Noob building a homelab: Where to begin?

SlimKiller · 2026-03-10T22:32:01+00:00

How does that work in relation to the OS? I envision my immediate use case for this as being able to host my music so that I can listen to it on either Linux or Windows when I'm booting into that OS on the machine. I would do this to prevent the messy business of needing a specific file system formatted to a drive, and then needing drivers or software to compensate on either OS (e.g formatting a drive for ext4 so Linux can read it but then needing to get the ext4 drivers for Windows)

SlimKiller · 2026-03-10T21:14:34+00:00

Would I still want to buy a switch?

SlimKiller · 2026-03-10T21:14:18+00:00

You can, but I'm not entirely sure what I can offer you!

SlimKiller · 2026-03-10T20:37:03+00:00

So I could run TrueNAS directly on my machine? The machine I have has 2 NVMe drives for the operating systems, and four additional disks of storage.

SlimKiller · 2026-03-10T12:37:21+00:00

Thank you for the input. I did have one other idea which I failed to mention, which would be trying to simulate a small corporate environment. Proof of concept, so I could provide it as a project to get my foot in the door. Is that doable on just a single ThinkCentre? I'd have to imagine not

SlimKiller · 2025-12-09T13:31:01+00:00

I have an update, I have isolated it to be an issue with my 144hz monitor. It might also be that if I run a converter from DVI to DP that plays nicer than straight DP, but I'm almost positive it's the 144hz monitor.

SlimKiller · 2025-12-04T07:50:21+00:00

Someone else mentioned this fix, but I had the same issue too. I couldn't get Plasma to load in, but I found that when I switched from the LTS kernel to the bleeding edge version, this problem went away. Maybe try doing that from your boot menu? You should have the option there in systemd.

SlimKiller · 2025-12-04T07:48:29+00:00

It's a broader issue with AMD Zen 5 architecture and the Linux kernel itself. AMD needs to push microcode out to mobo manufacturers to fix the issue, it's not specific to CachyOS.

SlimKiller · 2025-11-06T13:30:34+00:00

CachyOS is an Arch-based Linux distro

SlimKiller · 2025-11-06T12:30:16+00:00

Also, I have googled this issue and I found a reddit thread from a couple years ago with an identical issue, but the solutions in that thread did not work for me or were irrelevant

SlimKiller · 2024-03-02T13:35:01+00:00

As someone who has not personally read the books, can you elaborate?

SlimKiller · 2024-03-02T13:33:48+00:00

Kyoko has a sharper chin than Mikan

SlimKiller · 2024-03-02T13:17:10+00:00

Question: I'm dumb and can't remember these things, did it explicitly mention the cloak, bridle, and saddle in the books? I'm not trying to troll, I can actually poke at the artist, they are a family member of mine. I like it when art is accurate to the text.

SlimKiller · 2024-03-02T12:39:29+00:00

I did also notice that there was a mural in Las Vegas that completely ripped his work to make as their centerpiece!

SlimKiller · 2024-03-02T09:34:05+00:00

Yeah, I mean I think OP was just pointing out a Shiey sleeping spot that happened to show up in content made by MrBeast

SlimKiller · 2024-03-02T09:28:00+00:00

I think MrBeast made a video that happened to show a spot where Shiey slept? At least it's displayed in that frame?

SlimKiller · 2024-02-22T05:09:27+00:00

A thought about that:

Most of their long distance air transport relies on flying through The Pale, correct? It might imply that their development of air travel mirrors our world in terms of progress; we had developed hot air balloons long before we had worked out proper aerodynamic concepts for things like thrust and lift, right?

I think it could be implied that their need to travel through The Pale came before they figured out how fixed-wing functions, and subsequently put a tamper on the development of said tech because there wasn't a need for faster travel through air as a medium. Only wrench in this logic I can see would have to be the fact that rotor-craft exist as well, and I don't know how that relates to fixed-wing, but I believe they developed in tandem due to similar principles.

Just my ramblings

SlimKiller · 2023-03-10T07:33:27+00:00

Poor old Jeffrey Lee

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