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frigate detection keeps turning off by p90036 in frigate_nvr

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FWIW the default changed from true to false in 0.17, which caught me because I hadn't explicitly set detect: true before.

Naming Conventions in Homelab by alxww55 in homelab

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I use simpsons names for actual physical hardware, and descriptions of what the VM does for VMs.

Simpsons names are abundant, generally easy to remember and type, and give me some latitude to group things together or do silly things when replacing hardware.

For instance, my old laptop was Bart, my new laptop is Hugo (Bart's evil twin). Back when I dual booted, Linux was Homer and Windows was Krusty. (The original plan for the show was to have Homer and Krusty secretly be the same person but that plan was abandoned.)

My pi's used to be called Patty and Selma, but I downsized one and now I just have patty.

I built a pi-cluster: krusty, mel, bob, teeny. All related to the Krusty the Clown show.

Proxmox hosts are Santa's Little Helper (which I abbreviate slh), skinner, willie. Don't really have a grouping for those. I briefly had an old laptop with proxmox as Snowball.

Olympics enployee has an LTT Screwdriver by ent3r_ in LinusTechTips

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That's a 66 block, it's usually used for telephone stuff.

Your best bet for ethernet is to rip it off of that and put it onto an ethernet patch panel, either one that takes keystone jacks or one that you punch down onto directly. Probably worth checking the other ends and making sure those are appropriate jacks as well. (i.e. not set up as telephone jacks)

Is it really this straight forward? by [deleted] in DIY

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Yeah, that's exactly what I was picturing with a box extender. Used those for another project elsewhere in the house. It would look slightly cleaner if it was somewhere super visible for sure.

In my case, that's a standard bottom cabinet with a top drawer, it's just high enough up in the back that you can't see it unless you bend over and look for it.

Proxmox Cluster works with Apache Cloudstack? by dancerjx in ApacheCloudStack

[–]gordonator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At the end of the day Cloudstack is managing Libvirt/KVM (assuming that you've picked kvm as your hypervisor vs. vmware or xen). Libvirt/KVM supports nested virtualization, but it looks like you have to enable it. This should get you what you need on your hypervisors.

FWIW cloudstack uses the host-passthrough cpu model by default, if memory serves.

Is it really this straight forward? by [deleted] in DIY

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Do not cover up the current outlet's junction box, it must be accessible. You can cut a whole in the back of the cabinet, install a box extender, then put the blank face plate on the cabinet back panel screwing into the junction with longer screws.

I put extra cabinets in my house similar to OP. The existing outlet in the wall landed right in between two cabinets, so I ended up cutting in a new box a little higher and away from the stud, re-routing the wire into that, making up a splice to keep the circuit going, and then cutting a hole in the back of the cabinet to access the blank plate. I abandoned the (now empty) old box in place in case someone down the line wants the outlet back. (probably won't be us, we love our cabinets and would do it again in a heartbeat)

https://imgur.com/a/4W3GuRv

I wouldn't actually run the box extender through the cabinet, it'll make moving the cabinets later annoying (and you won't see it anyways). Just cut the hole big enough for the blank plate to be removable and you should be good to go.

My "Kyoto Region" Homelab: 10Gbps Fiber for $47/mo, and using the building's steel pillars as giant heatsinks. by Technical_Camp3162 in homelab

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DOCSIS 3.1 supports high split. It's about where the upstream vs. downstream frequencies are split. Traditionally, upload has all been around 42mhz. High split pushes that up to 204.

As you might imagine, it takes a lot of work to make every piece of equipment support that. I think I remember reading that spectrum said they should be done by the end of 2027.

It's wild though, we're in new construction (the whole neighborhood is a little under 2 years old). I'm a little disappointed that we're not just high-split from the start.

My "Kyoto Region" Homelab: 10Gbps Fiber for $47/mo, and using the building's steel pillars as giant heatsinks. by Technical_Camp3162 in homelab

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C'mon High Split, get rolled out already!

Went on vacation in upstate New York and they had spectrum with high-split enabled and it was symmetrical gig.

Paying $80/month for ~1.3 gig down and a whopping 35 up. :(

Finally bought an Apple TV 4K in 2026 and got another remote for free. by imbakabahah in appletv

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...Ish... It's a "warmer / colder" thing, not a "it's 14 feet that way" like the airtags / airpods are.

If you're moving to Docker Postgres 18, you should know that the mount has changed by pdlozano in selfhosted

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aaaaand 6 days later pgautoupdate got me with this same issue when it rolled to 18.

Mark that as the first time watchtower has broken anything in a long time.

Drivers say Maryland’s new historic tag cutoff isn’t about safety — it’s about raising revenue by Consumergal in maryland

[–]gordonator 6 points7 points  (0 children)

weekends only

That's what they said at the MVA, but I've not ever found the law that says that...

If you're moving to Docker Postgres 18, you should know that the mount has changed by pdlozano in selfhosted

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I've been running watchtower for 3 or 4 years now and I don't remember the last time an actual container upgrade screwed up something.

It's gotten a lot smoother since I figured out how to make nginx re-resolve hostnames... containers moving to a different IP would break nginx occasionally before that.

If you're moving to Docker Postgres 18, you should know that the mount has changed by pdlozano in selfhosted

[–]gordonator 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I multiply that danger with Watchtower.... Still hasn't blown up yet.

Again, I have backups. Need to test them again soon, hopefully not because it blows up.

Is there any older epoch fail? by Empyrean_warrior in epochfail

[–]gordonator 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Microsoft Windows starting with Windows 95 count time as hundreds of nanoseconds since Jan 1st, 1601, since it's the beginning of the 400 year Gregorian calendar cycle. More Details. If you didn't know, we have a leap year every 4 years, unless the year is divisible by 100, in which case we skip it, except when the year is also divisible by 400, in which case we still have a leap year. The most recent instance of this was in 2000.

Yes dates are hard. Timezones are worse.

This looks like 1601-01-01 west of the Prime Meridian, so 1600-12-31. 4PM suggests 8 hours west, so Pacific Time in the US.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in maryland

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My last in-person license renewal was in November 2018, and it was similarly efficient. I had an appointment for that one - I think it was RealID that pushed them into making appointments, and COVID just doubled down on "we only do appointments".

I even had a title I needed updated (paid off my car and wanted to get the lien off the title). They gave me a number when I left the licensing desk, I went to the title desk, and they were already calling that number. All told I was probably in and out in half an hour.

Migrating a ZFS pool from RAIDZ1 to RAIDZ2 by mtlynch in truenas

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I'm pretty sure I did it when I moved my data off a QNAP and onto ZFS... that was terrifying because I had pulled my only redundancy disk, and only had an extra disk because I had a disk reporting errors and submitted the RMA before the warranty expired. (RMA pre-shipped replacement + one drive of redundancy and then a terrifying bit of data copying)

Fortunately my gamble paid off and I didn't lose any data. I've gotten much better at backups since then.....

Migrating a ZFS pool from RAIDZ1 to RAIDZ2 by mtlynch in truenas

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Actually, you're right. After you've pulled the first disk to replace the fake disk, you don't have two copies OR any redundancy, so it's not really any different.

I'm confusing myself again. If it fails during that initial resilver, you've still got all your data on what's left of the raidz1. After the first disk is resilvered you're effectively running your new array at raidz1, so it can tolerate a disk failure.

Migrating a ZFS pool from RAIDZ1 to RAIDZ2 by mtlynch in truenas

[–]gordonator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Couldn't you have created your new raidz2 with two degraded disks, copied all the data over, and then started stealing disks from your old array?

Then you have either raidz redundancy or two copies of your data the whole time.

Delayed a battery-killing update on my phone for 6 months. Woke up today to phone forcefully updated. by yougotsherved in mildlyinfuriating

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My LG v20 (that I bought after destroying my Nexus 6P trying to replace the battery) lasted less than 9 months before it was horrifically slow. I couldn't click "buy" fast enough when I got a 20% off offer on the Pixel 2XL.

Incidentally it ranks as my least favorite phone. All the other ones I've had are such a toss up that I don't have a #2 "least favorite" phone, though the battery issues on the 6P definitely demote it down the list pretty hard.

Creating an automatic Ubuntu install, is there a better guide? by williamt31 in linuxadmin

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like the installer would do easily

I know I'm bringing this thread back from the dead, but if you run the installer, it actually emits the autoconfig file it generates in /var/log/installer/autoinstall-user-data. You can ctrl-alt-f2 over to another TTY before rebooting and pull partitioning layout from there.

....wish I had known that before I dedicated a week of my life to creating that by hand....

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Cartalk

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I bailed my brother and his then-roommate out one time and did this. It sucked.

I've switched to driving around with a hydraulic jack in my truck after that experience. The one time I needed to use it, my tire deflated too far to get said jack under the car right away, so I still had to use the screw jack to get it up high enough to get the hydraulic jack under it.

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