panda_abyss comments on The surreal joy of having an overprovisioned homelab (2025)

We do, but what I mean is this is yet another way Russia will benefit from the pedo-war. Oil goes up, they become a critical supplier of helium, they'll make shitloads of billions to try and prop their own war machine back up. One big huge giant present to Putin, one dictator to another.

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

to try and prop their own war machine back up.

I don't honestly think that Russia couldn't already afford modern infrastructure and military, as much as I think the government crippled because it's basically run mafia style where everyone is skimming heavily. on the take. and money being funneled to already wealthy pockets. This sounds vaguely familiar. Even down to people 'falling' out of a window from great heights. I get what you are saying tho. Russia is rich in natural resources if they can figure out how to extract a lot of it from the frozen tundra.

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[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 3 points 6 months ago

They can let other people do the building and extracting, just like oil companies used to do throughout the third world countries in the past century.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 10 points 6 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve

The National Helium Reserve, also known as the Federal Helium Reserve, was a strategic reserve of the United States, which once held over 1 billion cubic meters (about 170,000,000 kg)[a] of helium gas.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) transferred the reserve to the General Services Administration (GSA) as surplus property, but a 2022 auction[10] failed to finalize a sale.[11] On June 22, 2023, the GSA announced a new auction of the facilities and remaining helium.[12] The auction of the last helium assets was due to take place in November, 2023.[13] Though the last of the Cliffside reserve was to be sold by November 2023, more natural gas was discovered at the site than was previously known, and the Bureau of Land Management extended the auction to January 25, 2024 to allow for increased bids.[14] In 2024 the remaining reserve was sold to the highest bidder, Messer Group.[15]

Arguably not the best timing on that.

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[–] Pulsar@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Me too, I was waiting for a good deal in a GMKtec EVO-X2, but that is not going to happen.

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[–] amgine@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago (1 child)

I have 1.5tb of ecc ddr4 and don’t know what to do with it. Work decom’d a bunch of servers and I took ram and storage

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[–] Breezy@sopuli.xyz 22 points 6 months ago

Use them as a form of currency at this point lol

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[–] Breezy@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 months ago (4 children)

And here I thought $399 for a 4TB Samsung NVMe 990 Pro was a bit too expensive. Little did I know. I'm so glad my friend talked me into impulse purchasing it last year. What I'm more annoyed about is not picking up HDDs for my NAS last year, I refuse to pay NVMe prices for HDDs.

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[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Wouldn't it have been cheaper to buy a few smaller ones and a PCIe card?

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Then you’re losing pcie lanes, and you have to deal with split storage or software raid which doesn’t always work the best.

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[–] Breezy@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago*

Yup, and originally I was also aiming to put together a full SSD NAS, so I wanted to use multiple 4TB sticks for that since it was reasonably priced (at the time) for the amount of storage and speed. Alas, now I'm just waiting to see if it'll ever go back under $400, but I'm not holding my breath.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago*

Same, I wish I’d bought two. Or even one.

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[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 2 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Serious question, what does RAM help with in the context of self hosting? I recently bought 32G for my server, and it's DDR3 ecc so it's so cheap I could have afforded 64 but I just kept wondering what will I use it for? I rarely go north of 6G usage and that's with half a dozen services, a Minecraft server etc... I just don't know what kind of services are RAM hungry.

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

VMs mostly. What are you hosting on Minecraft that isn’t using >=4 gigs?

Also ZFS.

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[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

VMs mostly

oh yeah i see how that can be hungry

What are you hosting on Minecraft that isn’t using >=4 gigs?

Just a vanilla server i play on with my son, it's got 2G and i haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary. Chunk gen is slow-ish but i suppose that's CPU-bound.

BTW i exagerated in my initial comment, i looked at the machine and it's sitting just under 8G of used RAM.

Also ZFS

Jesus christ 😅 no idea if you're jesting

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[–] PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

ZFS will use memory to cache. Right now my unraid server is using 16gigs, most of that is being used by ZFS to cache files. 4gigs is all ~20 containers are using.

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[–] vodka@feddit.org 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

My use case might not be very relatable, but I run a bunch of stuff cached in ramdisk.

One example is if my jellyfin server has to transcode something, I have it use ramdisk instead of my SSD for the transcoding cache.

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[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

I see, that's interesting. I do a lot of transcoding but offline so i don't have usage for such a cache. I've tested various storage solutions but on my setup, transcoding is always CPU-bound, even on old ass HDDs the bottleneck is never I/O.

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[–] vodka@feddit.org 2 points 6 months ago

I do reencode bluray remuxes too, and also then use ramdisk for it.

I've just, always had enough ram to do it so I've stuck with it. And the ram is probably gonna take the wear better than SSDs do.

I also use it for download cache for some things, smaller things like music and books/manga.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

Probably not a lot.

My system idles at 3gb.

But then I do AI stuff and it needs 15-80gb. And I do data analyses that can use a lot.

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[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 1 point 6 months ago

Yeah i specifically don't do any AI workloads on my server, that would be stupid slow with my old ass hardware. But my buddy (who's a bit impulsive with money) bought two Spark GX10s and we're likely to get some fun out of them :)

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[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I bought 3 kits of ddr5 last January before i realized the approved vendor list actually mattered for this mobo (I've never had this happen before). I was too lazy to return them at the time because you can never have too much memory laying around.

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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

I have to ask… are you sure it matters? Last time I had this happen the mobo was trying to use extremely incorrect settings by default and causing the ram to be extremely unstable. I had to enable xmp and manually put in the correct settings.

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 6 months ago

If it's a server mb it might matter (warranty etc.)

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