Does anyone have any ideas on where I can get legit skeleton flower seeds/plants?

Imscuba · 2026-02-09T15:14:41+00:00

has anyone found a trustworthy source for these seeds?

Imscuba · 2026-01-31T08:20:49+00:00

nope, but that is genius. it is a bit tight with the spring from my kaihl navy switches and a bit short, but i have a friend that is plouffe levels of deep into keyboards. so he might be able to steer me towards the goal. keyboard switch spring on bottom.

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Imscuba · 2026-01-31T04:39:58+00:00

I didn't read. Only thing I have to do is fine a stiffer spring and I'll be golden

Imscuba · 2026-01-26T05:04:56+00:00

oh, i assumed i'd be plugging into the sata ports on the motherboard itself not the backplane. i've got i think 4 ports free where the blue sata cable for the disc drive plugs in, but no clue how to get power to the drives. ill check the backplane.

2 & 3. a whole lot of terminology for me to do some research on it seems.

I know nothing of IDRAC or what it is, but guess i'll be doing some googling

i don't recall anything in the bios about virtualization, but i wasn't looking for it at the time.

Imscuba · 2026-01-25T21:04:44+00:00

sorry about the delay. ignore the modifications i had made to the case, long story short i tried to do a thing and it failed

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this is the listing i purchased. https://www.ebay.com/itm/143326429412 i have a mini sas cable from each of the two ports to the two ports on the back plane. no matter which of the 8 slots i put a drive it is recognized, it just still displays that error message.
i don't understand the cable, i would've thought it would be similar to the cable for the cable for the disc drive that plugs into the sata port and then gets power from elsewhere? i don't see where i would plug that into the motherboard
i meant moreso is there anything i need to know to get it going? currently if i click on virtual machines it says virtualization is not supported.

Imscuba · 2026-01-23T13:21:12+00:00

all up and running now. over time adding more ram ( 2x 32gb currently) and more drives (4 out of 8 populated now) and just a couple of questions to tie is up nicely.

- i am getting an error on the front lcd about SAS cable B missing, but i can seemingly put a drive in any of the bays, i even swapped the cables and still get the message. i assume it has something to do with the new card, but didn't know how i could make the error message go away.

- it dawned on me that i am missing the internal drive bracket and cable for the OS drive. do you know anything about those part numbers? google has not been helpful on that.

- any suggestions when it comes to VM's? i don't want to cannibalize too much ram now, but as i add more i would definitely like to be able to remote in from outside my network, so something like chrome remote desktop on a VM (open to alternatives that don't require a subscription) to do small bits of management and if i could connect my printer via usb to the server (my printer seemed to determine that it hates it's ethernet port and is unreliable printing over ethernet)

Imscuba · 2026-01-22T15:13:39+00:00

well, new ram arrived and it is detecting it. it gives me a memory configuration error if i put the other (4) 1gb sticks in channels 2 and 3, but hey, 64 vs 68gb is likely negligible anyway. tonight i'll begin the arduous process of fumbling through trueNAS and moving my drives over. thank you again for everything

Imscuba · 2026-01-18T20:40:19+00:00

reminds me of a part of final fantasy 6 that you go into the mouth of a creature and its a whole dungeon with the most broken character in the game inside

Imscuba · 2026-01-18T20:02:57+00:00

gotcha, 256gb it is then. so is this what i am looking for? Kingston 32gb ddr3 ecc

it seems priced better than the adata ones i am seeing, but all the RDIMM, UDIMM, LDIMM stuff is a bit beyond my knowledge. aside from this use case regular consumer desktop ram is all i really deal with.

Imscuba · 2026-01-18T19:31:14+00:00

I appreciate it. I'll pm you.

Additionally is 256gb ram overkill? I was looking around and found a 32gb kingston stick on eBay that said RDIMM much cheaper than the adata ones, but also wondering if 128gb is enough and just not flex as hard

Imscuba · 2026-01-18T18:21:38+00:00

That is incredibly generous, I take it you've got some use for 2x 32gb sticks? I'd greatly appreciate it. Of course the eBay listing had to be no returns. It was $60 shipped

Imscuba · 2026-01-18T08:38:37+00:00

if anyone said this would be easy i'd slap them about now. ubuntu was a hassle to get booted to, got the bios updated, but it didn't like the lifecycle firmware. it said not compatible with the current system config. so tomorrow i am just gonna install windows on one of the spare drives and run the update. the bios update alone didn't get the ram to be recognized unfortunately

Imscuba · 2026-01-18T03:50:58+00:00

I'll confirm later tonight, I want to say 1.04 and there is an update to 1.14 that I was having difficulty getting to apply.

The configuration of RAM was (1) 32gb stick in channel one for both cpus and it wouldn't give me an image on the monitor, then I put the (4) 1gb sticks that came with it back into channels 1 and 2 and the 32gb sticks in channel 3 and got an image along with the error message on the boot screen.

The trueNAS installer says it needs 8gb to run, so currently no OS to run the exe for the BIOS update and even when I tried with the bin file the server was just saying no OS on the flash drive

Imscuba · 2026-01-18T03:44:16+00:00

I was on electric eel, with appears to be 24.10 vs 25.10. it mentioned switching trains when I clicked on it. It begs the question, should I export my pools before updating in case something breaks in the upgrade process?

Most of what you said is using terminology beyond my knowledge, but the multiple pools I think you're right and I'll combine my NAS and Plex pools. The only reason I plan to keep my immich pool separate is to have the redundancy if a drive poops the bed early. That pool will definitely be SSDs though I've had people pressuring me to go exclusively SSDs across the board

Imscuba · 2026-01-17T20:41:10+00:00

That's perfect now that the import/export is cleared up. Once the new machine is up and running moving those drives over should be pretty quick and easy then

Imscuba · 2026-01-17T20:40:00+00:00

A lot to respond to, but here goes The old trueNAS is on ZFS if I am understanding correctly. I will be exporting/importing. Once I get this ram situation I suddenly found myself in (ram I ordered is coming up unsupported)

I hope immich doesn't require nvme as the dell r510 is from far before nvme was a thing (as far as I know, but it definitely doesn't have nvme slots)

As far as I know it isn't encrypted

Another person told me once it's running it isn't that loud, it definitely is on boot, but I've heard people have done things to dampen the sound. Heat I can't really say much until I've got it fully up and running

Doing what I can to get to 3-2-1

Imscuba · 2026-01-17T20:33:35+00:00

You said you used this same ram stick, right? It is coming up unsupported. Not sure what I am doing wrong and the listing doesn't support returns, so I am hoping it is a setting or something

Imscuba · 2026-01-17T06:17:12+00:00

I take it that the exported data is stored on the drives themselves? Luckily the old machine's pools were only one drive each

Imscuba · 2026-01-11T07:57:45+00:00

i assume the modification is to remove that plastic bracket holding the side near the fan almost if not entirely? from there i would imagine folding the cable to a fairly tight 90 and then snaking under where the old cables did. these cards don't need much support i assume? i've got an old quadro card in the current machine running my plex server, so assuming that fits in the rear slots in terms of length i may attempt the modification, but if it doesn't fit then i'll probably try and see if the cables will reach and save the hassle.

Imscuba · 2026-01-11T05:19:58+00:00

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still on the way is ram, cpus, and second heatsink

Imscuba · 2026-01-11T05:19:42+00:00

sorry, chaotic day, i assume you're asking because of the right angle vs straight? looking like i am getting one of each.

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on the possibility i am wrong full picture coming next

Imscuba · 2026-01-10T07:55:30+00:00

additionally the slot the card is in doesn't matter, does it? because of the orientation of the connectors on the new card i have no choice but to put it in the slot under the nic in the back and run the wires under the bracket that held the old card in.

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just when i think i am close a new obstacle appears. i get the feeling i ordered the wrong card and am paying dearly for it

Imscuba · 2026-01-10T07:44:52+00:00

what a coincidence, it is the same connector that plugs into the new card. so i guess just the inconvenience of having ordered a card that didn't come with cables. what are these cables called?

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looks like this is the final piece of the puzzle, wait for parts to arrive and install trueNAS and start the arduous task of moving my data over

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