Good days and bad days. I have a car, place to live, food in my fridge and cupboards and money in my bank account. Maybe one day I’ll be able to pick up and move somewhere cheaper but in the meantime, one day at a time.

Some days I honestly don’t know. I work for AWS in one of their many data centers as a critical facilities technician.

3-4 hours a day, working minimum 12 hour shifts, usually 13-14, 4 days a week, 3 days when I can.

My thumbs used to bend back 90° or more but after years of abusing them and a few injuries, severed tendon here and there, they only bend forwards and straight up now :/

Happily using white label drives from https://goharddrive.com/ for the past 5 or so years, haven’t had one fail yet. I will happily buy more from them or https://serverpartdeals.com/

The last self checkout I used, a store associate took my things and scanned them for me…it was a strange self checkout experience

It may not be ok, but certainly better than rape. They may have passed on another form of trauma to their kids like every generation before and it may have taken quite a long time but they did finally make things and each other better. Which I think is a good relationship in my book.

From my understanding anyway. Not gonna proclaim to be some Ozzy Osbourne biographer or something.

This 1000%. I picked up a t480s a number of years ago and I couldn’t be happier with it. Came with a half dead battery that was easily replaced. Lasts a good 6 hours on a charge and does everything I need a laptop to do.

lol I feel small and inadequate.

Have you had much in the way of bad luck with the move being done piecemeal?

Thanks for all the information and tips everyone!
In the end I’m gonna end up doing a combination of things.

Spinning disk drives and power supplies are removed from all systems, large unsecured cards removed from desktop so they can’t flop around on the PCIe connection, servers removed from rack, everything wrapped and strapped down as needed.
Drawers mounted in the rack will also be removed as well as UPS, everything else weighs next to nothing and can be safely left in the rack. Most likely store stuff in the cavity of the rack and then wrap the whole rack tight in a plastic packing wrap. I’ll get a moisture control box for closets, bathrooms, mud rooms and storage stuff to help control the humidity inside the trailer during the move.
My trip will end up being around 1,600 miles in 2 parts. From Texas to Iowa to Virginia, so who knows what all kind of weather I’ll be hitting.

Thanks again for all the help, I’m pretty confident I’ll be able to get everything moved safely.

Thanks for the information!

I like the plywood and felt pads idea, thank you.
I’ll definitely be taking all the hard drives out and wrapping and packing them in boxes.

Hard drives, especially spinning discs, and RAM are probably the biggest factor at idle. I dropped my servers’ idle draw from 220w to 180w by dropping it’s RAM and replacing some older drives.

Nginx is pretty simple to run as a reverse proxy. Caddy is even easier but not as scalable.

HAProxy looks intimidating at first but it’s pretty easy and very scalable and performant. Wendell from Level1Techs has a nice writeup on their forums

Oh, there’s also Nginx Proxy Manager that is very clean and very easy to work and manage with it’s nice web UI

Frigate and a Coral TPU work amazing. I’ve had them and Home Assistant setup for the last year or so and have been quite happy.

Yunohost seems pretty good. I’ve only had experience with CasaOS as a self hosting framework.

I run all my stuff in Proxmox

Probably be Ente even if it does take a little bit to configure it and get a web UI and stuff. PhotoPrism was easy for me to get up and running with Proxmox and the great community scripts to setup a container but having to have photosync is a drawback I don’t care much for.

I believe both have something to like a memories feature

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I’ve been using Ente Photos, and PhotoPrism and I’ve been liking Ente pretty well. Little bit more work to get things setup and going but I’ve been enjoying it for the last few months

Thanks for this…I might be opening a Fidelity account…