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Looking in the electronics trash at my company, I found a nice 4 TB hdd. Unfortunately, the drive was in the trash for a reason, the SMART report indicated some errors. When I ran the `badblocks` command, a dozen of bad blocks were found, all lumped toogether at the end of the drive. I still want to use the drive, if only for data I won't be too sad to loose. How should I process? Can I make partition around the block? Is there a way to tell the filesystem not to use those blocks? What should I...
💬 3 comments · 2023-07-01 · 2 months ago
Homelab: The Smol Perspective While perusing the thread of people's setups, I was chuffed to see a strong pressence of 'smol' computers: SBCs, repurposed equipment, aging machines and related kin. I suppose it isn't surprising here in the gemisphere. Sparked up a lot of related thoughts I've been mulling over that seem appropriate for this space. As time goes on, I find myself reflecting more and more on the subjects of permaculture, accessibility, how technology meets humanity (and doesn't),...
💬 3 comments · 3 likes · 2023-06-28 · 2 months ago
Does anyone know how to get old stuff trashed by enterprises? Is it a good way to get cheaper stuff?
💬 4 comments · 2023-06-19 · 3 months ago
What’s everyone running in their homelab? I’m just getting started with mine, but here’s what I have so far: Unraid running on a Pentium G3220/16 GB RAM/2x4TB box I built in college PiHole docker on Unraid NextCloud docker on Unraid Agate Gemini server on a Ubuntu Server VM on the NAS Ubiquiti Dream Machine SE for routing and as an NVR with a 4Tb drive 3 Ubiquiti U6 Lite PoE APs 3 Ubiquiti G5 Flex PoE cameras 1 Ubiquiti G4 Instant WiFi camera I’ve got a M1 Mac Mini I’m looking to throw Asahi...
💬 11 comments · 1 like · 2023-06-15 · 3 months ago