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.

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.

I’ve been pretty happy with Garuda Linux, Arch based. You’d be fine with near any of them though. Fedora base is amazing and stable and as well as the Arch based systems I use.

In the end it comes down to your hardware and what kind of gaming you want to do.
AMD gpus seem to work the best next with Intel GPUs. Nvidia can certainly work and be stable but has some drawbacks with Wayland from what I remember. (Maybe have been fixed?)

Anticheat is a crap shoot sometimes

Nginx is pretty simple to run as a reverse proxy. Caddy is even easier but not as scalable.

HAProxy looks intimidating at first but it’s pretty easy and very scalable and performant. Wendell from Level1Techs has a nice writeup on their forums

Oh, there’s also Nginx Proxy Manager that is very clean and very easy to work and manage with it’s nice web UI

Frigate and a Coral TPU work amazing. I’ve had them and Home Assistant setup for the last year or so and have been quite happy.

Yunohost seems pretty good. I’ve only had experience with CasaOS as a self hosting framework.

I run all my stuff in Proxmox

Probably be Ente even if it does take a little bit to configure it and get a web UI and stuff. PhotoPrism was easy for me to get up and running with Proxmox and the great community scripts to setup a container but having to have photosync is a drawback I don’t care much for.

I believe both have something to like a memories feature

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I’ve been using Ente Photos, and PhotoPrism and I’ve been liking Ente pretty well. Little bit more work to get things setup and going but I’ve been enjoying it for the last few months

Thanks for this…I might be opening a Fidelity account…

I’ve been running a btrfs storage array with data on raid5 and metadata I believe raid1 for the last 5 or so years and have yet to have a problem because of it. I did unfortunately learn not to fully trust the windows btrfs driver but was fortunately able to restore from backups and redownloading.

I wouldn’t hesitate to set it up again for myself or anybody else, and adding a UPS would be icing on the cake. (I added UPS to my setup this last summer)

I’ve been testing Ente out the last few weeks and so far it’s pretty good. Easy enough to setup and point the app to my instance. A little annoying to keep seeing a free tier limit being listed on a self hosted instance. Hopefully it doesn’t actually do anything, we’ll see when I hit it though

It’s worked pretty well ok for me, but I only really sim race so it’s all stationary and no controllers.

Highly recommend setting up Envision so it can build and setup the Monado/XR environment

Had to downvote but it really is an awesome game. Great physics and combat, universe, politics and economics.

Refurbished drive. I’ve had 4 white label drives running for a number of years without issue, planning on eventually getting 12 more and maxing out my servers.
Unfortunately that’s years down the line :(

Proton is amazing as long as you don’t get bit by anticheat, which thankfully is getting better.

Thankfully I don’t play many games with anticheat so almost the entirety of my game library runs on my Linux install.