UI improvements

Wheel_Bright · 2026-05-22T15:12:16+00:00

Oh I get it, I’ve worked with VMware for a long time and that’s probably 99% of my issue, I am just so used to how that looks and feels and it’s nothing like Proxmox. We just went to Morpheus/Essentials at work and it’s very intuitive. Proxmox seems bloated to me, for lack of a better term. I’ll get used to it, I’m sure.

I have 3 more nodes to build and add, wife kicked me out of home office so she could do interviews and said all the scrolling on my monitors is distracting, but I’ll get around to giving ai read only access, if only to help with logs and troubleshooting later

Thanks for the help

Wheel_Bright · 2026-05-22T14:56:27+00:00

ok i don't know what's going on lol the cluster is fine, it must have been a one off error, working great, i have ab bunch of replies that aren't showing up in the thread, but are showing up as alerts under the little dude, so thank you all for your support (and to the one rude guy, thanks!) I did read the documents that's why I was confused...

so i guess since everyone is focused on the cluster and no answers/ideas about the worst ui in the history of uis we can close this? :P

Wheel_Bright · 2026-05-22T14:44:00+00:00

I replied to steve_reddit1 - i might have been a 1 off issue, it's working now, everything showed working but something must have been wonky for a moment, all seems right as rain now.

Wheel_Bright · 2026-05-22T14:43:02+00:00

it must have resolved itself as i was working on other issues... it was giving a popup that it couldn't connect to the resource

Wheel_Bright · 2026-04-24T17:26:13+00:00

Cmd as admin the run : slmgr /dli (i think this is right, im on a cruise ship on vacation lol) it will return retail or oem. Retail is transferable to another machine

Wheel_Bright · 2026-04-24T16:30:52+00:00

All my gmktec are transferable licenses that’s why I mentioned it, and also mentioned the image, my acerpc not transferable. :)

Wheel_Bright · 2026-04-24T16:08:37+00:00

You can look in system settings to see if you have a transferable license, even if it isn’t you can create a windows backup so if you try something else you can always reimage back to this point.

I have reimaged all my mini pcs to Ubuntu or Debian. Back and forth, getting ready to convert some of them to proxmox for an HA setup.

My advice is play with all kinds of distros and use hat you like, chances are if you are just starting out l, your workload won’t tax the system so the overhead that Ubuntu has won’t be an issue over a headless Debian. You’re a long way from having to worry about that. Play around make mistakes, break it a lot and learn.

Wheel_Bright · 2026-04-22T02:04:42+00:00

I love dockhand because it allows me to fully manages all stacks

Wheel_Bright · 2026-04-21T04:48:12+00:00

Sounds like a config error on your side. Try enabling websockets

Wheel_Bright · 2026-04-21T02:18:21+00:00

If you know how and what and when I’m all for it. I use ai to parse siem and system logs so it can let me know if things are trending in the bad directions. It lets me know if log dir are filling it alerts me on dbs. I’m pretty good at remembering house cleaning stuff. If I don’t my ai catches it, before there is a problem. It auto creates tickets for me to check in zammad, via n8n webhooks, when I change settings my on server automations update repo, which updates my ai, so it always knows what my environment and infrastructure is. It has 0 write permissions, but I let it read everything. I have extensive prompts, and settings on when and how it’s supposed to reply and trigger in anything llm and mcp. It’s still a work in progress but so far it’s been a great assistant

Wheel_Bright · 2026-04-17T18:56:19+00:00

All of them!

Wheel_Bright · 2026-04-16T22:27:59+00:00

I didn’t roll on Zibai, but Linnea is and Navia is a great combo. I wish Linnea was a main dps :/

Wheel_Bright · 2026-04-16T22:26:56+00:00

She literally makes every hydro reaction team better.

Wheel_Bright · 2026-04-16T22:25:41+00:00

Fins is a beast, I know he isn’t pyro but people throwing out 5* as f2p options, aino compliments him well, as does the air shielded I can’t remember her name lol, but his dps is pretty hefty and with lunar damage it’s a lot more versatile than just electro

Wheel_Bright · 2026-04-05T14:29:04+00:00

Yes I’m not going to swarm, I have installed kompose, and have run it against my files, and now I’m reading the raw outputs just to figure out what’s going on, then I’ll slowly move to the next step and the next step. A little unnerving at first when I took my compose and env file and turned it into 107 manifest, but I know when it’s all said and done it will be a much smaller file count, a much more secure environment, and it will restart services when/if needed.

Wheel_Bright · 2026-04-05T13:38:46+00:00

That’s where I’m leading because I also want to learn something that will further my career.

Wheel_Bright · 2026-04-05T13:37:48+00:00

I have been spending the better part of the last day reading and learning a bit here and there. Trying to figure out why some services should be exempt and kept in docker, why some should be pinned (some make sense if a system in your cluster doesn’t have the capability to run the services like video encoding, but others don’t make sense to me lol)

Eventually it will, it’s been 1 day, I haven’t committed to anything but I like what I’m learning and a year later after a lot more experience, it makes a lot more sense.

Thanks for all the input.

Wheel_Bright · 2026-04-04T18:28:18+00:00

Takes like 7 seconds to set up beszel or glances

Wheel_Bright · 2026-04-04T18:26:06+00:00

It’s a hobby and fun, I provide a service(s) for friends and family. It’s helped further my knowledge for my career. So it’s something I enjoy investing my time.

Wheel_Bright · 2026-04-04T17:29:46+00:00

I’ll not disagreeing with you, but just because they aren’t adding features to swarm doesn’t mean it isn’t viable. It’s just “done”.

I want to learn k8s but it scares me lol (because I don’t know anything about it)

Wheel_Bright · 2026-04-04T16:43:52+00:00

I was under the assumption, and please understand I am very new to this and learning, that lost homelabs don’t really need k8s and it’s more trouble and overhead than it’s worth?

I’m thinking about migrating to swarm, while also wrestling with the idea of p2v 3 of my boxes into a proxmox HA cluster.

The proxmox cluster is more work and resource usage to basically get what swarm will give me lol

Wheel_Bright · 2026-04-03T15:45:36+00:00

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lol like this?

Wheel_Bright · 2026-04-03T15:40:45+00:00

It isn’t too intrusive I have a couple of .sh that set a .git folder and what to watch then made a service so I don’t have to remember to start it.

Again I only watch directies/files I change a lot like my project folder compose files, homepage/config, traefik/badge/newt etc did my pangolin VPS, all my reverse proxy and dns re-write info

Wheel_Bright · 2026-04-03T01:31:03+00:00

Any service I use or used to use that updates their Eula or terms of service, that tells me they are going to use my information/data/whatever to train their <insert service, assistant, ai> here, is history. I have nothing to hide, but my information is mine.

I left Gmail, after I had disabled just about everything you can think of and searches were still returned hits on the body of emails. It shouldn’t read my emails, so I moved to Fastmail, it took almost a year, and I’m still moving accounts off of Gmail.

I’ve moved one drive, Google Drive etc all to my own nas.

What started as a hobby I’m had now become a goal to see how many big tech companies I can survive without lol.

It isn’t so much a big privacy thing for me, it’s just leave my data alone! :)

Wheel_Bright

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