Good days and bad days. I have a car, place to live, food in my fridge and cupboards and money in my bank account. Maybe one day I’ll be able to pick up and move somewhere cheaper but in the meantime, one day at a time.

Some days I honestly don’t know. I work for AWS in one of their many data centers as a critical facilities technician.

3-4 hours a day, working minimum 12 hour shifts, usually 13-14, 4 days a week, 3 days when I can.

Looks great for a first attempt!

My thumbs used to bend back 90° or more but after years of abusing them and a few injuries, severed tendon here and there, they only bend forwards and straight up now :/

Happily using white label drives from https://goharddrive.com/ for the past 5 or so years, haven’t had one fail yet. I will happily buy more from them or https://serverpartdeals.com/

The last self checkout I used, a store associate took my things and scanned them for me…it was a strange self checkout experience

It may not be ok, but certainly better than rape. They may have passed on another form of trauma to their kids like every generation before and it may have taken quite a long time but they did finally make things and each other better. Which I think is a good relationship in my book.

From my understanding anyway. Not gonna proclaim to be some Ozzy Osbourne biographer or something.

As someone that works in a data center, we use an absolute shit ton of reclaimed water for evaporative cooling. 😀

No. Put real world examples of your work. Homelab shit, word some shit you did for friends or family as work experience. Anything that isn’t just an outright lie.

Just to help make you feel a bit better about your job hunt, I finally got a position with AWS after some 6 years of actively sending out applications and resumes to anyone and everyone. In the end what got me the job (I think) is real experience and good understanding of the basics needed for my position. No real experience in my new role but a lot of related experiences in previous. Also a lot of practice with Amazon’s STAR method of story telling, it really helps lay down the information that interviewers want to get out of you, even if they aren’t Amazon.

It also doesn’t hurt to find and get certifications! There’s quite a few out there and can be gotten fairly easily and cheaply (and some not so cheaply lol)

This 1000%. I picked up a t480s a number of years ago and I couldn’t be happier with it. Came with a half dead battery that was easily replaced. Lasts a good 6 hours on a charge and does everything I need a laptop to do.

lol I feel small and inadequate.

Have you had much in the way of bad luck with the move being done piecemeal?

Thanks for all the information and tips everyone!
In the end I’m gonna end up doing a combination of things.

Spinning disk drives and power supplies are removed from all systems, large unsecured cards removed from desktop so they can’t flop around on the PCIe connection, servers removed from rack, everything wrapped and strapped down as needed.
Drawers mounted in the rack will also be removed as well as UPS, everything else weighs next to nothing and can be safely left in the rack. Most likely store stuff in the cavity of the rack and then wrap the whole rack tight in a plastic packing wrap. I’ll get a moisture control box for closets, bathrooms, mud rooms and storage stuff to help control the humidity inside the trailer during the move.
My trip will end up being around 1,600 miles in 2 parts. From Texas to Iowa to Virginia, so who knows what all kind of weather I’ll be hitting.

Thanks again for all the help, I’m pretty confident I’ll be able to get everything moved safely.

Thanks for the information!

I like the plywood and felt pads idea, thank you.
I’ll definitely be taking all the hard drives out and wrapping and packing them in boxes.

Just setup my own instance! Happy so far!

Pretty much exactly what hot mud is. 😀

Love my 03 Mazda B2300.🥰 Gotta say I’m definitely not a fan of the newer Ford Ranger chassis 🙁

As much as I don’t like the overall size I’m hoping one day to be able to afford a Rivian R1T. Or do some full ev conversion on my Mazda lol

I learned about this years ago when I pulled into a McDonalds at midnight for coffee. Guy said they didn’t have any made but would make a pot, and that me buying the cup of coffee paid for the whole large pot.

Hard drives, especially spinning discs, and RAM are probably the biggest factor at idle. I dropped my servers’ idle draw from 220w to 180w by dropping it’s RAM and replacing some older drives.