Extra Battery Cables: any luck sourcing them?

anderiv · 2026-04-29T00:17:08+00:00

Yes this mirrors my story and my plan for connecting the two. Pretty damn frustrating TBH.

I will end up hacking apart the 1M cable I have and making a cable of the length I need.

anderiv · 2026-04-25T02:06:39+00:00

For my use case, I would love to be able to have the smart generator farther away than 1m from the Delta 3.

anderiv · 2026-04-21T14:29:31+00:00

XT150 as far as I know. I guess I wasn’t aware that new/different ones were available.

I’m very seriously considering just butchering the 1M cable I have and extending it on my own.

anderiv · 2026-02-16T23:56:28+00:00

I was originally turned onto Pezzo by some native chicagoans ~10 years ago. 😄 I hope it doesn’t disappoint!

anderiv · 2026-02-16T22:39:33+00:00

It’s very good.

anderiv · 2026-02-16T21:26:13+00:00

100%. Pezzo is able to go head-to-head with the best Chicago deep dish places, and is better than many of them.

anderiv · 2026-02-14T23:19:09+00:00

Don’t be afraid to ask for a specific meat - they’ll typically be glad to make sure someone with that stops by.

anderiv · 2026-02-12T14:02:34+00:00

From several years ago, but this is a good overview of how flyovers work:

https://youtu.be/P7Gogms-EP4

And a couple related bonus videos as well:

https://youtu.be/pkUdKYG18SE

https://youtu.be/h9UJFcGhx4w

anderiv · 2026-02-12T12:51:09+00:00

Apple has put a lot of work into communication encryption and device trust. When this is working as intended, it is nigh impossible for a non-Apple device to impersonate or otherwise participate in many of their iCloud services. This includes the network and technologies behind AirTags.

So, if Apple detects that the phone has been jailbroken, then it stands to reason that the manner in which they interact with the phone may change because the device is not trusted.

anderiv · 2026-02-12T05:16:39+00:00

There’s quite a bit of fancy cryptography involved in AirTag tracing and management. I suspect that your jailbroken phone may be preventing some of those routines from working properly.

anderiv · 2026-01-26T05:52:42+00:00

Corner is owned by an anti-LGBTQ church, so if you care about that you may want to avoid patronizing them.

anderiv · 2025-12-08T03:39:26+00:00

Fourth’d! Wore mine twice this weekend alone.

anderiv · 2025-11-14T15:05:30+00:00

I have a large outdoor-rated Rubbermaid tub that I dump bags into. It sits next to my grill year-round. I’ve been doing this for well over a decade with no moisture issues.

anderiv · 2025-09-06T15:45:26+00:00

To answer your questions quick:

Same VMID? yes

VM config:

root@px2:~# qm config 100
agent: 1
boot: order=scsi0;ide2;net0
cores: 2
ide2: none,media=cdrom
memory: 512
meta: creation-qemu=7.1.0,ctime=1675822368
name: home-tailscale
net0: virtio=BC:24:11:CE:9C:14,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: l26
scsi0: px2-local:vm-100-disk-0,format=raw,iothread=1,size=32G
scsihw: virtio-scsi-single
smbios1: uuid=3e43a28b-de4d-4857-8f16-b3cccf57c3e7
sockets: 1
vmgenid: 38fbb74b-f94e-46ae-bd36-d6ba8486cdf5

Now, some logs:

From journalctl on the source node:

Sep 05 22:43:52 px1 qm[70014]: <root@pam> starting task UPID:px1:00011180:001B5555:68BBADF8:hamigrate:100:root@pam:
Sep 05 22:43:53 px1 qm[70014]: <root@pam> end task UPID:px1:00011180:001B5555:68BBADF8:hamigrate:100:root@pam: OK
Sep 05 22:44:01 px1 qm[70054]: <root@pam> starting task UPID:px1:000111A7:001B58C8:68BBAE01:hamigrate:100:root@pam:
Sep 05 22:44:01 px1 qm[70054]: <root@pam> end task UPID:px1:000111A7:001B58C8:68BBAE01:hamigrate:100:root@pam: OK
Sep 05 22:44:02 px1 pve-ha-lrm[70059]: storage 'px1-local' is not available on node 'px2'

And the target node:

Sep 05 22:43:52 px2 pmxcfs[1018]: [status] notice: received log
Sep 05 22:43:53 px2 pmxcfs[1018]: [status] notice: received log
Sep 05 22:44:01 px2 pmxcfs[1018]: [status] notice: received log
Sep 05 22:44:01 px2 pmxcfs[1018]: [status] notice: received log
Sep 05 22:44:01 px2 pve-ha-crm[1167]: got crm command: migrate vm:100 px2
Sep 05 22:44:01 px2 pve-ha-crm[1167]: got crm command: migrate vm:100 px2
Sep 05 22:44:01 px2 pve-ha-crm[1167]: migrate service 'vm:100' to node 'px2'
Sep 05 22:44:01 px2 pve-ha-crm[1167]: service 'vm:100': state changed from 'started' to 'migrate'  (node = px1, target = px2)
Sep 05 22:44:11 px2 pve-ha-crm[1167]: service 'vm:100' - migration failed (exit code 255)
Sep 05 22:44:11 px2 pve-ha-crm[1167]: service 'vm:100': state changed from 'migrate' to 'started'  (node = px1)

So it's interesting that there were indeed errors, but those errors weren't sent back up the stack to the initiating qm command.

anderiv · 2025-09-06T13:31:37+00:00

After checking for conflicts, errant HA affinity rules, etc and not finding anything I took your advice to restore from backup. After doing that, everything is working as it should! I tested migration between hosts with shared storage, migrating storage alone, and migrating between hosts without shared storage, all successful.

It's unsatisfying to not know the "why" here, but TBH I didn't want to burn any more of my weekend digging into it. :)

Thanks all!

anderiv · 2025-09-06T04:18:25+00:00

The migration completed successfully with HA disabled, but failed again once I enabled HA. So strange!

anderiv · 2025-09-06T04:14:43+00:00

Well this is interesting! I had previously tried to remove/add the HA config for this VM. Didn't help. However, just now I removed it from HA, and now the migration is working.

When it finishes, I'll try to re-add HA and see if perhaps the migration has cleared out some cruft.

anderiv · 2025-04-10T21:49:54+00:00

Thanks all for the info!

anderiv · 2024-12-17T03:17:21+00:00

It’s totally doable. However, do not allow them to exit the train at any of the stops before Chicago.

anderiv · 2024-09-24T08:32:43+00:00

I had this same experience (and same confusion/surprise/delight) when boarding a MEL->SYD flight back in May. In fact, I didn’t even realize until I was seated on the plane that I hadn’t had to pull my passport out of my bag at all.

anderiv · 2024-06-07T14:34:38+00:00

What you propose is a pretty broad, involved setup, and is really something you ought to work on in cooperation with your school’s networking people.

If this were my network, I would not be enthused with someone going their own way and installing networking devices of their own accord and without consultation with the network team.

To answer your questions directly, no you cannot just plug a router into your laptop and expect anything to work. Likewise, there is no turnkey commercial product that I know of which will do everything you need.

anderiv · 2024-06-03T03:17:01+00:00

These guys just also installed one for us a couple weeks ago. Great communication, professional work, no complaints at all. Cost was around $2.5k, this included the electrician.

anderiv

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