yeah…the fediverse is Reddit 2.0

Lemmy has been getting a little more…fascisty lately. each community has basically been infiltrated by power-tripping mods from Reddit that honestly have no business being mods.

it’s good to have things different than Reddit and Lemmy.

last I checked with a kill-a-watt I was drawing an average of 2.5kWh after a week of monitoring my whole rack. that was about three years ago and the following was running in my rack.

• r610 dual 1kw PSU
• homebuilt server Gigabyte 750w PSU
• homebuilt Asus gaming rig 650w PSU
• homebuilt Asus retro(xp) gaming/testing rig 350w PSU
• HP laptop as dev env/warmsite ~ 200w PSU
• Amcrest NVR 80w (I guess?)
• HP T610 65w PSU
• Terramaster F5-422 90w PSU
• TP-Link TL-SG2424P 180w PSU
• Brocade ICX6610-48P-E dual dual 1kw PSU
• Misc routers, rpis, poe aps, modems(cable & 5G) ~ 700w combined (cameras not included, brocade powers them directly)

I also have two battery systems split between high priority and low priority infrastructure.

I’ll ask this question because it might be something you didn’t think of.

What happens to your network connection if the VPN fails? will it continue to connect without a VPN?

I had a similar case of that happening, and ended up causing me to get some shame mail from my ISP.

now I run my VPN inside docker, and any containers that need access to it are configured as network slaves to it. VPN goes down? container reboots, all the others reboot after connection is restored, but will have no connection while it’s down.

it’s all in a well designed system of healthchecks and container configuration.