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  • neidu4@piefed.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•The Nordic Model
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    3 days ago

    A coworker of mine from Brazil was visiting another coworker of mine in Sweden. I saw the screenshot of the snap he sent while on the train:
    “Yeah, of course this is where you live…”. Pictured was a photo of the train information sign saying “StopName (slutstation)”.

    I’ll leave it as an exercise for the (non-scandinavian) readers to interpret what “Slutstation” actually means.






  • I scavenge old hardware from work. My rack is now complete (hardware wise, at least), as I powered up the JBOD cabinet today, consisting of a bunch of harddrives left over from disk upgrades at work. It’s a bunch of 10TB and 3TB SAS drive. That server used to be an automation controller, now it’s my storage server. I had 160G of DDR3 RAM laying around from a machine I retired a while back, which is nice to have with ZFS.

    My VPN concentrator was a datalogger for two industry robots.

    My web crawler was supposed to be a test-server for the software department, but they needed to upgrade.

    The only new hardware is my game server, and RAM was over half the price. It’s a fairly standard AMD build, except I gave it a rackmount case.

    My networking hardware is also from work, as I detest consumer grade networking hardware. I replaced my shitbox ISP router with a Fortigate 101E, for example.

    EDIT: Oh, and the UPS was bought dirt cheap at a bankruptcy auction (coincidentally, the bankrupt entity was a competitor of my employer).

    The rack itself was given away at a regional airport who was getting rid of some old and unused stuff. It’s soundproofed and costs a fortune new. By far my luckiest score.