Perforated galvanized plumbers strapping. While most of my equipment is wall mountable, I used exactly this sort of thing for all the power supplies.

Likely similar to whatever you’re planning to use with the plastic strap, but more metal is more betterer

Literally speaking anytime that you print something in PLA and don’t burn it it’s sequestering carbon, but that’s not exactly impressive.

Actionable pun detected.

Actually, I lied.

How much more black can this get? None. None more black.

Imaging software is a godsend for that sort of thing. I ended up using BartPE for something like that, and it worked great – it has a free imaging program on it. You only need a removable drive large enough for all your files since it’ll compress everything.

I have a feeling you’d end up with a bunch of big drives with small volumes on them if it did work.

Warning you, I’ve had issues with RAID combining SSD and HDD. Basically I was on an older dell server and I wanted to do mirroring and the bios straight up refused to do it because it didn’t want to mix ssds and hdds.

Is it bad that I saw a new domain name and was like “ooh, a new instance to federate with!”?

My kid really loves the 2000s Alvin and the chipmunks movies. Dave is always talking about how they need to be like normal kids and they need to plan for the future, but on a lark I looked up how long a chipmunk lives and by the third movie they’d be like 50 in chipmunk years.

I think we’ll just assume whatever Gene makes them talk makes them live really long. Let’s do that.

Dude…wash your hands…

I’ve bought a few dozen of these things, shame to see them go.

😂 that’s the spirit!

You sure?

Ok, you asked for it.

https://youtu.be/2D-WRCGcJbs

This video does a good job of showing and talking about some potential issues with using an enclosure.

Wanna know what I wear under me kilt?

Me shoes!

If you were using a vfd in order to control the speed of the escalator, a lot of vfds have intelligence built in, so you could just wire it up and have the vfd take care of everything. On the other hand, I can see a bunch of reasons why a current might work really well for a short term demo and start to fail immediately after. Start to get things gummed up or also trying to deal with very small people riding the escalator, the trigger point might be difficult to keep straight.

Wonder if they’d use a current threshold for determining if someone is on the escalator?

I’ve been self-hosting a wide variety of things including nextcloud (which is one open source project I advocate everyone look at, especially on a web domain so they can access it from anywhere)

Go linux for hosting your open source projects. Just do it. I’m not saying that because windows is inherently worse than linux, but because everything out there is documented as if you’re hosting off of linux. In fact, you should really consider using Ubuntu-server, because most things have documentation specifically for ubuntu.

Going with windows server as mostly just s hyper-v box with your linux installations inside, that might be worthwhile.

If your IP address appears static, then you can probably just directly configure dns through the web interface of your domain provider. There’s a great script out there for doing dynamic dns using different providers such as godaddy, that could be some insurance to make sure you don’t end up with a non-working social media network.

One thing you should consider is running one virtual host as your reverse proxy that redirects different subdomains to the different individual servers running your services. The reverse proxy server running something like nginx would then deal with all your subdomains, and if you work on say your nextcloud and need to reboot it won’t take all your services down at once because your reverse proxy continues to function for all your other services.

hah very good point.

A self-hosted ebook solution would be nice. It’s surprising the holes in kindle even tbh