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tychosmoose

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  • I've Got 'Night Of The Living Dead' On My Homelab Server

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  • Zero zombies here. I have a couple of Debian servers and one repeatedly upgraded Ubuntu on noble numbat that I'm too lazy to migrate to Debian. None have zombies.

    Do you run a DE? Mine are headless.

  • TIL the color "chartreuse" is named after a liqueur

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  • Ah, but the color was named after the fruit!

    Before oranges were introduced to English speaking areas the color was called yellow red. The use of orange for the color is only attested from c1500.

  • How to find a very specific type of switch/button?

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  • That's a nice looking switch. Wow. I bet it makes a nice thwack.

    It looks like there are two ground/earth wires on one ground post and two hots on the corresponding hot. Two circuits are being powered through the one switch. Would need to see more of the device guts to understand why.

    I think that would be classified as a Rocker switch with a Paddle actuator.

    From the back it looks like a DPST switch.Double/Dual Pole means it switches two separate pairs of conductors at once. Many circuits only need to switch the hot or the ground wire and use a Single Pole switch. A SPST switch has 2 terminals on the back. This one has 4 so it can switche both the hot and ground at the same time.Single Throw means it's got only off and on. No other position. Dual Throw would have 3 positions, so a SPDT would have 3 terminals on the back, and a DPDT switch has 6 terminals on the back.

    RectangularPanel mountRecessed or Inset

    Any numbers or markings on the back? I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't available any more. To me it looks like something from the 1970s-1990s.

    There might be markings on the circuit board that help date it.

  • How to find a very specific type of switch/button?

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  • It looked anti-vandal to me with it's low profile, chamfered edges, and all-metal face. It would be difficult to get leverage against these to damage them or rip them out of the hole.

    A €1 button is made of plastic and is easily smashed to bits.

  • How to find a very specific type of switch/button?

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  • It's not exactly featureless.

    In electronics terms this is a switch.PushbuttonMomentary (meaning it doesn't remain in the pressed state when you stop touching it)Panel mountAnti VandalNon-illuminated (I'm guessing based on the photo)Green

    There aren't so many green switches as red or black, so that can help the search.It's also probably something readily available since this doesn't look like a device built in the thousands.

    I'll bet it's this one or a different size from the same manufacturer:https://www.buerklin.com/en/p/eao/pushbutton-switches/82-6851-1000/12G0085/

    Of course it could just as easily be something sourced in China if I'm wrong and this control panel is mass produced.

  • Alright let's see pictures of your super nice rack-mounted, professionally installed labs. I'll start 🙃

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  • Ha! Mine's the same! My job was dumping them and said take it if you want it. A v1 TP-Link TL-SG105. I don't think I've used mine in at least 10 years but I can't bear to throw it away.

  • Alright let's see pictures of your super nice rack-mounted, professionally installed labs. I'll start 🙃

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  • Classic blue 5-port gigabit switch. Chef's kiss!

    These things will be with us until the heat death of the universe. Still chugging along.

  • Turris Omnia NG Wired Launches as a Linux-Powered 10Gb Router

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  • OPNsense and pfSense are pretty popular and are BSD-based.

  • Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters?

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  • Nice. I'm aiming to go from bare metal to rootless podman managed via quadlets. Networking seems like the difficult part.

  • What is a useful or interesting product under $100 that you wouldn’t normally think to buy?

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  • Yes, man!

  • What's your go-to online dictionary?

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  • Thanks for pointing out nicely that I fat fingered it. 😆

  • What's your go-to online dictionary?

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  • I'm hitting the dictionary more for etymology than definitions and pronunciation usually, so I like etymonline.com.

  • Smallest modem I can put into bridge mode and feed into a router?

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  • Not sure if they're still in production. There was also an Italian company selling one (maybe based on the same hardware).

    Like u/floquant I would look at Mikrotik. But you'll need to pay attention to port speed (they still sell 100Mbps gear) and their tested routing throughput numbers to be sure they can hit the numbers you need.

  • Smallest modem I can put into bridge mode and feed into a router?

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  • Not quite what you're seeking, but maybe relevant.

    Have you considered an SFP modem like the Proscend 180T? Might be hard to source these days, but if you have a router with an SFP cage this would be a way to accomplish the single box goal.

  • Can you help me find the right word to describe this annoying person?

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  • The French sense is how the word was originally used, and it can still be used that way. But the primary sense now is about the superficial nature of the person's knowledge or interest. So it's negative, but not as negative as the word OP is seeking.

  • Can you help me find the right word to describe this annoying person?

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  • Did you maybe mean supercilious?

    Edit: It seems like OP wants something like "supercilious incompetent"

  • Why do Americans pretend they're not broke when most Americans are in debt?

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  • houses are expensive everywhere now

    True 💀

  • Why do Americans pretend they're not broke when most Americans are in debt?

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  • It could just be that you are in a higher cost housing market, or have big charitable donations. But also, yeah, you're probably also kinda loaded. 🙃

    (at least when compared with the median American)

  • Why do Americans pretend they're not broke when most Americans are in debt?

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  • That is still technically true, but it requires filing your taxes with "itemized deductions" wherein you provide a complete list of all the things that you can deduct from your taxable income before calculating the tax owed. Stuff like mortgage interest, charitable donations, medical and education expenses. Back in 2013 up to 30% of tax filers did that. Mostly this was done by higher income people who had enough income and deductions to put them over the default standard deduction.

    The "standard deduction" was increased in big changes to our taxes in 2018, and since then only about 10% of filers itemized. So mortgage interest isn't usually paid with pre-tax money anymore by up to two thirds of those who did it before.

    The other reasons for carrying a low interest rate mortgage are still true.