10Gbps mesh for only $48, assuming you already have very modern (expensive) USB4 capable machines.
The article also seems to make the assumption that a server would be pulling 1000W all the time, 24/7, which is rarely the case (of course, I can't comment on what their workload might be, but it would be quite unlikely)
Still, I like the direct networking being done here. But saying "you can build a 10Gbps mesh for $50" when you have 3x $750+ machines seems a bit disingenuous. It is not unreasonable to get 10Gb SFP+ NICs on ebay for ~$50 a pop ($150 for 3)
$50 would be roughly all-in for the SFP+ NIC, two optics and a generous length of multi-mode fiber. I just did this, and here's the breakdown of my costs from eBay:
1x Juniper EX3300-24p - $75
7x SFP+ optics - $7/each
3x Intel X520-DA2 NIC - $20/each
4x 3 meter OM3 LC-LC fiber - $6/each
1x 30 meter OM3 LC-LC fiber - $24
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Total: $232
The EX3300-24p has 24x 1gb copper ports with PoE+ on them, and 4x SFP+ ports. If you need more SFP+ ports you'll want to find a different switch - but for a small multi-use home network the EX3300-24p nicely matched my requirements.
Mikrotik switches/products are pretty intriguing. Do you have any experience with that model? I'm interested in how stable it is and if the known bugs are anything to be concerned about.
Nope, but if you saw/used one Mikrotik then you saw them all.
Personally I have a love/hate relationship with MT, with a little love and a lot of hate, but at their price range they are unbeatable and works 99% of time.
That 10TB drive is 100% fake! Amazon is full of fakes.
A good rule of thumb right now is $60/TB, significantly less and you're approaching fake territory.
I should be clearer - that drive is fake if it's an SSD, it's a normal price for HDDs. Cost per TB of HDD isn't linear, though, it's a bit of a bathtub based on drive capacity and feature set (e.g CMR vs SMR)
I'm running this laptop (the R5 variant) on Arch w/ i3 and it's been pretty great so far. High DPI screen isn't really a huge deal as long as you set Xft.dpi correctly and change your terminal/i3bar font size.
Installing a tiling WM on macOS (in this case, Yabai) requires disabling system integrity protection. I tried Yabai for a while without disabling SIP (since I can't on my work machine) and it just did not work well. Not the fault of Yabai I'm sure, but there's still a ton of tinkering and tweaking you need to do to get Yabai really working correctly.
But you don’t need to disable SIP just for tiling. I find it works extremely well.
> there's still a ton of tinkering and tweaking you need to do to get Yabai really working correctly
This is pretty much true of basically every tiling window manager on Linux, too.
For me, using Nix-Darwin for MacOS and NixOS has drastically simplified my tiling window manager setup after initially doing the work to figure out my ideal config.
Keeping work/private life separate is reason enough to me (also, we don't use Github - we use bitbucket - the decision was made for me!)
Ultimately, I think having work-specific accounts is preferable, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of IT departments also prefer this (however, this is also coming from the medical space, where controls are rather tight and security is extremely important and heavily audited)
I've worked for a handful of medical companies, including ones that handle de-anonymized PHI/patient data and/or develop medical devices, both very heavily audited and regulated even in comparison to other medical companies. Using a personal GitHub account attached to an organization on either GitHub proper or GitHub Enterprise was never an issue. Sure we had some folks create a separate account because they wanted to, but there no directive from the IT/security folks even suggesting that, and I'd consider them showing any preference toward not just attaching your personal account a big organization red flag - it means they're just defaulting to "don't do that" rather than actually taking five minutes to understand the constraints and ramifications.
