Silverstone made two retro-like cases recently, with space for optical drives, here’s the vertical one with three 5.25" bays: www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/…/flp02/

The other one is horizontal and only has space for one optical drive: www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/…/flp01/

I think they look nice.

I have a few of these: www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/TH02Z.html#tuya-th02z

They’re fine with rechargeable aaa batteries.

I put one outside, slightly under the roof, and after about a year it got damaged somehow. It’s showing significantly off temperature and humidity, even after being inside for months after that.

So maybe not good for outside weather.

These guys sell eink monitors: shop.boox.com/products/mira

If you already have gpg set up it’s quite easy to just sync it with git. Then your server only needs to be online when you want to sync.

You can (probably should) use different keys per device, and works wonderfully with Yubikey or other gpg hardware keys if you want extra safety.

Not really since then all computers share the same link and bandwidth, and latency will be very inconsistent with more than two computers since there will be crosstalk and retransmissions.

With cheaper cables, each computers can max out the bandwidth of each cable, and get much lower latency since there’s no crosstalk.

The only benefit is that you don’t have to run cables, everything else is worse.

If you end up with a battery cap in yhe screw or drill, you might be able to pull out the casing with needle nose pliers, likely in pieces.

It hurts if you get gunk on your skin, so try to avoid that.

Eye protection is a great idea.

Do you mind posting pictures?

I’m curious how bad your situation looks like.

I was a just a lurker on reddit. It feels more welcoming here so I'm staying for sure.

I have no idea how to use this, but there is an official phpbb like frontend for lemmy:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB