Thankfully it’s DDR3

It’s one of the benefits of having older equipment. I use these guys for RAM purchases: https://www.memorystock.com/

I had a post a while back about what I was doing to cut costs.

• TLP: Adjusts CPU frequency scaling, PCI‑e ASPM, SATA link power‑management
• Powertop: Used to profile power consumption and has a tune feature sudo powertop --auto-tune
• cpufrequtils: Used to manage the CPU governor directly
• logind.conf: Can be used to put the whole server to sleep when idle

After doing all of that, which does help out during operational hours, I decided to save 10-12 hours of consumption by just shutting it down. The old ‘turn the light out if you’re not in the room’ concept. Right now I am manually booting the server, and it doesn’t take that long to resume operations. However, why not employ some automation and magic packets to fire it back up in the morning.

ETA: I do have a watt meter on the server.

I built one a long time ago when the project first started. It hangs in my hallway. It’s actually a very useful project, and with tinkering, it can display a lot of pertinent data.

I finally installed my wife

Man…technology has come a long way.

Nothing here to write home about. A couple of minor tweaks to the network, and blocking even more unnecessary traffic. I’ve been on a mission to reduce costs in consumables such as electricity. I have a cron that shuts everything down at a certain time in the evening, and am working on a WOL routine fired by a cron from my stand alone pfsense box, to the server, to crank it back up in the morning just before I get up. It seemed to be the lowest hanging fruit so I have it on priority. It just didn’t make sense to run the server for 10 - 12 hours on idle I don’t have any midnight mass downloads of Linux iso’s nor do I make services available to other users so, it seemed to be a good place to start. I guess, by purist’s standards, it’s not a server anymore but an intermittent service, but it seems to be working for me. Will check consumption totals at the end of the month.

Other than that, I haven’t added anything new to the lineup, and I am just enjoying the benefits.

Cool, cool. I was just throwing it out there if you hadn’t considered it. It’s quite a powerful package.

A muffin fan with 4 stand offs would to the trick. Must be this particular model that gets hot.

private live streaming to friends and family

‘friends and family’ you say… /s LOL

It wouldn’t be a bad idea. Right at this moment my temps are as such:

• dev.cpu.0.temperature: 103 °F
• dev.cpu.1.temperature: 103 °F
• dev.cpu.2.temperature: 105 °F
• dev.cpu.3.temperature: 109 °F
• hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 81 °F

IIRC, the case temp is like 194 freedom units. I’ve never really seen it get much higher than it is now.

I have crowdsec running on opnsense to block attacks

Crowdsec is a pretty good package. It does blocking, but is geared more to being an IDS. Opnsense supports Suricata which is a more aggressive, and all encompassing IDS/IPS. I don’t think opnsense supports it’s cousin Snort.

meh…I wouldn’t get too crunk about it. If you’re here for any length of time, you’re bound to have a few mod deleted posts.

OP, you may want to look into ntopng. I think opnsense has a ntopng plugin. I find it very useful for traffic analysis.

I’ve had pretty good fortune with https://www.memorystock.com/

Ok. Yeah, if I’m going to create all my tentacle porn with AI, it should do so while I’m still in the mood. /s LOL

A hardware firewall generally indicates a standalone appliance that is dedicated to being a firewall. Not to be confused with a software firewall as you would see with UFW, or Windows Defender. Modern routers do possess some of the same tenets of a hardware firewall, but a dedicated hardware firewall usually gives a broader range of defenses such as IDS/IPS, filtering, etc.

I have a dedicated hardware firewall in the form of pFsense. The ‘black box’ in OP’s picture is the hardware firewall.

I mean, I can run a few of the private AI stacks, but it is excruciatingly slow as to make it not worth the time. I would want something pretty responsive.

Exactly!

If I had the proper equipment, I’d run AI if it were self contained and not pinging out to another LLM.

Well, I don’t have any subscriptions, and most of my equipment I got from an IT guy I’ve known for many years, so I guess my ROI is calculated differently

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