My wife was asking me for ideas and I asked for 7000kwh to power my lab for the next year :D

Off the top of my head: Electric screwdriver, pcie NICs, media converters, maybe some hard drives, bulk USB drives for imaging PCs, patch cables, front bezels for my servers, patch panels, blank panels for the rack, a desk mat, an electric duster, magnetic screw bowl, maybe some certification study material. All of these can be under $100 and most are easy to pick out for friends and family that aren’t technically inclined.

simple idea: Label maker

not so simple: Highpoint NVMe RAID AIC with 8 x 8TB m.2 to go with it

Just avoiding buying anything. If anything is needed can be purchased other times.

I usually ask for small devices like Pi’s. I also am really getting into the maker space so things to help / explore that are on my list too.

I ask Santa to drop the prices of used/refurbished M90q/P360 below 100 bucks. - please

I need time. Give me some hours, please…

It is hard to find time for lab, also when I do fixing something takes 3-5x longer than I expected.

depression medication

Around here, gifting basically stops when a kid starts with highschool, during highschool they still get extra cash, and that’s it, that’s when the gifting for holidays ends

Oh well, some new gear I think. In Europe i’ve had a supplier from UK which was really nice and had fair prices for refurbished gear, but since UK left EU, it become too complicated to order, and customs taxes. Recently i found out another supplier which is closer to my country, it’s in EU so i don’t bother with customs and taxes, but i still do some research to check if it’s okay.

Anyway, i also wish to ask Santa for a LIR in RIPE region. I know it’s not cheap, but yeah…

I’ve reached the age where I buy myself something special for Christmas like I do everyone else on my list. This is how I make sure I get what I want for Christmas.

I want a 3d printer. I’m designing my own POE Led lighting system for my living room, halls, closets etc, and running all the lights in my house “poe ++” and a smart home software control center with poe light switches that control lights by ethernet based on how they’re assigned in the software.

So if I want to I’ll be able to change what a 3 switch plate does, maybe it’s christmas and I want to swap switch 3 from turning on my sprinklers to turning on off my projector, w/e.

I want to design all the switch cases, light pod cases, etc and 3d print everything.

My living room will have 9 poe led pods in the ceiling, all RGB W/C white. I have build a media pc that is our tv’s “android” set top box, and I have an hdmi pass through capture card in it, so I want to be able to use the pass through hdmi card to gather the color being sent to the tv to deduce the dominant color so I can program ambient lighting for the whole room.

Nothing.

We have been buying less and less stuff these last few years, and it’s been great.

Good for our stress levels, and the environment.

Win/win.

Nothing.

I don’t do Xmas…

I just ask for time with them.