I’d be curious to rewrite some of the malware we made in class and see if AVs would pick it up now.
Most of them didn’t make any network calls etc. they would just mess with your files and system Things like Set background to Justin-Bieber, play Justin-Bieber randomly, we were very mature
The best security is to limit your risk vector.
Like you said Anti-viruses aren’t some magic bullet, in university a bunch of us wrote Malware and wrecked each other’s lab computers or did things like having the whole Lab’s computers CD trays open at 10am every morning.
The AV didn’t pick up any of them and we barely knew what we were doing.
Afik, AV’s mostly scan for known threats
I’m more than happy to share. If others didn’t share I wouldn’t have been able to do my hobby.
So basically I just kinda copied this:
https://www.darkrym.com/posts/2025/05/my-rack-setup-2020-extrusion-diy-mini-rack/
The biggest difference is I used different corners, and I made mine a bit deeper (28cm total, so that it would fit a 30cm 3D printer bed)
Right now the back is literally empty, I’m planning on moving all the power cords there soon.
The HDDs are plugged into the ODROID H4+ (the thing that looks like a PSU)
Check my linked post and you’ll see what I’m talking about
Ooof that is rough!!
If you can make your own like I did I would highly recommend it.
If you have the Alu tubing cut and threaded for you most of the work is done
They are connected to the ODROID H4+ mini PC above with SATA
Thanks yea that’s the plan I’ll add those to the side and something on top later on.
Either that or I’ll 3D print a honeycomb mesh
Jip everything is running in proxmox, except Home-Assistant I moved that to bare metal
I’m pretty sure I can stand on it without issues, if I add some corner plates it would be even stronger.
But when in doubt you can always go for 3030 or 4040 which would be really strong, you can probably park a motorcycle on those
Thanks I love the jank, one day it’s going to be all neat and tidy and I’m going to miss the mess that it used to be, it adds character.
Here’s some things for scale
(AA Battery)
For me it depends, when it’s an uncle I hardly have a relationship with randomly asking me to fix his printer because I’m good with computers. Then no think you, I just tell him to google the problem or ask Mistral-AI
If it’s my close family then I love helping them
Not gona lie, I’m very tempted it’ll get me lots of Internet points, and definitely a few haters
Thanks. ODROID allows 4 drives with sata, it’s a really nice solution.
You could attach even more with using nvme
Thanks!!
It’s a 10 Euro fan controller, that I’m temporarily using till I can build my own with ESP32
Very much so, but I do enjoy gross overkill.
I’ll build them into a future case then they won’t be as overkill
The other HDD I have is a WD Gold, it’s definitely the louder of the two, both of them are ~5 years old. Now that I moved the databases off of them, they are quieter than my work laptop, so they don’t bug me.
But oh boy, it really did sound like a train yard at one point.
It looks like a PSU, but it’s actually just a case for the odroid H4+ https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4-case-type-1/
Is it much easier than TrueNAS?
I went with TrueNAS because it’s open-source, and it’s been smooth sailing.
(I just use it as a NAS, nothing more)