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  1. Rabtech

    L3 managed switch vs virtual firewall

    After any years of tweaking with my home lab, various non L3 managed switches etc - My advice would be NOT to virtualize your firewall and use a cheap physical old 6th Gen (or higher) i3/i5 dedicated box (Dell/HP) with a dual 1Gb/2.5Gb/10Gb NIC. Being about to reboot the VM host when you need to...
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    Reacher - Amazon TV series 2022

    After an excellent first series the wifey and I were looking forward to this, some good bits but very average compared to the first series. Hopefully a third series will redeem it.
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    Monarch : Legacy of Monsters

    Enjoyed the series, bit cringey no common sense moments from highly educated people as usual. Loved the Godzilla appearances and looking forward to the next series.
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    UK Gladiators - 2024 reboot

    Really enjoyed it, was nice to see a bit of rivalry but then at the end of any head to heads type events, the sportsmanship. Oh and the return of Another one bites the dust :)
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    Quiet fans to replace Corsair Hydro Series iCUE H100i fans?

    Artic P12 PWM Max or Noctua NF-P12 Redux 1700rpm if you don't mind spending a little more. Artic in my experience are slightly noisier than Noctua, as mentioned above you can't really beat the price/performance of the Artic.
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    What do you do with your home server?

    Roughly around 3.2TB, daily files per camera are between 9-11GB depending on how 'busy' the area is.
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    What do you do with your home server?

    The Police have had footage off me a few times, one time they were grateful some public coverage was available - helps having the correct time (synced by NTP) on your NVR so they can can build the timeline for their investigations. I do have CCTV signs in the front windows, one downstairs and...
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    upgrade itch is back..

    If you can get a reasonable price for your 12900K and MB then satisfy your itch. Depending on your usage (heavy gaming/productivity or both) do consider a 7800X3D however imo.
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    Horizon: Forbidden West Complete edition - coming (21/03/2024)

    Zero Dawn and DLC was excellent, recommended both to my 15 year old son and he really enjoyed them - looking forward to Forbidden West. Tried to stay away from any YT videos and have told friends to not tell my any storyline at all on PS.
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    This is getting ridiculous (energy prices - Strictly NO referrals!)

    Been happy with Octopus tracker since I changed early December, I was previously on Agile and making some nice savings over that too. Not had an electric bill last month, had a gas bill however. I've left it a couple of weeks (due on the 26th of every month) but still nothing has appeared. I...
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    Do you change DNS?

    Currently using Cloudflare including Adult and Malware blocking (1.1.1.3), also use OpenDNS servers on some of my vlans.
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    Three UK, anyone noticed that they are not as good as they used to be.

    I travel throughout the UK and I'd describe them as 'okay' - certainly signal could be better in some places, however I've noticed that if you are close to a 5G mast the speeds tend to be really good. My work phone is on Vodafone which I would describe as below average even with 5G, O2 are pants.
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    What do you do with your home server?

    CCTV - BlueIris AD Server Fileserver Backup Server (Veeam) Workstation VM (RDP to it)
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    Plumbing advice

    I'd be tempted to get a short length of flexipipe with the correct ends on already, easy swap and much less likely to have issues in future - more 'knock' protection.
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    Spec me a CCTV System

    I went with a 4 x Hilook and BlueIris PC based solution years ago but didn't want just motion detection, I wanted 24 hour recording with low power draw. Whilst I've upgraded the CCTV host PC/swapped to VM's and back a few times, I have to say it's been great. I thought about the doorbell thing...
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    What are the 30 year old plus gamers playing?

    December 2023 update from me: BF4 - much less than previously due to... Cyberpunk - Phantom Liberty On and off occasionally: No Mans Sky Bloons TD6 Once I've got bored of Cyberpunk going to have another look at Starfield, played around 6 hours up to now.
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    Energy Suppliers

    Just moved from Agile to Tracker with Octopus - the Octopus compare app says we are better off on that tariff by generally around 10% a month. It also has the benefit of lower gas prices along with electricity. The best site I've found for an Agile/Tracker/Flexible comparison is...
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    BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

    Been a week since we moved from Virgin 1Gb to BT 900Mb FTTP. Half the latency, full speed downloads on Steam/other game download services, one happy teddy bear. No altnet FTTP providers available yet, so this will do for a few years.
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    Which operating system do you use on your servers?

    Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V with multiple Windows/Linux VM's, running on a Dell 7060 MT with 8700K de-clocked and 32GB ram.
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    Best Retro Handheld

    Yes, I'm biased but RG35xx any day for the price. Did a lot of research before purchasing one and spent loads of time on it whilst flying, waiting at the Doctors/Dentist etc. A few of my pals I've shown it to, love it also and have purchased one. Get one with the specific case included and at...
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