Nicely done, Brian. The one you did on the K100 prompted me to purchase and set up with 32G RAM and 8TB of storage for Incus server and backup storage. I am loving it. This one might be useful, too. I will have to view the video again tomorrow. Still without power here from the hurricane and over 12 inches of rain to deal with. At least my Predator 9500 is keeping us powered and connected, even though it costs a lot of $$ for fuel. Sometime in my future there is going to be a whole house system on propane since we do not have natural gas nearby.
Glad you like the hardware. I'm really loving how it's cut down my power usage over time. Still working toward the end of 2024 for as much low power as I can. Glad you and Scotty survived the hurricane for sure.
I like these review videos and your journey to low more efficient power for your home lab. I collapsed 2 PCs to one to make my setup more power efficient with proxmox, running 2 VMs.
You don't know how happy that makes me. I feel like I take a real beating on these videos, and just want to share some promising hardware with you guys.
It's a nice little box but I really wish a few vendors would listen to what I want: Stop focusing on the size and just focus on low power. I don't care if the case is 3 times bigger. Just gimme something that sips power. It reminds me of the industry's fixation on thin laptops. Who cares if it is 2 millimeters thicker when the other two dimensions are 12x17 inches?
I understand. One think I like about the mini-pc size is portability. I know that sounds weird, but with my low visiion, a larger monitor is a huge thing to me. So being able to pack a think 27" monitor, with a mini-pc attached tot he back (essentially becomes a really good all in one that didn't cost me $1500. That's what I find for pricing on All In ones that are anywhere near competitive with this machine...but for me a laptop scrreen just won't work anymore unfortunately. The other bonus to mini-pcs is for uses like a firewall or router appliance, it's much easier to tuck away somewhere because of the smaller sizes.
So far it's been great. I've been noticing the fans spin up when they need to, but they spin back down pretty fast most of the time, so it's not overbearing or anything.
pretty much all new motherboards pull that power while it's off. They all have ARM chips on boards that run 24/7. They run full operating systems on the boards that we know can access the internet but they don't.. but who knows what kind of on/off switch type stuff they run. Also the USBs are usually alive and ready while they're off too but you can turn that off in bios
@@AwesomeOpenSource Yea it drives me nuts. My keyboard stays on now a lot of the time when the machine turns off. I found turning to sleep mode will actually shut them down properly and only put them in interrupt mode so they can detect when a key is pressed to wake back up. At my office I have a bunch of different motherboards for ryzen as we grew I built new machines so I can test a lot of different stuff (and they are doing CAD/graphic arts so we don't use pre-built computers)
No worries, I recognised the symptom and that command helped here (it needs to register the agent though). Just enter "bluetoothctl" (does not need sudo), then you can watch BT control messages while you use the GUI. They may be helpful to troubleshoot further. Great review, by the way, I'm on the power saving path too.
I consider it appropriate to address you as my teacher. Thank you for your diligent efforts in providing us with these informative and valuable videos. I wish you all the very best.
Well, Microsoft has made a living off of this type of thing, so it's only sensible that companies who want to sell their hardware will include it, as the average person doesn't know Linux is an option, and would immediately be upset when their malware filled .exe didn't install like they wanted.
Sorry you don't like the review. I found this hardware to fit perfectly in my goal of reducing my power consuption in my homelab through 2024. I like the product so much, I literally bought one. I'm just trying to share what I find with those who are interested in solid hardware at a reasonable price, and particularly those looking for great, low power solutions. If providing information on a product is "selling out", particularly when I have not been paid for the review, and even purchased the product for myself, then I suppose there's no way to avoid it.
@@AwesomeOpenSource Yeah yeah same shit as all the rest say when they start doing commercials. Enjoy the money from your referral links, but then you will claim you aren't getting money from them either. Your stuff has been getting shady as shit lately.
@toddselby443 This will probably come as a surprise to you but, open source software needs a computer to run on. Hope this helps you have less meltdowns in the future.
Nicely done, Brian. The one you did on the K100 prompted me to purchase and set up with 32G RAM and 8TB of storage for Incus server and backup storage. I am loving it. This one might be useful, too. I will have to view the video again tomorrow. Still without power here from the hurricane and over 12 inches of rain to deal with. At least my Predator 9500 is keeping us powered and connected, even though it costs a lot of $$ for fuel. Sometime in my future there is going to be a whole house system on propane since we do not have natural gas nearby.
Glad you like the hardware. I'm really loving how it's cut down my power usage over time. Still working toward the end of 2024 for as much low power as I can. Glad you and Scotty survived the hurricane for sure.
I like these review videos and your journey to low more efficient power for your home lab. I collapsed 2 PCs to one to make my setup more power efficient with proxmox, running 2 VMs.
You don't know how happy that makes me. I feel like I take a real beating on these videos, and just want to share some promising hardware with you guys.
Whats the ooint of collapsing the pcs and making them virtual machines?
It's a nice little box but I really wish a few vendors would listen to what I want:
Stop focusing on the size and just focus on low power. I don't care if the case is 3 times bigger. Just gimme something that sips power.
It reminds me of the industry's fixation on thin laptops. Who cares if it is 2 millimeters thicker when the other two dimensions are 12x17 inches?
Why don't you just use a good APU on an ATX board? It's my device, lots of pcie slots.
I understand. One think I like about the mini-pc size is portability. I know that sounds weird, but with my low visiion, a larger monitor is a huge thing to me. So being able to pack a think 27" monitor, with a mini-pc attached tot he back (essentially becomes a really good all in one that didn't cost me $1500. That's what I find for pricing on All In ones that are anywhere near competitive with this machine...but for me a laptop scrreen just won't work anymore unfortunately. The other bonus to mini-pcs is for uses like a firewall or router appliance, it's much easier to tuck away somewhere because of the smaller sizes.
I'd love to see some images or a video of what you built, it sounds very interesting indeed.
Thanks for sharing, looking great!
Thanks for watching!
I like the side venting on this Geekom. Been using Beelink minis and the biggest problem I've had with them are the top air intakes.
So far it's been great. I've been noticing the fans spin up when they need to, but they spin back down pretty fast most of the time, so it's not overbearing or anything.
pretty much all new motherboards pull that power while it's off. They all have ARM chips on boards that run 24/7. They run full operating systems on the boards that we know can access the internet but they don't.. but who knows what kind of on/off switch type stuff they run.
Also the USBs are usually alive and ready while they're off too but you can turn that off in bios
Interesting to know. Didn't realize that, but definitely had me confused for a bit.
@@AwesomeOpenSource Yea it drives me nuts. My keyboard stays on now a lot of the time when the machine turns off. I found turning to sleep mode will actually shut them down properly and only put them in interrupt mode so they can detect when a key is pressed to wake back up.
At my office I have a bunch of different motherboards for ryzen as we grew I built new machines so I can test a lot of different stuff (and they are doing CAD/graphic arts so we don't use pre-built computers)
Thanks for sharing😊
My pleasure, and thanks for watching.
try the command "bluetoothctl default-agent" from the console and switching it on then
I got "no agent is registered" back when I run that. Running it with or without 'sudo' makes no difference. but i appreciate the effort.
No worries, I recognised the symptom and that command helped here (it needs to register the agent though). Just enter "bluetoothctl" (does not need sudo), then you can watch BT control messages while you use the GUI. They may be helpful to troubleshoot further.
Great review, by the way, I'm on the power saving path too.
@@AwesomeOpenSource dmesg should say the chip or lspci and as you say it is likely not a supported one. Especially if it's some realtek one
I consider it appropriate to address you as my teacher. Thank you for your diligent efforts in providing us with these informative and valuable videos. I wish you all the very best.
My pleasure! Glad I could help.
hello sir,
BunkerWeb or
Pirsch Analytics server side tracking
please provide install video
Bunkerweb has been added to the top of my list.
This is one hell of a video 😊
Loved the game and measuring the wattage.
Thank you!
@@khalidelgazzar my pleasure. Hope it’s helpful.
I have one Geekom NUC Mini PC A5 and one Minis Forum Mini-PC NAB6 Lite and they are both really nice! Thank you for sharing.
That's awesome. I just love that I'm cuttin gway down on my power consumption in my homelab.
@@AwesomeOpenSource I actually use them as desktop systems, not as home server, but that‘s more power efficient than before, too.
Any EU store link?
@@Tntdruid let me ask, they provided the ones I have listed. I’ll post a sticky comment if I get one.
@@AwesomeOpenSource Thanks.
@@Tntdruid If he can't get one you can use shipito which will ship to their warehouse and then ship to you overseas any USA stores
More hardware with a forced Windows purchase to throw away......
Well, Microsoft has made a living off of this type of thing, so it's only sensible that companies who want to sell their hardware will include it, as the average person doesn't know Linux is an option, and would immediately be upset when their malware filled .exe didn't install like they wanted.
These reviews suck ass. Nothing open source about this product. Guess everyone ends up selling out in the end.
Sorry you don't like the review. I found this hardware to fit perfectly in my goal of reducing my power consuption in my homelab through 2024. I like the product so much, I literally bought one. I'm just trying to share what I find with those who are interested in solid hardware at a reasonable price, and particularly those looking for great, low power solutions.
If providing information on a product is "selling out", particularly when I have not been paid for the review, and even purchased the product for myself, then I suppose there's no way to avoid it.
He said that in the intro, did you now listen?
@@AwesomeOpenSource Yeah yeah same shit as all the rest say when they start doing commercials. Enjoy the money from your referral links, but then you will claim you aren't getting money from them either. Your stuff has been getting shady as shit lately.
@@toddselby443 I actually get nothing from those links. Part of my agreement for hardware or software is a discount for the viewers only.
@toddselby443 This will probably come as a surprise to you but, open source software needs a computer to run on. Hope this helps you have less meltdowns in the future.