Erik Uden => ErikUden@mastodon.de on Nostr: 2023-07-03 — Construction Day 2 We put up the rack, simulated putting stuff inside ...
2023-07-03 — Construction Day 2
We put up the rack, simulated putting stuff inside of it to get the measures, marked holes on the ground, then drilled there. This took immense effort as our ground was thick cement, but sooner than later we got it. We also fortified the rack even further with some angles attached to the wall.
Later we started a livestream on Kick. I’ve never heard about Kick and thought it was sus (like “Rumble”), but Nick swore it’s good, and then literally the only interactions we had was people telling us we suck for using Kick as it’s financed by Casinos. I KNEW IT!
Nick also tapped his screwdriver which had a phase tester built into it which lighted up when touching the rack, meaning it was electrified, meaning something went terribly wrong. Luckily we hadn’t put any hardware into it, yet, but we instantly pulled the rack’s power strip out of the outlet and figured out the problem was with the outlet, so we used another one and put off fixing that specific outlet for later.
Nick and I put all the necessary servers and networking hardware into the rack, really, we got them all in now, which took huge effort, but that means we’re much ahead of schedule now which is awesome!
As the stream was reaching its first or second hour, we got a free pizza sent to us by some anonymous donor. Someone ordered it on my name and paid online. We have no clue who it was to this moment (asked all of my friends lol). Thanks to whomever did that!
Nick also sent the livestream to his instructor/employer and the first thing they saw was us eating pizza. Good time.
We needed to drill holes so we could lay a 10Gb/s ethernet cable from my router to our rack, however in the drilling process one of the drill heads got stuck, so we thought we’d use another drill head to get it out of there, it got stuck, so then we thought we’d use a third drill head to drill from below into the ceiling to free them, which: SURPRISE! Also got stuck.
Somehow Nick freed all of them after three hours, then we cleaned everything and drilled one final hole which worked. We played three ethernet cables through there, one from before, the other one for the rack, and the last one just because we may need it at some point.
During all this time Nick was finishing off all the cabling for the router which was now profound and, I think, even almost done.
Since we worked from ~08:00 AM to 23:00, I am now extremely tired and will just fall asleep, Nick is also already lying in bed. Great day huge progress! Fantastic news for the Fedi.
We put up the rack, simulated putting stuff inside of it to get the measures, marked holes on the ground, then drilled there. This took immense effort as our ground was thick cement, but sooner than later we got it. We also fortified the rack even further with some angles attached to the wall.
Later we started a livestream on Kick. I’ve never heard about Kick and thought it was sus (like “Rumble”), but Nick swore it’s good, and then literally the only interactions we had was people telling us we suck for using Kick as it’s financed by Casinos. I KNEW IT!
Nick also tapped his screwdriver which had a phase tester built into it which lighted up when touching the rack, meaning it was electrified, meaning something went terribly wrong. Luckily we hadn’t put any hardware into it, yet, but we instantly pulled the rack’s power strip out of the outlet and figured out the problem was with the outlet, so we used another one and put off fixing that specific outlet for later.
Nick and I put all the necessary servers and networking hardware into the rack, really, we got them all in now, which took huge effort, but that means we’re much ahead of schedule now which is awesome!
As the stream was reaching its first or second hour, we got a free pizza sent to us by some anonymous donor. Someone ordered it on my name and paid online. We have no clue who it was to this moment (asked all of my friends lol). Thanks to whomever did that!
Nick also sent the livestream to his instructor/employer and the first thing they saw was us eating pizza. Good time.
We needed to drill holes so we could lay a 10Gb/s ethernet cable from my router to our rack, however in the drilling process one of the drill heads got stuck, so we thought we’d use another drill head to get it out of there, it got stuck, so then we thought we’d use a third drill head to drill from below into the ceiling to free them, which: SURPRISE! Also got stuck.
Somehow Nick freed all of them after three hours, then we cleaned everything and drilled one final hole which worked. We played three ethernet cables through there, one from before, the other one for the rack, and the last one just because we may need it at some point.
During all this time Nick was finishing off all the cabling for the router which was now profound and, I think, even almost done.
Since we worked from ~08:00 AM to 23:00, I am now extremely tired and will just fall asleep, Nick is also already lying in bed. Great day huge progress! Fantastic news for the Fedi.