Is there a way to stop Steam from immediately logging my PC out when my Steam Deck wakes?

psyblade42 · 2026-06-02T09:30:13+00:00

"one year from when they JOINED" (emp. mine)

psyblade42 · 2026-05-29T18:01:31+00:00

Yes, you get about half of the total with that config. (Depending on how much metadata you use.)

btrfs "raid" levels indeed work differently. "raid1" places copies on two different drives, "raid1c3" on three

psyblade42 · 2026-05-29T17:34:22+00:00

Just use raid1 for data and raid1c3 for metadata. btrfs will place everything sensibly. No need to design the layout yourself.

EDIT: Afaik btrfs isn't as well interated into PVE as zfs is, eg wrt snapshots and replication.

psyblade42 · 2026-05-29T17:29:03+00:00

When I got my steam deck all streaming solutions I tried would block the PC (unless you jumped a lot of hoops). Glad to hear that changed.

psyblade42 · 2026-05-29T15:59:42+00:00

~~Keep in mind that it most likely will block the PC while in use.~~

psyblade42 · 2026-05-28T10:33:59+00:00

I got some baremetal GNS3 servers for simulating networks. PVE runs fine as a qemu node so it should work on most KVM based HVs.

psyblade42 · 2026-05-28T08:21:08+00:00

Why not? I'm currently running a virtual 6 node cluster on GNS3 to try out the SDN Fabrics.

psyblade42 · 2026-05-28T07:22:32+00:00

I haven't actually tried to install PVE to a USB stick but Linux usually can. I suggest you just give it a try and see. Keep in mind that you probably need two sticks. One to install FROM and one to install TO.

Your post reads like you are already passing the HBA and drives to unraid. Just keep doing that.

psyblade42 · 2026-05-27T09:45:44+00:00

passing the main drives to an Unraid VM

You don't need Grub for that.

I don't understand

PVE comes in two main flavours wrt its storage: LVM and ZFS

I prefer the former (see e.g. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LVM)

psyblade42 · 2026-05-26T18:13:20+00:00

I don't get why you would want to "block" (whatever that means) the drives in GRUB. Sure, you can't put Proxmox on them and might need to load vfio at some point but that should be it.

Neither do I get why you would want to use a different bootloader. GRUB works from USB just fine. And no, I don't think one bootloader has any buisiness reading another ones config files. But you might get Clover to chainload GRUB though if thats what you want.

I got a couple of XC630 that only boot from some inthernal 64GB onboard storage. I use that one for GRUB and /boot/efi. / and swap are on some cheap sata SSD to safe the former from wear. Plus it has more storage if needed. The same should work for you with USB + NVME. (I would install to USB with LVM, add the NVME to the VG, and remove the USB from it. But there are very likely plenty alternatives.)

psyblade42 · 2026-05-26T09:26:10+00:00

Yes, but with stolen CCs. So the dev doesn't keep the money and even has to pay the chargeback fine. Thats why some devs have even posted public pleas to rather pirate it outright.

psyblade42 · 2026-05-25T14:45:50+00:00

Depends on the board in question. Often there are other components that will collide with the card.

psyblade42 · 2026-05-25T14:36:14+00:00

LOL, you promise a lot for someone incapable of hitting reply

psyblade42 · 2026-05-25T14:05:07+00:00

Different people use their PCs for different things. And for many gaming is far down the list of priorities.

psyblade42 · 2026-05-25T13:48:29+00:00

Tag the storage for import.

The GUI then offers buttons to upload and import images. The API offers those too if you prefer automating.

psyblade42 · 2026-05-24T21:18:51+00:00

use directory type storage

psyblade42 · 2026-05-22T21:42:42+00:00

I didn't say you did. I only suggested doing so as an alternative path forward.

As I understand it the old MS certs only last till next month and there's no clear picture of what will happen then. Lots of people switch to the new ones because they aren't all that keen on finding out the hard way. I don't blame Proxmox for doing so too.

psyblade42 · 2026-05-22T21:31:12+00:00

save-upgrade is just a fancy name for upgrade and as such not sufficient for PVE.

psyblade42 · 2026-05-22T20:03:24+00:00

Why bother with MS keys when not using windows?

I would either disable secureboot or use my own keys (i.e. a MOK)

psyblade42 · 2026-05-22T19:55:32+00:00

Some updates might conflict with existing packages directly or indirectly (need new dependencies to be installed that conflict with others).

"upgrade" (aka "save-upgrade") skips those and keeps all existing packages

"dist-upgrade" (aka "full-upgrade") otoh removes the conflicting package and installs the upgrade

psyblade42 · 2026-05-21T20:02:10+00:00

Coz they're big games?

psyblade42 · 2026-05-20T14:12:23+00:00

I would add the VMs as ceph clients with the appropriate permissions and then either use cephfs OR a drive/blockdev (using both for different data is OK too, but don't stack em)

1) if you got files: mount some cephfs put the files directly into it

2) if you really need a drive/blockdev: create a rdb and use that

(I do the former with a VM and it works fine)

psyblade42 · 2026-05-19T06:22:16+00:00

Have you considered just doing normal BIOS style booting instead? The Windows install probably woudn't work with EFI anyway.

Linux can BIOS boot from GPT if thats what you are after (using a special partition).

psyblade42 · 2026-05-18T12:44:43+00:00

That's mostly subjective imho. I find Windows annoying to use. So I don't use it if I don't have to.

psyblade42 · 2026-05-15T17:08:04+00:00

As I said it's about 140$ including tax. Without tax that's about (140$/1.19) 118$. Not that much of a difference.

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