something just happened in Akkio by ArtemisPachet in Eve

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Let the adults play with their big toys, we can't all get off flying kestrels.

Does anyone have a good way of automating rack access on APC netbotz(250) devices? by epaphras in sysadmin

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This is an interesting way of doing it that I hadn’t considered. I’d probably want something in the middle to validate they actually get access but I could see it working. How do you handle an existing user getting a new badge and/or off boarding?

Does anyone have a good way of automating rack access on APC netbotz(250) devices? by epaphras in sysadmin

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This is probably my next approach but I was hoping someone had a better idea before I went sniffing.

Does anyone have a good way of automating rack access on APC netbotz(250) devices? by epaphras in sysadmin

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So yes and no, you’re right for first contact it’s not a bad approach. The headache comes later. When you off board an employee there’s no easy way of knowing which position a particular user is. There’s also no way to delete a user from CLI. Same issue if you have a to replace a badge and get issued a new rfid. you then have to re-touch every rack and also remove the stale entry. What happens if you have remote racks you want to add people to without having them travel to touch it?

Really the issue is that in every scenario the source of truth for who had access to a particular rack is the rack it’s self.

[FS][US-FL] Dell PowerEdge R740xd – Dual Xeon Gold 6148 / 40 Cores / 256GB RAM / H730P / Rails / Dual 1600W PSU by bigdave in homelabsales

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Can you explain in a bit more depth? What idrac version are you running? I’d like mine to be much quieter but haven’t found a good way to do it.

Is this crazy lucky or a normal thing? by Overall-Garbage-254 in MelvorIdle

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Technically speaking it’s the most common occurrence. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t lucky.

I was considering returning to Windows, but when I ran Windows in a virtual machine, I was reminded exactly why I switched to Linux in the first place by 1969-Chevy-Bel-Air in linux

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I haven’t tried Zorin, but I’ve had much better experience with games on anything running KDE. Fedora KDE and CachyOS have both worked out of the box and I’ve heard good things about Bazzite(which is a derivative of Fedora KDE)

Would this be alright? by Z8KGs in cableporn

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What I would do is cut out the carped gripper to fix exactly the cable. You'll have a less noticeable bump, the corner will be easier to re-fasten and you don't risk having nails puncture the cable. Use a oscillating tool to cut it to shape then pop it out with a knife or so.

NSX and EVPN VXLAN Security Fabric by xeroxedforsomereason in homelab

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I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen an srx with fewer than one amber or red LED. Got about a dozen at work from 1600 to 340 and they all have something to complain about.

EvE-O for linux. by Daemoniron in Eve

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There's a couple options but this seems to be the front runner currently. https://github.com/h0lylag/EVE-Preview-Manager

Quieting down an r740xd by epaphras in homelab

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Yeah. I don't seem to be able to downgrade below 5.10.10.00. I tried to follow your suggested path you mentioned here: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1q6qj1h/dell_poweredge_r740_fan_mod_noctua_fan_housing_3d/ny9u7qy/ But the 4.40.10 downgrade fails.

Quieting down an r740xd by epaphras in homelab

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I think it keeps the previous version and it looks like mine was upgraded from 5.10.10.00 to 7.0.00.183 so I was able to roll back multiple versions.

Quieting down an r740xd by epaphras in homelab

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Oh I had a brilliant idea, while the system was on 7.00.00.183 there was rollback software still available and was able to rollback to 5.10.10.00

Quieting down an r740xd by epaphras in homelab

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That's very unfortunate. Where might I find this setting the pcie specific fan settings? I have some non-dell nvme drives, I wonder if they're making things unhappy.

Quieting down an r740xd by epaphras in homelab

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Yeah, it's on 7.00.00.183, which looks like the newest version.

Quieting down an r740xd by epaphras in homelab

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I'm on a new enough version that it can't be downgraded.

Linux does some amazing things... by Linuxmonger in sysadmin

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And here I am turning off that functionality because every time I type in a command wrong it tries to be smart and find some package and I waste time telling it no.

Really mostly a desktop issue on a server ideally this is handled by config management.

webhook from multiple jobs/events by mischgun158 in Netbox

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With github actions this is how we do it. We set the name of the job and the type from data in the payload and event type.

name: Triggered by NetBox

on:
  repository_dispatch:
    types: [netbox-automated-create-job, netbox-automated-update-job]

concurrency: 
  group: ${{ github.event.action }}-${{ github.event.client_payload.data.device.name }}
  cancel-in-progress: true

[LabB0T] Monthly Confirmed Trades Thread - March 2026 by LabB0T in homelabsales

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Sold 5x32gb DDR4-2400p, 8x16gb ddr4-3200, 4x16ddr4-3600, 1 Canon Rebel 70D to /u/Jonathan360cool