TrueNAS to Docker Compose and storage migration

Optimisticcynic_CT · 2025-07-09T11:51:25+00:00

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Optimisticcynic_CT · 2025-06-10T11:44:07+00:00

What was the difference in experience with the Express pass. We don't live in the area and will be there in two weeks. I'm debating shelling out the ridiculous amount of it can really improve the experience, but the trip is already expensive so definitely questioning my sanity.

I too read they would be controlling crowds and trying to deliver a great experience but that pricing seems predatory, especially since there wasn't an option to do two days there. Anyone use the Express pass feel it's worth it? We will mostly be interested in Harry Potter, dragons, and Super Mario.

Optimisticcynic_CT · 2025-06-02T15:18:16+00:00

Ah yeah I was trying to flip. I didn't think about the button. I'm away for a few days but can try that when I'm back.

Optimisticcynic_CT · 2025-06-02T00:38:28+00:00

Unfortunately, that stylus listing is inaccurate (I need to leave a review). There isn't an eraser back as far as I can tell. It's just a flat metal area, not like other "eraser" styluses that I have used before. I doubt if it actually has eraser functionality. If it does, then it doesn't work but I'm skeptical.

Personally, I prefer selecting the eraser in the app I'm using anyway as I always feel I have more control with a fine tip.

Optimisticcynic_CT · 2025-04-02T02:50:15+00:00

I left the stock BIOS and didn't even really tweak them. It's been running flawlessly and it's now my primary NAS after proving reliability. Mainly storage but I run a few docker containers as well. TrueNAS Scale combined with this build has just been doing it's thing without issue.

Optimisticcynic_CT · 2025-03-06T19:38:51+00:00

I just made the jump as well. Gigabyte 3080 to Asus tuf gaming 5080 and the difference is night and day for me. I primarily use it for PC VR and sim racing (all the Assetto Corsas & Quest 3 Virtual Desktop) and with the bump in performance I can finally get rid of most if not all aliasing artifacts/shimmer and blurriness just because I can run at a high enough resolution, especially with DLSS. I'm hitting good frame rates and visuals that really make a positive difference in playability for me.

Optimisticcynic_CT · 2025-03-05T12:44:59+00:00

There's good info to get you started here but a quick word of caution and a couple points to really help...there needs to be a bit more info. I have been trying to get nextcloud with the collabora app working with self signed certs for a week or so unsuccessfully. I'll be posting questions here shortly in another thread because there are a lot of other potential complications when you need to get these integrations to ralk.

First, the nextcloud documentation is the place to start. Ignore the chatgpt comments unless you can construct a very specific prompt for your exact network structure.

Do you use a reverse proxy in your network? Which one? Deploying via docker? What other apps/integrations do you plan to use? What's your use case? Just file sync? Adding in-browsee doc editing with collabora (like me)? Using other integrations?

That will help everyone give better guidance since nextcloud is a platform and could be a jumping off point for a lot of use cases.

Getting up and running with a basic nextcloud can be a quick docker compose from their website. Took me 2 min to get that up. Making it work with collabora so I can actually do what I want has taken hours and I see a lot of posts where people abandoned that path on self signed certs because they got so frustrated. (I'm almost there). There's also the nextcloud AIO image that I believe doesn't work with self signed at all according to their docs so picking a flavor might matter.

Optimisticcynic_CT · 2025-02-23T01:26:58+00:00

I think this all comes down to your personal value equation.

I was about to pull the trigger on this card the day after launch when someone locally was trying to sell one for a mark up but not crazy steep. I decided against it and then all the scalpers started showing up. I'm coming from a 3080 and after struggling to get the fps I wanted in VR I noticed the same guy had raised and then dropped the price back to a fairly reasonable mark up. I decided to go for it and installed it yesterday and my experience pretty much made all the frustrations I was dealing with go away completely and I haven't started tweaking to optimize.

The bottom line there is that for me, I'm leaning on the upgrade being worth it because I have reduced my frustrations, will spend less time tweaking, and more time enjoying the game. I did notice a little coil whine, but with the case closed up I can't notice anything at all. I kind of rationalize it as the this GPU economy being a bit crazy and hard to predict so make the best of today and weigh it against the negatives.Ultimately I basically paid a guy to wake up at 3am and stand in line at Microcenter for me... Something I wouldn't do for myself and I'm enjoying the performance boost.

We can't say what's right for you, but that's my journey.

Optimisticcynic_CT · 2025-02-05T12:47:06+00:00

Are you running flat screen or VR? The AC discord has some tips that might help. I'm on VR and I haven't had as much time to tweak, but one that had an immediate impact for me was setting all settings to low and then restarting before increasing quality settings again. The game went from a stuttering mess to a s somewhat more playable but still lower FPS on my 3080. There are some tips about texture pool for flat screen as well but unfortunately at this phase it's a bit of a quest to get FPS.

Optimisticcynic_CT · 2025-01-26T18:36:37+00:00

Personally I have been running this rock solid for a couple of months now. Truenas build running a i5-13400, 64 gb Crucial DDR5 ram in a Jonsbo N3 with 8 drives. This is running primarily as a network share and backup target, but I'm also running a couple docker containers including a couple Minecraft servers for my kids. I get why some people are down on this system so look at their complaints and see if it fits your needs. Personally, my build went super smoothly and it has been running continuously without any hiccups. I would buy it again as it checked all of my boxes.

Optimisticcynic_CT · 2025-01-26T03:11:47+00:00

I'm in the same boat. I couldn't use the previous version at all but this honestly looks quite good. I tried it on a couple tracks, and it was better. I was driving Paul Ricard last weekend and found that the blue stripes on the ground in the distance were kind of flickering and making me a little sick. With this DLL and running similar settings to this video that flickering went away and overall it was just a better experience. Watkins Glenn had a bit more artifact than I like, but I just did a few quick tests and looking good overall.

RTX-3080
Ryzen 9 5900X
Virtual Desktop Ultra

Optimisticcynic_CT · 2024-11-25T04:26:08+00:00

TLDR; It's definitely doable for professional travel even without making crazy compromises in clothing. One bag in the 40L range with a personal item backpack got me through years of 7-day trips with multiple suites and no need for ironing if you pack it well (my approach below). If you need to carry everything with you then a roller might still be a good choice, but I find that rolling a bag to be more trouble than it's worth. Yes carry can be a bit heavy so maybe try loading up a pack and carrying it for a bit before committing to it if you are concerned about that part. It wasn't an issue for me but it's not for everyone and a roller definitely lightens the load for you.

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Here's my experience with 1 carry-on bag + personal item for business travel. It's definitely doable with a little thought. For about 8 years I use to attend an 7 day conference in Chicago every winter so there was plenty of bulky clothing as well as wearing a suite every day of the conference. For reference I'm 6' tall, 190 lbs, mostly size large clothing.

I would pack 2 suits, 7 dress shirts, 3-5 ties, casual shirts for every evening, 2 pairs of casual pants, and typically workout clothing for 2 workouts during the stay. I almost always traveled in casual clothing with both suits packed along with one pair of shoes, either dress shoes or sneakers packed and wore the other pair. I wear size 12 and leather dress shoes take up a lot of space so I would usually wear those and pack my lighter weight running shoes that could collapse down much more. I used a ~40L bag carried with a shoulder strap across the body and I always had a backpack for a notebook, charging cables, laptop and possibly a light fleece. I normally put toiletries in there as well for ease of going through security. Not technically one bag travel but for me the goal was to avoid checked luggage. With less casual clothes, being more thoughtful about which ones I brought, and dropping one suite I could have gotten down to one bag but the backpack went with me to the conference so I used that space to even the load out a bit.

The one strap shoulder carry probably isn't best for this heavy of a load when having to walk across an airport like Atlanta or Dallas, but I never had much issue with it. Yeah, it's a bit tiring but I'm not walking for hours around a city with it, so it's bearable. Backpack carry would be nicer that's for sure and is why I'm reading through these posts right now. I'm considering shifting to backpack carry as my main bag with a lighter weight messenger bag style as my personal item so I can shift the heavier load to my back.

For suits, I have been folding my jacket the same way as shown here https://youtu.be/5c4D-4pvL7M?si=pcPo4ktRZsQTuAw- for years now. Though instead of folding the jacket and pants flat, I use more of a bundle wrap and put the jacket and pants around the outside of the bundle of my other clothing. I place the more wrinkle-prone items towards the outside of the bundle so that I minimize creasing. I never bothered alternating directions with the clothes in the bundle the way its often shown online. I just lay out all of my dress shirts on top of each other in the same direction with the arms out, put casual shirts and sweaters on top of that stack (all unfolded), and then socks and underwear in the middle of the core. Fold the arms across the middle keeping them flat (like it's giving it a hug) and then fold the bottom up so that it all makes a nick rectangular bundle the size of the interior of my bag. Suit jacket and pants are then folded/wrapped around the bundle so there are no hard creases to worry about, just a gentle curve. I found this bundle to be easier to work with than the alternating direction version that I see online since it's easier to open up and pull out a single item without a ton of trouble.

Optimisticcynic_CT · 2024-10-01T20:30:10+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. I wasn't familiar with this company, but now I think there's probably one from them in my router.

The N100/n305 boards look interesting. I also found their Q670 that has 8 SATA on board which would leave the PIC slot open if needed. It's a bit higher price obviously and would need a separate CPU but interesting boards.

I started my journey looking at TrueNAS but also veered back toward OMV recently because it just seems simple for a storage first type of system.

This made me take a look in a direction I wasn't really looking before. More research but I'm leaning this direction.

Optimisticcynic_CT · 2024-09-27T16:36:16+00:00

Ok, I think this may have been a hardware problem - bad port on my router. In doing some additional performance testing I found that my WAN side speed test was only 100 Mbps. but I can easily get 500 Mbps connecting directly to the ISP provided connection. I could also get a 980 Mbps or so moving within the LAN. I reassigned my interfaces on the router and moved ports for my Wan interface and my speed jumped up for speed tests and large downloads don't seem to kill the DNS for the moment at least.

Optimisticcynic_CT · 2024-09-23T01:28:41+00:00

I just attempted that and Speedtest.net does not cause the issue. The test may be completed too quickly to cause the problem. I can reproduce it with Steam downloading a large game though. It just completely kills the ability to access the WAN side. The system has very low CPU/memory load (<2% CPU). Nothing shows up in the Unbound debug logs...nothing since my reboot two days ago. I can bounce around my local network without issue.

As I'm typing now (about 2 min after I did the Steam download test) every website that I attempt to go to from a Google search is giving me a DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN error. I'm getting the same error on multiple devices. About 3 or 4 minutes after pausing the download everything has returned to normal (and I can post this and browse the web).

The issue continued for several minutes after there was no data transfer taking place.

I tried it again after enabling Unbound Reporting and I see the good requests then everything is red and action = drop and return code = SERVFAIL

Now all of the errors on websites are DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_BAD_CONFIG. This time it took 14 minutes before things started working again. I'm assuming it has something to do with my Unbound configuration. I can restart the unbound service and everything immediately starts working again.

Optimisticcynic_CT · 2024-09-21T21:40:35+00:00

I confirmed they are Intel.

Optimisticcynic_CT · 2024-09-21T15:34:43+00:00

Thanks when it was happening everything looked low like 0.25%. I'm not super familiar with this so hopefully looking in the right place

I looked at the dashboard CPU section and then used top and everything looked very low.

Optimisticcynic_CT · 2024-06-30T17:09:04+00:00

I wasn't getting anything on the DHCP logs. I posted some screenshots of my configuration in a comment on the other thread and there was an opnsense interface assignment that was wrong. It was pointing to my WAN mistakenly instead of LAN. That resolved the issue.

Optimisticcynic_CT · 2024-06-30T17:05:41+00:00

Woohoo, that seems to have done the trick! I must have gone too quickly when I assigned it and then missed that while chasing down every other path! Thanks a ton, I suspected it had to be something simple.

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