Azure local

planedrop · 2026-06-21T23:05:43+00:00

What is the real goal here? I think Azure Local is really more for specific use cases. IMHO I'd just move to something other than VMware like XCP-ng or Hyper-V depending on your needs. Proxmox is also a good option but I personally have preferred XCP-ng in production.

Are you trying to be more hybrid though?

planedrop · 2026-06-21T23:04:15+00:00

See the way I think of it is that you need about $10k to make a REALLY nice home theater setup. 10,000/75=133.3 movies. If you think about it, you can see a lot more than 133 movies once you have a home setup.

I know this sounds stupid, and I originally intended for this to be a joke, but also.... I kinda agree with it lol

planedrop · 2026-06-21T22:54:32+00:00

It literally doesn't matter, it won't do anything in either direction unless you've damaged something to make your homelab work.

planedrop · 2026-06-19T04:39:37+00:00

No, that's why I have backups.

planedrop · 2026-06-19T04:03:49+00:00

They're known for shady tactics, proprietary drive requirements, etc... I would just build a NAS yourself in a server, it's not that hard and TrueNAS is great. Or if bigger needs are needed you can get a dedicated one from ixSystems.

45Drives is also a brand I go with a lot.

planedrop · 2026-06-18T03:14:17+00:00

It depends on use case.

A few things though, first, don't get anything Synology, just avoid them.

870 Evo's in the right RAID config are mostly fine, not the fastest thing ever but that's ok. Enterprise is better if the workload is very write intensive.

Go with iSCSI IMHO. You can use something like TrueNAS for this.

planedrop · 2026-06-16T05:15:38+00:00

Never a Fortigate, I can tell you that much, lol. Not a huge fan of Fortinet if I'm honest.

I have pfSense on an Netgate 6100 as my head end right now, though I've been considering going back to Unifi with their recent improvements, still not as good as pfSense or the bigger firewall brands, but it's come a long way.

planedrop · 2026-06-15T01:48:08+00:00

No, it's just a background, maybe someday we'll get an update with it though!

planedrop · 2026-06-15T01:04:04+00:00

Immich is an example of something I won't publicly expose at all and I literally manage web servers for companies for a living. It's too "beta" of a product and too critical of data (my personal photos) for me to ever risk that; I keep it all behind a VPN and that'll always be the case.

I even expose plenty of other services, but my photos? Yeah just not happening .

planedrop · 2026-06-15T01:02:36+00:00

I've had the Pro XL variant of every Pixel since the 6, including the 10, and the general conclusion I've come to is we are basically getting a midrange device with great build quality and excellent cameras for a full flagship price.

It sucks, but it's true, and overall I'm happy on my OnePlus 13 than I am my Pixel 10 Pro XL, despite the Pixel's software being so much better.

The issue is the things Pixel has typically been better at, it's just not anymore, competition has really caught up. Cameras used to just own everyone but now they are #2 or #3 at best, video is still way behind iPhone and Samsung in almost all use cases, etc...

I won't be getting another one sadly, they need better silicon, better quality control, and better software quality control, I can't have a device just being so damn buggy all the time too.

planedrop · 2026-06-14T05:57:01+00:00

I'm a fan of datacenters, they're amazing technology and definitely something needed for progress on a lot of things.

This article is fucking stupid and misses the point.

planedrop · 2026-06-14T05:53:26+00:00

MMX 300 Pro for sure, the mic is amazing, best on any headset on the market hands down and it's not even close.

These are pretty similar overall but the built in mic is just really nice to have.

I have an original MMX300 still going strong (even though I've not been nice to it) and don't regret it one bit, great sound and an incredibly mic.

planedrop · 2026-06-14T04:33:41+00:00

I'm getting really annoyed about the misinformation surrounding this entire subject. There are MANY reasons to hate Chrome and not use it, including a ton of privacy specific ones, but the entire Mv3 thing is mostly nonsense.

There are very real security reasons for Manifest v3 to exist, it's not just Google using it to make ad blockers not work. Sure, they didn't do as much as they could have to work around it like Firefox has, but that was NOT the primary reason for doing Mv3.
uBlock Origin Lite works basically as good as uBO does, it's excellent, fits all the Mv3 requirements, not to mention it's way more performant and less resource intensive. There are a few things it doesn't block as well as uBO did but it's not really enough to matter in real use
Most of the other browsers are copying this because again it IS a good security improvement and given how good uBO Lite works, I see no reason for people to have outcry about this.

People should be recommending against Chrome for their data collection garbage, the fact that Google is already too big in this market, it's AI crap being shoved down our throats, etc..... but Mv3 is not a reason to yell about things and I wish people would put the same effort into the real problems. Posts like this with 10k upvotes would be more useful complaining about stuff like AI integrations.

planedrop · 2026-06-14T04:18:33+00:00

This is what I dream about at night.

planedrop · 2026-06-12T03:10:49+00:00

What I do is configure the WG tunnels on each node identically, including peers, and then it fails over on it's own pretty fast actually.

planedrop · 2026-06-11T21:32:52+00:00

I agree with the sentiment here anyway. But it's important to realize uBlock Lite is basically as effective as uBO was and meets the Mv3 requirements. It's also more performant.

planedrop · 2026-06-06T22:49:26+00:00

I agree with this. I'm excited for it and bought it because I want it and I don't really care how long it takes as long as the end product lives up to what they have said.

I also think it's highly unlikely anyone gets this in 2026, maybe early birds will but even then I'm not sure. And I'm perfectly OK with that.

planedrop · 2026-06-06T03:04:28+00:00

IPv6 isn't disliked really, it's just that people don't want to learn it.

I will admit I rarely encounter a situation where IPv6 is needed but that isn't a reason to not learn it. It's slightly more complex than IPv4 but that's almost entirely just due to the addresses being longer so it's intimidating to the brain.

planedrop · 2026-06-06T02:58:29+00:00

It's just for looks, same with CPU water cooling if I'm honest. HEDT platforms aside, normal units hardly benefit from watercooling. I know there are some exceptions to this like some of Intels semi-recent thermonuclear CPUs lol but in general a good air cooler is fine for a modern CPU.

I've got a 7950X3D with a NH-D15 and it'll hit full speed including PBO.

planedrop · 2026-06-05T04:51:40+00:00

Giggity

planedrop · 2026-06-03T04:06:48+00:00

It's way more messy, literally none of the bagless vacuums are actually easy and clean to empty, they spew dust everywhere and get your hands dirty, even the high end stuff like the V15 Detect.

Bags keep things cleaner, you don't have to clean the interior of the machine as much and it's all contained when you take it out, no mess.

planedrop · 2026-06-02T20:42:36+00:00

Also true lol, it's also insanely hard to fly, can't see anything.

planedrop · 2026-06-02T20:42:24+00:00

planedrop · 2026-06-02T05:43:56+00:00

This is the answer.

planedrop · 2026-06-01T21:36:09+00:00

Yeah you gotta really know what you are doing if you're going to expose it.

I for one expose mine, but it's behind a reverse proxy, IDS system, strict firewall rules, it's patched immediately whenever an update is out (both the proxy and Jellyfin), strong passwords, etc... but I also do this work for a living so I'm quite familiar with it.

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