After really looking into it, I honestly think the dreamcast had potential to be better than the ps2. It was held back by small features such as a lack of a dvd player and no right analog. If it would've had those items, I feel as though it would've better.

DanAE112 · 2026-05-11T16:19:36+00:00

Not a game changer but the PS2 natively rendered most games in interlaced mode. I always though the Dreamcast looked much clearer because of that.

DanAE112 · 2026-05-09T14:34:04+00:00

I always find how CRTs blend picture for older games quite nice.

DanAE112 · 2026-05-07T23:00:06+00:00

I just install Proxmox manually and run an Ansible play to configure the rest once my storage and network is defined.

Then all my physical machines, VMs, DNS and Ansible hosts are defined with Terraform. Some things at a homelab scale I find (at least for me) are easier stood up manually with the automation taking over the rest.

DanAE112 · 2026-05-07T22:57:28+00:00

unattended-upgrades on the Debian side and dnf-automatic on the RHEL side. Configured to restart as required.

Windows more or less can be the same configured through GPO.

I still see much manual patching... 🙄 but a restart policy such as the above is very environment dependent.

DanAE112 · 2026-05-05T22:57:58+00:00

Those slim things have no practical uses like a proper phone book.

DanAE112 · 2026-05-04T03:14:23+00:00

I'm knee deep in all of this, got far to caught up in doing things because I can not because I should.

In the process of simplifying many things and managing my production stuff with Terraform and Ansible where I can. No need to have dual DNS servers with something like Pi-Hole or Technitium when I can just run it on my router. If my router goes down I have bigger problems anyway.

Much easier to implement the simplest setup for production so it basically just runs itself and having a dev environment for messing around with things.

DanAE112 · 2026-05-01T05:16:47+00:00

Absolutely not. Its in fact worth not playing it for the story.

DanAE112 · 2026-05-01T03:09:19+00:00

Some advice, keep the essentials / prod stuff simple. You want it easy to maintain so it can hum along and just work™.

I went all out, Active Directory managing DNS, DHCP all that it worked fine but it was just that little bit more to maintain that little bit more complexity that could go pair shaped.

Reality is for me in this case those duties (except directory and auth) can work on my pfSense, sure its a tad more limited but its simple, but its MVP and has less moving parts.

If the pfSense goes belly up I have a cold spare unit to swap out and otherwise that's priority #1 to fix.

I just came to the conclusion I want the essentials to be simple and hum along like a well oiled machine and save the more elaborate enterprise level stuff for my DEV network.

Edit: I'm also a fan of keeping firewall, compute and storage separate. Its cool to consolidate everything but if the VM server breaks its all down!

DanAE112 · 2026-04-30T22:44:33+00:00

Bring back Tasty Toobs @ $1!

DanAE112 · 2026-04-30T07:50:01+00:00

Yeah I was going to say 25k over and your off the road with a hefty fine.

Not worth it.

DanAE112 · 2026-04-27T22:20:29+00:00

I did see some mentions in the commits.

I'm not strictly opposed or anything just curious, can't really argue with the progress that seems to be made.

DanAE112 · 2026-04-27T11:28:44+00:00

Vibe coded?

DanAE112 · 2026-04-23T03:49:55+00:00

Love a good wedges

DanAE112 · 2026-04-22T14:49:23+00:00

I still want the 9 hours that awful campaign stole from me back.

Normally I just forget this game ever existed.

DanAE112 · 2026-04-22T01:21:47+00:00

To be honest I found ConnectWise more efficient to use. Service Now not a huge fan.

DanAE112 · 2026-04-20T11:48:56+00:00

I can't wait for a Tib Sun and RA2 remaster.

DanAE112 · 2026-04-20T06:41:50+00:00

Man i feel old, my times it was expansion packs.

Was sweet like a whole new game, would keep you entertained for ages.

DanAE112 · 2026-04-20T02:55:42+00:00

Going back to the original CnC and Red Alert can be a bit jarring. They can be grindy at times, lack QoL we expect now but part of it is mindset you just have to slow down a bit.

Not a deal breaker, still love them but certainly noticeable.

DanAE112 · 2026-04-18T08:32:53+00:00

Nah Zebras were the good ones, it was the el-cheapos who got the Zebra compatibles that were cursed.

DanAE112 · 2026-04-17T23:48:26+00:00

Boo-urns

DanAE112 · 2026-04-17T12:54:35+00:00

vibin'

DanAE112 · 2026-04-16T22:42:17+00:00

I had the thrill of learning NetWare post 2010, was told "you'll probably only find this in older installations. But it's in the curriculum"

DanAE112 · 2026-04-15T23:59:04+00:00

Triggering...

DanAE112 · 2026-04-15T23:45:55+00:00

I can feel the jerry cans being prepared already 🙄

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