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[RSB]

Firstly, I am sat at home miserable, with no cups of tea due to no water. For some reason where I am, when someone turns there water off it also turns off 4 other surrounding houses. I will be knocking on doors soon to find out who although two houses are empty so that may difficult.

Anyhow. I will be doing some much-needed maintenance, updates & fixes to the site other the next few days so things may or may not work until I am done. No major changes though.

P.s. I do have 2 bottles of real ale left if I get thirsty.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[The Duke]

All hail the ale 😉

[RSB]

Some changes being made. Firstly I am going to be stripping back as much as possible of the site and try and make it is less resource hungry. Once this is done I am moving the site to a new server. This is due to the noticeable drop in visitors and obviously costs. I am cutting back on everything I can. I am looking to replace my greedy, power munching PC’s and laptops with something like PI 4’s and lesser models for lighter network stuff.

Anyhow, I will be dealing with this site this weekend so expect some issues and down time.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[Dave Rice]

What server specs do you need?

[RSB]

Its not really about server specs and donations and costs although all three are a minor part of it. I want to just strip it back now so less management is needed. I am trying to get all my ducks in a row so everything going forward is cheaper and just easier.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[RSB]

As you can see, just enough to get the forum functioning. I’ll do the rest when I have had some sleep.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[Dave Rice]

Looking good Lee.

[PlaneMan]

I like it.

Easy on the eyes and nice and clear.

Nice one Lee.

 

[keith with the teef]

I like the look.

Looks like safe mode from yesteryear, on windows that is, I’ve not looked at Android yet. 🙂

[RSB]

I’ll be finishing most of it off tonight. The site will have mostly the same things as before but in a toned down and much less resource hungry.

Much easier to work on as well with the dark colour.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[keith with the teef]

It would be nice to see the final hardware set up you go for with a photo.  🙂

 

[RSB]

I dont have any hardware, the site is not being hosted from under the stairs. 🙂 I guess I am missing something.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[keith with the teef]

I fought you was use in a Raspberry pi 4 or samink (cockney= something).

I could just see it all running out of a shoe box or samink. 🙂

[RSB]

keith with the teef wrote:

I fought you was use in a Raspberry pi 4 or samink (cockney= something). I could just see it all running out of a shoe box or samink. 🙂

Sorry, forgot to reply. I plan to reply then 5 minutes my head drifts off 🙂

Anyhow, my plan is to get below £1 per day electric usage. Pi’s are the only way I can achieve this. I am going to use a few pi’s around the house to achieve this. But I am also going to build a special pi system into my own custom-designed case with customised components. Something really nice and polished that can serve as everything. That is everyday pc, media centre and server, retro gaming, hi-fi, Freeview, DVD player and so on.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[keith with the teef]

That would be nice to see, if you feel up to it.

I can almost see the set up now. Hmm.

 

[RSB]

Yes, I’m up to it. Need to get the gear first and lay it out on some cardboard and work out where all the holes are going to be, a template of sorts as it will involve some custom toughened glass.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[keith with the teef]

Cool. Show off.

[RSB]

🙂 Saying that I may consider building one out of some plush wood first. Its should be cheapish to do as I will be using mostly Chinese imported stuff where I can.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[Mark Turner]

Have you got your Pi’s Lee?

[RSB]

Mark Turner wrote:

Have you got your Pi’s Lee?

Cheers Mark, I have sent a PM back.

@planeman Got me started on this route by kindly giving me a PI ZERO W. At the moment, it is making a nice little media server and just simply works.

Another thing I will be saying goodbye to is my fridge/freezers.  That should be easy being winter but hopefully, by summer I will have adjusted to not having them. I will just buy stuff on the day it’s needed plus I have a cold cellar.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

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