“documenting the change” is a pipe dream.

If you’ve ever worked in maintenance, active production, etc, you’ll be lucky to even have schematics. And trust me, there are a lot of hacks of people fucking with controls for 30+ years straight that soooo much of it is full of “fixes” like this, whether it’s something pushing a button in, or pieces of metal instead of fuses, or wires jumping over what’s “in the way” like whole safety systems and e-stops, contactors forced to run, etc etc etc.

Drills and taps two holes, adds a metal strap, and sacrifices a tool to save a 5 minute fix of jumping over the contact with a 2" piece of wire lmfao

I work on industrial controls. Very likely that the switch is momentary, meaning it’ll go back when released.

Sometimes there’s a little piece of plastic in them to remove the momentary setting, but this works too lol. Fuck it, it’s maintenance.

Cue every one of the factory workers at my job to crack jokes about a Chinese invasion all day

This seems like a dumb tiktok trend or some shit. It’s hard to get by in this world without a cellphone

But I just wish anyone would still want to talk on the phone. I love chatting with friends for an hour or so on the phone but everyone hates it now. Quick random texts just feel so much less personal. Ah well

I’m running a couple dozen docker containers on unraid and I only have one NVME cache disk, it’s 256 GB. I have only have 76 GB filled on my cache disk, the majority being attributed to Plex with things like movie trailers, temporary storage for torrenting, etc.

Just wanted to give you a heads up that 1 TB and a 2 TB NVME drives may be a bit overkill unlesa you’re trying to host a lot of VM’s

I just wish GOG would utilize Proton in a way to incorporate Linux support. It would be a slam dunk for them in terms of their userbase.

I just wish GOG would utilize Proton to make way for broad Linux support. It would be a slam dunk for them in terms of their userbase.

I got some massive 48U rack off Craigslist for like $50 and then cut it in half with an angle grinder, got some steel and screwed it all together to keep it stable. It ain’t pretty but the Frankenstein monster vibe adds to its character.

And I’m using the other half for audio equipment down the line so it all worked out

Sure you can.

I use Rosewill rackmounted cases because they’re cheap and get the job done. They’re a far cry from any enterprise gear, but that’s not really needed in a homelab. Think of the typical material used on a desktop PC.

This is the case I use, but see if anything else jumps out at you:

Rosewill RSV-R4200U 4U Server Chassis Rackmount Case | 11 3.5" Bays, 3 2.5" Devices| ATX, CEB Compatible | 2 120mm Fan, 2 80mm Fans | USB 3.0, USB 2.0 | Black https://a.co/d/icPXCTH

The official Rosewill rails are pretty crap, so I used these. They work great:

iStar TC-RAIL-20 20-Inch Sliding Rail Kit for Most Rackmount Chassis https://a.co/d/iaJBFNl

Beyond that, where you want to go is sort of up to you. Really any motherboard / CPU / RAM will do if you’re only using it for storage. I used a few different parts I had laying around already, and then got some open box ones off eBay for things I needed to finish out the build.

OS is up to you as well. I like unRAID because it’s the “grow as you go” OS, but I’ve used TrueNAS in the past as well. Both are solid options but have a lot of different pros and cons.