phanto

@phanto@lemmy.ca

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phanto , to Selfhosted in Pros and cons of Proxmox in a home lab?

I have it working with LaCP'd 4gb networking for the transfers. Five nodes. I agree though, It's a beast on RAM.

phanto , to Selfhosted in Pros and cons of Proxmox in a home lab?

I have tried a couple of Proxmox clusters, one with overkill specs and one with little Mini PCs. Proxmox does eat up a fair amount of memory, but I have used it with Ceph for live migrations. Its really useful to me to be able to power off a machine, work on it, then bring it back up, and have no interruptions in my services. That said, my Mini PCs always seemed to be hurting for RAM. So that's my pros and cons.

phanto , to Asklemmy in What is an underrated/forgotten video game that you think deserved a second chance?

I own the remake, and I actually had a fan site for it...
And got to interview John Freaking Carpenter for that fan site, as he did the music for Sentinel Returns.
It was exactly as awesome as it sounds.

phanto , to Asklemmy in What is an underrated/forgotten video game that you think deserved a second chance?

Sentinel... From waaay back. Like, Commodore 64 age.
I think it would be a perfect VR game, too.

phanto , to Asklemmy in What is an underrated/forgotten video game that you think deserved a second chance?

WildStar got done dirty... It hit at the wrong time, but was so much fun. I could never get any friends to play with me. Le sigh.

phanto , to Selfhosted in Beginner in need of real help!

You mean I didn't need to spend years and thousands of dollars learning Linux and servers? Oh man!
Oh wait, I'm getting ads in Windows on the start menu.
Yeah, I'm happy.

phanto , to Selfhosted in Beginner in need of real help!

There's a series of Lemmy posts called the Linux upskill challenge that goes step by step through setting up and using Linux. I tried self hosting and jumping straight in too, and it sucked.

What worked for me:

  1. Start using open source versions of stuff, like switching from Chrome to Firefox, Office to Libre Office.
  2. Set up Virtual Box, and practice running server apps on Linux on virtual machines, until you've done a few Linux VMs and gotten used to the interfaces and commands.
  3. Dual boot a laptop or desktop, one by one getting your daily use apps working in Linux.
  4. Distro hop a bit. I never thought I'd land on Fedora, but here I am.
  5. Get used to running and configuring servers from the command line.
  6. Host some stuff with VMs and get used to the networking and bridging and stuff.
  7. Containers!

I'm still in the middle of 6+7. Not super comfy with Docker quite yet, but getting there. I really do love having my stuff self-hosted though. Well worth the effort.

phanto , to AI Generated Images in Tiny question. What are ai haters called?

Thanks to this post, I'm going to adopt the title of Butlerian!

I worked in telecom for years, and recently left because my company decided to automate out a bunch of positions by using their shiny new AI. It suggested carrying 300 Amps at 50 volts (DC) several hundred feet with 14 gauge cable. (Electricians, go ahead and laugh.)

I went back to school, learning IT support. Most of my classmates are fresh out of high school, and they're all using Chat GPT like my generation uses Google. But instead of googling the answer and then figuring out how to make it work and testing the results, they just stop.

Chat GPT says to use this config? They use it.
Of course it doesn't work.

Over and over, I have classmates asking me why their Copliot generated code isn't giving them the right answer, or why their server process is failing to start.

I fear for the safety of a world where the tech support is provided by people who never learned how the tech runs, never learned to read, test, experiment, fail, and try again...

So yeah, Butlerian. points at my face

phanto , to politics in The Price We Pay for Having Upper-Class Legislators

I disagree with this.
Law school isn't cheap. Law school doesn't come from nothing. I'm seeing kids in my class who are stacked six to a bed, working full work weeks and trying to squeak by in class, and largely failing.
Also, effective politicians need to raise funds to run campaigns. Funds come from rich people. Even if this effective politician somehow manages to afford an expensive law degree, they also need to have the time and opportunity to succeed in school, and then somehow manage the free time to also make connections among the wealthy so they can raise the funds to run a campaign.

Politics has become for the rich, by the rich.

phanto , to datahoarder in SAS hardware questions

What I know: https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/A_guide_to_mdadm
No need to do hardware raid, mdadm is great.
I got an HBA card off of art of server on eBay, and have ungodly amounts of disk. Also, am ungodly power bill...
You can stick regular SATA drives into a SAS Bay, but not SAS drives into a SATA bay.
Some HP equipment is bitchy about non -HP drives, cards, etc.
I saw a fair amount of "Do RAID 6!" But I found on my hardware that RAID 5 and a hot standby was moderately faster.
Try not to mix drive sizes, it messes things up and wastes space.
Have fun!

phanto , to Selfhosted in Have an old NUC...

I have two old usb2 4tb drives attached, and the only issue I run into is a bit of delay at the start of a video in jellyfin. My jellyfin is running in a container in the Nuc though, not natively, and it's a Celeron from a while back, so...

phanto , to Privacy in Opinions on SELinux

SELinux:
Tries doing a thing, didn't work
Spend eight hours trying various crap.
setenforce 0
Works now
Five minutes cussing
30 seconds googling how to set the context
Works forever

Tries doing a thing...

phanto , to Technology in Can you un-smart a smart tv?

Hmm...
The nice thing is, I don't use the remote. I have a little wireless keyboard plugged in to my Tiny PC...
But yuck. I guess I'll have to start tinfoil hat wearing soon.

phanto , to Technology in Can you un-smart a smart tv?

I have a "smart" TV with a network cable plugged into nothing at all, with no wifi connected, plugged into an Oooold Lenovo Tiny PC running Mint. The Mint box does all my smarts. Pihole, ad-block, all that jazz. It never occurred to me that it might have connected to some open wifi out there, but none of my neighbors have guest wifi or anything, so hopefully I'm good.
It's definitely not on my wifi, anyways.

phanto , to Aneurysm Posting in Dani Dev

Well, died him?

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