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Startech 12U Rack

The main 19" rack I use to hold all of my equipment in is this extendable-length startech unit. I'm lucky to have it, these are rare to come by on the used market since they're so difficult to transport. The table below shows what's in all of it's 12 units of rack space:

An out of date picture of the Startech 12U

The back of the Startech SV431DD2DUA KVM switch. Quad dual-monitor KVM switches are very rare to come by, especially rack-mountable ones. This one can have its input changed with keystrokes

Table showing rack occupation

Front	Back
Startech SV431DD2DUA 4 port dual monitor KVM Switch	Startech SV831DVIU 8 port DVI KVM Switch, Intel Compute Stick
TL-SG3428XMP Switch	Routerbox, External Hard drive, TL-RP108GE
Cable management brush	Powercool 850VA UPS
TrueNAS NAS	Powercool 850VA UPS
blahaj0 workstation	Blikvm PiKVM
blahaj0 workstation
bf pc
bf pc
Backup NAS
Backup NAS	PDU
Backup NAS
Backup NAS	Netgear GS516TP

Laptops

Flashing librebooton the x200's BIOS chip with a Raspberry Pi

My five thinkpads

I have a number of laptops I use for personal computing and other general purpose stuff. I especially like thinkpads. I have:

• IBM Thinkpad T30 (2002) - back from when it was still IBM that were making thinkpads. This has an intel pentium 4 mobile in and 512Mb of memory. Surprisingly, it still runs okay today with debian (even with a desktop environment). It is used as a CUPS print server, since it has a parallel port it is connected to a very old dot matrix printer which can handle continuous paper. Ideal for reading research papers!
• Lenovo Thinkpad x200 (2008) - The newest thinkpad that can have a fully open source BIOS. This is a beautiful piece of hardware with a lovely keyboard. Sadly its battery is kinda fucked. I use it for writing latex documents. It has an intel core 2 duo cpu and 4Gb of memory, which is plenty for me. CPUs haven't really gotten any faster in the past 10 years so it's still perfectly fine for general computing. See the libreboot project[1].
• Lenovo Thinkpad x260 (2016) - Formerly my main laptop for doing uni work is this, it has an intel 6500U and 16gb of memory, and a 1Tb SSD. It currently has 3 different operating systems, Windows 10, debian sid, and ubuntu 22.04 for ROS stuff.
• Lenovo Thinkpad P14s (gen 2) (2021) - I needed to upgrade my laptop to one with a GPU since i started to need one for complicated simulations. This one has an Intel i5-1145G7, 16Gb of memory, an nvidia T500 GPU, and a 2Tb NVME SSD. Critically, it only runs ubuntu 22.04- I barely use windows nowadays!

TP-Link EAP110 installed in a HIGHLY PROFESSIONAL manner

Wi-Fi

I use the TP-Link Omada ecosystem of Wi-Fi controllers and access points. The controller is run on my the Wifi-omada0 VM. I have two access points:

• EAP225(EU) v4.0
• EAP110(EU) v4.0

Both of which are powered off POE directly from my switches. As you can see, they are installed in a HIGHLY PROFESSIONAL manner.