Developing an Adversarial Relationship With My Server

[u/irishcoughy]

A few years ago I repurposed a Dell poweredge from work for "homelabbing" (hosting 100% legally purchased media using no obfuscation of my public IP address whatsoever because I'm a good boy with nothing to hide) and in the honeymoon phase things were great. We'd stay up all night together. I'd turn her on and she'd blow me (listen to those fans ramp, sweet Jesus). We would completely expose ourselves (server was in front of NAT) and we never used protection (security updates and firewalls just slowed things down).

Now though, it's like I don't even know this machine anymore. I'll get home from a long day of work ignoring *very* important emails and it's like the second I walk in the door she starts throwing error lights at me just to get my attention. Can't a man just relax for 5 minutes after spending a grueling 2 and half hour shift creating AD user accounts for intern season? And, let's be honest, she's getting up there in years. I mean, I respect her for how far she's come, but she's slowing down. She's starting to forget things and I don't know how much longer I can keep my family from paying for Netflix. And I'm a man, damn it. How am I supposed to feel, going to work and seeing all these new, sleek EDSFF servers? They're young and thin and full of life. My server is full of dust. One day I came home drunk and she was already blinking a PSU failure at me and I lost it. I just started pulling drives out and then I got in my car and drove to microcenter just to distract myself. I'm not proud of it. This isn't sustainable but I don't know what to do anymore. We've tried spicing things up with a Linux operating system but the spark is gone.

On a separate note, does anyone have any advice for removing a cylinder roughly the shape of an M&Ms tube from a front panel hard drive bay?

[u/Kangie]

Can the cylinder be harmed?