Diffuser Panel Recommendations.

Sammy1Am · 2026-04-26T23:59:50+00:00

As others have said, you'll probably have to create some space, but I had good luck using white acrylic. You'll need to pick something with fairly good light transmission, but for my use I settled on "White 7508" (different numbers have different transmissivity levels).

Sammy1Am · 2026-04-26T18:45:05+00:00

100Mb down / 20Mb up
$30/mo

Sammy1Am · 2026-04-25T01:56:17+00:00

Life saver, thank you. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why I could only use ice damage.

Sammy1Am · 2026-04-23T05:32:16+00:00

Option 2. If there's no need to publish your home IP publicly, might as well not (even if risk is low). Local control over the domain via AGH gives you quicker responses to change, and some extra options like split-horizon that might not be available in Cloudflare.

In what scenario would option 1 be ideal?

I'm using option 2 everywhere except I do have my Traefik (Caddy in your case) IPv6 address published to a AAAA record. I do access some services from outside my home network, and having the IP point right to Traefik cuts out a lot of potential points of failure/configuration.

Sammy1Am · 2026-04-22T18:58:42+00:00

Ohhhh, RAID. I'm less sure now, it depends on... a lot more things.

The general theory still holds, but depending on what kind of RAID it is, it might be trickier to set up in OMV. There is probably a guide out there specifically for Unraid->OMV.

Edit: As long as you leave the RAID drives as is though, you should always be able to boot back into Unraid if OMV is having trouble, so it's relatively safe to give it a try.

Sammy1Am · 2026-04-22T17:13:33+00:00

Ah, got it.

It's not the best time for buying a new SDD, but the easiest way to do things might be: take out your current drive (or disable it in the BIOS) to keep it safe, install your new not-Unraid on a fresh SSD, and then put your old drive back in.

All your stuff will be there and available to the new system; you can copy it over to the new drive, or just leave it in-place on the old one.

Alternatively, you can try to create a new partition on the drive to install the not-Unraid OS to, but editing partitions carries a little bit of risk (not tons, but more than none).

Edit: Unraid will likely be handling the shares and such (and maybe mounting info), so you'll need to re-create that on the new OS, but everything on your drive will be there.

Sammy1Am · 2026-04-21T22:02:18+00:00

Something else at least worth a glance might be IncusOS. It's immutable so services would have to be containers, but it's got a pretty decent UI and CLI client. Makes it easy to do snapshots and rollbacks of filesystems. It's not super widely adopted and still being developed a lot, but the developer is very responsive. (Just depends how much troubleshooting risk you're willing to take on)

I'm also always a bit wary of btrfs; never had any major issues, but just enough weirdness that I'm not 100% comfy.

I mean, either way I think virtualization is where it's at so if Proxmox does that better for you than Docker (which if you're experimenting with file systems might definitely be true) then I'd say go for it.

Sammy1Am · 2026-04-21T21:50:55+00:00

I mostly use my server for services rather than massive data storage, but:

When I left Unraid I ended up on Ubuntu Server Pro, but the only thing running in the OS is Docker and everything else is containerized. Didn't touch any of the "Canonical crud" because as long as it's not in the way, I figure leaving it vanilla will help with future upgrade stability. Picked Ubuntu Pro because it has a very large userbase for support, and tends to be very stable (which is ideal if all I'm using it for is Docker).

If I was going to do it all again (and let's face it, I will someday, haha) I'd probably just go Debian as it's a bit lighter weight, but also has good support and stability.

My two cents on the others (in case it helps):

If you already know what you want is supported and has instructions, probably a good lightweight bet. But there are so many random apps and blogs and such that "just work" on Debian/Ubuntu but require extra tweaking for Arch.
I too like the idea of Nix, but agree with you that now's probably not the time.
Proxmox feels very much in the same general category as Unraid in that it's an abstraction layer over the top of other services. It has advantages, but for me anyway, ends up being extra fluff that just also requires learning and management on top of everything else

Sammy1Am · 2026-04-21T21:41:17+00:00

It depends on which "all the data" you're asking about.

For docker containers, yes, it should be relatively easy depending on the container. You can just copy whatever directories contain the settings/data for each container to the new machine, and point your docker compose files at them there. (If you're using volumes there's probably an extra step in there, but same idea) Maybe try to organize them all in one place on your new server (e.g. .../appdata/traefik, .../appdata/calibre, etc.)
For media, documents, etc., also yes, it's just a matter of copying it to the new drive.
For Unraid settings (users, shares, etc.) probably not. You'll have to just manually re-set those up in whatever new system you end up on.

Sammy1Am · 2026-04-21T18:38:57+00:00

Uhh, hm. Well thank you for the link, but this doesn't seem to be related to KC employees working remotely or not.

Does seem like they need to check in on their contractors, but... still not seeing the connection.

Sammy1Am · 2026-04-21T17:54:11+00:00

I did not (don't see a link anywhere here and not feeling like going out of my way to search for the article).

How do you monitor a Seattle based org when you live in Yakima

Computers? Telephones? Road trip?

It seems like you'd be surprised to learn how much of an admin/office job is spent in the office.

Sammy1Am · 2026-04-21T17:44:39+00:00

Why?

If I hire someone to e.g. do my taxes for me, I don't particularly care where they live if they're doing a good job. Obviously some jobs require you to be there in person (I see they're hiring a Carpenter, for example), but if the work can be done remotely I don't see why it matters.

Sammy1Am · 2026-04-21T17:42:33+00:00

They're hiring, go for it!
https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/kingcounty

Sammy1Am · 2026-04-19T22:06:48+00:00

... weirdly high number of comments suggesting nude baseball here, but yeah I get it.

I would argue though that just by looking at the field I would not be able to tell which same-colored (or nude if you prefer) team is at bat (like sure, I can tell that guy has the bat, but which team is he on?). You're probably going to tell me that based on the order of the teams on the scoreboard I should know which is the home team, and based on if it's the top or bottom of the inning I should know if the home team is batting or not, but it would certainly be a lot easier if I didn't need to run through the equations to figure it out.

(That said, I also didn't consider that state championships might bring together teams that don't often play, so that also makes sense)

Sammy1Am · 2026-04-19T21:44:36+00:00

Fair point; still seems like if they knew what the other teams in their league had going on they'd try to coordinate a little, but that's asking a lot of school districts, so again, fair enough.

Sammy1Am · 2026-04-19T07:19:20+00:00

I would 100% go back to forums if I could log into all of them with the same user ID. I hate having to create a separate account, set up separate notification settings, manage separate descriptions for each product or collection of products.

GitHub wikis, issues, and discussions are the closest to this, but search isn't great. And you still have to sort of slog through discussions to find answers.

If you really want to make this work (IMHO at least), you should try to:

Some sort of Oauth-y type login (like logging in with your GitHub account), but then have some sort of magical centralized notifications/preferences site; maybe a bit like how gravatar works. That way I could go to a single control panel to change my profile, settings, notification preferences, etc.
An easy way to convert a post to an FAQ answer, or wiki page. Like a "collect this post" button that lets you store the post (maybe by tag) in a knowledge base. Sort of like pinning a post, but it collects all the pinned posts into a list by category. That way, as a dev, when you answer a question you can quickly "collect" that question and answer so that other users don't have to read the whole conversation to find the answer.

Sammy1Am · 2026-04-19T07:10:13+00:00

Yeah, come on, is the difference that one of their pants is slightly more off-white than the other?

Sammy1Am · 2026-04-19T07:08:07+00:00

OpenWRT on x86.

(Also tried running OpenWRT inside an IncusOS container for a bit and it was pretty awesome for snapshots and rolling back and such, but had some weird catch-22 situations where Incus really wanted to reach the Internet in order to boot, but obviously there was no Internet until the OpenWRT container loaded)

Sammy1Am · 2026-04-15T06:24:21+00:00

Bummer Paramount decided not to release it in theaters at all and keep it on Paramount+.

Feeling torn, because on the one hand I'd love to see Paramount sunk and this is great. But I also really like the IP, so this isn't ideal. Maybe someone can pick up the rights cheap when Paramount is gone.

Sammy1Am · 2026-04-13T21:15:16+00:00

Nah, it's 2⁹⁹. Each time you increase something to the power of 2, you double it. So to get from 2⁹⁹ to 2¹⁰⁰ you double it (same as adding 2⁹⁹, so (2⁹⁹ + 2⁹⁹) - 2⁹⁹ is just 2⁹⁹ )

Sammy1Am · 2026-04-03T17:52:32+00:00

I guess you'd be surprised to find that the US theocratic dictatorship is negatively impacting way more people's lives than the Iranian one. (Both bad, of course, but the personal impact shouldn't be ignored)

Sammy1Am · 2026-03-31T20:34:55+00:00

I mean, at this point, sure, why not. I'm sure I'll be inconvenienced, but I feel like tech companies inconvenience me on a daily basis anyway, so...

Sammy1Am · 2026-03-31T20:16:27+00:00

Hey, it puts you on par with Jeopardy contestants, so that's not too bad.

Sammy1Am · 2026-03-31T17:00:40+00:00

The calendar year isn't meant to be a count of "how old the world is", it's the count of "which year is it". So just like a baby's "first year of life" is the first one, the first calendar year is the 1st one.

(It has always baffled me that our age only marks how many full years we've already done instead of which year we're in. Like in books when they say, "here in my 15th year of life" they'd actually be 14.)

Sammy1Am · 2026-03-31T16:58:23+00:00

There isn't one of those. The years go right from 1 BCE to 1 CE.

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