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▲ 171 r/lawnmowers

I told myself I wouldn't go this far.

I did though; brought home a project. 2007 Jacobsen Triplex reel mower. Paid $2,000 on Facebook Marketplace.

The machine has 1,465 hours on the clock, and the reels still have plenty of life. No major issues other than the hydraulics, which the previous owner brilliantly filled with automatic transmission fluid. I took it for a spin, and as soon as the ATF got hot, it failed to even lift the reels.

So... time to flush the system.

I'm not wasting good money on the original "GreensCare" fluid, and I'm not even going for ISO 68. This is a 19-year-old machine; it's clapped out. We're going straight for ISO 100.

Wish me luck, boys.

u/CStoEE — 13 days ago
▲ 799 r/rmbrown+3 crossposts

Give me $1000 and remove this tower from my land

u/CStoEE — 22 days ago
▲ 100 r/homelab

How I became a homelabber: A cautionary tale.

I had the ISP's Wi-Fi box. It worked great if you were near it, but in some parts of the house, it wasn't that great. A friend told me about "UniFi"—these flying saucer-looking things that attach to your ceiling and make your Wi-Fi awesome. Wow, sounds great, where do I sign up?

Oh wait, you have to run wires? Okay, I guess I can do that. I have a single-story house and an open attic above, so this won't be so bad. Well, if I'm going to go up there and run wires anyway, why not just run a network drop to each bedroom? The builder didn't even offer this when I bought the house, but it seems simple enough.

Okay—great. Now all the rooms are wired up. Hey, what if all my smart bulbs and smart switches could "talk to each other," or at least be on a single app? Oh—Home Assistant looks pretty neat, let's try that.

Hey, you know what... the ISP's router doesn't really have that many features beyond basic port forwarding. I wonder if there's anything better out there? Awww shucks, this Raspberry Pi is kinda slow, wonder if I could do any better.

Hmmm... Proxmox, that looks pretty cool. You mean I can just spin up a new server whenever I want?

Hey wait, now I'm spending more time working on the server than I am using its features, what's going on?

Awww fuck it, I'm committed now. Can't stop, won't stop.

Ahhh now I've got my house set up, I bet my parents would appreciate this Home Assistant thing. It could make all their smart home stuff accessible through Apple Home. I'll just keep it limited in scope and only do the Home Assistant setup for them, it won't be too much maintenance.

You know what, maybe they need pfSense+ too. Then I can easily set up a site-to-site VPN network so that I can easily fix any problems they have. You know what, they probably need UniFi too, their Wi-Fi isn't that great. Well maybe they need a few more spaceships, the Wi-Fi isn't that great downstairs.

The best part about doing all this free IT work for my family is that they totally recognize the effort I've put in and appreciate the uptime / improved connectivity. I get complements all the time about how great it was when they didn't have any buffering while they were streaming.

Those of you who are in a similar situation will know that the last paragraph is 100% false... I literally only hear about the network when it's broken (usually my fault, so I deserve it!). I guess I should have expected that going in, but now I'm in so deep I can't get out.

Does this sound like the your homelabber story, or am I just insane? (Honestly I just know I'm insane, so please don't answer that.)

TL;DR: Stop while you're still ahead or else get sucked into the black hole with the rest of us.

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u/CStoEE — 2 months ago
▲ 129 r/homelab

Serviceability 0: WAF 100

Sometimes you gotta work with the space you have. No complaints as long as I don’t have to change anything on the patch panel, then I get to see how flexible I still am.

The switch is a recently acquired UniFi Pro HD 24 PoE. Too bad nobody gets to see the sleek silver pizza box in my closet, it sure did have a nice screen for the few hours it wasn’t 6” away from a wall lol.

Given current prices I’m handing onto my m920x as long as possible. I7-8700, 32GB RAM, 4Tb SSD, x520da, i226v, coral TPU. Proxmox, pfSense+, frigate, scrypted, Home Assistant, other miscellaneous stuff. I got the 920x for $130 delivered, about a year before AI came in and wrecked prices.

Thermals are taken care of here courtesy the big vent and inline fan pulling fresh air in. Rack intake air stays below 80F all year.

u/CStoEE — 3 months ago
▲ 6 r/wine

2006 Prince Gonzalve du Puy Saint-Émilion - Worth opening or past its prime?

Stored horizontally most all its life. Not always in a fridge. Climate controlled, mostly in the 70-60f range. Sent to me from a Frenchman as part of a trade back in 2008. He said he got it at a gas station. controlled, mostly in the 70-60f range. Sent to me from a Frenchman as part of a trade back in 2008. He said he got it at a gas station.

u/CStoEE — 3 months ago