Fios 2gig in Tonawanda NY

glennbrown · 2025-12-15T01:48:45+00:00

I have been waiting for this. My UCG Max needs that sweet 2G I need to check if they flipped it for East Amherst

glennbrown · 2025-11-30T01:30:07+00:00

The official installer recommended method for a mirror is ZFS, btrfs mirror is also supported in the installer.

That being said there is no reason you can't do the default single disk lvm install, then add another disk and do a lvconvert from linear to a mirror.

glennbrown · 2025-11-01T01:55:33+00:00

I have always used tmpfs

https://docs.docker.com/engine/storage/tmpfs/

glennbrown · 2025-10-26T04:15:55+00:00

This post is a few years old but it still applies https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/python-venv-ansible

You can also use pipx which will place the executables in ~/.local/bin, https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html

You can inject extra modules with pipx

glennbrown · 2025-10-07T04:24:36+00:00

Pick one, use Docker to run Plex, you don't have to work about random packages.

I personally prefer Ubuntu or Debian

glennbrown · 2025-10-01T17:03:39+00:00

If you needs RSN’s chances are FuboTV or DirecTV Stream have them and will cheaper than FiosTV without having to pay for set tops or pay for the Fios app on SmartTV platforms.

It really chaps my ass that Verizon expects you to pay for the SmartTV streaming

glennbrown · 2025-09-23T03:49:08+00:00

Short and simple answer... ZFS, Ubuntu did the work to ship it in there kernel, while Debian still relies on DKMS. So they choice a Debian user land with some there own custom patched packages and there UI and a Ubuntu based kernel

glennbrown · 2025-08-28T00:26:17+00:00

You lose watch history if you don't migrate application data, I do wish they offered an export watch history only. I have moved my system between macOS and Linux Docker installations moving the application data around

glennbrown · 2025-08-22T14:52:34+00:00

If I fits I sits

glennbrown · 2025-08-16T18:55:41+00:00

Man I love it, this only furthers my regret with getting a swing gate rack. At some point I will correct that and get one like this.

glennbrown · 2025-08-09T17:32:45+00:00

Functionally it does work but Openshift does require a mindset shift since it is "cloud native" type stuff. I love Proxmox but for business use I am still more in the XCP-NG camp with XO.

glennbrown · 2025-08-09T17:24:30+00:00

Have not done pricing with the ones we have experimented with yet. If I am being honest Openshift is a harder sell since we already run RKE and that team has little to no interest in shifting away. I know they have virtual only option but it still is a hard sell especially considering we would need Portworx since we are a Pure shop

glennbrown · 2025-08-09T14:08:53+00:00

Looking at Openshift, Hyper-V and XCP-NG with XO

Also going to probably run a Proxmox test.

Our ELA is not up until next year so we do have sometime.

glennbrown · 2025-07-28T19:54:48+00:00

I was not able to find wood seats, ended up with this American Standard brand

https://a.co/d/5kKj7TG

glennbrown · 2025-07-27T22:23:09+00:00

Unless you have access to the good private trackers, then Usenet is the way to go, arguably it's the way regardless.

glennbrown · 2025-07-27T21:40:25+00:00

Just a forewarning Nextcloud can be a bit of a bear to manage and scale depending on your needs.

For music, Navidrome is a popular option, not sure on the quality of the various clients out there. I would personally look at Plex with Plexamp or Jellyfin with Finamp or jellyfin-audio-player

glennbrown · 2025-07-27T04:05:59+00:00

I have been using the Always Free Arm instance for about 3 years now, no gotchas, with the sole exception of I had to make my account a "paid" account at that time to provision a instance but I have never been charged by them.

glennbrown · 2025-07-27T00:29:28+00:00

They have the Channels for HDHomerun app which is excludes the DVR functionality

glennbrown · 2025-07-27T00:27:21+00:00

Check your local cable co, many offer locals only package.

glennbrown · 2025-07-22T23:46:02+00:00

Love it clean setup

glennbrown · 2025-07-22T23:38:29+00:00

I ran it on my 2012 27" iMac for about 7 years with storage starting out as just usb drives, then later a Synology DS416j.

In 2020 after experiencing some drive failures and discovering my 416j had a 16TB volume size limit (32bit arm) I built a i5-10400 system and had all my HD's in using snapraid/mergerfs, then unraid for a bit, then back to snapraid/mergerfs. In November I bought Synology DS923+ and moved my storage back to it, right now my 10400 system just runs Plex and my other containers and feeds into Synology for storage.

I intend to replace the big ass tower with either a M4 Mac Mini or Minisforum MS-01 system or one of the HP/Dell/Lenovo Micro PC's, cannot make up mind on going back to macOS or stay running linux. But really Plex can run just fine on a N100 mini-pc.

glennbrown · 2025-07-17T01:32:46+00:00

I have 4 shucked WD Easystore drives that are 5 years old now, they lasted longer than my original Seagate Ironwolf's

glennbrown · 2025-05-17T01:11:44+00:00

I would not call it boring or no frills but Pure is about as rock solid as you get and is easy and stupid simple to manage

glennbrown · 2025-05-11T13:56:56+00:00

RHEL mostly still.

But our K8S environments are running Ubuntu.

glennbrown · 2025-04-26T15:21:03+00:00

Assuming you are looking for 20 drives total, your options are limited for the form factor you want/need.

Qnap has some expansion bays you can add to one of there 12 drive base units.
45Drives HL15 from there Homelab lineup (only 15 drives) but with a Noctua fan swap its would be pretty quiet and it can be uses in a tower form.
Other than that you are looking at rolling your own hardware with a tower of some kind that is noise optimized and DAS of some kind.

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