The mouse did not survive interrogation.
Also mouse not pictured.
What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server.
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- hardcoreufo@lemmy.worldEnglish1 hour
I got a little fanless atom PC from work that was being tossed because it “didn’t work.” It did work you would just have to apply pressure to it before boot because the CPU must have been coming unsoldered. I just stuck it on the bottom of like 30 pounds of gear and never had a problem.
4 hoursBack in the day of BBS’ my buddy had a wonky modem. If I picked up phone , pursed my lips and did a squeaky sound the modem worked and I could log into BBS.
- BartyDeCanter@piefed.socialEnglish6 hours
Not exactly self-hosting, but I’ve worked at two different academic labs that had unique issues and small budgets.
The first was on top of a mountain at 3km elevation. The low air pressure meant that all hard drives had a lifespan of no more than a year before starting to have issues. This was in the pre-SSD days. The “solution” was to boot from a floppy, never compress data, and have a student return the drives to a low elevation and swap them for the prior ones every six months.
The second was at a place that was using old Datacube MaxVideo hardware that we would never have the budget to replace. It would crash if the room temperature got above about 18C, so we set the thermostat to 15C. Which doesn’t sound too bad until you’ve tried sitting at a desk for 8 hours where everything is 15C and the heat is just slowly leaving your body into the chair, the desk, and the keyboard. And then you walk outside where it is 32C and instantly start sweating because you’re still in several layers and fingerless gloves.
- Funkt4st1c@lemmy.worldEnglish6 hours
I had a screen get burn in (forgot to turn it off, oops) removed it from the laptop, waited 3 days, put it back in and it was flawless again.
I had a laptop that refused ethernet and would only ever use wifi… When the ethernet was connected. No wifi unless that cord was connected. Confirmed it was, indeed, wifi by using a dummy connector.
Bought a 10tb hdd that refused to read anything at all, opened it for giggles/curiosity and found a piece of scotch tape stuck to one of the disks and one of 4 disks completely shattered. The disk was still factory sealed (by appearance, anyways; they still had the antitamper stickers)
- Reannlegge@lemmy.caEnglish6 hours
I do not care to admit how many times when I was first getting into home labbing that I could not figure out why I could not reach a pi or the internet. All because I either killed an SD card for pihole or just plain out forgot to put one in!
- Schlemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish5 hours
I took my SD card out of the rpi to reinstall home assistant. Terribly annoyed because I had no backup of my configuration.
When reinstalling my SD I found out it was the ethernet cable that wasn’t plugged in.
- ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish8 hours
Goddamn I hate mice. I just had to tear out the entire contents of a combine cab to get rid of their piss and shit, and fix the wiring they chewed off.
I dunno if that counts or if it’s the weirdest cause I rarely have any issue, but one day, I wanted to deploy speedtest tracker via docker on my 1st NAS…
So I tried, but it didn’t work (I forgot the reason). So I try to check the logs, but it turns out my NAS was insanely slow.
When I rebooted it, it couldn’t stop beeping and telling me there was a hardware problem, so I tried everything I could do to fix it, but nothing worked, so I ended up reinstalling the whole OS
Keep in mind this was the cost to see I had a bad result at the speedtest lmao 😭
Btw, I also lost all my important files, yayyy!
- kfh@lemmy.worldEnglish11 hours
Then you tell people about it on IRC and become known as “the dead mouse guy”.
But the maximum nickname length on the IRC server is limited, so you settle for “deadmau5” as your nick.
Fail2ban crashing on 3 seperate days i tried setting it up then one day i did the exact same thing an it worked
- deft@lemmy.wtfEnglish9 hours
One time when I was 10 my PS2 wouldn’t work so I threatened to punch it if it didn’t work again. It didn’t work so I punched it. Then it worked.
- lost_faith@lemmy.caEnglish7 hours
Ahh yes, the “Impact Fix” works everytime til it doesn’t. Had a monitor with a loose wire to the power button. For almost a year a forceful tap in the correct spot would make it work, til one day
No mouse problem, but I’ve had to take measures to prevent cat-related downtime. Cats and power-button at the top is not a good combination.
- bitjunkie@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
My radiator is on top so they’ve learned that’s about the only surface in the house where they’re not allowed to sleep
- Sidhean@piefed.socialEnglish6 hours
Oh, my housemates’ cat hits the front power button when he leaps off my tower. I’ve got some leather taped over it. My uptime approaches 1! I love your little weight setup, too!
- Carl@anarchist.nexusEnglish7 hours
They make sprung flip-top covers specifically for this reason. It’s just a little adhesive square/circle that you stick over the power/reset button, and it has a flip-top that automatically springs closed again.
- Retro_unlimited@lemmy.worldEnglish12 hours
When I had this problem I disconnected the power button on the motherboard.
- bitjunkie@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
A lot of newer motherboards have a separate power button next to the case pinouts.
- frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish7 hours
Nah just jam a screwdriver in there to jump the pins.
You shut down your PC though?
- Retro_unlimited@lemmy.worldEnglish7 hours
On one computer I had a recessed reset button, so I used that as power.
Another computer I added a wire to an external button double stick taped to the back of the monitor so I can turn on both at the same time.
- Peffse@lemmy.worldEnglish5 hours
You sound like you are one step short of wiring up a giant lever to dramatically pull down when you want to power on the computer.
Cant you just assign a different action to that power button instead of messing with it internally?
- vaionko@sopuli.xyzEnglish10 hours
You can for a click, but no way for the long press, as that’s handled on a lower level
- givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish11 hours
Instead of cat proofing, you were supposed to get a server room dog…
I have two server room dogs. An English pit, which is my seizure dog, and a Jack Russel. They shed, especially in the summer months, and the floor sweeper gets a daily work out, as well as keeping it out of equipment enclosures. It’s not that I hate cats, they are nice as a pet in your house, just not mine. LOL
- lyralycan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish11 hours
Aha, I disabled the LEDs by unplugging them from the motherboard, you could do the same with the power sw plugs
The mouse did not survive interrogation. Also mouse not pictured.
I thought it was the huge heat sink that looks like it extends past the side plane of the cover. Reminds me of something I did with a CoolAir Cosmos tower. I mounted two 300 cfm fans over each CPU and took the side panel, neatly cut out the area around the fans, then 3d printed a scoop, with a slot for filtration, to fit on the side panel and allow the fans to breathe.
- Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish11 hours
Not selfhosting, but I remember standing in a server room with a hands’ width of water on the ground (and rising), and hastily shutting down servers where the water was already in the case. It were big towers (Compaq Proliant, if anyone remembers), and luckily the board, drives, and PSU were in the top part of the big tower cases, the drive bays at the bottom were empty.
We got all equipment out safely, and we did not get electrocuted, either. We left with the last equipment when the water level was approaching the knees.
- hersh@literature.cafeEnglish7 hours
Reminds me of a time at my old job. It was a small office and this was before “the cloud” was a buzzword, so we had a little server room running a few boxes for AD, Exchange, and the thick end of our thin clients.
This “server room” was basically a large closet behind my office, retrofitted with its own AC.
We had residential units on the higher floors of our building. Residents occasionally thought to themselves “you know what makes a great hanging rack? Sprinkler pipes!” Hijinks ensued.
That was a fun call to get at 10PM.
Shoutout to the facilities guy who immediately thought to run a makeshift tarp over the server rack, fashioned from trash bags. No permanent damage.
- blueduck@piefed.socialEnglish9 hours
Did you try turning the faucet off first to stop the water from rising while you were working?
- 14 hours
I hosted shit for about ten years before really understanding how local dns worked.
Imagine a primitive society that discovered literally every major modern scientific achievement, but somehow missed the wheel. That’s basically how my first setup went lol.
- cenzorrll@piefed.caEnglish42 minutes
I have a feeling there’s a point in time where most non-it self-hosters got fed up with ads and installed pihole, then learned about DNS. I have a feeling that started about five years ago.
Now it’s probably hand in hand with how necessary a pihole is.
- eco_game@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish12 hours
I have heard of local DNS multiple times now and been selfhosting for many years, but I’m good with my 192.168.178.39 :)
- 12 hours
It opened the door to pihole and unbound, then dns certs, man… everything’s so nice now lol
