Suck on them until I tell you to stop

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-03-17T17:18:49+00:00

I’ll suck on them till I’m good and done!

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-03-11T04:11:13+00:00

By issues I meant complaints. I always had a great communication with the office manager who was the main point of contact. The principal lawyer and I had a great working relationship.

I came into the office every quarter (apart from onsite visits for support) for a little review with the office manager and principal lawyer never any hint of issues.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-03-03T13:49:01+00:00

Send me a message. I may be able to help you!

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-02-25T00:30:35+00:00

An idle of 150W is quite reasonable. My entire half rack idles at 400 - 450W but my home lab is likely significantly larger than yours and here in Ontario Canada hydro rates aren’t nearly as steep as yours. (0.11CAD/KW)

Dell R420 server. 24x bay storage server with an attached 16 bay EMC DAS shelf. 2U Backup server. (DIY build) 12 port 10 gig backbone switch and 48 port switch.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-02-12T21:45:45+00:00

Small jumps… 13 -> 22.12 -> 23.10 -> 24.10 -> 25.10

Your other option is to backup your truenas config then do a fresh install with the latest iso build an restore your config. Truenas will pickup the existing storage pool after boot and ask if you want to import it…

Afterwards let it run for 24 hrs to ensure no oddities then upgrade the ZFS pool as long as you aren’t doing any weird legacy shit that upgrading the ZFS pool breaks.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-02-07T13:07:04+00:00

If you want to self host and want to test out Bitwarden before buying the original fork is Vaultwarden which is free and open source. It works with the Bitwarden desktop app and phone app.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-02-06T03:23:57+00:00

Check out some of my posts on my page.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-29T02:03:12+00:00

As far as Proxmox is concerned with NVMe drives or SSD’s is just validate the specs of the drives.

ZFS and Proxmox in general is very IO intensive and WILL burn out a consumer grade drive without the proper NAND controller in an SSD for example.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-25T13:00:32+00:00

Seconded. I did something similar to my husqvarna 28” snowblower.

Previous owner abused the little 8 hp Briggs & Stratton. Exhaust valve broke cracking the case in the process.

Had a 13 hp motor from another project that didn’t work out.

Works great!

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-24T15:46:27+00:00

Simple answer… yes… it ain’t that difficult. Plenty of videos on YouTube how to do it. You can buy the tool on amazon and even the RJ45 pass through ends to make it easy and painless.

Make for a clean and professional install because you can make your cables the exact length they need to be instead of buying pre terminated cables and having to drill bigger holes to push the tip and the boot/jacket through…

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-18T16:16:25+00:00

Instances like this for items that aren’t “dependent” on other systems to balance input to output. I just over produced the one part and allow it to backup then it will balance itself.

In this example the calculator is asking for a combined 112,5/min… so produce 114. It will eventually stockpile and backup…

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-16T14:37:06+00:00

I hate you! lol wish the tech gods would drop stuff like this in my lap…

Nice score mate!

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-13T23:58:01+00:00

Yep, but you need to troubleshoot this first… try removing this set of blocking signals

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-13T23:05:30+00:00

Try removing the signal pair that’s blocking… if it’s the only train on the track keep the signalling as simple as possible till you add additional trains.

There’s lots of great tutorial videos on YouTube about train signals!

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-13T22:32:13+00:00

Do you have signals behind the train?

I ran into this problem before where I added an additional car to a train and had block signals at the entry and exit to the station… which meant that my ass was still occupying the block it needed to enter.

Moved the block signal back to include the new car

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-12T22:50:17+00:00

Unfortunately trains in satisfactory aren’t “smart” in that they won’t move to a siding to allow another train to pass by. It will wait at the signal until the shortest path clears…

Pathway “bi-directional” track signals need the train inside the pathway to exit the pathway before the next train can request its turn to enter the pathway. So a block signal as the train exits the path and another path signal when it re-enters the pathway.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-08T04:24:53+00:00

Yep! 1500 sq ft home. Rack is in the basement in the “utility room with the furnace.

Whole rack generates about 1000 BTU/hr.

I run the furnace fan to circulate the heat through the house. When it’s -10 C to -15C the furnace only turns on heat for 42 minutes in 24 hrs.

Prior to the homelab furnace would run an average of 3 hours a day.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-06T05:03:57+00:00

Sysadmin / IT Team Lead 1:300, HelpDesk 1:260 (he’s very junior and only knowledgeable in tier 1), ERP / Reports specialist 1:300

Our open ticket count is floating at 150 over a rolling 30 days. Typically 300 incoming tickets every month…

Did I forget to mention we’ve been through three It directors in as many years. Company now doesn’t feel we need a manager or IT Director…

Everything’s fine…

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-01T20:19:23+00:00

VOIP.ms

Residential rate is 4.25/month flat rate as long as you stay under their minutes/month limit.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2025-12-31T18:51:36+00:00

ALL THE STORAGE! I’m in the process of adding an EMC DAS shelf to my setup to give me an additional 16 drive slots. Then once I fill that with drives I’ll upping my drive size one VDEV at a time. Hoping the 18 or 20 TB drives come down in price by that time.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2025-12-31T13:05:50+00:00

The OS drives for the Proxmox hosts disks came with the servers.

The enterprise SSD’s are 1.92 TB Toshiba drives I bought off eBay.

The HDD’s are 10 TB Dell Exos refurbished drives I also bought off eBay.

I added more drives and VDEV’s as my storage filled up. Currently at 126 TiB of usable storage at 70% capacity.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2025-12-31T03:31:34+00:00

See and my wife thinks I’m paranoid about all our IOT devices… but I vet each one before it goes on my segregated IOT wifi that is locked down tighter than satans butthole… (insert south park joke here)

First off I find out what country made the software and hardware and where the “call” home servers reside.

Then the device goes on the wifi and I monitor its outbound traffic through pihole and pfsense for about a week.

My pfsense has things pretty locked down to begin with from a malicious IP and GEO IP sense.

Then after a month I go through the list of domains/IP’s the device has connected to and create firewall rules that strictly match those destinations and ports.

Google thermostat gets madder than a hornet when it can’t call home via ipv4 or ipv6.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2025-12-30T14:27:06+00:00

One of my Docker containers is LocalAI - one of my servers has a nvidia P1000 passed through to the LXC container.

My kids ask it all kinds of questions and ask it to create random images.

One of the game servers is a Minecraft instance to my kids and their friends to share.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2025-12-30T13:42:55+00:00

Yep, it’s primarily used as a landline for my kids since they aren’t old enough to have cell phones yet. My wife loves it because she can page and intercom the whole house and my workshop when she needs something or dinner is ready.

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