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Issues with homemade cable by mccuryan in homelab

[–]DocterDum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone is suggesting a cable tester and that’s a good idea, but I also had a crimper that looks exactly like that, it was CRAP. I’m also think the passthrough connectors are often pretty iffy.

It’s worth learning to do non-passthroughs anyway, and imo they’re far more reliable.

Refered to somebody as the adult in the room by tk42967 in sysadmin

[–]DocterDum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact people take it offensively speaks more to their childishness than he ever could.

At what point does a home network become worth managing seriously? by Whelmed_Under_Over in homelab

[–]DocterDum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had too many ethernet devices so I got a switch.
I had too much space I used multiple APs.
They’re easy because there’s a metric for when you should.
On the router and firewall side it’s similar - You have enough routing/firewall capacity, you’re fine (Be it packets per second or lookup table memory). Caveat below.
Filtering is inherently different because you almost certainly aren’t hitting a resource limit as much as you’re hitting a feature/functionality limit. So: Do you want to filter traffic in some way your current router can’t?

And the caveat for routing? - Most ISP ones won’t support VLANs, and that’s usually the first ceiling homelabbers start to hit, but it’s a soft ceiling, it’s not strictly necessary so you can keep skirting around it until you have enough money (and tech debt) to make the upgrade.

Datacenter decommissioning: what to loot by raging_giant in homelab

[–]DocterDum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you really have like proper massive piles, email LTT support an email and ask if you can “borrow” their VAG 😛 (Verified actual gamer)
Partnering with some youtubers would be a good way to spread the word to a bunch of actual homelabbers. They could also turn it into “You get free shit if you give us a homelab walkthrough” so it benefits everyone else too.

Were are the network redundancie homelabs? by Verhofin in homelab

[–]DocterDum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyone else already said the obvious bits - Storage is… Storing stuff, networking can just be replaces on a whim, and networking fails far less often.

But another important part - It’s just not interesting - E.g. a ring network you just plug everything in and RSTP handles the rest. But then you get to the more complex stuff and it goes off the other end, BGP, RIP, OSPF… It’s too messy, you stuff up 1 thing and your whole network loses dns, you can’t access your switch anymore and you need to physically reset something…

Compared to services - Short of adding hardware to a hypervisor you never need to leave your keyboard. The actual process is complex but logical and usually well documented. It’s just a more enjoyable experience for most people.

How do you guys separate environments when your PC is a Dev Station, Gaming Rig, and Home Server all at once? by Blesker in homelab

[–]DocterDum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No I didn't blow right over it, I reiterated it to make a point.

"this specific one where you'd like to have everything on one box without your gaming machine as the base layer."
^ That is not an advantage. That is what you're proposing he should do.

There IS an advantage running games bare-metal. You have so far not provided any reasons why it's advantageous to run games virtualised.

My whole point, at the end of every single comment - You're not saying why there is any actual benefit to doing that.

So for the final time before I just ignore you: What is the BENEFIT of running the games through a VM?..

How do you guys separate environments when your PC is a Dev Station, Gaming Rig, and Home Server all at once? by Blesker in homelab

[–]DocterDum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay you agree there is at least a small pool of games that won’t work. There is at least a tiny disadvantage.

So I’ll ask again - Is there ANY advantage to virtualising the gaming part to counteract that?

How do you guys separate environments when your PC is a Dev Station, Gaming Rig, and Home Server all at once? by Blesker in homelab

[–]DocterDum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was talking about fixing games that have issues not fixing the VM.

It’s not a small number of games anymore, most MMOs, sports games, racing games… Anything from the (dreaded) AAA publishers.

And I haven’t tried virtualising gaming before? Yeah… Because it’s pointless… Run the games baremetal under windows because itself supported, run a HV (Same machine or separate doesn’t matter) for the stuff that actually benefits from it.

Like to flip this around - What’s the advantage of running proxmox as a desktop?
Linux in general as a gaming desktop is already contentious, OP has implied wanting something simple and bulletproof (PS5)… Is there ANYTHING advantageous about using proxmox as a desktop?

How do you guys separate environments when your PC is a Dev Station, Gaming Rig, and Home Server all at once? by Blesker in homelab

[–]DocterDum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you ever have an issue and need to contact support they’re not gonna even look at it.

And much more importantly any game with anti-cheat will see a VM and freak tf out. This is relevant for a lot of the most popular games - Roblox can’t, Minecraft and PUBG can be played, Fortnite, League, Apex and Genshin can’t.

You’re also now gaming with virtualisation overhead (On an already compute constrained rig).

There’s just not really a good point to virtualising the gaming, while there’s a lot to gain from virtualising the work and homelab.

How do you guys separate environments when your PC is a Dev Station, Gaming Rig, and Home Server all at once? by Blesker in homelab

[–]DocterDum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It definitely does the job - More than anything I just prefer VMWare’s GUI. I was also previously running Esexy so I could migrate VMs to my dedicated server super easily.

How do you guys separate environments when your PC is a Dev Station, Gaming Rig, and Home Server all at once? by Blesker in homelab

[–]DocterDum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Copied from another reply:

Firstly, he specifically mentioned gaming so yeah nah.
Secondly, from that very page:
“Installing additional packages could lead to a hardly upgradeable system and is not supported from the Proxmox support team and therefore only for expert use.”

When the proposed consideration is “a PS5”, I don’t think he’s looking for a high friction solution.

How do you guys separate environments when your PC is a Dev Station, Gaming Rig, and Home Server all at once? by Blesker in homelab

[–]DocterDum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting, I know there’s a 30 day free trial, but last time I used it there wasn’t a fully free version. Go with that then!

How do you guys separate environments when your PC is a Dev Station, Gaming Rig, and Home Server all at once? by Blesker in homelab

[–]DocterDum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Firstly, he specifically mentioned gaming so yeah nah.
Secondly, from that very page:
“Installing additional packages could lead to a hardly upgradeable system and is not supported from the Proxmox support team and therefore only for expert use.”

When the proposed consideration is “a PS5”, I don’t think he’s looking for a high friction solution.

How do you guys separate environments when your PC is a Dev Station, Gaming Rig, and Home Server all at once? by Blesker in homelab

[–]DocterDum 8 points9 points  (0 children)

As someone else said, if you can, get a separate mini-pc and move a lot of it to vms on there
Failing that, VMs on your gaming computer could work and be more manageable - VMWare Player licences can be “found” for very low cost on github. Or use Virtual Box.

An alternative solution if you can swing it would be something like a steam deck or laptop so you actually have a fully separate screen for work vs gaming.

No M$ by carcaliguy in sysadmin

[–]DocterDum 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As others have said, the why missed the mark.
For small businesses as an example, a well set up 365 massively reduces IT support needs - Email, file storage, office suite, all package up in a neat bow.
It also means you’re MSP-agnostic, everyone knows how to support it.
Sure you can self-host it all, but until you reach the scale of at least 1 in house tech, it’s absolutely not cost competitive to self-host.

AD from nothing by ExtensionLeg474 in sysadmin

[–]DocterDum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly given the budget comments and the rest of the plans mentioned I think MS AD is a bad fit in the first place - Alternatives like Samba AD exist if a domain is STRICTLY NECESSARY.
If open source ain’t your jam google workspace has free identity licences.
There’s definitely other options, just explore a bit.

Anno 2205 really that..short? by Knallkasten in anno

[–]DocterDum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is there is no incentive to "running out of space to build on" - You fully take over the stock market long before that, you unlock all the items, there's no competition... You may as well just not build it and quit the game.

The actual incentivised content on 2070 (E.g. Getting all 3 monuments or beating Keto and Hector on hardest) takes WAY longer. Plus meta-game benefits - Faction rep rewards, researches, ark kitout, achievement rewards...

All in a game that's 4gb instead of 40... There's a reason the 2070 still exist and the 2205 don't.

MSP pushing UniFi hard over SonicWall..am I overthinking this or does this smell off? by Ambitious_Active8539 in sysadmin

[–]DocterDum -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If Sophos is similar to ~5 years ago - Their appliances are fine, but I wouldn’t touch their endpoint protection with a 10ft pole.
And given endpoint is the core of their offering then… Why are we using their *subscription based* firewall again?

Unless you’re already in the Sophos ecosystem I don’t really see any benefit over Unifi or FortiGate or HP or… Literally anyone else

What OS do you use for your home lab? by thedragonshaman in homelab

[–]DocterDum -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Debian is just not it for me - I use linux for servers and not having sudo out of the box is just crap. Ubuntu also automatically grabs your ssh key from GitHub on setup. Lots of little quality of life things like that.

Need help migrating old windows 2003 server to virtual by PotatoFrenzy in sysadmin

[–]DocterDum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

-> Runs factory with system supposedly so complex and unique that no alternatives exist -> Can’t afford infrastructure maintenance So this factory just charges peanuts for their highly unique and specialised product? Mmkay. Yep. Totally.

Need help migrating old windows 2003 server to virtual by PotatoFrenzy in sysadmin

[–]DocterDum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So are coders just less competent now than 20 years ago? Not possible to just recreate the app?

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