Hmm, I don’t have direct experience with ThinkServers, but what I see on eBay looks like standard ATX hardware… which is not really what you want in a server.
The Dell motherboard has dual CPU sockets and 8 RAM slots. The PSUs are not the common ATX desktop format because there are 2 of them and they are hot swappable. This is basically a rack server repacked into a desktop tower case, not an ATX desktop with a server CPU socket.
You can get old servers on eBay for surprisingly little money, like this PowerEdge T410 for $200. Add some drives, install TrueNAS SCALE and you’ve got a good home server platform.
Hmm…
I have questions.
How low can you go?
This appears to be a misunderstanding. The box on the platform is for a battery, yes, but it was used to power an electric ignition coil:
The engine is geared to the wheel by means of a disk clutch. The flywheel, on the right side of the front wheel, contains a 6-volt lighting generator that originally furnished current for lighting and ignition, but the system later was altered by the addition of an ignition coil and four dry-cell batteries. The ignition switch is mounted on the right side of the frame, and the gasoline tank is above the front fender.
https://www.treehugger.com/autoped-was-worlds-first-scooter-4858489
There was no electric motor design in 1916 that could have powered this scooter from a battery that size.
What other options were there in 1916 for portable power in that size?
Treat every gun as if it were loaded.
Never point a gun at anything you do not intend to shoot.
The U.S. methods of choice have been wars, regime-change operations and unilateral coercive measures (economic sanctions).
Because of course, China and Russia would never
You jest but… delay line memory
Life goes by so fast
You only want to do what you think is right
Close your eyes and it’s past…
Yeah but where you gonna park it?
You sir are in luck. The Daimler Ferret can be had for about US$40k and is street legal in many places, though I expect the maintenance cost is prohibitive.
There are many variants, with and without the mounted turret:
It’s small enough (tiny, really) that you can park it in a 1-car garage, and they were widely sold so there’s actually a lot of them on the market. You can literally have this as a personal vehicle, for less than the average US annual income.
Yeah but the current build of libvegs has some conflicts with libfruit, so if you need to use both you have to build libvegs in a different directory and then simlink it in /lib.
Maginot line v2
I just fired a gun right next to your head, neither of us was wearing ear protection, and now we’re having a conversation at normal volume and we can understand each other just fine.
Bonus points for grenades going off indoors, and nobody having a concussion after.
Uh huh, uh huh, and what about obsessiveness?
Yes! then you can have other mental health problems to distract from your existing ones.
For best results, try Gentoo.
For all your horizontal defilade fire needs.
Oh please, you can’t just decide that a term falls under a theory you disagree with and then disregard it out of hand.
The term “authoritarian” might be used in horseshoe theory but it is not defined by horseshoe theory. The term has its own meaning independent of horseshoe theory.
You’re just playing Calvinball to redefine and then exclude words you don’t like.
I always recommend buying enterprise grade hardware for this type of thing, for two reasons:
Consumer-grade hardware is just that - it’s not built for long-term, constant workloads (that is, server workloads). It’s not built for redundancy. The Dell PowerEdge has hotswappable drive bays, a hardware RAID controller, dual CPU sockets, 8 RAM slots, dual built-in NICs, the iDrac interface, and redundant hot-swappable PSUs. It’s designed to be on all the time, reliably, and can be remotely managed.
For a lot of people who are interested in this, a homelab is a path into a technology career. Working with enterprise hardware is better experience.
Consumer CPUs won’t perform server tasks like server CPUs. If you want to run a server, you want hardware that’s built for server workloads - stability, reliability, redundancy.
So I guess yes, it is like buying an old truck? Because you want to do work, not go fast.