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Cake day: October 28th, 2023

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  • I’m gonna put some reference prices from Argentina today. In 15 days the new elected president assumes and usually that means mayhem and probably changes in this.

    -A studio rent: in a nice Buenos Aires area would start in 200/250 USD/Month, including common expenses. (example)

    -Eating out, from 5 to 25 USD (this last one is a reaaally reaally nice place, 10 would be my a-ok average)

    -Grocery Shopping: Estimate around 50/60 USD to get everything you need, from fresh stuff to pasta, beverages, etc.

    -Services: Assuming an apartment sized like the one i’ve put as an example, you’d be expending around 40/60 bucks in electricity/gas/water/wifi/cell plan total.

    -Gym: A gym subscription, in the biggest chain here, which would let you use any of the branches wherever you are, is 24 USD/Month.

    -Transportation: Depending on what you do, you could spend around 1/2 dollars per day moving around. In case you’d want to get a cheap beater to move around, most of them are stick shift, and could get something about decent for 10K USD. Monthly costs for a car like that would be ballpark around 110 bucks between insurance, monthly license fees and a parking space. Add to that the fuel, which is like 2 USD/Gallon.



  • Do you have a workload planned for that? Like everyone told you here, it’s a powerful beast but you need to feed it. If you’re planning to run a plex container and a file share, it’s an overkill. Get a power efficient optiplex, or hp prodesk/elitedesk, or Lenovo Thinkcentre. Put all the ram you can, a fast SSD and a big HDD for storage, you’ll be more than content, and without the guilt of killing 5 whales each time you read a pr0n file.


  • There’s no need to do all that. A reverse proxy could be hosted on your own house, it’s just a simple “control point” in front of all your equipment. It even could be a VM or container in front of your infra. But a simpler approach it’s to simply set up a vpn like zerotier/wireguard/cloudflared, and give access to your friends to just access the private IP you want. Don’t get me wrong, it is a great thing to learn about reverse proxies (I’d start learning how to do it using nginx if you ask), but sometimes you need to have a proper reason and not overengineering stuff.



  • I’m using it right now with Armbian on a Rock Pi 4C with a 128GB NvME drive. Planning to move the external 8TB hdd from the main lab PC to this, and run all low power tasks 24x7, and fire up the main rig when needed using WoL. I liked the UI, and the simple install process. But now someone mentioned it, I’d like to try Cosmos.