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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Honestly the best thing to do is just start trying things and don’t only rely on your own stuff until you have a good understanding.

    Just get an old computer and install an os you want to learn, worst case you break it and reinstall.

    I suggest proxmox since you can lean on community scripts and can backup and restore any containers pretty easily if needed.

    But as with anything don’t go in expecting to be perfect, just get started, break some eggs and learn from mistakes. You will learn what you like about it, what you would change and you can burn it all down and start again if you want as well.










  • So, one thing that’s not clear here. Is the server and your desktop both at the same location? If they are I see no reason why you couldn’t just leave all the files on the server, have an NFS or Samba share then just stop it on the server and start it (over the network share) on your desktop. It would be functionally seamless, would require no effort to keep the files in sync, and would ensure your running things in the box you want.


  • Top to Bottom:

    • 48port Patch panel
    • Cisco 2990 48 port Poe
    • 48port Patch panel (future)
    • Cisco 2990 48 port Poe (future)
    • 24 port patch panel (spare)
    • Pfsense 2.5gb eth minipc
    • 4u server 20 bay (proxmox)

    Bottom area:

    • 2 mini pcs (proxmox)
    • PiKVM and ezcoo switch connected to all PCs
    • Couple of UPS

    The access to the crawlspace isn’t great so the CrapRack tm had to be assembled in the crawlspace.






  • I think the issue here is more that interacting with certain companies or services is unavoidable. As an Android user I often will have to interact with iPhone users and the impact of their vendor lock-in techniques is that the experience of those interactions is worse on both sides.

    I can’t convince every person to stop using an iPhone, or even just just a different messaging app, most people can’t even agree what to have for dinner…

    So users that take it upon themselves to try and improve the experience by trying things like beeper or beeper mini are actually trying to help others maintain their choices and preferences without the degraded experience.

    So sometimes a person voting with their dollars isn’t enough, since it’s others choices that still have an impact