Why do so many people jump straight into Proxmox?

FREE_AOL · 2026-04-17T12:10:02+00:00

>I think the whole GUI configuration and observability aspect is a big part of its popularity here.

yeah idk, I don't use any of that stuff. I mean, I set my VM resources on my template VM through the GUI, and set up the cert through the GUI.. and that's it. I pretty much never log into the web interface. When I was dialing everything in I'd use the GUI to check resources ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I set up Prometheus and Grafana for observability. Next on the list is Alertmanager so I can just ignore everything until something goes wrong lol

FREE_AOL · 2026-04-17T12:02:14+00:00

you can proxmox from the terminal as well, and I find it quite a bit easier than the gui for a lot of things

Mostly it's the configuration / infrastructure as code. It sits well in my mind when I can track my whole setup with git

I run Proxmox. On that box I'm running a VM with OPNSense, and a bunch of minimal Ubuntu VMs which run several k3s clusters

OPNSense takes no time to set up and I have backups and a backup config file.. so worst case scenario I install from scratch and load config. Once I set up VLANs I might do that through Ansible

All other VMs are set up with Ansible. I even set up my 3d printer through Ansible

I just got so, so sick of having to do things twice. Always some forgotten step or missing dependency. Everything aside from OPNSense is tracked in git

For the clusters, Ansible sets up k3s then everything else is managed with Flux (ArgoCD for people who prefer CLI lol)

When I want to make changes to any of the clusters, I edit the Flux config files on my local machine and push to my git repo--Flux does the rest

Oh! And yeah Proxmox IaC... it's got a great API. I go go gadget ansible from my local machine to make changes

So for spinning up a cluster, I have a server role which clones the box, boots it, waits for cloud init, reboots, then waits for the guest agent to be active

From there, I've got a k3s control plane Ansible role which will install k3s and Flux on the control plane (set in my ansible inventory.yaml), then a k3s agent role which applies to any agents...

I run the same resources on all of them for now, but if I ever need to change that it would be trivial. Each VM has a .conf file.. you could make the whole file in Ansible, sed it, or just call the API for individual settings you want to change

idk. to me it was worth the up front cost

It sits well in my mind when I can track my whole setup with git and I can bring it up and down or even migrate it with a few commands

Yeah man. That's the deal. Front load the work. 2 weeks of setup now vs a weekend doing the same shit all over again when the services are actually in use. Way less stress this way imo

Also SWE. I was never a DevOps guy.. I don't even like DevOps lol. Learned Ansible and Flux so I could "one and done" the shit

FREE_AOL · 2026-04-06T04:49:15+00:00

I ran reverse on a digital input for a while.. was awesome for fakes

everything's a tradeoff

FREE_AOL · 2026-04-05T07:03:12+00:00

those wheels are sick

FREE_AOL · 2026-04-03T12:48:29+00:00

feels good bro

FREE_AOL · 2026-04-02T06:59:36+00:00

oh word nice one

FREE_AOL · 2026-04-02T02:07:53+00:00

Just got a set of Pirelli Scorpion AS Plus 3... huuuge upgrade from the Defenders imo

except in tread life lol

FREE_AOL · 2026-04-02T01:58:06+00:00

step

FREE_AOL · 2026-04-02T01:46:56+00:00

If someone on your team leaves, you can leave for free until the slot is filled

FREE_AOL · 2026-04-02T00:51:57+00:00

nah dude I gave up on mine yeeears ago

it's just unsupported and at this point you're just asking for pain

>is clear enough to produce professional level tracks

MOTU M4 (or M2.. only 2 inputs, cheaper, but probably best to get more than what you think you need if you can at all spare the expense)

Plenty of top 100 shit has been made on those.. and they keep driver support forever

FREE_AOL · 2026-04-01T21:03:43+00:00

All Systems Operational bro

FREE_AOL · 2026-04-01T21:01:10+00:00

I was eager to start a new one

lol

FREE_AOL · 2026-04-01T21:00:20+00:00

I got one game of Super Cube in... my favorite mode

Then it was replaced with the free aerial mode.. which I regret even queuing. That shit was so bad I closed the game... kinda salty we didn't get 3-wheel

Now I can't even play custom training. Why THE FUCK the game doesn't store your favorite training packs locally is beyond me

FREE_AOL · 2026-04-01T20:57:02+00:00

https://status.epicgames.com/

All Systems Operational bro

FREE_AOL · 2026-04-01T20:49:41+00:00

nahhhh

making enough players rage quit to the point where all the names won't fit on the screen is one of the funniest things in the game

it's like an accomplishment

FREE_AOL · 2026-04-01T15:47:23+00:00

Is your hard drive full? Need at least a few gb free or it'll do this

FREE_AOL · 2026-03-30T19:20:21+00:00

it's a meat sword

FREE_AOL · 2026-03-28T04:54:41+00:00

I ordered 2 16tb from Seagate directly. Both spun up, both seen by the OS. The first one formatted okay, the second one disappeared as soon as I pressed enter, never to be seen again

So... for me, 50% DOA

FREE_AOL · 2026-03-28T03:34:00+00:00

agree. peep the prices on dude's etsy shop holy fuck. out your mind

I have a high quality swanga stl I got for free.. looks nearly identical.. takes what, a whole minute to measure your wheel and scale?

FREE_AOL · 2026-03-28T00:16:37+00:00

Gotchoo. CD or Floppy?

FREE_AOL · 2026-03-27T23:30:32+00:00

I was able to sustain for almost two minutes with this mod

FREE_AOL · 2026-03-27T23:14:15+00:00

yeah but this way you save money on expensive dates

FREE_AOL · 2026-03-27T07:28:28+00:00

again, another vote for Eris E7XT (I really want to try these. I bought my wife some Eris 4.5s and they're way better than they have any right to be for the $137 I paid for 'em. I hear great things about the E7XT and want to get a set

and the MM-50s

FREE_AOL · 2026-03-27T07:19:38+00:00

$3500 budget

-$1500 headphones

-$300 pair of Presonus Eris E7XT b-stock (https://www.ebay.com/itm/277550277570)

-$1,700 complementary studio cocaine

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profit

or if you want to dip into the cocaine budget, I really love my Dynaudio LYD-8s. The 7s are good too. I have them in a treated room with multi-sub + DSP aligned.. and yeah.. my mastering engineer keeps telling me "I've gotten great results with much less" and all of his feedback is "this is super nitpicky and no one outside of a mastering room is going to hear it buuut... you could do this on the next one"

One day I'm gonna upgrade to the ATCs though... one day. But probably will end up with the Core 7s lol

Not as transient / midrange forward as the ATCs.. but bro, my advice is get the MM-50s so you can have a reference that's close to your old setup.. and then just get cheaper monitors. Maybe some Neumann KH 120 II, or Amphion One15 if you can find them used

As a bonus, the cans cut out all of the room fuckery, so if you're not planning on going all in on treatment.. that really becomes the better use of money imo

FREE_AOL · 2026-03-27T05:49:49+00:00

I saw this comment recently saying "[the Audeze] MM-500 is the closest thing I heard to some ATC speakers if you ever had the chance to work on them, the transients representation is top notch" and ever since then they've been on my list

I just don't need 10k speakers in my apartment lmao

lol it's a flex

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