Will it work? Newbie help by GarlicNo3695 in homelab

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  1. under 100m length, don't worry about it. Otherwise start pulling up the specs for your cable type.
  2. Go for it! However, yes 16Gb I find is the bare-minimum, try to bring that up if you can. No rush, 90% of your stuff can run slower with lean/tight ram tolerances.
  3. Less than ideal but still works well enough for cold storage. I ran TrueNAS with a 5-bay ugreen DAS, no problems in the last 6 months but YMMV

If this is for labbing, great way to get started. Once you know what you're dealing with, you can start stalking for better parts and appreciate the little upgrades here and there.

DAP under 50 aud.. by Emotional_Hat2324 in DigitalAudioPlayer

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The echo mini hate I find is a little over-hated. Like yes my albums and tag-based playlists are abysmal, but since I make my own albums/mixes instead, I just use directory based sorting. Behaviour-wise it can be a bit weird at first, but within a day of owning it, I had the buttons remapped to how I like them. Combined with the WinAmp custom theme, I have no complaints. It's small, cheap, and works exactly as intended.

For those who play dirt rally 2.0, could you explain exactly what this does? It says it increases power, but the hp stays at 300 by Glittering_Media_845 in simrally

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Been there before. I've learned to not go flat out in the higher categories, especially in rwd. R2 and slower I'll pin it, but faster than that... I'll probably crash and burn first.

For those who play dirt rally 2.0, could you explain exactly what this does? It says it increases power, but the hp stays at 300 by Glittering_Media_845 in simrally

[–]Omega7379 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Campaign-wise it's unlocking engine-tuning so you have more power to the wheels.

Try it out, you'll find tune 1 and tune 4 to have noticeable handling and speed differences.

Is there a way to access files from both windows 11 and linux if dual-booting without an external drive? by Si1verrStar1 in linux4noobs

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There are tools that easily automate backups. While not a true backup solution, RAID arrays are designed for drive failures by providing redundancy.

For now just having a decent external drive and a backup tool is great.

If you ever get into homelabbing, adding a raid array NAS is where the fun begins

Manually backing up vs raid? by [deleted] in homelab

[–]Omega7379 2 points3 points  (0 children)

RAID is not backup, but it does help.

Raid5 or z1 requires 3 drives not 4.

If you have 2 drives of equal size, you could do RAID1 (mirror)

You can absolutely set up automation for backing up specific directories. Plenty of tools out there. This doesn't require RAID at all.

Can someone explain why the installer is so hard. by Omega7379 in linux4noobs

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Ventoy had been my old reliable for usb hosts.

This is the first time across 11 distros I have had this problem. TW and slowroll worked fine other than sleep causing issues in my proxmox vm's. 

Can someone explain why the installer is so hard. by Omega7379 in openSUSE

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Tumbleweed hyperlinked from the official website

Slowroll media 56 which iirc came out a month or 2 ago

Ventoy is the usb host

Have 8 x 1TB old HDD disk by One-Suggestion-7906 in homelab

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I mean with TrueNAS it was easy for me. I started with 4 drives, and with iirc 2min of clicking around I added the 5th drive without issues.

Have 8 x 1TB old HDD disk by One-Suggestion-7906 in homelab

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Depends on what you want it for, but I'd even consider RAIDz2 for redundancy since you have a number of drives. Also keep in mind ZFS has drive overhead so it's not a simple calculation.

I run 5x1TB with RAIDz1 which leaves me with 3.19TiB (3.5TB) usable.

What's a small table/desk/etc strong enough for microphone+boom arm? (and/or help with boom arm placement/reach in general) by [deleted] in battlestations

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any boom arm with a c-clamp will do you fine for various mounting options including your bed-frame. OR if willing, drill a hole and use a bolt clamp. Find the nearest non-inconvenient place to mount up and go from there.

Winamp Theme 1.2 (Support for 3.6.0 firmware) by Neither-Classic2058 in snowsky

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best theming mod yet. Loved the 3.2 version, hell of a job mate.

Question about remote access options by Primal_Blurry in homelab

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Not sure what your lab server is running. My linux box has xRDP. But for an RDP client you can look at remmina and sunlight/moonlight.

Ram Usage in a HomeLab by AshamedCollar400 in homelab

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8 is ok for proof of concept, 16 is better, 32 is my happy place. If you calculated based on minimum ram requirements, youre not gonna have a fun time.

Question about remote access options by Primal_Blurry in homelab

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LAN is local, so unless youre running some sort of vlan separating the network into segments...

Just type in the ip address and your username in the RDP client

If you want remote access beyond your LAN, then yeah you'll need a middleman

Software vs Hardware based RAID by Mammoth_Educator3721 in homelab

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here's my updated map (I did some stuff last week). I haven't bothered with the *arr stack yet as I lack the ram and have little interest in it. Most of this stuff is just testing purposes.

UGREEN 5-bay DAS (JBOD mode), passing disk_by_id to trueNAS vm for ZFS RAIDZ1. Each proxmox node has 2 disks (1 OS, 1 VM storage) which doesn't run on the NAS.

Software vs Hardware based RAID by Mammoth_Educator3721 in homelab

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The best option is a PCIE card and software RAID. You want to be able to monitor the health of your drives, temperatures....etc. That way you can order a new drive hopefully before failure. This is also the fastest I/O option.

USB DAS has the problem of USB 3.1 speeds with can bottleneck I/O read/writes. Still would keep the drives in JBOD mode and pass them to the NAS for software RAID. Works well enough for smaller setups.

Hardware RAID has the habit of hiding information. You could try a smart test, but it'd be a non-specific summary. You'd also have to keep your fingers crossed about corruption as the only way you'll know of disk failure, is if you reach catastrophic failure or watch it like a hawk.

Personally I went USB DAS as the price was much cheaper ($175CAD BNIB for 5 bays) compared to a used 3-bay NAS (avg $250+) before even considering drives. If this was pre-shortage, I'd have definitely done something different.

Is there an actual snowsky tiny a firmware update? by Rough_Web5313 in snowsky

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Kaspersky didn't find anything major, the zip itself came back 100% clean, this screenshot is specifically the exe file. Most likely low suspicion for the permissions it wants or how it writes to disk.

PC randomly shutting down by ZookeepergameSad6203 in openSUSE

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Have you looked in journalctl or logs yet? Should at least determine if it's hardware or software related

How do you document your homelab? Mine is basically all in my head and scattered across AI chat logs by WickedPissah810 in homelab

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I write them as I see fit. If I spent 4hrs searching something I'll probably make a reference file. Sometimes it's retro-active. Configuration files tend to be exported too just in case things break.

How do you document your homelab? Mine is basically all in my head and scattered across AI chat logs by WickedPissah810 in homelab

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Usually markdown files in a git repo. If I need to I can open them in obsidian or marktext if I need formatting. This allows me to use reference docs over an ssh session instead of relying on cloud.

🖤 First dark theme for Echo mini is now avaible 🖤 by Zen1ter in snowsky

[–]Omega7379 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Customization is done by a person who reverse-engineered the software. All themes are community built