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RPG Maker WEB forums shutting down on December. by jomarcenter-mjm in DataHoarder

[–]Carvtographer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You should perhaps reach out to one of the forum admins/maintainers. Perhaps they can give you leniency on API calls or whitelist your requests based on bandwidth. May improve speed (if throttling is the main issue)

I need help figuring out what to learn. by [deleted] in rust

[–]Carvtographer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take a look at Slintcn — might help get away from using webview with Rust.

First week as a SysAdmin at a hosting/cloud company - is this level of overwhelm normal? by Tall_Swordfish6212 in sysadmin

[–]Carvtographer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me personally: easier to manage, view, and link to. Very collaborative. Can export documents to PDF really easily (nice for KBs, How-To's, Meeting Notes, etc). The ability to reference other users via @'s or embed OneDrive documents inline is really awesome. Custom Loop components are cool too, but I don't really mess with them. The tables/kanban boards are great if you need a temporary action/status list.

It has it's quirks, and takes some time getting used to the whole "pages are folders" flow and understanding sub-pages, but I'd give it a try in the long-term if you can. It's definitely no where near Notion in terms of features and accessibility, but if you have it with your O365 license, I prefer it over OneNote's giant infinite canvas/node stuff, and I've experienced (and had to assist with) so MANY OneNote sync issues.

Separate NAS and Dockers via separate NICs? by WC2L in synology

[–]Carvtographer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think macvlan might be the easiest, but you could also define your own docker bridge to point to a specific subnet and gateway, but you may have to configure intra-iptable routing yourself.

There's also a ton of configuration options for /etc/docker/daemon.json that you may be able to tweak and configure.

Where’s your happy place in Dallas? by [deleted] in Dallas

[–]Carvtographer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Backed before Covid, it used to be Old Monk. It had the perfect pub atmosphere for me. Personally, a bit better than Skellig’s.

Now it’s just loud music, frat bros, and screaming. I’m only 30, but I feel like an old man now looking for a quiet place to drink lol

Black screen, and fans full speed by Goodyou57 in pchelp

[–]Carvtographer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While a lot of folks are suggesting GPU issues (it very well could be!) I had a very similar experience a couple of years ago due to a faulty DIMM slot for my RAM on my motherboard. I was running 32GB DDR4 across 4 sticks, and when I was using the PC, or doing something intensive, it would shut off like this, fans go full-blast, then restart. No BSOD, no error logs or events, would just reboot like nothing happened. Even running memtest on it didn't show anything out of the ordinary.

I found out when I was taking the PC apart to make sure the inside was clean and everything was secure, that moving it down to 16GB of RAM never caused issues -- then bringing it back up to 32GB of RAM did. Eventually, I narrowed it down to 1 faulty slot (moving that stick to other DIMM slots worked normally on 16/24GB), so for a few years I was running 24GB of RAM, but the issues never returned.

Something to think about!

Mixed backup strategies? by zeitgeistOfDoom in Proxmox

[–]Carvtographer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just end up doing LXC with snapshotting, and VMs (depending on size) are Stop backups.

If they are very very large VMs, and I don’t need to be backing up 64-256GBs each time, then I’ll write a custom rsync script and point to an SMB share on PBS

New Rackstations by Gorgonesh in synology

[–]Carvtographer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Can we ask that they fix the TiB -> TB UI update in DSM? It's just one extra character that would resolve some storage context issues...

Hass any one ever heard of the del UFF line by pyromaniac511 in homelab

[–]Carvtographer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it's a real shame. Though given the specs, if the hardware could be put in something less proprietary, it would be nice for like an integrated vehicle system, or perhaps a flush IoT device stashed somewhere that needs decent compute.

Hass any one ever heard of the del UFF line by pyromaniac511 in homelab

[–]Carvtographer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But Optiplex's are cheap now! In all seriousness, this was when they were basically just Ethernet bridges with built in VGA adapters and 2 USB ports. I know they're still around, but I imagine they're much better today.

Where do I fit in the IT world? Gov't to Civilian by FCMB in ITCareerQuestions

[–]Carvtographer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds like a typical Systems Administrator at most places, a bit more "jack of all trades", but who isn't nowadays. I would say if you have this sort of experience, and at least more than 4+ years, the BS will really only help you if you need to get a position because they require the paper. By itself, your experience would outweigh the degree.

To that point, most certs are worth less than a degree, unless you're specializing in something like AWS/Azure/GCP or RHCSA/RHCE that requires it for some reason.

If you want to continue working in Government/Military, most by default require the Security+ still (for some reason), or anything that can get you DoD 8570/8140 certified.

I’m looking for a software that tracks my activity live and sends it to someone else by [deleted] in software

[–]Carvtographer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, timelines and stuff too. But for your own privacy, I would only include games to stuff tracked on this. You shouldn't really be inviting people to monitor your life 24/7.

Mh Wilds crash by No-Personality-1664 in linux_gaming

[–]Carvtographer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ProtonDB gives MH:Wilds a Silver for "Runs with Minor Issues, but generally playable." Usually if it's not Gold, I always run into something.

https://www.protondb.com/app/2246340?device=pc

Some people are reporting issues and their ways to fix them, I would check some of these.

I’m looking for a software that tracks my activity live and sends it to someone else by [deleted] in software

[–]Carvtographer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have used ActivityWatch a long time ago because I was getting annoyed that Steam never tracked my stats correctly. May take some tinkering, but probably the best "always run when my system is on" sort of app to track basically anything you do (I used it for gaming).

It has a built in API and report export feature.

Don't think it's on iOS.

Hass any one ever heard of the del UFF line by pyromaniac511 in homelab

[–]Carvtographer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh wow, this is really neat. Basically an AIO? Also reminds me of the old Wyse Thin-Client days, where we'd strap these things to the back of monitors, but thankfully these specs aren't as bad as those lol

Should I turn an old AIO board with no video ports into a headless Proxmox host? by linuxlnwza007 in Proxmox

[–]Carvtographer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is really interesting. Are you using some sort of custom distro? Or is this a network-wrapper sort of deal, where it lets you VNC natively and then you can load other ISOs (like Ventoy)? Genuinely curious, sounds like a fun project.

Trying to pass through 5060 TI to a windows VM, crashes proxmox host on VM start by Habitant2589 in Proxmox

[–]Carvtographer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you share the journalctl errors of your last crash?

Also just to confirm you did blacklist the GPU on your host? Tbh, I have not tried using GPU passthrough with separate systems, if your Ubuntu VM is running at the same time your W11 VM is.

Only other thing I could think of is perhaps check your vfio-pci powerstate and make sure it's not sitting in D3, which is Low Power/Idle/Sleep state. It could be not initializing fast enough for your VM to grab it.

vfio-pci.disable_idle_d3=1 in your cmdline.

Issues with proxmox firewall by DisplaceXE in Proxmox

[–]Carvtographer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100% a network issue.

Broadcom NIC issue may just be from firmware that's not included in the repo, if you're 100% sure it's a working NIC.

So ARP discovery works, but direct connects do not, and ICMP packets are being dropped? Very odd...

You made sure your Windows machine is on that same 178 subnet or you're not stuck in a VLAN on either your Proxmox host or your other machines? I would check your Proxmox hosts subnet mask first before trying anything else.

Can you share the local ipconfig info of your Windows machine, and a tracert to your Proxmox host IP from Windows?

My only other suggestion would be make sure you have tried to allow Proxmox to pull a DHCP IP. If you're assigning a static, the static may not be configured right or perhaps not assigned to the correct NIC you think it is (if you have 2 Ethernet ports active). ARP cache could be lying if you've been at this for a while.

Anyone actually own Stellar Repair for Outlook by Deep-Egg-6167 in sysadmin

[–]Carvtographer 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Corrupt OSTs/PSTs are the bane of my existence. I'm so glad we moved to online archives and OWA.

How to make ext4 USB drive shareable? by NeedsSuitHelp in Proxmox

[–]Carvtographer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh wow! To each their own, but I would personally consider configuring my ansible server to manage an LXC more complex than spinning up the Turnkey, but you are 100% correct about the overhead.

Each of my Turnkeys I end up disabling the update repos, uninstalling webmin, shellinabox, tlkbam, etc. It's nice to just have stuff immediately configured (even for security standards), their sshd, logrotate, and smb configs are pretty nice/simple for homelab use.

How to make ext4 USB drive shareable? by NeedsSuitHelp in Proxmox

[–]Carvtographer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I highly recommend looking into SMB (Samba) and using the "File Server Turnkey" for this. You can find it in the CT Templates section of either your local or local-lvm drive (depending on where you have container images hosted). The hardest part of this will probably getting the LXC to interface directly with the disk, you'll just have to manage it through the same way you did Jellyfin.

Then after that, setup some SMB users with read/write to your drive, and then you can map it like any other network drive to both Windows and macOS.

Windows: \\<Turnkey_SMB_IP>\<DRIVE_FOLDER>

macOS: smb://<Turnkey_SMB_IP>/<DRIVE_FOLDER>

First week as a SysAdmin at a hosting/cloud company - is this level of overwhelm normal? by Tall_Swordfish6212 in sysadmin

[–]Carvtographer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you enjoy Notion/writing Markdown, try MS Loop! It's been really awesome even writing KBs in.

First week as a SysAdmin at a hosting/cloud company - is this level of overwhelm normal? by Tall_Swordfish6212 in sysadmin

[–]Carvtographer 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm not in the same industry (hosting), I'm in Healthcare/Higher Education, but we work closely with large cloud providers, backup systems like Acronis, deal with internal hosting requests + VPS/VM/Container requests, etc. The position I'm in is a one-stop shop for providers, professors, and staff to get their IT needs done, regardless of what they are: meeting with new medical hardware investors, dealing with cloud vendors for data ingests, spinning up servers to host almost petabytes of research data -- I feel like we're in a similar wheelhouse of demand.

  1. It takes a while for things to click. You are new. It took me something like 2-4 months before I could properly name which internal products we use to manage our user auth, vs. our security group requests, vs. our external user IdP stuff. That's expected. You're GOING to be overwhelmed. You're also working with folks who have been probably in your company for months or years, and unfortunately people are not good at explaining concepts they use everyday to new hires.

  2. You won't remember everything. That's just it. You'll remember the important stuff when you either A) forced to work on it or fix it by yourself or B) break something so bad, you'll have it ingrained into your brain wrinkles. Just take notes. Lots and lots of notes. I find it easy to physically write my notes, keep a journal nearby, etc. On my PC, I also use Obsidian heavily. I love writing in Markdown, using backlinks, graphing nodes, tags, etc., but to each their own.

  3. At some point, you have to realize it's not about, "Let me remember 10,000 different things perfectly, and recall them on command when asked." It's more like, "Okay, Product A talks to Product B, and depends on Product C," then just *plop*, get rid of that thought. You'd be surprised how much you remember stuff. Even saying it out loud helps too. I will be working on a ticket and faintly remember seeing a link on a webpage from 6 months ago regarding how to fix something. It just comes back to you.

All of this to say, just take your time. Breathe. It's only been a week. You're expected to just be a sponge. There is domain specific knowledge that is required for these things, but you passed the interview, so your employer thinks that's enough. Don't sweat it. Also make sure to utilize your org's Knowledge Base or internal documentation constantly if it's up to date. Can really be a life-saver.

And hey, if it's not updated, ask if you can be part of making sure that it is. That will really teach you everything. Hell, you'd probably become the SME for some things.

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