in a position where you need to worry about drive failure. If the data is important, back it up separatly. If it isn’t, well, don’t sweat it then.

Why would you buy something new if your current solution works and your requirements don’t change? Just keep it.

Wasabi S3 is nice and cheap. You’ll only pay what you use, so probably just a few cents in your case.

Oops, nevermind:

If you store less than 1 TB of active storage in your account, you will still be charged for 1 TB of storage based on the pricing associated with the storage region you are using.

I recently upgraded three of my proxmox hosts with SSDs to make use of ceph. While researching I faced the same question - everyone said you need an enterprise SSD, or ceph would eat it alive. The feature that apparently matters the most in my case is Power Loss Protection (PLP). It’s not even primarily needed to protect from an possible outage, but it forces sync writes instead of relying on a cache for performance.

There are some SSDs marketed for usage in data centers, these are generally enterprisey. Often they are classified for “Mixed Use” (read and write) or “Read Intensive”. Other interesting metrics are the Drive Writes Per Day (DWPD) and obviously TBW and IOPS.

At the end I went with used Samsung PM883.

But before you fall into this rabbit hole, you might check if you really need an enterprise SSD. If all you’re doing is running a few vms in a homelab, I would expect consumer SSDs to work just fine.

What’s wrong with Portainer?

You could look into mainboards with IPMI. They give you a web based interface to fully control your server, including power management, shell, sensor readings, etc.

Also not a fan about the closed source thing, but I like about Obsidian that it’s all just markdown. If I ever need to ditch it, I can keep and use my existing files as they are.

Would this also be possible with Zettlr or Logseq?

Haha, no problem!

Have you seen the link?

I love Jellyfin but I would absolutely not make it accessible over the public internet. A VPN is the way to go.

Fixed, thanks.

Yeah, tail would be the more obvious choice instead of negating head.

Fuck, I need coffee. @[email protected] is right (again).

You’re right, I edited my comment. Thanks!

This line seems to list all dumps and then deletes all but the two most recent ones.

In detail:

• ls -1 /backup/*.dump lists all files ending with .dump alphabetically inside the /backup directory
• head -n -2 returns all filenames except the two most recent ones from the end of the list
• xargs rm -f passes the filenames to rm -f to delete them

Take a look at explainshell.com.

Bitwarden doesnt rely on the cloud either. You can host it yourself or use another backend like Vaultwarden.

Yeah, the quality is really good. It’s also not cheap. I bought this case mostly because it’s rather shallow and did fit into my previous server rack.

I’m now at a point where I should buy another drive cage but I’m a bit hesitant to spend 150€ for it. Well…

Edit: Any reason you decided to go with a non-server mainboard without IPMI and ECC support?

Fun! I used the exact same chassis for my NAS. Thanks for sharing!