That was really sweet

Declawing cats is animal abuse it really fucks them up mentally. And you shouldn’t wash a cat unless they’ve gotten into something messy, they do a fine job on their own.

Try and come at us, we have a rock

What ways do you use meshtastic? Did you setup any friends or family with terminals? It’s kinda just like a group text right?

I’ve been thinking about setting one up myself but I’m not sure what I’d do with it. Im not sure I could convince anyone to use it even if I gifted them a radio. And I get enough of hams just chatting about their gear on HF…

I’ve had a good experience with TrueNAS scale on bare metal and proxmox in a VM. I don’t have a lot of heavy weight stuff on proxmox though, mainly LXC containers and a few VMs. I also have a VM in TrueNAS for jellyfin that I pass a GPU into. It’s been running that way for several years without issue.

Speaking of speaking of power lines, are you a fan of Any Austin? https://youtu.be/mTtMCoJrGxk

The way I see it, more engines for us!

I spent a lot of time playing Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts alone and online with friends. A lot of people I’ve talked to view it negatively and are surprised when I say it was one of my favorite 360 titles. It’s one of the main reasons I want to try out Xbox 360 emulation.

Oh ya makes sense. Anything in a rack form factor would be much too loud to live with. I think in that case you’ve made great choices in hardware!

Pretty much everything else virtualization. I have a few small LXC containers running Ad Guard and Unifi Controller, and VMs for a gitlab instance, gitlab runner, and some game servers. I could host all that in TrueNAS directly but I like proxmox’s UI.

My setup is TrueNAS SCALE on bare metal with VMs for Proxmox and Jellyfin. I pass an Arc A380 to Jellyfin for transcoding and it works great. I also leverage LXC contains a lot for small services. I keep everything behind a VPN. It’s pretty easy to distribute Wireguard configs and import them on most OSes, but It’s been a mixed bag getting family members to use it though.

I’m a fan of having dedicated network hardware and VLANs on one router. I generally go for Mikrotik. I used to run pfsense on a VM and when the server when down so did everything else, which caused the house to erupt into chaos.

Also if you’re considering new hardware already I really recommend looking into surplus enterprise gear. I run my whole lab on an R730XD. It holds a ton of drives, has an IDRAC (I can’t live without it now), ECC for extra peace of mind during ZFS scrubs, and they hold an insane amount of inexpensive RAM. They’re fairly cheap on eBay or from refurbishment companies. Bring your own drives with warranties though, used drives are a headache. Servers like this can be really noisy though, I keep mine in the basement.

I’ll also suggest a second drive to mirror your boot drive. You can and should back up your configs but a mirror saves headache and down time if the boot ssd fails. Probably even more important if you’re planning on using this pool for VM storage.

Have fun! 😁

Do you have a source for that? I can’t find anything related to TrueNAS deprecating VMs.

That’s awesome, congrats! This is the kind of inspiration I need.

Haha that’s awesome! We have four in total and it is a constantly rotating series of names, and one even has his own religion. Cats are fun

She’s so cute! We have a tripod that’s missing a back leg, she also can’t jump as well as her brothers but she makes up for it with her completely jacked upper body. I’ve seen her scale a window drape like she’s in Assassin’s Creed.

I love libraries and the people that work at them ♥️📙

A coworker of mine refers to it as “crack water” because he drank so much. I like it better than any other brand of seltzer water.

Angela Collier has some great stuff on physics, and she’s a great teacher.

I’ve been playing Pillars of Eternity after giving up on Pathfinder King Maker in frustration. It’s been very cool! A lot of lore to learn though and I feel like it really needs my full attention to get the most out of it.

How do you like the color? I’m looking to upgrade from an H2O like you did!