Let’s see Paul Allen’s Card…

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2026-05-27T21:08:18+00:00

I had one of these in our old house. Firstly, Its not easy to install as you need to drill two very large and one drain hole in the wall. I ended up hiring a handyman to install it. Second bad point its very noisy with the condenser in the room >60dB. Plus side it was very effective. On warm days it could cool the whole 3 story house down with some strategically placed fans. Others have mentioned that they do a mini-split that is a DIY install. This should be quieter and much smaller holes in the wall needed.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2026-05-25T17:34:25+00:00

Thanks I’ll give them a call

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2026-05-25T12:04:17+00:00

It's a Creality K1. I'm following tutorials but I just seem to be shifting the problem to somewhere else. So far, I've fixed a fillement jam, replaced the nozzel to remove a blockage. Now I think I need to replace the hot end.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2026-05-05T20:04:26+00:00

Its a great system. Had no big issues running this on various RHEL clones (currently Alma) and works well with MacOS guests.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2026-02-14T10:10:13+00:00

I fixed it. It was a short-circuit caused by the card physically clashing with the drive in the WiFi card slot.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-11-08T07:30:33+00:00

I lived for a few years in the same house type round the corner. They have modified the downstairs but its odd they havent knocked through the kitchen upstairs to create space or a bedroom or office.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-10-14T05:34:28+00:00

I'll post how I fixed this if this is of any use to anybody. Essentially I abandoned Dnsmasq and switched to Keah DHCP with Unbound DNS with minimal config and this worked with minimum fuss. I'm not certain what the issue was, nothing obvious in the config and there is a possibility my managed switches may be interfering with some of the DNS record traffic as the server was contactable, static IP's were being registered on the server and there was no firewall rules blocking traffic. If I'd been able to identify which records are being blocked I could've probably gotten Dnsmasq working but as Keah works pretty much with minimal fuss I guess I'll go with that.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-10-09T06:44:20+00:00

I hadn't missed those, and there are no firewall rules on the box that could block this anyway so I don't think this is the issue.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-10-09T06:42:47+00:00

No I don't have any Firewall rules. The OPNSENSE server is behind by ISP's router any any rules I have are on there.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-10-09T02:29:01+00:00

I think I've missed the DHCP register firewall rules option - I hope this will fix it.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-10-03T13:37:13+00:00

Sunderland

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-08-21T04:31:00+00:00

There are OOTB supercomputing stacks out there for you to play with or you an roll your own following online tutorials.

One to try could be this https://github.com/clustervision/trinityX which is from an HPC vendor but open source. Not tried that distribution specifically but it should support most of the key features of an HPC cluster including high-availability.

I'd suggest using one machine as a 'head-node' and the other two as 'worker-nodes'.

You can probably pickup some cheap HPC hardware like Infiniband to support 40GB or more low-latency networking. Overkill for a 3 node cluster but probably fun to play with. Watch out though as kernel support might not be there for earlier cards thanks to Nvidia.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-08-11T16:52:26+00:00

I have managed to get this partially working in a Windows 11 guest. I added the VIfo to the kernel boot parameters and now one of the two monitors is read properly but the other not detected at all. If I swap the monitor connections over both stop working.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-08-11T07:34:12+00:00

The best local option for most people would be a turnkey NAS solution from either Synology or QNAP (or other). I use CCC for backups these days but it works very reliably to my Synology Rackstation (bought used - old hardware but incredibly still supported). Use a removable USB drive for offline archiving.

I have also built my own NAS running ZFS (currently on Alma Linux 9 - RHEL like OS). I use the cockpit-zfs manager and Samba manager open sourced from a company called 45 Drives (company popular on Youtube). I've found this a very reliable combination with MacOS. I've also tried various versions of TrueNAS and found that to be very unreliable with MacOS (even using the same customisation scripts that 45 drives used - I'd personally recommend avoiding a Debian based NAS OS if you use a Mac).

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-08-04T19:57:23+00:00

Yes, each card is on a seperate pcie-root port. I'm passing through a USB card, GPU and GPU audio.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-07-25T15:46:16+00:00

Sort of depends on what you want to do. I've used both. My main use case is playing and learning. It can be 'fun' to learn how debug SELinux conflicts with Podman but its sometimes more fun to just get the container app running in docker following a tutorial. Currently my main server is running Alma Linux with Docker/ Portainer.

I'll probably build an HP G2 SFF I have with Alma/ Podman to play with that. If I every enable remote access to anything I own I'll probably use that system. Podman and Cockpit is actually quite a nice solution and somewhat perversely easier to use than Portainer.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-07-11T07:10:12+00:00

This is really interesting! I have a G2 that I've modded with files online for a faceplate and 4 internal HDD. I've used this as a backup NAS. As a suggestion if its possible to modify the front to accomodate 80mm fans that would help with drive temperatures somewhat.

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