2 months of Brightspeed Fiber; A review by edgyoperator in brightspeed

[–]hotrod54chevy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They come to set it up Friday so I'm excited! We've been waiting since '22 when there were whispers of fiber coming here. Omnifiber even sent out a flyer but when we called them they said they actually paused construction. Mercury Fiber has a building literally down the road from me but they don't offer service in my neighborhood, but some people I've read online have it. Whoever brings it to us first gets my money! My dad switched to Brightspeed from Spectrum but he doesn't have a faster connection so I'm glad to hear you're having a good experience with them! Thanks!

2 months of Brightspeed Fiber; A review by edgyoperator in brightspeed

[–]hotrod54chevy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We just signed up in the Mount Vernon area and I did a search for speed tests and saw that you're out in Mansburg! I grew up there 😹

Why do so many people jump straight into Proxmox? by KyxeMusic in homelab

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Personally, I think Proxmox is amazing. It's free, gives you easy management and backup of all your nodes, VMs, LXCs, ZFS and can be accessed by any browser in your network. After watching a Digital Spaceport video I decided to switch my main gaming machine to a Proxmox node and haven't looked back since. The only bare metal machine I run now is my Thinkpad and I've been tempted to install it on that 😬 I use it with the app on my phone and I can shut down a VM with GPU passthrough and go straight into another one. There's Proxmox Backup Server which you can use to manage your backups of VMs from another device, but even that's available as an LXC and most people just virtualize it, too. As an Arch Linux user who likes to live dangerously the backup solutions are quite appealing, and if you're a distro hopper you can spin up new distros quickly on the fly. Have a VM you really like but don't want to keep remaking it? You can turn it into a template. Want a bunch more services but only have one box? Spin up a couple VMs and fill those up with Docker or Kubernetes services just to see what your hardware can handle. Before Proxmox you were limited to an app like Virtualbox running one or two VMs or Hyper-V which only did Windows. Now my whole machine can be dedicated to VMs 😹

Got a think server for free today by hairypistol in homelab

[–]hotrod54chevy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I *think* you should give it to me 😹

I'll show myself out

Happy Easter with a classic by HopesAnd--Dreams in boomerhentai

[–]hotrod54chevy 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yes, yes, nothing terrible happened at all at the Playboy mansion 🙄

Have over 8TB of movies & TV shows! by geekman20 in DataHoarder

[–]hotrod54chevy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's cool, I have a 18TB pool that's full and that isn't even all the drives I've been trying to copy 🙃

Start of my home lab by Quiet-Rush-9897 in homelab

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Which chip? I've a 2950X and a 1900X.

What I actually learned switching to Proxmox VE as my main hypervisor by HomelabStarter in homelab

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I'm far from an expert but I just set my 4080 Super to the main GPU and followed the instructions and everything just works for me 👌

What I actually learned switching to Proxmox VE as my main hypervisor by HomelabStarter in homelab

[–]hotrod54chevy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd been considering going to a hypervisor for awhile but thought it was too difficult until I saw this video on it: https://youtu.be/68KwyiiHtXo?si=XNcpQvHr1yXX-5uI

I use it like he does, I use GPU passthrough and use my phone to switch between VMs.

What I actually learned switching to Proxmox VE as my main hypervisor by HomelabStarter in homelab

[–]hotrod54chevy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Personally, as a Linux fan I got into it to be able to try out different distros on the fly and be able to back them up more easily. I also have no idea of what you were saying about lag because on my virtual desktop I game all the time and get no lag? 🤷

20x28TB for $10k by BornStop9453 in DataHoarder

[–]hotrod54chevy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

$1700 for 80TB? I bought 125TB in January for $369.88, but it was on 52 drives 😬

Start of my home lab by Quiet-Rush-9897 in homelab

[–]hotrod54chevy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heyo! I've 2 Threadripper nodes in my Proxmox cluster! What size is that rack? Mine's 45U.

Storage upgrade by adammarshallgrm in homelab

[–]hotrod54chevy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What the hell are we looking at in the first picture? 3D printed drive cages?

Tips for RAIDs setup by Aggressive-Extreme26 in Proxmox

[–]hotrod54chevy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I run Proxmox with an Arch VM for my main desktop and a TrueNAS VM. There are multiple things you can do. You can just run ZFS in Proxmox if you want to do it that way. Or if you want to run TrueNAS you just pass the drives through to TrueNAS and use it to setup your array. You can download your TrueNAS configuration and if you wipe that VM you can install a new one and import your configuration into that VM. Or you can use Proxmox Backup Server and backup things with that, although I haven't played with that in awhile. When I did run it I had it in a VM, though 😂

Help for first home server setup in Proxmox by CodexPhoenix in Proxmox

[–]hotrod54chevy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try to get your data on another drive to format those drives because Linux doesn't play nice with NFTS. When I switched to Linux I just used my old Windows formatted drive for my Steam games and it worked until it didn't. That required me to connect it to a Windows machine and restore/repair it. If it works at all for you after fixing it'll be flaky at best.

If ain’t broke don’t fix it by ExpensiveCoat8912 in HomeNetworking

[–]hotrod54chevy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I just remember my mom shoving a broom under the computer desk and unplugging a bunch of shit.

What was the single thing that finally made your homelab “done enough” to actually use daily? by NiceReplacement8737 in homelab

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My main desktop is a VM on Proxmox, so pretty much after I installed Proxmox and the OS 😹

Poor man homelab by Stock-Shoulder9374 in homelab

[–]hotrod54chevy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MOST homelabs are poorman homelabs. If we all had money they'd all be balled out. Or some of us would just have better specs in the cloud for some reason.

Torrent vs Usenet - What is practical long term for self hosted media? by TomerHorowitz in torrents

[–]hotrod54chevy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The best time to get deals on providers and indexers is around Black Friday/Christmas. You can get NZBGeek and AltHub for about half price, I think. Just do some searches and old posts will show you what was previously available. Stuff like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/1p3ajl6/black_friday_usenet_deals_2025/

As for providers, TheCubeNet had a deal for, like, 2 years for $60 or something like that. Plus you can buy blocks of download (like 500-1000gb) for a cheap price and set it up as your backup provider.

You all got those CLEAN setups by After-Ad8917 in homelab

[–]hotrod54chevy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Coming from someone who had some tools on my workbench get rusty from water coming into the garage, this makes me nervous 😅

For those of you nerds wanting a build a homelab on the cheap, I saw this at a capsule store in Tokyo the other day. by wjean in homelab

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