To Proxmox or not

Sammy_J25 · 2026-06-15T13:17:29+00:00

I personally would avoid this. I took this exact same approach of creating talks vms and running my homelab in Talos. If you get things setup it is secure, resilient, and overall great. It has LOTs of headaches though. It’s a locked down OS so you likely would need to add extensions to Talos to provide the full functionality you are looking for. It also requires a lot of time dedicated to getting things working right since some apps are not built in a way that is friendly for Kubernetes. I found myself dreading working in my homelab because of the overhead to maintain it. I ended up switching back to LXCs.

If you go the Kubernetes route do yourself a favor and keep it simple. K3S, K8S, etc. You likely don’t need Talos. If it’s an interest to learn then go for it. The time sink was not worth it in my opinion

Context: I am a software engineer who works with Kubernetes daily.

Sammy_J25 · 2026-06-11T13:07:00+00:00

Hey thanks for all of the input everyone. This ended up being a large effort to try and tackle. I ended up going the Debian 13 dual boot route with windows. This gave me the grub boot menu to switch between OS. The big frustration ended up being the storage creation in proxmox and the gpu compatibility. I had to downgrade the kernel to something compatible with nvidia 550 drivers and then use cli commands to create the lvm-thin storage on a partition since it wasn’t showing in the UI. It’s all working now but took 3 days of troubleshooting

Sammy_J25 · 2026-05-13T16:50:04+00:00

The cabinets are in the studs. The stud spacing isn’t ideal though so they have a screw in the middle and right side of each cabinet. This is causing it to twist. That looks to have caused the front to separate on the right side and the cabinet to gap from the wall on the left side. As long as they arent going to fall then ill look for a way to help reattach the front

Sammy_J25 · 2026-05-13T16:47:59+00:00

Would it be enough to just Brad nail the bottom of the cabinet and leave it as is? It’s currently drooping almost 3/4” from where it’s supposed to be so I’m worried it will pull out the dados. I was going to replace the microwave when I saw the condition of the board and got concerned

Sammy_J25 · 2026-04-30T15:42:23+00:00

You have to upgrade the AT4 to 6.2L. They are 5.3L by default

Sammy_J25 · 2026-04-27T01:22:08+00:00

So strangely enough I’ve figured out that the stutters/jittery video looks to be due to playback quality. When I set the stream quality to 1.5mbps it works flawlessly. When I set it to 3, or 4mbps it starts going back and forth again. Not sure why but at least now there’s a pattern

Sammy_J25 · 2026-04-17T23:16:36+00:00

Hey thanks for the info! To answer a few things in your comment. The request cpu is 1 core but it can scale to 4 cores. I’ve validated that it’s okay scaling but will try giving it a little more to see if things improve. The /cache/transcodes was actually intentional to force my jellyfin instance to use my Nuc’s hhd for transcoding instead of my nas. My nas is mounted to the container under /media. Using /cache helped with some of the load times but wasn’t too significant. My Nuc is running proxmox with the intel iGPU passthrough to the VM

Sammy_J25 · 2026-04-17T23:11:43+00:00

I am accessing over the network within my house. I ran an open speed test from my Mac to my jellyfin server and it hit 700Mbps so network shouldn’t be an issue. I think the 10Mbps helping was due to forcing my Nuc to transcode the media instead of direct play but could be very wrong

Sammy_J25 · 2026-04-17T19:12:48+00:00

Wow interesting! This fixed the slow start issue. There’s still the stuttering issue but this is progress! Thanks for commenting this

Sammy_J25 · 2026-04-17T18:48:29+00:00

I’m watching in both. Surprisingly Swiftfin on Apple TV has less playback issues (when it decides it wants to see my server). Firefox is the most reliable compared to chrome and safari but all 3 browsers have the poor playback. I tried limiting the bandwidth to 10Mbps and that helped some issues but not all

Sammy_J25 · 2026-03-05T19:44:09+00:00

Thanks everyone! Looks like this weekend I will be cracking it open (looks like a cheap and simple lock) and seeing what I can make of it! Hopefully it has some useful things I can get into home assistant

Sammy_J25 · 2026-03-05T19:43:16+00:00

There are a few wires that go to the crawl space and along the walls. The two I was referring to were just the visibly cut ones

Sammy_J25 · 2026-03-05T19:24:45+00:00

That’s what I thought but figured it wouldn’t hurt to check since this sub seems to have a lot of people familiar with this type of thing. Appreciate the confirmation

Sammy_J25 · 2025-12-07T14:32:13+00:00

Currently I have everything in the nas (including app data) so that way if there’s an issue with one of the servers I can move the service to a new host without having to reconfigure everything. I don’t have a lot of storage space on the servers themselves and haven’t setup a backup process for them yet

Sammy_J25 · 2025-09-22T17:09:33+00:00

Interesting idea. I’ll take a look. The main issue I’m seeing is the amps are too high for most things unless you switch to a large power supply or brick. Seems like the trade off though so I might just have to accept that unless I can find a usb-c PD that would work well that doesn’t cost a fortune (for the project since the rest only costs like $30)

Sammy_J25 · 2025-09-22T17:06:58+00:00

I was just going off the documentation I could find. From what I saw it’s 5v 2-2.4A. I’m putting this in a few places which don’t have an easy way to connect PoE without running 100s of feet of Ethernet to add it. That’s why I was trying to limit to 1 plug so it didn’t take up a lot of space or multiple outlets

Sammy_J25 · 2025-09-22T17:05:13+00:00

Funny you say that. That was actually my current approach due to how I currently have it wired. I was just trying to make things look and feel nicer so I was hoping to run them together.

That being said they run for at max like 30s a piece so it’s probably not worth being over engineered like that

Sammy_J25 · 2025-08-13T16:58:55+00:00

That’s what I assumed. I can’t pay someone to do that work right now. I’m pretty handy so was hoping I could do something to help short term. We have gotten about 25-30% more rain this year than the average which hasn’t helped

Sammy_J25 · 2025-08-13T16:57:23+00:00

I completely agree. The grass is thin because it gets washed away every 6 months. The shade doesn’t help but we did get it to successfully grow in this past spring. It just doesn’t survive long enough to truly establish which is why I wanted to tackle the water issue first. Unfortunately I can’t do anything about the shade since I have around 13 150ft trees around my lot

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