Fixed the ice maker again

Bluefruit@lemmy.world · 12 hours

IMO in a raid config, used drives are fine, especially if you have backups.

I bought a few before the prices were crazy and they havnt been on for a while but never had issues with them. Funny enough, I had more issues with the used motherboard than I did with those drives lol.

Bluefruit@lemmy.world · 4 days

Not too long after I replaced the fan, another part decided to fail. I thought it was the pump at first but after replacing that and it still not working, I was pretty stumped.

I did some YouTube research and found out that the moter that drives the basket to dump the ice out and store the water inside uses two limit switches. The one pictured is the one that’s busted.

I forgot to take a photo of it after fixing everything up (was honestly very excited to have figured it out and fix it again) but after replacing the switch, it started making ice again!

Cost me about $20 total, 14 for the pump and 6 for some limit switches which I could’ve gotten cheaper but wanted the faster shipping to get this done. Happy GF, happy me.

Bluefruit@lemmy.world · 5 days

Right so in that way, its very reproducible. That was my understanding and I appreciate you for the more in depth explanation but is there advantage to that versus an immutable distro? Wouldn’t a immutable distro work in a similar way being reproducible among many machines?

Rollbacks can be done on immutable distros as well right? I’m just curious why Nix was the first choice and not something immutable.

Bluefruit@lemmy.world · 6 days

From the article:

Its use of the Nix package manager means that each package is installed in its own directory with immutable and signed contents. That alone means that the setup is incredibly easy to reproduce across multiple machines, something that is an obvious benefit when dealing with different facets of a government.

Id argue an immutable distro would likely serve the same purpose but maybe its also because nixos isnt as “locked down” so itd be easier to configure for a specific purpose?