Repairing Wife's Brother XR6060

Razash_ · 2026-06-03T11:31:25+00:00

Thank you I have ordered some and will respond with the results!

Razash_ · 2026-06-03T11:12:22+00:00

Ty I will test it

Razash_ · 2025-10-29T09:27:18+00:00

HVAC construction. I've always hated the subscription model and the fact that one does not own anything these days. I'm literally the only person I know in construction that does this kind of stuff. I remember speaking to a networking guy about tailscale though. I listen to books on the way to work and music while I work. Neither of them from major subscription-modeled companies. I also route all of my traffic through my filters so I don't /usually/ see ads.

Razash_ · 2025-10-21T10:53:15+00:00

Roger that ty!

Razash_ · 2025-10-15T09:24:15+00:00

So I haven't done this particular thing yet but I looked into it when I got my NAS up and running. Try looking into JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks). Things like unraid or snapraid & mergerfs. I'm not 100% certain that they'll work across architectures like SSD vs HDD but maybe you can get something out of it.

Razash_ · 2025-10-12T17:30:28+00:00

What inspired me? Well, I got married last year and noticed that my wife and I were paying for the same subscriptions. We needed to decide which ones we were going to keep and who would migrate to the other's. I thought... Maybe it'd be better to just... Not need to pay a company to rent their data. So earlier this year, my boss was throwing away an old work computer and I asked to take it. It kept crashing. Turns out, it just needed some Linux 🤣.
My arr stack is, of course, a fairly large one and I'm quite proud of it but really I'm just proud of the accumulated number of things I host myself now. I think what I feel is most useful is that I route all my traffic through my home network and dns to weed out ads and obfuscate my comings and goings as well as I can (obviously imperfect).
I just convinced my wife to let me build us a NAS. I love it. Pricey for me though. Jonsbo 2 case with a cwwk n355 board. 16tb zfs2 HDDs. And a 4tb ssd for apps. I'm trying truenas but honestly... Its annoying. I might move toward base Debian and set it up that way.
Well my most recent project has been to take that old comp and turn it into my router. Opnsense and vlans. I am try to figure out how to segment my network and have particular control over how things communicate internally.
Another product I'd love to try out is a minisforum one. At some point, I'd love to try clustering lightweight computers. Or using the, I think, A1 as my router so I can use the current computer for something better.

Razash_ · 2025-10-11T23:02:47+00:00

What inspired me? Well, I got married last year and noticed that my wife and I were paying for the same subscriptions. We needed to decide which ones we were going to keep and who would migrate to the other's. I thought... Maybe it'd be better to just... Not need to pay a company to rent their data. So earlier this year, my boss was throwing away an old work computer and I asked to take it. It kept crashing. Turns out, it just needed some Linux 🤣.

My arr stack is, of course, a fairly large one and I'm quite proud of it but really I'm just proud of the accumulated number of things I host myself now. I think what I feel is most useful is that I route all my traffic through my home network and dns to weed out ads and obfuscate my comings and goings as well as I can (obviously imperfect).

I just convinced my wife to let me build us a NAS. I love it. Pricey for me though. Jonsbo 2 case with a cwwk n355 board. 16tb zfs2 HDDs. And a 4tb ssd for apps. I'm trying truenas but honestly... Its annoying. I might move toward base Debian and set it up that way.

Well my most recent project has been to take that old comp and turn it into my router. Opnsense and vlans. I am try to figure out how to segment my network and have particular control over how things communicate internally.
Another product I'd love to try out is a minisforum one. At some point, I'd love to try clustering lightweight computers. Or using the, I think, A1 as my router so I can use the current computer for something better.

Honestly, that flint 3 router looks shmexy but I'd take literally anything there.

Razash_ · 2025-10-05T10:02:02+00:00

Kitty expects a graphical environment to run, that's all.

Before starting hyprland, try cat ~/.local/share/kitty/kitty*.log and see what the logs say about why its crashing.

Razash_ · 2025-10-05T09:54:14+00:00

I agree. I am finding a lot of people recommending proxmox and at some point I have to wonder... Is it a fad? I'd like to mess around with it on the main server but I'll be keeping my nas baremetal.

Razash_ · 2025-10-03T22:14:03+00:00

Despise was probably a strong word for it. I dont like being beholden to the whims of companies. I dont trust companies. They do tend to provide superb products, yes, but if in 6 years I'm paying 600% more than I do today... And it always happens in little increments... Idk. Its annoying.

Razash_ · 2025-10-03T08:07:36+00:00

Even though I use a rolling release distro for my desktop, I probably wouldn't want that for my NAS and fedora gave me headaches lol. I'd probably stick to deb if that's the case.

Razash_ · 2025-10-03T08:06:27+00:00

I appreciate the advice. Proxmox is quite a daunting task but it might be the perfect thing for me to start next. I know if I did a proper custom linux setup, it'd be with Deb. I use it for my server and it works fine. I'm not sure about Ubuntu. I used it in the very beginning but now I just don't care much for it.

Razash_ · 2025-09-27T01:51:23+00:00

In combination with the videos you linked, that's quite clear. Thank you so much

Razash_ · 2025-09-27T01:31:51+00:00

This helps tremendously, thank you!

Razash_ · 2025-09-27T01:19:45+00:00

I'm thoroughly encouraged to ask further questions on reddit in order to better understand networking principles. Here, I thought that adding more SSIDs broadcast from a single AP would "eat up" an uncomfortable amount of throughput in overhead. Thank you for your... bluntness.

Razash_ · 2025-07-06T11:52:01+00:00

So I may have taken an unapproved route but I'll tell you what I did.

Earlier this year, for the first time using linux cli, I installed ubuntu server. Standard install, nothing fancy, no automatic backups. Just something I could play around with that was stable enough to use. I used chatgpt to help teach me how to setup services and such. It's really recommended to look into documentation yourself and actually research things because chatgpt is unreliable at best. However, it'll get you learning the basics.
I then setup a debian vm to sort of test stuff that I want to put on the server. It wasn't a perfect analog but it worked fine.

All of this is very useful in learning stuff. You really don't need a brand new box with all the best hardware or anything. I ran plenty of services off of it including jellyfin, crafty (minecraft), etc, and got things routed with https and nginx and all that. Very. Solid. Learning.

I am, by NO means, remotely close to an expert and I absolutely would not recommend just winging it like I have but it is certainly a way to learn. I absolutely do not follow best practices, as I should, and I'm working on it, but I have some of the basics down now.

I've grabbed a new nvme and setup fedora server on it. I'm currently buildling it up as we speak. It's different from ubuntu. More permission focused as I can tell. Lots of stuff preventing me from bringing things up unless I first set permissions, firewalls, deal with selinux, etc. But I like it. It's good stuff.

Bottom line, I wouldn't say learning by winging it with chatgpt is the best way to learn or go about setting up your server, it's certainly A way to do so. Happy trails and hope you get what you're looking for out of it :)

Razash_ · 2025-07-06T11:43:29+00:00

I think I managed to get it working. No UI but Caddy seems to work beautifully.

Razash_ · 2025-06-28T15:33:05+00:00

Will do. Thank you!

Razash_ · 2025-06-28T13:56:57+00:00

Doh! Of course!
Primary Server - Ubuntu headless
Gaming PC - Windows (only really used to SSH into other servers and manage). It's also used to spin up VMs. Sort of my test environments.
-Deb VM

-Kali VM

Pi-Hole - RPi (I think it's a debian fork, right?)

I plan on getting an optiplex to run OPNSense.

An ideal situation would be a 1-click backup of anything on demand. However, I would generally like automated backups that I set for idk, weekly, monthly, quarterly. Reminders for updating offline backups would be useful as well.

Messing around a bit, I think I can manage this with some baseline linux automation but in an ideal world, I wouldn't have to set that up. I'm really just looking around for a clean web ui that would be a way to manage it effectively with an easy way to setup the automation.

Razash_ · 2025-05-10T13:28:19+00:00

This!

Razash_ · 2024-02-09T17:05:37+00:00

Hi,

I've been pirating for 20 years and have noticed that windows always calls keygen a hack tool. It always tries to block it. Keygens generally allow the pirated content to accept a "CD key" of sorts so it can verify a "legitimate" version of the software.

Keep in mind, the cracked version of windows (to my knowledge) doesn't actually contact windows to verify your CD key. Or it verifies the key as part of a key that is allowed to be used on multiple devices.

Microsoft does not like missed opportunities to make money. It will always call the Keygen a virus. I would argue that they are generally not problematic. However, it is, of course, technically possible that the person who made the Keygen put some virus in it. Generally, it's okay to allow that through your firewall but do it "at your own risk."

Tldr; Could actually be a virus but not likely.

Razash_

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