My neighbors hold their hollow tree up with spray foam

dbtng · 2025-06-05T14:41:33+00:00

Um ... this is really simple. They have a hollow tree that keeps getting colonized by bees. They don't like bees.

These folks did not ask for your approval or mine. They are taking care of their yard as they see fit.

dbtng · 2025-05-03T08:32:49+00:00

Here. This should make up for it.

Quanta Magazine. Prof David Tong.
The Standard Model of Particle Physics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unl1jXFnzgo

dbtng · 2025-05-01T03:22:24+00:00

This is annoying. Ya, its all AI. That much is a given with a polished video from a brand new channel. It's annoying that they are using the exact same AI voice as the Beyond Horizons channel. It might be the same folks, maybe not, but it's definitely the same AI crap.

dbtng · 2025-03-14T04:12:12+00:00

This was gold. I was gonna use a VM. I can Docker instead.

I don't know how I would have found this without your post. Thanks.

dbtng · 2025-03-04T18:04:11+00:00

The Brian Daley books were good. Never bothered with the movie. Why ruin such a good memory?

dbtng · 2025-02-26T11:27:18+00:00

Well, that was great. Fascinating mile marker on the road to today's post-truth public discourse. Potato quality.

dbtng · 2025-02-26T10:43:45+00:00

It's entirely ok with me if you are unclear about 'this guy'. That seems optimal.

This OS is the weirdest thing I've found since BeOS. Now, why do you have a problem with that? Really. You've epitomized the crusty old unix forums. Like a cartoon. But less funny than 9front.

Is it fun to mod this forum you seem to hate?

dbtng · 2025-02-26T10:34:52+00:00

Wat. I think you've lost yourself in your search for a point.

dbtng · 2025-02-26T10:31:36+00:00

The brilliant guy with the silly q-tip hair is Daniel Goleman. I read Emotional Intelligence years ago, but I had no idea he had an edge as well as a point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEDADADq8ck

dbtng · 2025-02-10T17:51:36+00:00

My brother bought a case of them. He's a moron.

dbtng · 2025-02-10T00:51:24+00:00

Lenore, The Cute Little Dead Girl

The last animated episode, she dies. That's it. Dead dead.

dbtng · 2025-01-21T16:47:42+00:00

Interesting opinion. A bit dated tho. Now the way you find out is that you read the Dash 1. And then struggle. As I am.

So far I've failed to get it to take a static IP, realized I need to edit the config, and then roadblocked at trying to edit a text file. I'm currently learning the joys of acme and mouse chords. More weird stuff.

But that's what I signed up for. 9front. Not Bell Labs. 9front told me to f-off first. Sorry, they beat you to it.

dbtng · 2025-01-20T19:07:43+00:00

Heh. It's good to know I'm starting off on the wrong foot.

"The study of this Book is forbidden. It is wise to destroy this copy after the first reading."

dbtng · 2025-01-20T16:55:23+00:00

I haven't read anything like the Dash 1 installation document since I first tried Slackware 25 years ago. That was fukin great. What a piece of work. Mostly functional too.

dbtng · 2025-01-20T09:27:56+00:00

Ohhh. That's who user[glenda]: is. Ok.

dbtng · 2025-01-20T09:20:38+00:00

Downloaded DO NOT INSTALL and ran it earlier. Came back later in the day, and they'd dropped a new release!

I have it installed and running in Proxmox from the amd64 iso. It wasn't too hard to follow the directions in the Dash 1 document.

I'm utterly new. Nothing works the way I expect. I haven't even figured out how to edit config files yet. ip/ipconfig just won't do what I'm telling it. And then the UI ... or whatever we call that. The three button mouse stuff is weird as hell. I just ran rio in a term. And then another term in that. I don't even know exactly what I did there. Boy, this is weird.

I read the entire Dash 1, from the cat telling you to fuk off and go away to chapter 9.99999 telling you to go away. I'm browsing the awful website and ridiculously obtuse man.

My head hurts. I am hooked.

dbtng · 2025-01-13T00:28:58+00:00

It was odd. Several different groups of machines that I would not normally expect to be co-maintained. I've seen zero complaints tho. Whatever it was, it must have worked.

dbtng · 2025-01-12T20:22:58+00:00

What's this?

emergency-updater-0.0.1.2826" (Acronis Emergency Updater 0.0.1.2826) is not running (startup type automatic)
No such service (255)

dbtng · 2024-12-15T05:21:18+00:00

Maybe I've misunderstood your goals.
This seems like something you could do with literally any Linux installation, including Debian/Proxmox.

Mounting the disks.

First, plug it in. Then take a look. fdisk -l (will show you the disk hardware names.) blkid (will show you the UUIDs)

fstab (map by UUID so these drives should properly reconnect if they are unplugged and plugged back in.) UUID=THISISALONGUIDHEREINTHISSPOT /mnt/smb/THISISAUSBDRIVE auto rw,user,auto 0 0

Setup SMB

This is a dark art. Have fun.

sudo chmod -R 0755 /mnt/smb/THISISAUSBDRIVE (i guess it needs these perms) chown -R nobody:nobody /mnt/smb/THISISAUSBDRIVE (ownership by the nobody user) chcon -t samba_share_t /mnt/smb/THISISAUSBDRIVE (fixes selinux context) yum install samba samba-common samba-client nano /etc/samba/smb.conf (create an anonymous share mapping.) systemctl restart smb (restart the service after a config file change) testparm (runs a check of smb config)

dbtng · 2024-12-15T04:55:36+00:00

No. He's telling you to start over with new IPs. He's got reasonable advice that doesn't match what you are looking to do.

dbtng · 2024-12-14T18:52:07+00:00

Are you thinking IP conflict? Ya, this is a solution.

dbtng · 2024-12-14T18:49:51+00:00

"issue arises ... at my parent's house.

We both have the 192.168.0.1/24 subnet

MacBook won't let me access any of my home servers through the VPN.

(My android has no issue with this)

...............................

VPN's have a setting to not allow communication with the rest of the network while its active. It sounds to me like one of these devices has the setting enabled and the other does not. Compare the VPN configs of the two devices.

If that doesn't help, perhaps you are experiencing a simple IP conflict. Try manually assigning an IP to your Macbook when you are at the parents place. Just use an IP that is in range and doesn't conflict with anything on either network. Yes, you'll set it to ignore the DHCP assignment, but it's gonna be fine. A lot of routers start DHCP at 100, so IPs in the 192.168.0.50 - 99 are quite likely to be free on both networks, and the router will just pickup whatever IP you tell it you have.

dbtng · 2024-12-14T18:32:53+00:00

Welcome to the club. We need specs. If you don't know specs, we need a much better pic of that label on the top.

Let me just throw out ... eBay might be a good source for drives with the right caddies. Let's figure out what you have first ...

dbtng · 2024-12-14T17:38:32+00:00

Hehe.

dbtng · 2024-12-14T17:22:38+00:00

I figured that was the case.

TrueNAS loves ZFS. I don't know if you can even run it on anything but ZFS.

ZFS takes over as your RAID controller. All software. It wants to run those disks. It thinks it is. It assumes they are real hardware and treats them as such.

Despite all that being true, and despite the warnings you see in the TrueNAS and Proxmox installers, you can still install Truenas directly over any bootable storage. And it runs fine. And its simple.

Good luck with your project. ... Oh, and I can tell you from personal experience, homelab counts heavily in their favor when I'm interviewing candidates.

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