Hopefully this is not too long! There has been a lot of changes since the last time I posted a full overview like this

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      Me: hey, I own that exact Anker USB power supply. I’m basically as pro as this guy!

      Narrator: his old laptop and external hard drive set-up was not as impressive, even with the Anker USB power supply.

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      I think the reason we aren’t rich is because we do shit like this.

      Anyway, I’m off to buy enough HDDs to get me through the end of the month.

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      Honestly its all cheaper than you think, 100% of it I bought used bar a few things, and over a long amount of time too. Plus messing with stuff like this has 100% helped me advance my career

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      You’ll be surprised how cheap some equipment goes for when a company runs out of business. Just sayin

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        I’ve been trying to hunt down cheap used network equipment lately. It’s a weird thing to be disappointed that there aren’t any failing businesses around me :(

        I’m about to make an 8 hour round trip drive for a cheap server rack this coming weekend. Please send help.

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    You must throw sick LAN parties…

    I love the fact that you have a favourite switch!

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    Question. I have a home network that’s more advanced than your typical house. I started holding back though as I figured when I die my family won’t have a clue about all the stuff I have setup. Do you guys ever think about this? I’d hate to leave behind a nightmare for my family members to remove and replace with a regular ISP provided router.

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      I’ve thought about that a lot. I don’t know whether to try to type up a manual of how everything works or just leave instructions on how to revert to a more basic setup. Either way I think my family would struggle.

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      I’ve thought about it, and nobody will care about your/my elaborate setup after we are gone. It will just be replaced by a ISP router without regrets.

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      I have Bitwarden set to give my wife access if she requests it and I don’t respond in X days

      Things generally “just work” so she would have access to everything, and she can figure out what she wants to do. All the passwords are there and all of the configs are fairly easy for stuff she cares about anyway

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      My opinion is that your spouse will have to get rid of any other hobby related stuff. If you’re a fisherman, she’s going to have to find something to do with all the tackle, boat/s, gear.

      I know a guy that was a woodworker who had a shop full of well over $20k worth of tools. Poor guy got cancer and died, and his wife had to try to get rid of all of it. Luckily she had some of his woodworking friends who helped her price and sell the stuff. (I got a pretty nice used planer out of the deal)

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      Also thought about that a lot. The most important is that your people can access your data. My partner and bestie both have LUKS keys on all of my devices.

      Maybe do a test run with them to see if they can actually access it.

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        Got it, sharing the password to my obscure furry midget porn collection with my people

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    Wow. That’s really an overkill.

    Any idea what’s the power consumption of all that hardware?

    How many hours a month do you spend upgrading or maintaining the network and all other software?

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      Honestly, I’m not 100% sure. I don’t have a way to monitor just the stuff in the rack as the UPS also powers a lot of other stuff in the house. Either way, I’ve worked to make everything fairly low power, or at least as low power as feasible. The things that use the most power is the disks

      I can tell you its less than 800w though, as that’s the lowest the UPS goes at night. But that also does include both me and my wifes desktops which stay on 24/7, and an Apple TV, and standby power for all devices etc

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        What does your current connection cost per month? I get my 500/100 fiber next month for 59€/month. 1000/200 would be 79€, and that would be the fastest you can get :-/

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          I’m in Colorado and pay $49.95 for 1000/1000 (though i’m grandfathered in and i think it’s $69.95 for new users). There’s another ISP that offers the same at $70, or i can get 1200/35 cable for about $60.

          I can get 2500/2500 for $149 and 10000/10000 for $249 (from my municipal provider) or I can get 6000/6000 for $300 (from the cable provider).

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          $70/mo for the AT&T Fiber, and $50/mo for the Verizon 5G

          200 up isn’t too bad, nothing to really cry over. My old connection at my last place was 1000/30! What a joke

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        Can I ask why you pay for that speed? I’m on 25/10 and I’ve never felt it was the 25mb download cap that is holding me back.

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          I was pretty happy with 100/40 but I have 8 TV’s often all streaming 4k hdr from various services at once, along with my constant downloads so i had fiber installed and went to 1000, I’m pretty happy now.

          I also sync ser ers between home and work so not having to severely throttle that is nice, upstream bandwidth is still awful though.

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    Great job on the cabling and the setup! As an Apartment dweller, I hope you don’t mind my living vicariously through your setup!

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      I’ve been there! Such a hassle. It was great when I moved and was finally able to do what I wanted

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    You said complete details… So where’s your private ssh key and public IP address?

    Cool setup btw. Would love to get my hands on such a system.

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    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    ESXi VMWare virtual machine hypervisor
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    HTTPS HTTP over SSL
    IP Internet Protocol
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
    PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    Jargon Definition
    Raptor Methane-fueled rocket engine under development by SpaceX

    9 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 20 acronyms.

    [Thread #21 for this sub, first seen 11th Aug 2023, 00:35] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

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    Solid writeup. Good looking setup. I like how you have a great reason for every decision you made.

    Crazy overkill for almost everyone, but you’re living in the future!

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      It sure can, but so far I’ve not found much use for it. I set it up to see if it can block YouTube ads in the mobile app, but it can’t. Since I already use uBlock Origin, I don’t know what I gain

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        At least from my experience, with a proper blacklist it shuts down a ton more stuff. Not just pure ads, but a ton of tracking and websites/apps phoning home too. You can configure it to be as strict or lenient as you’d like, basically. For me it’s nice, because I can just apply it to the entire network, and I don’t have to worry about trying to explain how this works to my family

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            Also has the benefit of being a completely local DNS server for all your devices to use. I think you are also able to add custom entries if you wanted to be able to refer to your devices using dns. It also has some caching benefits so there are less DNS requests going out of your home network.

            Personally I set up AdGuard Home because it has DNS over HTTPS support out of the box, which means your ISP cannot see your DNS requests. Pihole supports this too, but it requires additional setup.

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            Check out the Star Trek theme for PiHole! It’s one of the default options.

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    Crazy awesome setup! I noticed you had an enphase inverter next to your electrical meter, I assume for solar panels. Would you mind giving details about that system? What size array do you have and how efficient has it been? How are you monitoring the solar systems output?