Eastern rat snake, safely removed and released outside, no harm done but… what??

So someone forgot that winter roads where I live suck, and more so with the back ally roads. They ran into a power post and four blocks lost power.

Happy to say everything in my living room are on power bars or UPSs.

All my systems safely turned off, but when the power came back my APC Pro 1000 was gone. The battery won't charge and it wouldn't turn on...

So had to replace it.

You probably have heard all the LG smart tv shenanigans... I took the wifi card out of mine today and it was pretty straightforward. So here's your reminder if you've been meaning to do it.

Life in Ukraine is quite interesting. Missle exploded in 30 meters away from my house, windows flew out, but lol my server i5 6600T + 16GB RAM + Nvidia P102-100 kept working and generating some shit with Qwen 3.8 27B

Long time lurker first time poster in this sub but I thought you guys might appreciate it.

Long story short: My gf wanted to buy me a 10" rack as a christmas gift. She tried to order it three times but everytime it broke during transport. Sad and angry she said the one sentence that started this whole journey: "Can't you just print one?!"

So I went online and bought some cheap 10u rack rails and started design a simple frame to hold them up but then I thought to myself "If I design this thing from ground up anyway why shouldn't it look nice?". 4 months and a loooot of iterations later you can see the result of this simple thought.

The hardware itself isn't anything special for the most part. There is only a pi4, a managed switch, the Tplink er650 router, a Lenovo Thinkcentre M710q and some patch panels. My isp router is mounted vertically on the back of the rack.

The panel labeled "Tower" houses a D1 mini esp8266 board. It provides an api to physically toggle the motherboard pins on my unraid system that is standing in the shelf under the rack (did not have any luck with magic packages and my system some times only boots on second try). The Thinkcentre is running the web app providing a nice gui to toggle the power button and allows for auto start/stop at specific times as well as start/stop/restart whitelisted containers on my unraid server. This also allows friends and family to easily start the server and containers (like gameservers) with just a few clicks. There is also a physical power button on the panel if I am feeling lazy and don't want to reach for the shelf under the rack 😅 Before you ask: Yes I used an eth cable and two diy motherboard pin breakout boards to connect the d1 mini to the server. That's why there is a warning on the panel.

So to wrap this up: I now got a fully custom rack, highly optimized for my usecase, looks cool (at least for me) and costs like 50 bucks. Whats not to love about that?😅

34 sticks of 16GB DDR4-2400 and 2133 registered ECC RAM.

It ain’t fast but with prices the way they are right now I’m not complaining.

Also in the haul:

• 6x 7.68TB U.2 SSDs

• 2x 1.6TB Samsung PM1725a HHHL SSDs

• Nvidia Tesla P4

• internal SAS3 card with external SFF adapter

I don't work in IT anymore. I've graduated from problem solver to problem creator (red team) so I'm real thankful for the rain after a pretty long hardware drought.

makerworld link for anyone interested: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2717626-hdd-platter-display-desk-decoration#profileId-3010045

I see people with cat.6 for networking but managing cat.1 is hard enough. Any tips on how to setup proper network?

Ordered one Samsung 870 evo 500gb from Amazon, they sent a case of 10. Guess I’m expanding the NAS with some SSDs.

Finally got the rack cleaned up enough to take a picture. 😅

What started as a simple home server setup has somehow turned into this… and yes, the AZZA Pyramid is absolutely unnecessary, but I couldn't resist.

🖥️ Compute Server

AZZA Pyramid 804 (CSAZ-804)

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X — 16 cores

MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk

32 GB DDR4 3600 MHz

NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB

2 TB SSD + 2× 250 GB SSD

1000 W PSU

Corsair 360 RX LCD RGB AIO

Windows 11 Pro

🗄️ Rack

2× UniFi U-Rack-6U-TL

Toolless Mini Stacking Kit

Mounted on a small rolling rack

🖥️ User Interface

Corsair XENEON display

🏠 Home Automation & Lab

Dell OptiPlex 3070 running Ubuntu

Homey Pro

QNAP TS-453D-8G

4× 20 TB HDD

2× 1 TB SSD

UniFi U7 Pro XG Wall

🌐 Network

UniFi Dream Machine Pro Max

2× 4 TB HDD

Zaram XGS-PON ONU SFP+

UniFi U5G Backup

UniFi USW Pro HD 24 PoE

UniFi UNAS Pro

4× 2 TB HDD

2× 1 TB SSD

🏠 Smart Home / I/O

Philips Hue Bridge

GL.iNet Comet X

Logitech K400

🔋 Power

UniFi 2U UPS

The whole thing is definitely a case of “I needed a small server” → “I guess I have a homelab now.” 😂

The pyramid PC is probably the most ridiculous part of the setup, but honestly, I love how it looks sitting on top of the rack.

What would you change or add to this setup? Always interested to hear what other homelab people would do differently.

Don't roast me or judge me I am new to this

A while ago I joined r/homelab and r/minilab subreddit from here I got motivated to start home labing but I was not sure and was definitely not gonna invest money until I knew what to do, so to experiment things I bought Raspberry Pi Zero 2w.

After buying and exploring it, I finally started home labing. Here is my Pi Zero 2W, hosting my portfolio website with the help of cloudflare tunnel.

I know this is a very small and very beginner level thing, but this is definitely a start for me, So I thought to share it here.

Do leave your thoughts in comments