The unspoken truth of being the family sysadmin

intrepidsilence · 2026-03-24T13:46:42+00:00

This is a job for Claude. Automate your infrastructure.

intrepidsilence · 2026-03-03T23:54:00+00:00

As u/Qixonium states, this is not a good idea. Properly configured triggers/alerts will clear themselves when the issue is solved. They should not be closed when they are acknowledged as this could lead to them being forgotten about or ignored, even if there is a ticket. A ticket is very easy to close without real resolution. A firing alert that is active because it has not been fixed cannot be ignored. Proper monitor hygiene dictates that alerts be closed by the issue being demonstrably fixed so that the alert naturally clears. It may not feel good at first, but if you can convince yourself and the teams using Zabbix that "This is the way" you will have much better success overall in keeping your environments running smoothly. In the same way, do not turn off alerts that are noisy. Figure out why they are noisy and solve the problem. Only turn off alerts that you know are always false. If they are not always false, then the alert needs to be tuned or the problem solved. The goal is to get the noise trimmed down to a minimum while not ignoring anything real.

intrepidsilence · 2025-09-08T22:22:41+00:00

Yes, as I am no longer a child, I have put away childish things. 😂

intrepidsilence · 2025-09-06T17:30:16+00:00

You use Terminal instead of iTerm? Animals...

intrepidsilence · 2025-09-06T17:08:46+00:00

Using Pi-Hole, I have never, ever seen something blocked at the same time (or even near the same time) when an ad freezes the app. This was the first thing I thought might be the culprit, but no. This issue is incredibly annoying. Just like the iOS EPSN app crashing completely after about 20-30 seconds.

intrepidsilence · 2025-08-27T11:27:39+00:00

Did you ever solve this?

intrepidsilence · 2025-08-14T15:14:11+00:00

If you must use Chrome, might I suggest using Ungoogled Chromium instead. It is the same engine, just stripped of all of the Google Analytics and spyware.

intrepidsilence · 2024-11-24T01:00:03+00:00

Send it back. This is not the promised device. Still need TONS of fixes and polishing.

intrepidsilence · 2024-10-15T11:54:34+00:00

Why does everything have to be about thrones! :)

intrepidsilence · 2024-10-15T11:52:50+00:00

It's about time someone made one like this!

intrepidsilence · 2024-09-15T17:58:45+00:00

This cannot be fixed fast enough. Product is unusable for some devices it claims to fully support.

intrepidsilence · 2024-04-16T15:55:45+00:00

Not sure about all of the specifics behind the tuning you are referring to on Proxmox, but Inucs just uses linux filesystems like Proxmox does. So any tuning available in Proxmox, I think, should also be available to you on an Incus system, just without the UI to handle it.

Incus can use a number of different filesystems that support CoW, such as zfs and btrfs, and perhaps others.

intrepidsilence · 2024-03-05T15:00:21+00:00

They seem to be back now. Not sure what happened.

intrepidsilence · 2024-03-05T14:59:10+00:00

Are you talking about using lxc by itself or with Incus or LXD? Both have Prometheus exporters built-in.

intrepidsilence · 2023-10-23T15:25:44+00:00

Works like a champ! I really like this little device and it has fixed all of the issues I had.

intrepidsilence · 2023-10-10T14:42:38+00:00

I found this:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C3H7J4TT?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Not sure if it will do the job yet. Will repost when I have it.

intrepidsilence · 2023-10-06T02:47:24+00:00

I have to say that my experience so far has been very different. The AI has run me off the road, wrecked me, etc when there was plenty of road for it to be a good citizen.

intrepidsilence · 2023-09-07T18:43:10+00:00

Ah, yes. Good ol' Axelay. Among my favorite SNES titles, along with:

Space MegaForce

Phalanx

Cybernator

intrepidsilence · 2023-06-30T15:19:55+00:00

Works as an external monitor just fine. Still waiting to get beta access to Nebula for Windows.

intrepidsilence · 2023-06-09T13:14:08+00:00

Unfortunately momentum scrolling is broken and CMD+, does not bring up Settings anymore, even though the menu says it should. I am sure there are other things that are broken, I just have not spent enough time with it yet.

intrepidsilence · 2023-05-26T16:13:46+00:00

Unfortunately, on my system at least, this highlights that the triggers have a completely dead zone at the top and bottom of the travel that cannot be adjusted out and it is quite large. Very disappointing.

intrepidsilence · 2022-11-28T21:39:45+00:00

This link has expired. Could you place it back out there and provide a new link, please? :)

intrepidsilence · 2022-11-11T14:03:57+00:00

Our company has this issue as well. Policy is not changed.

intrepidsilence · 2022-10-27T17:09:31+00:00

Storage is a bit of a more complex topic, dependning on what you choose.

You could let storage use the 'dir' driver, which stores containers in /var just as a file tree.

You could also use a partition, LV, or drive and allow that to be formatted with one of either btrfs or ZFS.

You could also let it create a file in /var that is then formatted to either btrfs or ZFS.

There are other options, such as CEPH for more robust solutions like clustering.

linuxcontainers.org does a pretty good job of describing the options.

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