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noerdman @discuss.tchncs.de

2mo ago

Heat Issues

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Yes, Officer, a server farm.
- This has actually happened a few times now. Police raiding bitcoin miners homes because they think its a grow house.
  
  The LAPD did one recently on a medical imaging office because apparently it's suspicious that an office full of XRAY and MRI machines uses a lot of power.
  
  My favorite is the cop baiters. It's illegal to use IR to identify grow houses in whatever state they operate in, so they aluminum foil the heck out of a house and crank the heat so it stands out. When the police come in based off a nonexistent anonymous tip, they're basically caught breaking the law red handed.
  Can't find the video but I'll keep looking.
  
  The big crime here is that the police don't arrest everyone in the house and do a full team photo-op in front of the racks before they demolish the property.
- The author is German, and cannabis is currently decriminalized in Germany. Not saying there's zero reason to have a clandestine growing operation, but the need isn't as pressing as it usually is.
  
  Cannabis being decriminalized does not mean there aren't huge grow ops still. Most people who smoke cannot or don't want to grow their own.

This is an attic insulation issue. If your attic was insulated enough, you would have snow on the roof.
The heat transfer out the roof is dependent only on the indoor temperature, the outdoor temperature, and the attic's insulation. None of those parameters depend on whether or not you are running a server farm (unless the server farm is so powerful that it increases the indoor temperature to uncomfortable levels, and prevents the furnace from even running.
- unless the server farm is so powerful that it increases the indoor temperature to uncomfortable levels
  Isn't that the joke?
- Keep in mind that the author is German and most parts of Germany have pretty mild winters. It's extremely easy to melt the snow on your roof when the temperature is around the freezing point.
- You have never visited /r/homelab, right? There are people with home server farms that draw multiple kilowatts. That will absolutely heat up your room to unconformable levels unless you have ample air conditioning
  
  Multiple kilowatts is the equivalent of an iron, or a small space heater. Not that much in the grand scheme of things. Definitely not enough to heat a whole house to tropical temperatures. Maybe one room, but that's it.
- a decent sized server farm absolutely could raise indoor temperature

The details on the ground level snowman are so good. The serpentine track where they rolled the big body ball first, then a smaller track for a smaller body ball. They thought this through. That's what I appreciates abouts it.
- I thought it is two snakes who are building the snowman
- Skwisgar?
  
  Stops copies me!
  
  Squirrelly-Dan

Hey, that gives me an idea. Bonsai weed, small enough to run its full lifecycle within the confines of a PC case.
- This is 100% a thing. Basically just give it a flowering light cycle when it’s barely past the clone stage

My bitcoin miners did this to my garage roof. I was waiting for a police search for a grow operation.
- I wonder if some day we'll see space heaters that mine crypto.
  
  Pro:
  a major problem for miners is heat dissipation
  the chips commodify more every year
  Con:
  retail energy costs more than wholesale energy
  heat pumps are more cost effective in most cases

In the future all furnaces will be replaced by in home servers
- ok funny story about this actually. In the middle of winter our heater broke so it was really cold in the house. I had like 3 blankets covering me, but was still cold, so what did I do?
  I put DOOM Eternal on my Steamdeck with the sound off and opened http://allblackscreen.com/ so it would show pure black and would act like a little heater to warm up my 'igloo' of blankets
  
  Why didn't you just set your blankets on fire? Ez

Yes... "server farm"... sure. Around here a house producing that much attic heat is farming alright; but usually oregano or other herbs...
- Why not both? They are so symbiotic...

Did anyone else see the comic, and get confused why the roof had blood all over the other two houses?
Took me a good 10 seconds to be like "oooooh....."
I'm just waking up. I guess the lesson here is, don't wake up.

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