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@nuintari probably, but like the rest of the idea it was supposed to be temporary, so they didn't bother.
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cynical melomaniac 
@beyondmachines1 "Touch and die" that about sums it
Bjรถrn@cynical_melomaniac @beyondmachines1 But there is a fan. So, there must be experts too ๐
@funqr @cynical_melomaniac I won't mention names, but something not unlike to this similar saved my (and a large company's ass) one night when the storage crashed.
John Francis ๐ฆซ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ชโฌ๏ธ@cynical_melomaniac @beyondmachines1 I prefer to retrieve death by slowly drizzling coffee into a stack of loose power supplies
DemonHouser@beyondmachines1 a temporary fix will become a permanent solution.
@DemonHouser always
Grumpy Old Techie ๐๏ธ@beyondmachines1 @DemonHouser I've seen way too many faulty sensors bridged in Industrial plants to stop false alarms and never replaced. Out of sight out of mind.
Alerta! Alerta!@DemonHouser @beyondmachines1 Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution!
Cenobyte 
@beyondmachines1 I have one of these but the lid can be closed
@cenobyte so it's no longer a temporary solution?
@beyondmachines1 Nope being run as a research and dev server. Sagemath and a znc and a couple of other things
Evelyn Estelle@beyondmachines1 Don't worry. As a software engineer, I can confidently say that the code that runs on them looks the same, it's just not as obvious.
@dragonfi as long as the code runs, it's fine!
MafaldaOut of curiosity the 3rd image, Tรฉcnico Lisboa, is the Lisbon School of Engineering. They probably made it themselves.
David Haigh@beyondmachines1 I had one of these at old job...it was only responsible for a daily report that drove $10MM in daily inventory purchases.
We chased that into the cloud in 2 weeks.
Although part of me will always worry, it's on that rack held up by 2 cardboard boxes...
Cats report that it is not up to modern infrastructure standards due to the lack of a cardboard box.
spiegelmama@beyondmachines1 Oh god. Sweet memories of college in the 1990s, when my tech-spertise was better than my sysadmin's.
xchangeee@beyondmachines1 I bet all those patch cables could hold the switch and the cardboard box is not actually needed
FoolishOwl@xchange @beyondmachines1 You will certainly not regret putting 30 to 40 pounds of strain on your patch cables.
@foolishowl @xchange this should be fine...
Geoff ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ@beyondmachines1 The term is "Snowflake Server".
Joe's Computer Museum@beyondmachines1 I once had to power a voicemail server with a bench power supply because it would take too long to get the proper supply for it. This seems rather normal to me. :D
Sรถren@beyondmachines1 @nivrig we have a Mac like that in a server closet. Exact same case design even, I think. It acts as a build host.
Frederik Seiffert@chucker Until the day when the battery expands from being continuously charged and you buy a Mac mini. @beyondmachines1 @nivrig
Leeloo@fseiffert @chucker @beyondmachines1 @nivrig
The battery should not charge continously unless the charging circuit is broken. And my MacBook has lasted longer than half the Minis we had at work.
(Ok, we had two, one of them stopped working).
kajer@beyondmachines1 i have done one of those things.
@kajer You still have ways to go then :)
Tristan
@Tristan let the one who hasn't dropped a database in production cast the first stone!
Stellar ๐ซ๐ท 
@beyondmachines1 the first one... damn... even me as a total linux noob i managed to disable lid behavior when making a server out of a laptop
@Stellar Yes. But: "this is temporary", just make it work.
๐ธ POSS ๐@beyondmachines1 who leaked pics of my infra??? lol
@beyondmachines1 hey, at least i migrated 60TB of data today bc i moved the rack by a centimeter
@Crimekillz@โง.fm Achievement unlocked!
Xenotar
Paul_IPv6at one point in my career, doing backbone for one of the largest ISPs at the time (50-60% of internet traffic), we had routers that were webbing strapped to shelves because we couldn't get rack mount kits for the gear.
i remember walking into 1 wilshire and seeing a CSU/CSU dangling from it's cable in the air in a competitor's rack.
critical infra does not guaranteed robust infra. :)
Anonomouse13@PicardTips
This should be illegal.
Michael Baudis@beyondmachines1 Can be improved by stabilizing the lid with a (full) cup.
@mbaudis coffee, uknown days old.
Jeff@beyondmachines1 protip: make sure the internal speaker is connected, so that when you have a stack of these possibly hidden under another stack of papers and you need to find the physical hardware corresponding to what you can ssh into, you can make it beep. Or talk ("say" is pretty handy)
@evilotto spoken like a true veteran
RunawayDanish@beyondmachines1 The mysterious box with a USB that glows coming out of it is how we kept our home surveillance system functional. I had donated a 16gb flash drive from highschool that looked like it'd been through at least one war, it was quite the sight.
vollkorn (DECT 5676/"korn")@beyondmachines1 I like the last one: 'Touch and Die'. Security by threat of life.
@vollkorn depending on what will fail if it's touched and how much time one will need to work to recover the failed components, death threats may be warranted ๐คท
@beyondmachines1 Or it may just be a description of what will happen. For example, when it's critical infrastructure of an airplane you're on.
@vollkorn i'm imagining a Boeing 737 Max with a RPi somewhere in the avionics marked "Do not touch"
@beyondmachines1 I'm afraid something to the same effect ist considered normal in other areas.
@vollkorn looking at the series of unfortunate events that befell Boeing, it seems that it was (at least for a time) considered normal there as well...
Karsten@beyondmachines1 this brings back memories... Once we dampened a fiber connection by twisting it around a pen because wrong transceivers and we needed to interface single and multi mode. It worked, and I can't tell you how long it did. We stuck a P-touch label saying "don't remove" to it ๐ธ
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SystemThat Raspberry pi has so much dirt on it that I assume everyone around read the message and fully undestood the consequences of touching it
The Glass Bing@beyondmachines1 why do some people use Mac as a server?
@BingsPingsDings The unibody Macs were/are extremely well built and had all the necessary ports, so they do run ad-infinitum (until the battery gets bloated).
On top of that, there's a good number of those in storage at companies as they get cycled out of use as workstations.
Put in Debian (they ran Intel CPUs), and you have a PoC server on the cheap. As a temporary solution.
And we all know that the most permanent thing is the temporary solution.
ocdtrekkie@beyondmachines1 My favorite server rack is the server I have on top of two out of service desktop PCs. Obviously putting the server straight on the ground is a bad idea in case of flooding. :D