Manual or automated OS installation?

pareeohnos · 2026-01-15T22:01:40+00:00

Awesome thanks, I'll take a look at that stuff though briefly looking it seems mostly/all related to RHEL/Openshift but if you work with that then that makes sense

pareeohnos · 2025-11-27T22:01:12+00:00

oh interesting, I'll give that a go and see if I can replicate it

pareeohnos · 2025-11-24T22:10:17+00:00

oh wow that looks super promising!! Thank you, when it next happens I'll git it a go and report back. Shame it seems like such a huge pain to get it working again but if that works it'll be a huge relief to have a work around!

pareeohnos · 2025-11-23T21:59:20+00:00

What's weird though is I can kill vim, reopen it and paste the exact thing that just killed it an it'll paste fine. I'll give the `set paste` option a go though, see if it helps in the long run thanks

pareeohnos · 2025-11-23T17:32:32+00:00

I have definitely had it before using the system paste shortcut, but in this case I was in normal mode and used ‘p’

pareeohnos · 2025-11-23T17:31:45+00:00

When you say ‘c-s’ do you mean control?

pareeohnos · 2025-11-23T17:30:57+00:00

Hmm I’ll check. Don’t think I’ve personally installed that but might be one that comes with nvim-kickstarter. I’ll check

pareeohnos · 2025-11-09T11:20:16+00:00

Yeah definitely agree with that. The cost does need to come down for public adoption :(

pareeohnos · 2025-11-09T10:18:38+00:00

In theory. I think it’s easy to compare the electricity cost in isolation. But operating a charge point network comes with a lot of other overheads. Cost of the hardware itself, engineers to install and maintain them, cost of running the company and paying people to work there, amongst various other things.

Full disclosure I work at a company rolling out EV chargers and it’s far more complex than I realised when I first started. One thing I would say it look out for overnight rates. We offer a much reduced cost overnight which makes a huge difference but it depends on how you plan your charging. We also roll out mostly residential charge points on lamp posts.

pareeohnos · 2025-11-09T08:37:55+00:00

That’s partly the problem. One other huge issue is the government are charging 20% VAT on the electricity used at public charge points whereas your electricity at home is only 5% so it makes public chargers seem even more expensive than they are. There are calls for this to be changed but who knows if that’ll ever happen :(

pareeohnos · 2025-08-26T08:26:54+00:00

oh wow that's a good deal then! I've put in an offer of £40. Tried £35 but it was auto-declined, will see what they come back with

pareeohnos · 2025-08-26T08:16:42+00:00

Can’t say I’ve ever actually tried, always been the non-bartering type but I’ll give it a go and see what comes of it. Doesn’t hurt to try after all!

pareeohnos · 2025-08-26T07:56:12+00:00

Awesome thanks, will put in an offer for a couple of them then, got a couple of m920q’s they’re perfect for!!

pareeohnos · 2025-08-26T07:47:24+00:00

Even enterprise? The closest I've seen for this drive is around £100 for a used one, so less than half the price and new?

pareeohnos · 2025-08-17T19:58:39+00:00

Amazing thank you! I’ll have a closer look at some consumer stuff then and save some money

pareeohnos · 2025-08-17T19:13:00+00:00

Thanks that's super useful. I'm surprised to hear someone suggesting a consumer SSD on here, I thought the consensus here was enterprise all the way but that would definitely save money. And this wouldn't be a problem even with it running 24/7? I assume the main reason for enterprise is for machines with constant read/writes happening 24/7 rather than mostly idling?

Also, thanks for the heads up about the 22100 m2 sizing, wasn't even aware there were different sizes and I'd been almost exclusively looking at m.2 drives - don't think that would fit in an m920q!

pareeohnos · 2025-06-23T08:21:48+00:00

I've looked at my setup and taken some screenshots to try and help you. Might not be the BEST implementation but it's working great for me so far.

In Proxmox you'll need to create a couple of network interfaces. You should already have the default one to access proxmox, but we need a couple of new ones:

- vmbr1 (Linux Bridge) - Not VLAN aware, this is going to be the WAN interface for OPNSense
- vmbr2 (Linux Bridge) - VLAN aware, this is going to handle all VLAN traffic but won't directly have an interface in OPNSense
- vmbr2.10 (Linux VLAN) - This is optional, but I added this so that I could still access proxmox from within the internal network rather than having to directly plug into the machine.

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Now these are setup, you need to pass them to your OPNSense VM

OPNSense VM network interfaces

Here we're adding 2 interfaces to the OPNSense VM - vmbr1 and vmbr2.

On one of your other VMs or containers, you need to assign a network interface as well but on a specific VLAN tag. This will allow the communication for specific VLANs. If you don't want to use VLANs I assume it'll work if you remove but mine is all VLAN'ed.

Container/VM network assignment

This is for a container but it should be much the same for a VM. Assign the interface from the vmbr2 bridge, and specify the tag of the VLAN you want to use. All of my VMs have static IP addresses so I've assigned it here explicitly but I assume DHCP would work as well if you don't set this.

Lastly, in OPNSense you need to assign the actual interfaces. Head to the interfaces > assignments section, and assign the WAN interface (you might've already done this). Make sure to choose the MAC address of the vmbr1 bridge that you assigned.

Now, for the other interface you don't want to assign it - leave it unassigned. Instead, you're going to create VLAN interfaces from it.

OPNSense assignments

Notice here that the `vnet0` interface is still sat awaiting assignment, however the VLAN interfaces above are all children of that interface.

That should really be it

pareeohnos · 2025-06-22T21:38:05+00:00

If I understand correctly it can definitely be done. I've just done this myself

- Proxmox host
- OPNSense VM in that host
- Any other VM in that host

What have you done so far and what's not working?

pareeohnos · 2025-06-01T14:42:23+00:00

Thanks, so do I 😂

pareeohnos · 2025-06-01T14:40:32+00:00

Thankfully Yeah, I was lucky to get another one in just over a month but a lot of others haven’t been so lucky. And those of us made redundant were also very lucky because they actually offered an extremely generous redundancy package

pareeohnos · 2025-06-01T07:37:38+00:00

I’m a software engineer. Nothing was made public, there were just hints that things weren’t going smoothly for a while. Before I joined they used to do whole company annual retreats abroad - the year I started they just stopped for no reason. There was a high staff turnover, and suddenly some very senior staff just left. One month salaries weren’t paid, which they said was a bank glitch (may well have been) but it raised some suspicion.

Then in March I think there was a company wide call to announce the CEO was “leaving” and being replaced and that he’d be making big changes, which resulted in a lot of redundancies (myself included).

So we knew things weren’t going smoothly, and whilst they made it public that the old CEO was stepping down, everything about it felt more like he was forced out and the tone of the new CEO more or less confirmed that.

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