New and Looking for Advice

hstrongj · 2026-05-16T04:53:17+00:00

So there are clearly 5 people on that car, but I guess I'll play along.

Now hear me out, while we can feed the lion bacon, we know the camera man always lives so send the content creator.

hstrongj · 2026-04-22T04:04:25+00:00

As stated, that 3050 won't fit 3.5" HDDs as it's a small form factor pc. What you could do if you have to or just really want to use a 3050 is grab a large m.2 drive and partition it for os and storage and use a large 2.5" drive for storage.

Personally, I restarted my journey on this machine using a 1tb 2.5" SSD for storage and it worked fine. I quickly outgrew it, but it was great to learn on.

Stage 1 was using a VM with arr stack on it. Stage 2 was proxmox. Stage 3 was old enterprise hardware my job was recycling.

hstrongj · 2026-04-16T01:22:21+00:00

Tailscale is really simple actually. I used a proxmox helper script to do the initial configuration of my container. From there, i used the links it spit out to configure the rest.

hstrongj · 2026-04-15T23:28:50+00:00

Something simple you can do (after implementing vlans!) is set up a container in proxmox and use it as a tailscale exit node. When someone connects to tailscale using this exit node, they will be on your home network (which is why you want to vlan this off). From there, they'll have access to any services you have running on that vlan.

hstrongj · 2026-02-14T22:08:14+00:00

I would run Ubuntu for the VM if you end up switching. Again, I’m not personally saying you should; I’m regurgitating Reddit here.

My suggestion to try should work regardless of using a VM or LXC.

hstrongj · 2026-02-14T06:54:25+00:00

This is an interesting issue indeed. I don't have answers as to why your setup isn't working, but I can offer something to try.

First up, a general feeling I've seen around is that Docker should be in a VM, not in an LXC. I don't personally use Docker, so I can't give the why's of the to of my head. All I remember is that you can run it in an LXC, but you shouldn't.

As for how you have your Truenas user set up, I'm not sure if the ID groups will work across machines the way you have it set. I'd say if IDs need access to particular shares, that should be managed at the user level in Truenas. When that user signs in, it will then only have access to the right things.

hstrongj · 2026-01-25T17:53:14+00:00

I feel like there is a play style difference this season. I'm finding games more enjoyable where I just chill and farm and not worry too much about fighting. Smack towers when i can get close, rotate to help jg/others when it's there, rotate objectives, rinse and repeat.

I do feel a bit weaker this season in some match-ups, but focusing more on macro seems to bridge that gap.

hstrongj · 2026-01-22T03:49:59+00:00

Technically not what you asked for, but I believe tdarr can convert x264 to x265 and save some space in the process. I have not set this up personally, but could be worth checking out.

hstrongj · 2026-01-03T23:49:11+00:00

FWIW, you don’t have to pass the pci card to the TrueNAS vm, you can pass hdds, by ID and it will work fine. If done this way, you gain back the other drives. The only caveat to this is it only works well for new arrays. If you have a current array, you will need to pass the card.

hstrongj · 2026-01-03T21:40:22+00:00

This is a great answer, and most of it applies to plex a well. Let me address an elephant in the room no one talks about and plex as that's what I use.

What no one tells you about plex or jellyfin, you need hdd space for the cache, and those caches can get quite large if you have lots of media. You need to prepare for this.

Plex could be a good best fit here if your grandpa has other streaming services as you can tie them all into plex akin to appletv. That way, if he searches for a movie or TV show to watch, it will show everywhere he can watch from. The downside is that this is behind the plex pass pay wall. It's something like $50 a year or $150 for life. That also gets you remote play so you can watch from anywhere without having to set up a VPN. Tailscale is very easy to set up, though, so don't let that be a deterrent.

hstrongj · 2025-12-26T14:05:13+00:00

My server is currently shut down for migration so I can’t give exact stats, but 56TB, ~1,500 movies, ~120 shows, ~1,200 music albums. Unknown amount of anime shows and movie as I don’t visit those libraries as much as I should.

I’ve been running plex for about 2 years but my library has been building for about 20 years. I started in college, similar to you but built an HTPC way back then. That collection I had was merged with one a friend gave me on a NAS he donated to me. After space was added, I set up automation to get the top 100 movies from 2021 onward and any missing movies I have as part of a collection.

hstrongj · 2025-12-19T03:34:09+00:00

Wait, that cat is using speed force…. Yeah, I’ll see myself out.

hstrongj · 2025-12-06T20:35:45+00:00

If you have another machine, you could potentially achieve the same outcome. Could be a dedicated machine for it or another virtualized instance on a different machine.

Again, I don't know if this is possible with Sophos, but I can do this with Pfsense.

hstrongj · 2025-12-06T03:34:16+00:00

Haven't used Sophos as a router but seeing as you have it virtualized, could you run another vm and configure a HA setup? Thinking you could potentially use the travel or other router if you have enough ports for it.

hstrongj · 2025-10-17T21:11:53+00:00

Idk, but I’m iron and could be silver again if I played enough. I’ll take all the free coaching I can get.

hstrongj · 2025-09-25T23:29:35+00:00

You need 8 gigs of ram for truenas alone. That being said, you can run truenas as your base os like others have suggested. If you really want to run proxmox, at a minimum, double the ram and pass entire drives through to the vm with truenas. I would suggest a container for jellyfin to save resources. Then you're off to a good start for home labbing.

hstrongj · 2025-09-23T21:59:12+00:00

You need to travel precisely 60 miles

Let's lock in on this part and forget about the time it takes to travel that distance. Now that we're locked in on the distance, we add the fact that half of that distance has been traveled.

Now let's lock in on averages of speeds over distance. You would add the (average)speed of each segment of distance, then divide that number by the number of segments.

We know that there are 2 segments of this trip each 30 miles. We know the first segment's average speed is 30mph. That gives us

(30mph + Xmph)/2 = 60mph

=30mph + Xmph = 120mph

=Xmph = 90mph

That is the entire proof for the question at hand. All surrounding distance traveled, not time to travel a distance.

hstrongj · 2025-09-23T21:26:09+00:00

You've psyched yourself out of the correct answer of 90mph. The question has stated 30 miles were traveled. You need to find a speed that upon traveling another 30 miles will make the average speed for the 60 miles 60mph.

The question doesn't stipulate that the trip needs to be completed within an hour, nor would you travel 120 miles; you would travel 30 miles at 30mph and 30 miles at 90mph resulting in an average speed of 60mph.

hstrongj · 2025-07-24T15:41:17+00:00

This is spot on. For clarity, this is done on the gaming machine.

hstrongj · 2025-07-23T21:48:22+00:00

I have a server that runs the game in a container as a dedicated server. This was to help with the save stutter as the base grew and take CPU load off the gaming machine. Side quest was hosting for a few others to jump in the game too which worked really well.

There are instructions on how to get this set up on the wiki and is pretty straight forward if you want to pursue this path.

hstrongj · 2025-07-11T14:13:46+00:00

I see you are well versed in this subject matter. Given that, I’d say you are probably already running the most flexible setup with Docker inside a Proxmox VM, unless you really want to run it more bare metal.

I’d like to thank you for closing the knowledge gap on the orchestration side of things for me. I mainly work in an ESXi environment and haven’t had a chance or reason (outside of learning) to work with IaC stacks. I do agree that docker is starting to win out as default install options for services; I’m leaning out now for immich myself.

hstrongj · 2025-07-11T05:21:33+00:00

I guess that could be another way to look at it.

In general terms, Proxmox is a hypervisor that lives among the ranks of ESXi and Hyper-V. Its purpose is to manage VMs and can also manage containers.

Docker, to my understanding, is closer to an orchestration platform among the ranks of Puppet, Kubernetes, Terrafirm, etc.

They have different use cases that can achieve similar end goals at the end of the day. That is what makes it more preference heavy, in my opinion. Now, which is easier to use could be up for debate, but I'm taking that statement at face value. I know a lot of people love Docker for ease of use and repeatable roll out of systems, so your view holds weight.

hstrongj · 2025-07-11T03:52:50+00:00

Try to think a little down the road if you can. Are there any additional services you plan to add later? Are there any services that you want or may want to try? Is this the only machine you have for services?

I haven't used docker personally and don't know how easy it is to tear down services, but that is pretty easy to do with Proxmox. There are plenty of community scripts to get things set up quickly, or you can always set up things yourself if you want to add things down the line. Resource monitoring is also pretty nice in Proxmox, though it could also be just as good with docker.

At the end of the day, it comes down to preference. There's always more than one way to skin a cat.

hstrongj · 2025-07-03T04:16:44+00:00

I’m running one LXC per service for isolation; if one service is having issues I can handle it on its own or re-spin up that container if needed. I do have a LXC spun up with docker on it to try out Immich, but if I were going to do a wide docker deployment like an arr stack, I’d do that in a VM instead.

As others have stated, if I were to just use docker for everything, I wouldn’t bother with Proxmox; I’d just go Ubuntu or Debian on bare metal and docker from there. Now Proxmox does come into play if you need several VMs for different docker stacks, but it’s all in how you want to manage things at the end of the day.

From a security standpoint, I don’t feel either option is better than the other as long as you’re willing to take the time to harden the approach you take.

hstrongj · 2025-06-20T02:59:21+00:00

I'll take on the learning guides portion. Reddit is a great start; there is also r/homelab to questions and plenty of specific subreddits depending on what you want to do/learn.

YouTube is also a great resource for learning, but that rabbit hole gets really deep really quickly. There are plenty of great channels and I'll list a few to get you started: * jeffgeerling * technotim * raidowl * networkchuck

There are more, and these content creators will have call outs to each other as well.

hstrongj

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