I just need to gush for a minute. I am about to shutdown my server in order to move it to the basement. This off the shelf $300 desktop running Pop!_OS is my self-hosting server that has dutifully done it’s job without a single complaint. It has been rebooted maybe three times since 2020 and it currently has an uptime of 840 days. That’s 840 days of not ever thinking about this thing. It self updates via Cron jobs and just…works.

I am afraid to open the box up though. Those dust bunnies must be huge.

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    @JoMiran
    >I am afraid to open the box up though. Those dust bunnies must be huge.

    Yeah probably, but it’s necessary to remove them if you want your machine to stay in good conditions for the next years, even more important when it’s running 24/7.

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      I know, that’s why I’m opening it and why it is going to the basement. It’s basically a concrete bunker at a constant 50°f with no windows and just a filtered radon extraction unit. There are cans sitting there since the COVID lockdown that still have no dust on them. The closet it is in now has carpet. Enough said.

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        I’ve read that human skin particles make up a significant portion of household dust.

        … Are you a robot?

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          You ever watch Gattaca? If so, do you remember Ethan Hawke’s character taking a “shower”? That’s basically me.

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        At a 50°F ambient temperature the fan probably doesn’t have to move all too much air all too often.

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          That’s the idea, but that’s where it is going. It was in the upstairs closet where the temps are kept at human comfort levels (68-78).