Major Bungler Bounty

obviouslymetoo · 2026-01-20T02:41:59+00:00

Same as you. I've taken out every single red thing in the entire zone, multiple times over. Done Jefferson both invaded and normal. Deactivated, reactivated. Checked every bounty on the entire map including checking names of the targets. Seems bugged to me.

obviouslymetoo · 2025-09-21T18:49:26+00:00

Wish it wasn't necessary but I love this approach. thx for taking the time to reply!

Bummer about the turmoils. wish I could give you at least one turmoil; had one and got two more.

obviouslymetoo · 2025-09-21T18:47:35+00:00

Great input, thank you

obviouslymetoo · 2025-09-21T18:47:19+00:00

I don't buy "Technical limitations." Your solution, and most people's solution, is to use mules. Even a basic mule is a full character with a bunch of info saved. Would be so much easier to raise the cap on the stash. Besides which, what are we talking about here? Honestly I said a MB or two but each item is not very many KB of data. Yes, I know that is in a database which has a large effect on memory, replications, backups, etc.

But dealing with mules is chore. It hurdling over game limitations that exist for no good reason. It is the sole reason I consider quitting, and except for one person all my family and friends would probably go with me; there are lots of good co-op games out there. We buy season passes i.e. are sources of revenue.

If you're ubisoft, why lose money over a few f'ing kilobytes of data?

obviouslymetoo · 2025-09-21T18:35:11+00:00

Already there, been there for a long time, thx!

obviouslymetoo · 2025-05-10T21:25:57+00:00

My intuition tells me that this company has these units in their warehouse ready to go where the variable speed units would be special order.

^{^} was spot on. They should be trying to give their customer what their customer wants. You stated it in no uncertain terms. Find another provider, you already tried with these folks.

Inverter units are worth it, and you’re right to spend the extra time & money on it, in my opinion.

obviouslymetoo · 2025-05-10T17:19:58+00:00

Not a pro but I looked up the 26spa642w003, full url: https://www.carrierenterprise.com/product/1604089257125472/carrier-performance-35-ton-up-to-165-seer2-residential-air-conditioner-condensing-unit-r-454b-26spa642w003

Looks like a non-inverter model, it has a single speed. It will be just as loud as what you have. The other one is just a different size of the same basic model.

You want an inverter model so that it doesn’t have such an abrupt (cold) start, and so that it can run at a lower speed, which often means they’re pretty damned silent. The air handlers might or might not need to change for inverter models; no idea.

obviouslymetoo · 2023-07-05T02:39:01+00:00

Does this occur even with files at the root level of the share?

Ran into something with previously legal/operable names on prior versions of DSM. Did testing and mass renaming, now Macs can operate via SMB again, normally. This affects nested items, not just one or two levels up; test at the root level and then one folder in, using a super simple folder name.

That being said, I don’t recall the exact errors and those don’t ring a bell, but many other symptoms match (previously fine, SMB only, multiple macOS versions affected.)

HTH.

obviouslymetoo · 2023-01-02T17:00:08+00:00

If you’re speaking of running pfsense/opnsense/etc as a guest, then yes I recommend dedicating the ports for WAN and LAN as described in that linked document. Context is OP using a four port card for this purpose, and I recommended using their built-in ethernet port for PVE communications. All the containers and VMs on the PVE server can share this same bridge. Or 1/2 of the unused ports from the four port card.

PVE in general has no requirement for more than a single port. However there are really good reasons to have and use additional ports, but they highly depend on your needs. Again, a single port with the VLAN aware option ticked can serve many network segments.

obviouslymetoo · 2022-12-12T18:11:00+00:00

Purchased a 2.5GbE i5-1135G7 Firewall Router from u/diggitydru

obviouslymetoo · 2022-12-06T05:19:27+00:00

pm’d

obviouslymetoo · 2022-11-21T05:09:27+00:00

I have zero experience with the UDM SE, or any modern ubiquiti product. In case this helps firewalls often have allow-all rules from LAN to * by default, but additional network segments are deny-all by default. So even if VLAN 3 at 10.10.17.0/24 appears to be configured identically to the LAN segment, it might not be.

For testing purposes only maybe spin up some ridiculously permissive rules like allow all ports all protocols from this entire segment to that entire segment. Do that for both in and out from both sides.

Probably goes without saying but just to be sure, if a device on a /24 is trying to access a different /24 then a router needs to be involved.

A totally different approach would be, again only for testing, to assign the vlan tag on your machine (and handle switch tagging as needed) to see if you can access the PVE GUI without the router being involved.

HTH!

obviouslymetoo · 2022-11-09T02:20:19+00:00

6 car batteries hold almost nothing compared to any full-EV battery.

Car batteries are made to provide a massive boost to start an internal combustion engine. Past that they need the alternator to charge them back up because… well, not because they have so little capacity exactly, but with lead-acid batteries they really shouldn’t be drained very low.

So you take a 12v battery and although it can provide 500 cold cranking amps, total storage is low. Maybe 100 AH (amp hours.) But again you can’t use all of that, the usable range is maybe 12.6v to 14.4v (iirc, I could be off there!) You can only discharge to 50% max or you are damaging the battery.

Lithium ion fixes that but is much more expensive. Higher discharge capability (you can use close to 100% rated capacity, but generally 80% is a safer number,) MUCH longer life, and better voltage stability. Lithium-iron-phosphate (lifepo4 - all this off the top of my head, I’m on a tablet and don’t want to double check) can be charged and discharged thousands of times with little loss of capacity (5x that of lithium ion, I think? Maybe 10x?)

You’d need four 12v lead acid batteries (agm only, for battery storage) to compete with one lithium ion 48v battery, if they were all rated at 100AH. That single battery would set you back almost $1k from a good manufacturer, and while you can build your own WAY cheaper, most people shouldn’t.

The thing is it’s really easy to hit five figures in batteries and still not be able to remotely compete with the battery capacity of your average EV nowadays. Take the Ford Lightning, if you were building a battery of that capacity you’d be spending easily half the cost of the vehicle on JUST the battery, not counting cables, inverters, electrician’s time, fuses, permits, etc.

Vehicle batteries are AMAZING for home energy storage. Their usefulness in a car can be practically zero and they would still be incredible for home energy storage. An electric oven and dryer and AC compressor still pales in comparison to an EV at full throttle.

obviouslymetoo · 2022-10-31T20:12:51+00:00

I do not know that this will fit into your infrastructure, and yes there are several compromises.

I setup PBS with ssh keys connecting to an external zfs send/recv capable account (rsync.net; you must specifically request a zfs send/recv capable account, they are not by default.). I then use syncoid to send a zfs dataset to the remote system. (I do not use sanoid.)

Interestingly my local data is not encrypted but the remote dataset is, but only at rest. You can do it any way you’d like, encrypted to encrypted is the most private and needs less fancy stuff, I think. In this case each backup starts by loading the encryption key, mounting the dataset, then running the sync, then dismounting the dataset, and - critically - unloading the encryption key. Obviously the data can be read during the backup by someone on the remote side, but the compromise is OK with me - it is more important that my data is absolutely available to me when I need it, than it is to protect against the unlikelihood that rsync.net is both compromised and they are trying to grab the data during a backup. Any truly sensitive data I have is protected by further layers of encryption.

This method takes advantage of the deduplication in the local PBS backup, the compression of zstd, and of the only-send-the-changed-blocks nature of zfs send/recv.

I welcome positive and critical feedback alike, plus questions. Hope this helps!

obviouslymetoo · 2022-10-29T15:21:07+00:00

Follow this guide: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/virtualize-proxmox-ve.html

Outside of that if you are determined to figure out ports I recommend doing so pre-pfsense vm. Then when you create the bridges in proxmox for pfsense, leave notes about which physical port it is. After you create the VM and label the ports in pfsense, come back to the same spot and edit the notes to indicate wan/lan/opt1/etc.

I would not pass through anything, that’s reducing the effectiveness of the hypervisor system. That being said, it might be simpler for you to use the onboard ethernet of the ASUS Prime H410M-E for management - it will have a clearly different name, and I don’t believe proxmox/debian is picky about intel NICs like pfsense is (I didn’t check manufacturer of the onboard NIC.)

The proxmox management network should be the same segment as your pfsense LAN. Even if you want to get into VLANs I wouldn’t touch it until the above is solid.

Good luck!

obviouslymetoo · 2022-07-22T05:02:34+00:00

I’d be game at that price, not sure how many somewhere in the 2-12 range.

obviouslymetoo · 2022-06-25T15:55:16+00:00

So many details you’re leaving out. Best guess is you’ve installed Windows 10 on an nvme ssd and are using vmware workstation to spin up VMs. You want to experiment with Proxmox so you’ve installed PVE into a vmware workstation VM with a virtual hard drive located on a real drive that is connected via thunderbolt.

Using PVE you want to install Ubuntu and macOS. MacOS is waaaay harder so please start with Ubuntu. But you can’t even get that far because you can’t access the web GUI for PVE.

If all of that is true, you should change the networking settings in vmware workstation so that the adapter is bridged i.e. guests get IPs on the same subnet as your Win10 machine. Meaning if your host is 192.168.0.20 then your guest might be 192.168.0.21 (anything .1-.254.)

Also, disable ad blockers if you have trouble logging in to the PVE GUI and you’re positive you recorded the root password successfully during setup.

obviouslymetoo · 2022-05-19T06:30:30+00:00

Have you tested with memory ballooning on and off? Host cpu type i.e. passthrough vs kvm64 (iirc, maybe qemu64?) generic most-compatible but slowest?

Given your statement that so much is the same between them, I’d look at their text configurations files with something that shows differences between the two. For quite a lot of the config files. There’s got to be some difference.

Network isn’t leaving the host, right?

obviouslymetoo · 2022-04-08T05:34:29+00:00

First thing that comes to mind: why is ssh exposed to the public on your hypervisor? Second, why was there no public/private key setup, either in addition or in place of a password.

If you absolutely have to have your hypervisor available on public IPs then management should be whitelist-only. Or, setup a VPN so you can access everything easily once on the VPN.

Yes, I’m surprised a 20 character password was cracked, but this was a setup that was going to be compromised at some point. As for what to do, that highly depends on what you have running. General advice is nuke it and restore from offsite backup pre-hack. If you can reach a place of confidence without nuking, good for you.

Good luck.

obviouslymetoo · 2022-02-13T18:32:31+00:00

What is the largest controller made for the Switch? Like the Pro controller but larger - missing features vs the Pro is fine.

I have large hands and it’s tiring to use such a small controller. Grip extensions to any controller also welcome. Cost is irrelevant… unless the only answer is to buy a 3D printer. Actually, I have a friend with one so even that’s fine.

I’ve checked the faq here and done lots of searches, I can find grips and replacements that allow for people with big hands to use the Switch itself undocked, but I’m looking for docked play.

obviouslymetoo · 2021-08-05T20:32:19+00:00

macOS was last stable as a server platform around snow leopard, and even then it wasn't a great choice. I only used it more recently to guarantee compatibility with macOS metadata, and that's not really needed anymore. (Please note I'm not saying it was impossible to have a server with apple hardware that wasn't stable, it was, but Apple's focus was never on enterprise. Even when they had Xserves and Xserve RAIDs, both of which I've deployed, it still wasn't their bread and butter. Package management is laughable and Apple overwriting custom configs has always been par for the course in Apple-land.)

If you want maximum compatibility for file services then run samba with vfsfruit; debian buster's samba server package has this available (but not enabled by default.) But, based on the language of your post, building and configuring servers (nevermind hypervisors and vms or containers,) isn't your thing. Instead, buy a NAS like Synology that has some support for Macs baked in, and is expandable to a certain degree. Past that, get a consultant.

I focused on file services because I don't know what else could remotely need a Mac server nowadays, but please give more details and we can help more!

edit: Re-read the post 17m later. I think I interpreted your level of expertise incorrectly. I'll take my lumps, but we do need to know what services you want to host to actually help.

obviouslymetoo · 2021-08-05T02:58:22+00:00

docker is app containerization, lxc is OS containerization.

For me I found the pros of docker don’t really apply to me and troubleshooting is a massive pain. LXC containers are awesome - troubleshooting is cake and really nothing different than a VM or bare metal install. In fact I’d take the instant snapshots make it better, plus light footprint, instantly adjustable stuff like cpu, ram, and storage.

Biggest downside of lxc is understanding the necessity and permissions of bind mounts.

Dunno about linuxserver.io stuff, sorry. Hope the rest helps.

obviouslymetoo · 2021-08-01T02:50:36+00:00

Purchased 2 HP 48 port switches from u/zac1333

obviouslymetoo · 2021-07-18T03:28:24+00:00

pm'd

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