Are your batteries toast? Verify if you don’t know. I’ve only seen that when the batteries are well past expiry, it’s literally just the batteries running as long as they can.
The standard SLA batteries typically put in UPSs are meant to be replaced every 3 or 5 years, LiIon typically will last roughly twice that or more with proper care.
Do not discount physical security, lock the doors to your house and get an enclosed rack that you can lock
Very neat, very tidy, noctua on the rack. All good things
I’ve been using LSI SAS 9300-4i4e for my 4u 4 node supermicro server that I begrudgingly need to decommission, wife appeal for the 45u rack is at an all time low and I need to downsize haha
Sas3 capable and they allow for 4 internal lanes and 4 external lanes so you can use them to connect a JBOD to your server using the external 4 lanes. Solid buy for a homelab if you can find any, the ones with external lanes don’t come up too terribly often.
My router is x86 linux, so I can just usb tether to my phone like a frugal king.
Depends on preferences and aptitudes. If you’re on a budget but are a little handy, then your best bet it to buy a used or broken and repairable enterprise or pro-sumer laptop. Prosumer just means hardware meant for tech savvy consumers. I prefer prosumer over enteprise because they typically have more creature comforts like 4k touchscreens and good speakers. They’re both great ways to go though.
I’ve had a Dell XPS 13 2017 since 2021. The person who owned it before me sat on it and broke the screen, they just ended up giving it to me and I fixed it up and have used it for near 3 years now. The sad part is that it died from an internal short, so I’d need to get a motherboard to fix it(or develop skills and tools worth tens of thousands of dollars and fix it myself but fuck that).
I replaced the screen and battery, both dead simple to do, and it was running like a champ. A rock with a screwdriver and opposable thumbs could do these repairs, you’re technically adept enough to know what a driver is so I’ve got faith that you can turn some screws to save some money.
50 dollars a year to own a laptop is pretty fuckin cheap if you ask me, amortized many times over.
Figure anything out, OP?