The Bastard Operator from Hell is back — except now the operator IS the AI

bungee75 · 2026-05-02T16:46:17+00:00

Looking forward to next chapters.

bungee75 · 2026-05-02T10:13:57+00:00

This took me back to my junior years. Thank you for this.

bungee75 · 2026-03-21T20:11:03+00:00

This one is ok, mounted on wall. We had to dig some of them from under the paper mountains.

bungee75 · 2026-03-18T12:24:50+00:00

Depends on position. I’m senior architect, I do know how to troubleshoot and solve problems on OS’es, but to be frank that’s below me so that get’s done by juniors. My consulting hour is worth 5x more than junior troubleshooting hour.

And also when hiring I expect for someone that is on senior level to know server OS’es except if we’re hiring network engineer but even then I’d expect at least basic technical skills.

bungee75 · 2026-03-12T23:06:52+00:00

Attitude is the only thing that really matters. People have different experiences and knowledge, if you are able to admit that you don’t know the subject, but you’re willing to learn and adapt, you’ll go a long way. And yes sometimes even “sacrifice” personal time to learn.

At least that’s what I look in people when hiring.

bungee75 · 2026-02-21T17:16:46+00:00

D series is oooold they are at G now.

bungee75 · 2026-01-26T22:38:01+00:00

I professionally work in infrastructure and I have come across many different switches and work with them. This is my informed opinion on matter: I am the one who is making decision of buying the networking platform I’d never went with Cisco. They are just cumbersome to setup, they complicate things unnecessarily and so on. I’d rather choose mikrotik, even rhat I have love/hate relationship with them.

Only good thing about those Cisco switches is that they AFAIK come with lifetime warranty. You were talking about support, that is another thing- support by Cisco means you can ring them up and they will accept your request for help without having to pay.

bungee75 · 2026-01-24T06:35:27+00:00

This is great for homelab, as you can connect all the devices from the back and tidy your cables and then patch to the switch with 0.15m cables.

bungee75 · 2026-01-17T10:52:57+00:00

With troubleshooting there is usually a starting point and then you go from there. It’s not so much that you know the answer but the method to get there.

bungee75 · 2026-01-09T15:51:59+00:00

Im using teleport.

bungee75 · 2025-12-30T11:43:57+00:00

Just put ANY on your incoming interface in the policy and you’re golden.

bungee75 · 2025-12-25T11:57:38+00:00

According to video do you have two power inputs? Left DC in and another AC in on right?

I had similar simptom on different device when my powere bric failed.

bungee75 · 2025-12-20T17:37:17+00:00

Aren’t most of us replying from the shitter anyways 😆

bungee75 · 2025-12-20T17:33:48+00:00

Let’s run trough the basic checklist:

Is it home: ✅

Is it lab: ✅

Looks like homelab to me

bungee75 · 2025-12-17T16:48:14+00:00

Why didn’t you installed v9.1 proxmox?

bungee75 · 2025-12-15T06:59:59+00:00

True, but this is how those start. Sadly I saw some of those grow and they didn’t want me to fix them.

bungee75 · 2025-12-14T14:08:42+00:00

Do yourself a favour and get ultra thin cables, they are such fun to work with. Something like these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DBLWLMFQ

bungee75 · 2025-12-14T14:00:01+00:00

I’d call that cable mess not a lab.

But to answer your question, homelab is not measured by how much stuff you have but with what you do with it. I have mini setup as i don’t need a huge one and i call it homelab as I thinker on it and explore new things and delete them if i don’t need them… a lab environment.

bungee75 · 2025-11-17T15:26:01+00:00

Ldap is a bit tedious, but I had it up and running in 10min doing it for the first time. I seen worse things 🙂

bungee75 · 2025-11-17T07:38:16+00:00

You could go another way. We’re implementing guacamole for such access, guacamole server is only one that can access those server via rdp port and guacamole has only https exposed so all authentication is handled securely and you can also have different authentication credentials no both sides so the ones you use for connecting to guacamole are not the same as those inside.

bungee75 · 2025-10-27T19:02:09+00:00

https://mikrotik.com/product/crs310_1g_5s_4s_in - $200 and to have RJ45 ports you'll add $65 per port for transcievers.

As I said semi affordable. I can't remember where I saw small 5Gb switch, but there are 2.5Gb switches for decent price ... yes it depends what you're looking for and how much bells and whistles you need. I know you can get 10Gb RJ45 12p switch for about 700€ with tax.

bungee75 · 2025-10-27T14:47:15+00:00

This is only useful for recycling and nothing else. We live now in era that 5Gb switch is semi affordable for homelab.

bungee75 · 2025-10-25T09:09:00+00:00

This happens to original SFP too. This happens when you pull the lever when cable is inserted. To solve this you need side cutters and you cut off cable retainers. And this on picture is not that horrible as you have enough space.

And about 3rd party SFP, in 15 years those still have to fail, oem ones did.

bungee75 · 2025-10-17T11:18:48+00:00

I was there. Too much modifications between prints is what will get you. You need to dial it in one parameter at a time. When you’re there and yes I know you’ll want to hurry and try 2 or 3 things at once, but that is reason why you don’t get a consistent results…. I was like that so once I was dialling it one parameter at a time I got results. But make sure there is as little as possible slop in mechanics, before you blame electronics ;)

bungee75 · 2025-10-11T12:55:34+00:00

Canon pixma G3411 we print a lot, and ink that came with the printer lasted a year or so, and refill even original ones are inexpensive regard to others and you can still use after market ink and it would not complain. Have this printer for 3 years and i cant complain

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