Hey folks,

I'm happy to share that LabGopher's birthday is today. Exactly one year ago LabGopher was launched right here on this subreddit, and to celebrate we're giving away a limited number of LabGopher beer coozies and stickers. Shipped free, worldwide.

This community has been incredibly helpful in getting LabGopher to where it is today. Feedback from all of you helped us to improve LabGopher by adding more filters, shipping costs,

I hear lots of planes and helicopters living by the U. Usually LifeFlight, but today I can hear this plane circling, so I look it up on flightradar and it's doing endless loops around downtown SLC area.

https://i.redd.it/4q95jcntfu211.png

Ok, odd, who owns this plane? What is it doing?

Turns out it's owned by CoStar, the self described Real Estate Data Company, and the plane does aerial imagery as shown in this youtube video with that exact plane.

https://i.redd.it/gzdnswd6gu211.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DRbpX4C9ic

No idea what exactly they're circling around for (video of city traffic patterns?), bu

Hi folks, I'm trying to figure out how to best connect two buildings across an alleyway with some sort of aerial fiber or aerial cat6e. At one end I have a Unifi switch, and the other end doesn't have anything at the moment. The aerial distance will be ~45ft. Here's a picture: https://imgur.com/aTmysjc

Any ideas how I should proceed? I need at least gigabit connectivity between the two buildings. I live in a place that snows in the winter, so I'm just not sure what solution would work best here.

Thanks.

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Update: Thanks to u/CanuckFire for the recommendation of MicroTik's Wireless Wire. I picked one up for $185 shipped. I'll report back once it arrives and I get it set up.

TL;DR: A friend and I made a site to view rackmount server listings from eBay as a table of parsed specifications. We also use the parsed specifications in an ML model that evaluates whether the listing is a good deal (GopherGrade). We think it sucks less than trying to hunt through eBay for good deals. Try it out and let us know what you think. Works better on desktop. https://www.labgopher.com

Longer version

Hi there fellow homelabers,

I want to share a little project with all of you that I've been working on for the past few months with another homelaber. In short, we were trying to shop around for a good deal on some server hardware (a Dell R710 to be specific) on eBay and we fo

I noticed twice in the past two weeks the distinctive sound of a propeller driven airplane overhead in the university area of SLC. Curious, I opened up flightradar to find out more.

I saw these patterns which piqued my interest:

• http://imgur.com/YYI8rcQ
• http://i.imgur.com/dSVCH1L.jpg

After a little digging I found out the plane is part of the 2017 Utah Winter Fine Particulate Study where they're using the plane to collect samples and data to better understand the inversion and air chemistry in the SLC area. Pretty interesting to see some actual (small) progress towards more understanding of our pollution and invers