I just plugged the switch back in to get space.local and others back online. Heatwave's over in a few hours, I think it'll be fine. I would like new low-power hardware to replace saros, and also to replace space.local, which is overprovisioned and running Ubuntu 14.04 (EOL).

Agreed that board + case + psu combo is better, unless somebody here feels like spending a whole day putting everything together and troubleshooting. Looks like neither option includes ram, which adds ~$50. I would like to see actual benchmarks on the how much watts/hz a gigabit wireguard connection would actually need. We should also talk about the pros/cons of an external VPN. Omni's IP address already gets enough users to add some safety in numbers. It also has a better reputation than many VPN IPs, which leads to better browsing in my experience. I rarely have to fill out captchas from Omni.

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 9:49 PM Marc Juul <marc(a)juul.io> wrote: Nice find! Do we also want to find a replacement for space.local or do you think we can salvage something for that? Only needs one ethernet port.

Fine with me. Do we have anything like that already? On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 2:55 AM Marc Juul <marc(a)juul.io> wrote:

A couple of updates: They don't have a rack-mount case for the nice low-power board with AES acceleration. They have this case instead: https://mitxpc.com/products/nml-nf692 Price with 8 GB ram: $476 It's a fanless case though :/ but I guess we can configure auto-shutdown if it gets too hot? Another company sells the same thing in a rackmount case with 3 fan mounting spots: https://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=115 That would cost $610 including shipping. -- marc/juul On 6/12/19, Marc Juul <marc(a)juul.io> wrote:

I found a cheaper alternative. I recently got one of the older systems from PC Engines and I've been really happy with it. I looked at their newer stuff and they have this: https://www.pcengines.ch/apu4c4.htm Which has AES-NI and four LAN ports. Assembled and with an aluminum case it comes to $145 + shipping. It works by having the CPU on the bottom of the mainboard and directly connecting it to the aluminum case which acts as a heat spreader. I tested mine with a high-powered wifi card and mSATA drive attached, maxing out CPU, IO and wifi transmit, and it didn't go above 79 C at 25 C ambient. Both my CPU and this CPU can take 90 C. Since we're not adding a WiFi card we can probably expect better performance. I'd assume we won't hit 90 C until ambient temperatures get close to ~40 C and then only if maxing out the CPU. I've written a script that shuts down the computer at a set temperature. Because the case itself is the heatsink, we can simply strap any additional CPU heat-sink + fan to the bottom (or top) of the case and add as much cooling as we want. Or we could just have the script send us an email and shut it down at 87 C and hope we'll never hit those temperatures. btw, this board has the bonus of running coreboot + SeaBIOS. On 6/27/19, Yardena Cohen <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Nice work!! We can put it on Omni's card - this is essential infrastructure. <3 On Sat, Jul 6, 2019, 22:51 Yardena Cohen &lt;yardenack(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

As long as we're asking Omni for money maybe we should throw in a bigger UPS with more than 3 minutes of backup power. The one we have now is something I found at a thrift store for $7 (minus battery) and it was making an awful whistling noise today.

Whatever happened with this thread? Did we just forget to follow through, or did we have a good reason to drop the ball?