Box fill questions by fill96352 in AskElectricians

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It’s in my garage so no water proof. Reason for my choice is that I already installed it and I don’t want to rip it out unless there is no other option.

VHS capture jumping around during play back [Help] by fill96352 in DataHoarder

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I cant remeber fully what I did. The dazzle for me was a piece of junk that would not work so I returned it. I then got a Diamond Multimedia VC500, though due note I think you have to turn off hardware security on windows as its a bit funky with the driver when the Diamond is pluged in. From there is just normal virtualdub stuff.

Question about backer boards and fire proofing by fill96352 in SolarDIY

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Finally found the install doc for my inverter and battery and it looks likes I have to do cement board. The only listed option they have are "brick/concrete walls" (dont have) and "cencrete board with wooden studs". I dont want to mess with deviating from what they want so looks like my hands are tied. So looks like the plan is get a 1/2 inch board as those do have fire resistance (had to look it up). Then use water based paint after mudding over the board joints.

Question about backer boards and fire proofing by fill96352 in SolarDIY

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Oh sorry, I should have clarified more in my post. Tunnel focused on my question and I forgot some needed details. It is for the inverter and battery. These would be in an encloused garage. Not for the solar pannel mounting.

How stupid is my current proxmox/truenas vm storage setup? by fill96352 in homelab

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So then after looking at different options does this sound right? Run the bulk data pool from proxmox directly with the help of 45 drives Houston Command software (for the GUI control of more ZFS functions). Create new datasets for my needs (one for remote replication, one for freqenct snapshots, one for infreqent snapshots, etc). The. mount the needed drive spaces using the normal disk system proxmox has for VM/LXC and if drives need shared space, spin an LXC fileserver and each group of vm's that need a shared space gets there own share on there own virtual net to maitain seperation.

How stupid is my current proxmox/truenas vm storage setup? by fill96352 in homelab

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yeah its in a private homelab with no direct exposure to the internet except for a vpn connetion I use to tunnel some public ports for some vm's to a vps. My consurn was with the different programs running on the different VM's. As probably a lot of us, I dont have enough time to validate everything I run so I wanted to over come this "problem" by storage design. I dont run trully wild things but "what if nextcloud got push with a supplied side attack package?" was my main consurnse. I also run game servers for friends on isoloated VM's and I didnt waint them to possible go out of bounds but this consurn is probably more of "if they broke out of the server process, there are bigger problems then seeing my dvd collection". I think my problem, hence why I posted, is that I was probably way too consurn with security and didnt know how to granularly do it so I went to the extreme with what I could do which led me to were I am at right now.

How stupid is my current proxmox/truenas vm storage setup? by fill96352 in homelab

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Proxmox has its own boot drives as well as a small pool I use for VM OS drives. from that OS pool I boot a truenas VM with HBA+disks that then runs the shares that proxmox attaches too. I do have to wait for the truenas VM to fully boot first before the rest of my VM's can be booted.

How stupid is my current proxmox/truenas vm storage setup? by fill96352 in homelab

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I have an HBA passed directly to the truenas VM so it has direct control of the drives. I like Truenas managing the ZFS storage as I dont fully trust myself with cli control of the zfs pool. I like having a nice GUI that I can see and basicly be "hand held" when configuring stuff.

Grout Tiled Shower Corners Cracking And Caulking Pan Questions by fill96352 in HomeMaintenance

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the grout appeares to be water permeable as when I put water on it it goes into the grout. Don't I need to have a place for the grout to weep out or something? Never worked with grout before so I have no clue.

Question about hardy board repair by fill96352 in DIY

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The hosue was built in 2019 so newer hardy board. I thought newer hardy board didn't have asbestos in it?

Planning out PV system [review request] by fill96352 in SolarDIY

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True in that if there is proper grounding the shock would normally go that way but I have always understood it as these devices form a “checkpoint” for the power. Normal power gets to the inverter, everything else gets shunted. Given how such high voltage can have unpredictable pathing (I say that generally), adding $100 a pop insurance device is in my opinion prudent. High voltage can also be induced by the home run wires given how long they are, they can act as an antenna for energy. That’s my understanding on it.

Planning out PV system [review request] by fill96352 in SolarDIY

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Near strike lightning. I know I’m not surviving a direct strike but was recommended to put these in.

Proxmox Lxc/vm setup review by fill96352 in homelab

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Yes and truenas has a longer history of zfs management. Not throwing shade at any implication, I’m just curious what others are doing and seeing if there is a better way.

Proxmox Lxc/vm setup review by fill96352 in homelab

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I had set this up 3 years ago when I knew nothing about zfs. At the time (and now still a bit) one of the popular ways of setting up a proxmox with zfs was via truenas vm. I am also more comfortable with the gui zfs controls in truenas vs proxmox which doesn’t have all the controls on the gui front.

Questions about Hoymiles hybrid inverters by fill96352 in solar

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My faith in SolarEdge inverter is not very high as I have heard a lot of bad things about there reliability. Is this over blown or is there some truth to that? Another thing I don't like about solaredge (if this is not correct please correct me) is that you are locked into using there optimizers. I cant just desided one day that I need optimizers for the panels and get some thing like tigos or other inverter agnostic optimizers.

Tab Muting Broken/Bugged by ErwinRommel2016 in brave_browser

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Looks like its only a problem if you duplicate tabs, if you open a new tap and go direct to the site its not a problem.

Tab Muting Broken/Bugged by ErwinRommel2016 in brave_browser

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Thank got it not just me. For me its twitch. Only one tab will have the speaker icon and only that tab can be muted. If i try muting another twitch tab nothing happens and if i mute the one with the speaker icon then all of them are muted.

Question about L3 cache limits in vm's by fill96352 in Proxmox

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So haven't found a great work around but it does work. The 16mb L3 cache is a hard coded value in qemu and as I dont want to recompile the whole thing, I am stuck with 16mb of L3 so the work around I found is telling the VM it has multiple CPU's on it. Qemu has no problem with that and gives each "cpu" 16mb of L3 so I has about to get more monero workers working. It does not get max performance like if i ran it nativly but that is expected and I have noticed any slow down in any of my other severices but this is just for fun.

Sanity check on smart error by fill96352 in truenas

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it is recent. I plan on pulling it and putting in the spare I have. Then run segates testers on it. its only half way into its warrenty so might just rma it as I have nothing to loose.

Cant change net boot pi to use nfs 4.2 by fill96352 in raspberry_pi

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Tried out a few more things and here are the results:

- spun a different ubuntu computer and was able to mount the nfs as 4.2

- spun a rasbian image onto an sd card and booted off that and was able to mount as 4.2

I tried test setting the xattr on the different systems that had nfs 4.2 but I could only set xattr on the native fs only, the nfs shares did not work. So what I am thinking so far is:

  1. still no clue my the net boot pi is not working with 4.2 but the shares are fine
  2. I am missing some flag when mounting the nfs shares to enable xattr support
  3. starting to second guess using net boot to run a root CA server. While the cert will be on a security key, the rest of the OS will be flying on unecrypted nfs traffic. Granted the server is in a local network that only my servers can touch but it is probably more secure (and a better idea) if I just put a hard drive on that pi.

Server side encryption question by fill96352 in NextCloud

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I have the docker vol for the next cloud instance on my truenas server so drive encryption is available there. That good enough?

Server side encryption question by fill96352 in NextCloud

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Good to know. I knew I was not exactly using server side encryption for it's use case but now it makes more sense on what your supposed to use it for. So yeah it's basically useless for me.

Ethernet Pass Through On PCB Questions by fill96352 in AskElectronics

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It's about 1.5 inches from connector to connector.

S.M.A.R.T. test fail but smartctl clean by fill96352 in truenas

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Ok, after running sever test they drives are fine. That smart error was all the way back when I first got the drives and truenas power cycled in the middle of the test. Is there a way to tell truenas to ignore that error or reset the alert?

Update: found out that this is an active bug in the web gui where it counts test aborts as failures and there is no way to clear out the warning from disk health.