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I ended up with a second hand APC 1500. Contrary to some other models you can just monitor it with a standard USB cable, just the power cables with these inverted plugs are a bit hard to get these days.

Cheaped out on UPS, now I have three basic small ones I have no use for (they work except the battery isn’t good anymore). Would have been better spend a bit more right from the start.

This is only the theory. In the end there is still a chip doing the routing that has a total throuput it is capable of regardless of the direction.

The routing equipment at the distribution boxes is likely a limit. Both in regards to power consumption and heat production, plus especially with older equipment the total throughput it is capable of.

If you have a 10GBaseT connection, only using 5Gb in one direction doesn’t give you 15Gb in the other. It’s still 10Gb either way.

That’s just a question of adhering to standards. The chip that does the routing internally has a total throughput and that is obviously both directions combined.

A factor I noticed here with my fiber ISP that hasn’t been mentioned: total bandwidth of the router that comes with the contract.

While this is finally changing now, the cheap SoCs that where used for building these mass produced routers topped out at about 1.5gbit total throughput.

So to avoid people complaining about false advertisement and still sell ”1gbit" fiber, the maximum they are offering is a 1000/400 Mbit connection.

No it is not, and if you don’t understand why that’s on you (hint: that’s like saying a canteen doesn’t need someone that cleans up from time to time).

Lots of things just don’t work when you as a moderator have an account on an instance that is not the same as the community you are moderating. Most annoyingly reports don’t reach you 80% of the time, but also stuff like adding and removing other mods or apparently locking a community etc. Some of it will appear to work, but it never federates out, even to the instance the community is hosted on.

And in addition there is a huge problem with moderating communities on servers that have a different defederation list. For example I can’t see posts and comments done in this community from an hexbear account, as slrpnk is defederated from hexbear, but lemmy.ml is not.

Probably the taste of dissolved gasses differs. Normally that is the main difference in taste between water of different temperatures thus we take it as a taste proxy for temperature.

For you to understand: when you say “keep politics out of tech” that is an explicit political position and you are basically saying “politics for me, but not for you”. Or to put it in different terms: unspoken support for the status quo, is a deeply reactionary political position and you are trying to enforce this by “keeping politics out of tech”.

Nothing specifically, just nice improvements cumulating over the years.

Installing Linux on most hardware became really easy maybe 5 years ago.

Gnome works quite well on a larger touch-screen. Edit: ah, Ubuntu should have that by default.

Lead acid can boil over and fill a badly ventilated room with flammable hydrogen and other toxic gasses.

A well maintained LiFePO4 battery that some modern UPS use it probably less risky, but I think the risk for both is very low.

There is a special .iso archive for all past releases.

Yes, don’t expose Windows to the internet 😒

https://opnsense.org/ is a good system if you want an easy to install and open-source firewall.

Edit: no need to buy their official hardware. Any x86 system with two network ports will do.

If you can install a second gigabit NIC into the optiplex it can work very nicely with OPNSense as the main gateway. Then you can connect the LAN side to a simple un-managed switch and branch out to anything further from there.

Edit: OpenWRT is a bit of a pain to manage on x86, so I would try to avoid it for that.

Systemd is very useful for managing (rootless) Podman containers.

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1004/xppen-artist-pro-16-gen-2-review-on-gnulinux

Edit: ah, I should read the OP 🤦‍♂️

Honestly, if you want to simplyfy things and reduce maintenance burden, just use Debian stable.