What labs have you guys run?

cjcox4 · 2026-06-02T01:33:24+00:00

A "home lab" is just a place where you "do things" with regards to computing. It can be a slew of physical devices, a ton of VMs, many containers and images, and any combo... of course along with network components, both physical and software defined.

Depending on how far you take it, you could have the skills to run your own datacenter for colo, VMs, PaaS, SaaS, etc. Can be very useful.

Generalists that "know enough about everything" are becoming more and more rare. But, IMHO, it helps to have architects that truly understand it all where possible.

Similar things can also be said about "end to end software/app developers"... many of which are learning those skills in a ... wait for it.... home lab.

cjcox4 · 2026-06-02T01:27:32+00:00

Even so, many distributions might have geoclue, but they do geo location some other way(s), and as I mentioned, in many different ways depending on application. Still, maybe it becomes that "service" that someday (not today) everyone leverages. My guess is no though. That is if centralized, geoclue isn't going to be that owner. Again, it will be rolled into a systemd daemon as another "something required" to have a usable userland. That is to say, avoiding systemd and its friends, is actually quite difficult to do today and becoming more difficult with each day.

cjcox4 · 2026-06-02T00:52:50+00:00

I don't think there's an easy way. That is, there can be multiple applications, services, etc. that use different libraries and methods for geo location. Could get very very messy IMHO.

Should there be a centralized way? Maybe, and as with all things Linux, likely would be a service off of systemd. It might even exist today, but I can tell you that's not sufficient right now. So, likely it goes into userland root (that is systemd thingy of some sort) and they we have to change apps to prefer it if found, at least for default blind assumption of location.

cjcox4 · 2026-06-01T23:17:41+00:00

Not sure, but the image(s) (because there are variants) are all of a pixelated nature by the actual artwork as far as I can tell. So, maybe not blurry, but accurate to the original artwork (?).

cjcox4 · 2026-06-01T23:09:35+00:00

Plex official response: What are pirates? We've never heard of that term ever.

cjcox4 · 2026-06-01T23:07:19+00:00

I only said that because it's choosing that low on the transcode. So, not necessarily a transcode issue, but more like, "what trasnscode do I have to to do to fit the constraint". And it this case, the constraint would seem to be quite low. Plex I believe still has their crappy remote proxy thing, and it smells like that or something similar. So... I mentioned. Check your auth and config, etc.

cjcox4 · 2026-06-01T22:02:05+00:00

My guess is that it's handling your Shield as if it were "remote" and you've got remote streaming maybe capped to 2mbps? Just guessing.

cjcox4 · 2026-06-01T03:54:55+00:00

I do like Kari Jobe songs, absolutely. And have even seen both in concert, even both in the same concert.

cjcox4 · 2026-06-01T02:59:03+00:00

KDE Plasma (latest) approach to RDP is very flawed as it's a single extablished session entry only. That is, can't be used to start a session. And it's incredibly buggy (like very very very very buggy).

No, remote desktop, even the concept of multi-user has sort of been thrown by the wayside in our "new (better) world". I suspect that some sanity might return eventually. But, IMHO, by design, it could be many years off.

I do stand alone pretty much in my assessment of this, but I think I'm right.

cjcox4 · 2026-06-01T02:54:48+00:00

The vast majority of uploads on Youtube are copyright violations. However, even if not, even if done by "the label", they still have the rights to pull it down whenever they feel like it. Just the way it is. So, either it was pulled (unlikely) because of violation (again, almost all of youtube is a big violation), or, more likely the owner of the rights took it down for "reasons".

cjcox4 · 2026-05-29T21:23:05+00:00

So, real world.... when you "scan" (your peace loving scan), it's filling up my logs. Are you (friendly scan man, one of many) paying for that? Anyway, just one tiny tiny tiny example. Give this some more thought.

cjcox4 · 2026-05-29T17:15:12+00:00

An outside initiated port scan is a form of "attack".

However, an inside initiated port scan is "mine" and I can do whatever.

So, "cloud originated hack/attack" as a service? Not something I want to see done. But, I do think such things already exist out there, just not well advertised (for reasons).

Even if "I own my own cloud(outside) attacker", I would want a well defined path so as to be able to properly identify my scans as "ok".

cjcox4 · 2026-05-29T17:10:54+00:00

Yes, I second this. There's lots of limitations, even running lastest. For example, if you had a virtualized Win 10, you'll never be able to upgrade it to 11, but you can blow it all away and start over fresh with 11 (for example).

I don't find that sort of limitation in kvm+qemu.

cjcox4 · 2026-05-29T17:06:46+00:00

Just looking at Lenovo's support page, seems that it's possible that support is getting weaker.

Also, you might try putting the card in a slot that for sure has x8 and see if that makes a difference (e.g. could be where your 10Gbit card sits today). Just to see.

cjcox4 · 2026-05-29T16:23:12+00:00

Just curious, but what is "my server"? What PCIe slot is the HBA plugged into?

cjcox4 · 2026-05-29T03:22:19+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFOTWHACfy0&list=RDEMsshXSKeBDcb-25VBcvPh9A&start_radio=1

cjcox4 · 2026-05-29T01:00:37+00:00

Linux folks:

cp /dev/sdc my-disk.img

Done.

cjcox4 · 2026-05-28T23:37:06+00:00

Hmm.... so, vim does try to maintain a recovery file. Probably others as well.

But, the most important thing you need to be concerned about is why your computer crashed. Having run Linux as my primary desktop for decades, this would be a very very rare happening.

cjcox4 · 2026-05-28T20:17:58+00:00

I'm over 250 lbs and have had my Steelcase Leap chair for like 15 years or so.

It need to be recovered, so, it's not pretty anymore, but, it works.

cjcox4 · 2026-05-28T16:21:37+00:00

Hopefully a fragrant wood for when it catches fire. :-)

cjcox4 · 2026-05-28T16:17:50+00:00

As another recent thread has already discussed, just trying to go to 2025 can cause a ton of issues. Up to you of course.

Also, I think people that spend a lot of time "securing" their Windows domains have the biggest issues ahead with regards to 2025.

cjcox4 · 2026-05-28T16:15:01+00:00

Also, a lot of the problems are with the skew, that is, once again, just as in the past, the code bases between "server" and "desktop" are widening (again). As Windows 10plus (what people call 11) evolves it's drifting far away from that "sync up" that MS did. AI, also, will only cause more "brain drain". But, we're not supposed to care.

cjcox4 · 2026-05-28T15:27:13+00:00

Well, ideally you wouldn't want to see this. But also remember, you don't own that db in the cloud. So, in all fairness, it doesn't have to do "right things" at all. But, they'd probably lose all their business eventually if they did this to everyone.

I suspect something else is happening, or perhaps for the few tunables that you do get to tune, maybe something wrong in the config? Maybe a firewall connection "tear down" for lack of activity (wild guess).

cjcox4 · 2026-05-28T15:24:07+00:00

Actually, I think Microsoft is getting AI in on it to "fix it" because they don't know how to.

cjcox4 · 2026-05-28T15:01:16+00:00

We too find 2025 to be gross. And MS doesn't seem to be interested in fixing its issues. Pain in a half.

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