​ 1U SERVER TIPS
type shit @ixhby has under her bed apparently
@privateger no mine is much more tame
@ixhby I think I would go insane within 30 minutes of having this thing in my room
@privateger (this is just when its booting, it gets much quieter after, comparable to your average gaming PC)
@privateger I miss visiting the colocation we stored our on-prem stuff in.
@privateger cmon for a video that long I expect at least 2u of tips
@privateger sounds like underneath my stairs
@sortius @privateger you don’t want to know what under mine sounds like 😂 but also my god dude wear hearing protection in a datacentre, that’s like DC101

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@privateger I was really hoping he was going to whack it and make it quieter.
@privateger we need someone who can read lips to tell us if we've just been rickrolled
@joshg @privateger "We're in the lab right now, we're updating the firmware of this machine. There's so much in there that we've gotta get updated, the drivers, the [???] for the [SSD?] like that. So now [seems to be?] a good time to get that done while we're [???] and it should give us a lotta performance!"

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If you missed any of that, it's all explained quite clearly in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag

"Turbo Encabulator" the Original

YouTube
@privateger You know what's missing in that video? The somebody else's important production server two or three racks down that has an intermittent feep,

@privateger Hi!
As I can hear, the server infrastructure would benefit a great deal by implementing a different cooling mechanism.
Instead of relying on fan cooled heat sinks,
the solution for effective cooling and greatly reduced noise emission could be the following:

https://www.shell.com/business-customers/industrial-lubricants-and-specialty-fluids-for-business/immersion-cooling-fluids.html

Shell immersion cooling fluids | Shell Global

Find out how Shell’s gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology is enabling the latest immersion cooling solutions for data centres.

@privateger someone get this guy some hearing protection!!