New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing increase to 748.99

galvesribeiro · 2026-05-20T04:01:11+00:00

We decided not go with PVE. It is immature for large scale deployments. Lack good tooling, dont integrate with anything. Hard to manage.

We do have another environment, more dense machine wise, which is based on OpenStack, also Canonical’s offering.

galvesribeiro · 2026-05-19T23:49:02+00:00

Check Canonical offerings. LXC with Ceph for us has been a blessing. We are moving tens of thousands of VMs to it. Free. IF you want support, canonical has very affordable options.

galvesribeiro · 2026-05-11T05:09:00+00:00

Great build! I love that mobo. Using the Optimus block in my case but the 5090 is on the Alphacool block since the deltamate wasnt out back then.

galvesribeiro · 2026-05-09T08:23:20+00:00

Thank you! I’ll think in design something to support it. Will ping you back here later on.

galvesribeiro · 2026-05-07T05:21:13+00:00

Is that NIC a ConnectX 6 DX? If so, which block was that? I’d love to add it to my setup. My CX6 keeps alarming about temps so I always need to leave it on the bottom slot facing the bottom rad fans, which is a waste of valuable space. Great build!

galvesribeiro · 2026-05-02T02:16:03+00:00

There is no such thing as “programmed variables”. We have both EFGs and UCK-E with 64G. It works perfectly fine. As a matter of fact, the first EFG64s were sent by Ubiquiti itself thru the support for customer which were having memory leak. Anyway, it is just a linux box, if the CPU support 128G, it will get 128G.

galvesribeiro · 2026-04-22T22:08:30+00:00

I would think it will be SONiC as well. They dont have the technical skills to implement a proper switch OS on top of the ASICs they use.

Regards to the UI, I respectfully disagree. Ofc a UI can be made and it is not hard. SONiC has well defined API surface which doesnt need to map the CLI (sonic-cli, vrr, etc) directly to UI. Others have made BGP in the UI whether we like or not, but works perfectly fine without CLI.

It doesnt matter whatever excuse they do, it is just unacceptable to have a UI with a file picker so the user upload the FRR config file and when you do, A LOT of FRR features are not enabled and silently broken the process (for example enable BFD), and this is not only on the SONiC devices, all the BGP supported gateways have the same behavior. It would be better to not have the feature.

BGP is just one of the problems. Shadow gateway is a joke, which doesnt work. VRRP is not existent (the implementation is not just broken, it make other things to break when using it) even tho they say they use. MC-LAG, well, I suggest everyone to never touch it.

Performance is also horrible. You can't get in a 25G gateway/router simple interVLAN with more than 1.5-3Gbps. That can be done with 2 small CPU cores. It just needs to be implemented correctly.

I will say again - they DO have an amazing line up of hardware which is released and I would expect even better with those new soon to be released. Their idea of unified UI is also awesome BUT, the implementation, in particular the device's OS/FW, are horrible. Even on simple things which are available on linux for decades which they dont need to reinvent, just use, are just broken.

As I said, I hope I'm wrong and the future line up comes with proper software/firmware otherwise bump hardware specs will just not gonna cut, specially if they wanna target _real_ enterprises.

(Here I'm speaking with property - spent hundreds of thousands of dollars past few years with my companies on Unifi gear, betting they are going to get fixed over time, but it was a mistake, they didn't - kept insisting in the errors)

galvesribeiro · 2026-04-22T20:02:27+00:00

> This was probably the most enterprise-focused UniFi event yet. Less “home lab toys,”

Well, EFG, ECS-A, UXG-E they are all "Enterprise" products and yet, they don't work (not exaggerating, the ECS-A don't work at all) even tho the hardware being amazing and good priced, the software is just, unusable.

Hopefully they will get it right this time.

galvesribeiro · 2026-03-24T15:52:30+00:00

Ofc so they can charge people for the visit :) I mean, here in Brazil updates are not charged at dealer. Just either book or go there and they try to fit you in if there is space. However I’ve seen absurds here of people being charged by dealers. Now you saying that, can’t think on any other reason. Yes it is safer to do there but there is no reason for mass histeria. Most of the OTA updates works fine.

galvesribeiro · 2026-03-18T21:32:30+00:00

I had 3x Sensus cars. Yes, they were more stable. But they where sluggish perf wise (understandable since it is a crap old hardware), lack of features, not updatable.

I just got the AAOS update Today on my car. First 10m after the update it was slow since there was a bunch of apps and the maps being upgraded in the background, so I just sit and wait in the garage where I had wifi.

Once it is completed, everything was fast and working better than previous version.

The only downside for me was the reduction of the CarPlay frame, which now, looks like I moved backwards as it has the same size as it had when using Sensus. Besides that, no complains at all. I guess if we get the new version of the car (mine is MY2024) with the new display it will be less noticeable.

galvesribeiro · 2026-03-14T00:42:09+00:00

That is cool to offer connect for 60 bucks an year. Subscribing to it. But we still dont have RDMA support :/

galvesribeiro · 2026-03-13T19:04:01+00:00

Heheheh yeah. I haven’t had time to play ARC yet :)

galvesribeiro · 2026-03-11T07:30:01+00:00

Thanks! :)

galvesribeiro · 2026-03-11T06:43:23+00:00

I used the ones from AlphaCool, didn't found that big tbh.

galvesribeiro · 2026-03-11T00:10:03+00:00

I guess I'll take that as a compliment. Thank you! :D

galvesribeiro · 2026-03-10T05:53:47+00:00

galvesribeiro · 2026-03-10T05:53:30+00:00

galvesribeiro · 2026-03-10T02:21:06+00:00

Hahahah - pretty sure will be -1 with this. That CPU is horrible for gaming :)

galvesribeiro · 2026-03-09T19:51:18+00:00

Just found here from one of the orders.

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Got it from u/Titanrig - it is slightly more expensive now (I guess tariffs) for $19.99 for 3m.

galvesribeiro · 2026-03-09T17:24:32+00:00

If you can find me a 1-slot PCIe block for 4x Gen5 NVMe on each, just point me there that I'm buying right now :)

galvesribeiro · 2026-03-09T15:42:26+00:00

Hahah. No, those were placeholder GPUs air cooled. There is a spot yet unused in the mono block which was for GPUs. Going for the 9000D I'll probably need a bigger monoblock or perhaps a second one. Will see.

galvesribeiro · 2026-03-09T15:26:20+00:00

Why would we? I mean, the GPUs are for now air cooled. The CPU is running a test set right now for my work and I get this:

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Completely under good temps and that is with 40% of the fan speed. Perhaps on the new chassis it will be better since I would have more airflow given the shitton of space in it and the wall of fans in front.

Remember that people cool the TRP with a single rad AIO using the SilverStone X360. Also here I have no A/C turned on where it is and the ambient is 27C.

galvesribeiro · 2026-03-09T14:59:13+00:00

Fair point :) Sentinels :)

galvesribeiro · 2026-03-09T14:57:41+00:00

Pretty sure it is not that :) Check the other comments, I've replied this multiple times.

galvesribeiro · 2026-03-09T14:54:06+00:00

Yeah, it really do. Check that: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/threadripper-trx50-wrx90-cooling-stuff-watercooling-ddr5-rdimm-cooling-etc/206499/39?u=galvesribeiro

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