I run a J5040 ITX board for my homelab needs, which has been released a few years ago and has served me well, even through I run it with more RAM than the board specs allow. The natural successors of that are the Atom N100/N105 and the i3 N300/N305 (all 1 Gen newer than J5040) and AFAIK the Atom N150 and i3 N350 (2 Gen newer), all of which are available on ITX boards. Models for the latest chips might be a but rare though, and you might have to go to AliExpress to get one, but for the N100/105/300/305, there’s a wide variety available. Just make sure to get one with enough SATA ports for all your disks, so you can use it for NAS as well.

Disclaimer: I’m quite sure this is enough for your homelab/NAS use-case, but I’m not familiar with Minecraft requirements, and you might need beefier hardware for that. However, the above boards leave enough room in your budget for RAM, NVMe and HDDs, should deliver quite some bang for the little buck you have, and will barely sip energy, making cooling easy.

Haxx >>> Kali Linux <3

I’m not much of an expert on Bluetooth, but I would expect that you can create an override for the corresponding Systemd service (bluetoothd perhaps, or some Logitech daemon) and make it depend on a Target that is reached earlier in the boot process.

Sorry that I can’t be more helpful…

Interesting option, I’m familiar with Git, YAML and yq. Thank you!

Uuuuh, thank you for the info, it’s very much appreciated!

They interoperate though, so if you’re happy with using a mix of them, go for it.

Same goes for nala, BTW.

Well, I do have a PaperlessNGX already, so I could use a custom field for SerialNo or something like that, but I just feel like PNGX isn’t really designed for this task.

Not at all, I like .md, and I’m familiar with Git. A spreadsheet is not something that I would throw into Git, but an .md…

Thanks, that sounds really nice!

HA, the term I was looking for is even on their website: “Asset Management Software”. My non-native speaker ass didn’t come up with this.

Thank you, I will check those out.

Though it sounds interesting for tinkering, I’m probably not doing down the NoCode route. You make it, you maintain it forever, and I don’t have that kind of time.

Oh yeah, I was planning to deploy Grocy anyway, but I never thought about using it for this. Thank you!

Yep, maybe it really is. I just wanted to see of there’s something nicer out there before settling.

I think I recall seeing Netbox a while ago, and I remember thinking that it would be something I’d like to use at work, but we already have idoit there (which I hate passionately).

Clearly bad IMO, but I won’t shame you for your preferences.

They have an incredible smell.

Ugh, don’t bring that up again.

It’s really simple: one chonky bear converts to 4 lynxes, which weigh 17 raccoons, which in turn weigh exactly 7 armadillos, that come down to 638 roaches.

Upwards conversion is just as easy: one chonky bear is exactly 1/3 of a Swasticar, which converts to 2/7 of a large boulder the size of a small boulder.

My wife did it about eightish years ago with her narcissistic, controlling, lying father, and her life has become much better because of it. He’s still sometimes throwing tantrums or trying to manipulate her (they still sometimes meet at family functions, of it can’t be avoided), but the mere fact that he doesn’t know our address has made her SO much more relaxed and happy than she’s been before. Bonus is that it makes him livid, because he can’t control her.

Her sister has cut the ties with him much more recently, and has seen the same effects on her mental health, but she’s also struggling more with it, because she grew up with him (instead of their mother, as has my wife) and because he knows where they live and it enables him to try and manipulate her into returning.

From what I’ve seen, it does take initial and continued strength to cut the ties, but it seems very much worth it in the long run. (Disclaimer: YMMV)

The Forgejo guys have built this themselves, so I’m aiming to use that (I don’t just yet, because I can’t find the time).

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Mint on my work PC, because my dear IT colleagues made the effort to provide standardized installations for us that are mostly carefree and can just be used; you can even get them preinstalled on a laptop or VM.

Debian on my work servers, because everyone is using it (we’re a Debian shop mostly) and there’s a standardized self service PXE boot installation for it. Also, Debian is boring, and boring is good. And another thing, Debian is the base image for at least half of the Docker images and alliances (e.g. Proxmox) out there, so common tools. The .deb package format is kinda sane, so it’s easy to provide our own package, and Debian has a huge community, so it’s going nowhere in the near future.

Ubuntu LTS latest on my home servers, because I wanted “Debian but more recent packages”, and it has served me well.

Not yet, but maybe Fedora on my private PC and laptop soon, because I keep hearing good things re hardware support, package recency, gaming and just general suitability for desktop use. There’s still the WAF to overcome, so we’ll see.

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Bonus: nope, but I sometimes try counting in Binary with my fingers.

But damn there are some smart people here!

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