Or if you have an old setup, you could run unraid.
Running on some really old hardware.
CPU & RAM load is due to the 15 docker containers that are currently running
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Thatās a lotta drive youāve got there @woftam, what are you running on them ?
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Unraid - Customised cutdown version of linux that has software based raid it boots off a usb stick.
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With a couple LVMEās!
Got a 4th drive for auto failure.
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Read a few articles. I know my reading and comprehension level has plummeted, but DAMN! All I learned were some new words, the meaning of which I understand NOTHING! WAY over my head.
Is Kubernetes a new programming language? Already forgot what I read. LOL.
May I assume youāre a developer?
Now lets talk about that rack mounted drive enclosure. One look at that, thought of something like that in my garage and ran straight for a cold shower. Look at all those pretty lights!
Been to several data warehouses. Got horny ever time I saw all those Christmas lights.
Crap, now I REALLY feel old! Some 45 years ago I ran a multi-node BBS. Brand new 80286 running NetWare. 8 port serial card, 8 modems. Donāt recall how, but I could run MSDOS apps on it. All those pretty red and green lights. Sometimes I just had to peak into the room in the dark and see the Christmas lights.
Later, OS/2 came out. Then the Internet. Mine was the 1st BBS in Greater Grands Rapids, Michigan to support Internet. My users loved it, but they hated downloading. Wasnāt much to download, but I ran Linux on another machine. User logged into the BBS, used Telnet to access their account on linux, download a file to linux, then download it again to their own PC.
Now, THOSE were the days!
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Na not a dev have just been using it for many years.
It works really well and since the opsys is loaded into ram at startup it is pretty fast and can run on old hardware. The drives do not have to be all the same size as long as the parity drive is equal in size to your largest hdd. Data is protected by the parity similar to raid but the advantage is you can add any size hdd into the array at any time without rebuilding.
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Okay, but what do you store on those drives of that space? I have 50% of space left of 6 TB, hosting drive images of backups of 3 physical machines and it hosts my virtual machines.
Even back when porn was of value to me I couldnāt come close to filling that much space.
Parity (striped) JBOD is freaking AWESOME! I have a boat load of of drives laying around, from 500 GB to 1 TB. Iām betting 10 or 12! Or more.
So how about a very dumbed down explanation of what dockerfile is.
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I store a bunch of movies and tv series plus family photos, movies and backups of all the code I have ever written plus a bunch of iso images etc, etc. In a past life, I was a dev on EMBY, but dropped it when the lead dev and I had a falling out.
A docker file is used to build a docker container.
A docker container is basically a program and all its dependencies that are required to run it. I have a suite of āarrā programs (media management stuff) and plex media server, which is piped to any device in the house (or any device I take anywhere with me, basically my own personal netflix).
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So more of a NAS box ?
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Well, I hate that this IS real. LOL, canāt we just get a SAFE robot vacuum in 2025 ??
IS it a vacuum, or ā¦
I wonder what @SmilingOgre thinks about this ??
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That is interesting. Never thought about this at all. It does make a lot of sense per my understanding of what is being done. In as much as the unit itself does not have the computing power to analyze and fully utilize the data, a remote computer or controller for the sensors would be necessary. Not too much different from medical devices I have worked with although the controller was hard wired to the unit where sensor data was muxed. I can see where a kill command would be a safety feature under the condition that data collection was lost allowing the thing to run around and eat things that were previously not there. From that point, I can only opine not being privy to the actual software, firmware, hardware composite. In as much as data flow was not interrupted by the userās modification was the kill command necessary? Donāt know the rational. Is telemetry data being sold as a form of income? Iām sure there are other nefarious possibilities that I am not thinking of. Info wars. Ageless dichotomy of intellectual rights. Maybe the Gooberment is collecting lidar data in search of contraband? Lol, ok. now Iām getting out there.
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Yup exactly.
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BIG time!
Now, PLEX I have! Love it.
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Check out Sonarr and Radarr make the internet your personal video recorder.
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A POS? Deebot vac and mop. $1,000! (Now under $500)
Deebot on Amazon
Bought it August of '24. Itās been replaced 3 times as it just stopped working. 1st 2 times, Iād find it sitting in a room doing nothing. Put it on the charger, 3/4% charged. Support said to push buttons and hold for x time to reset to factory defaults. Nope. Replaced. Last time it wasnāt draining the dirty water into the tank.
This thing is NOT light! They send a new one, I gotta get my neighbor to unpack it and set it up, pack the old one up and take it to the UPS store.
Object avoidance. Works great! Dust bunnies are objects to be avoided at ALL costs. Supposed to detect a dirty spot thatās stubborn and pass over it several times until itās clean. HA! Mine thinks those spots are objects to be avoided. I guess.
Couple days ago it must have decided an extension cord that a cat must have been playing with and left the end exposed was a dirty spot to be cleaned several times. Got up in the morning, itās sitting proudly atop the cord.
Constantly dropping mopping pads. Doesnāt notice. Keeps going. Iād have to guess that at least once a weak, Iāll get up to find it just sitting there some place in the house. Batteryās dead. SO glad I paid for the 3 year extended warranty.
And of course it runs linux and can be programmed. Not for this faint heart.
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I bet most of them are made in China. Theyāre watching us when we enter our passwords into our online banking and collaborating with India and Russia.
Just got myself to thinking. I bought my 9-year-old genius G Grandson a Raspberry pi. Iām gonna ask him to make something for me that works. Just a vacuum for now. Iām sure by the time heās 11, heāll be incorporated and selling on Amazon.
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So THATās what you meant by arrās.
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Well, November of 2025 anywayā¦
Itās freaking cold! 50 degrees, F. or 11.11111 C.
Itās supposed to be low 70ās F. or 22.22222 C. right now.
After triple digit summers even thatās chilly. And we want to move to southern Missouri? January it ranges from 72 degrees to 11! 22.22222 to -11.66667!
Okay, some 20+ years ago, we moved from Michigan, the land of -25 F of a sunny afternoonā¦ -31.66667 C. but weāve acclimated.
Family came out for a couple weeks in March a few years ago. Low 70ās. I was wearing a fleece lined leather jacket. They were wearing shorts and t-shirts and calling ME insane.
Iām gonna have to visit them in the upper peninsula of Michigan in January to get use to the real cold to make 11 degrees F. tolerable.
When we start, āWhat do you hate in 2027!ā Iāll be back in January complaining about the cold again.
My pa used to say, heād rather be cold in the winter, than than hot in the summer. Heād say, in the winter you can always add more layers. In the summer, once youāre naked, you could go to jail. I agreed.
Now? Send me to jail! Iāll make everyone horny and get free cigarettes. Old bones donāt like the cold! Even though the thermostat is set to 77 F. (25 C) we wear sweaters thinking weāll save on the heating bills.
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Did you know you can buy fake reviews for yelp?
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YUP, that figures LOL.
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