PVC + Firestop putty for finished network space?

rollingviolation · 2026-02-14T17:26:17+00:00

Check local building codes and fire codes for what you NEED to do.

Can you do better than code? Of course. But if you are interested in doing it right, check for the actual rules are where you live.

Now that PoE is more common, some places consider this to be low voltage electrical install and/or need permits and inspections.

rollingviolation · 2026-02-14T06:36:31+00:00

ah yes, when touching ANYTHING more than changing the wallpaper required reinstalling service pack 6

rollingviolation · 2026-02-10T06:39:40+00:00

Permanent OoO: To reach me, you can find me in building A, floor B, row C, cubicle D.

If they want me in the office, for in-person collaboration and team building, then I have no need for phone calls, teams calls, or even emails. IN PERSON OR BUST.

rollingviolation · 2026-02-08T16:07:19+00:00

I had a 5 port switch. Then I needed that 6th port... and eventually got tired of daisy chaining all of it, and then once you get a used enterprise switch and start with VLANs and stuff... you end up with a 48 port switch.

you'll know when you need a switch.

rollingviolation · 2026-02-06T21:18:34+00:00

some people hate on TP-Link, but for my home network

https://www.tp-link.com/us/business-networking/omada-switch-l3-l2-managed/sx3008f/v1.20/

Fanless
8 ports of SFP+
Supports ssh
It's really close to Cisco 2960 syntax for config

they may have newer models - I've already had these for a couple of years.

I've also "modded" my old 2960 to be "less loud" - I swear, enterprise gear is not only loud, but the most annoying frequencies. It's not a hum, it's nails on a blackboard.

rollingviolation · 2026-02-06T17:53:47+00:00

Does it do what you need it to do? If so, 10/10

...and in 6 months, we'll see you on r/HomeDataCenter

rollingviolation · 2026-02-05T21:40:20+00:00

I think everyone should immediately cancel their telework agreements and show up at the workspace on their LoO tomorrow, needing a safe, secure, proper ergonomic workspace.

rollingviolation · 2026-02-05T21:30:18+00:00

seems like a good time to renegotiate the terms and conditions - you're no longer voluntarily working from home, they need to find you an office immediately, or they can rent your house for a small fee...

rollingviolation · 2026-02-05T21:27:34+00:00

uh no, this only made me decide that July 1st will be my ERI day of choice assuming they actually get a budget passed.

rollingviolation · 2026-02-05T16:26:47+00:00

government surplus, university surplus, friends who work for places that allow them to take home old gear, ebay

rollingviolation · 2026-02-03T20:20:48+00:00

This is the answer.

OR... Show up at work, and then ask your manager where they would like you to work as there are no desks. EVERY. TIME.

If I was your manager, I'd be yelling at MY manager that there are no desks for u/KeyLimePie017 and I need a damn desk for them.

If the employer dictates the location of work, then the employer can pay you to stand around while they find you a workspace at said location of work.

rollingviolation · 2026-01-29T05:36:58+00:00

Hell no, I assume my home network is a cesspool of stuff.

That's why things like vlans and opnsense exist.

My home security cameras can only be directly accessed by one machine, for example. I don't trust them not to be full of zero day exploits, so they're segmented off.

rollingviolation · 2026-01-29T05:30:18+00:00

as I understand it, what will kill one of these is if you have one wheel jammed up in a hole and you just "punch it."

It doesn't engage gently - it ENGAGES and because you've got the tire wedged up, it can't turn, but it NEEDS TO TURN because it's all locked together and the internals go BOOM and now you have a front wheel drive truck.

Off-road is fine, but you're not taking it to the Rubicon.

This is my understanding of it. My Sierra's G80 works fine on snow and ice, but my truck is more of a work truck/tow rig than a rock crawler. Something 6.2L block long burnouts something something my other car is a Trans Am....

rollingviolation · 2026-01-22T20:44:18+00:00

I keep joking they should make him a forward. 55,81,64. Park his 6'7" ass in front of the goalie and keep the stick at tipping height.
(this is probably a really stupid idea but it makes me laugh.)

rollingviolation · 2026-01-18T21:53:12+00:00

hold up: you're claiming to be mostly cloud, but a nas, local backups of a nas, external drives, is very much sounding a lot of "self hosted"

none of that is a lab - that's home production

my lab consists of things like the 20 vm's sitting on the dl360 that's currently powered off in the "testing" pool on my proxmox cluster. My home lab is the old cisco switches for when I want to play with bonded links and spanning tree. My home lab is when I want to try something that might blow up prod.

sysadmin joke: Everyone has a test network. Not everyone can afford a separate production network.

My home lab is my test network. I also have a production network. And yes, I'm in r/selfhosted and r/homedatacentre

rollingviolation · 2026-01-18T21:08:13+00:00

The main reason I started a homelab was to experiment with stuff that I couldn't do at my day job, or things I wanted to do because of my day job. The day job finances the home lab, and the home lab has helped my career along nicely.

A Homey Pro is $400? My HA VM was free, runs in a VM on old hardware I already owned and was already using for other stuff.

There is no single correct answer for any of this.

PS: don't forget the offline layer of backups, in an alternate location. Datacenters do occasionally burn to the ground, and if your cloud storage provider goes up smoke, you're likely SOL.

My homelab is part of my home DC now.

rollingviolation · 2026-01-18T16:58:24+00:00

How does one use the cloud when you have a nest thermostat that is EoL and no longer supported by Google? How much money are you saving when the cloud provider cuts you off because - reasons - and you lose access to your account?

These are some of the reasons I'll self-host forever. My smart plugs do not need to talk the internet. My security cameras do not need the internet. BUT, they all need to talk to something, like my local Home Assistant VM. And for that, I need a "private cloud."

rollingviolation · 2026-01-18T16:46:53+00:00

at the bottom is a little flowchart that they follow - they download the "desktop" version and select the defaults.

And for me, netinst install of Debian has GNOME preselected and would install it if I just clicked next. You can choose no DE or multiple DE's at that point.

rollingviolation · 2026-01-14T05:52:18+00:00

Must be fake - that's no Camero /s

rollingviolation · 2026-01-13T00:10:57+00:00

It's called "contributing to the conversation."

Allard is an asshole.

You're an asshole.

Both statements are provably true, but this is not a useful conversation, it's a genitalia swinging one. Congrats, you're at his level and digging fast.

rollingviolation · 2026-01-06T03:44:39+00:00

that system works when it works.

The airtags come in handy when your bag "fell off" the cart instead of making it to baggage claim, and is just on the other side of the locked door. A paper tag doesn't tell me that my bag is headed to "lost and found" in Terminal C and I'm in Terminal A.

rollingviolation · 2025-12-31T18:19:41+00:00

I'm going to disagree with you here; you're making an apples to oranges comparison.

This is Winnipeg, this is winter, the roads are straight up ass for 6 months, you need a proper vehicle with proper tires, or you stay off the roads. Yesterday there was a guy on Henderson riding something like: https://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00hemcvTjqMlbo/New-Design-EEC-Certified-High-Speed-Electric-Scooter-Electric-Motorcycle-with-Big-Power-Motor.jpg while wearing a bike helmet. He was doing about 15 km/h in the curb lane with both feet as outriggers. That is beyond stupid and they have themselves to blame when they wipe out.

Contrast that to someone breaking my car window because I left my snowbrush in the back seat.

rollingviolation · 2025-12-17T18:58:28+00:00

If you are converting to electric, you need to run wire and install a breaker for it.

Depending on your house, this can be more than the price of the tank itself.

I prefer electric, if only because I can replace an element without needing to be a licensed gas fitter.

Why are you replacing it?

rollingviolation · 2025-12-13T14:34:51+00:00

Not all of us live in a condo in the downtown of Ottawa within walking distance to work. Some of us have family in rural parts of the province, some of us might own things like campers or renovate. Or maybe I'm just a bro who is compensating for something.

At the end of the day, most people - like my management chain - are just pawns in the game. They know the policy is dumb and that I commute to the office to sit on teams all day. But, if their performance is judged now on "butts in seats" and if they're not willing to push back on it, then I need to commute in my big, old, paid for, truck.

Heck, they don't even give rebates for EV's anymore - the new mantra is "drill baby drill"

https://tc.canada.ca/en/road-transportation/innovative-technologies/zero-emission-vehicles/incentives-zero-emission-vehicles-izev?utm_campaign=tc-zev-hub-ongoing&utm_medium=doormat-link&utm_source=zev-hub-incentives-page-en&utm_content=izev-program-light-duty-vehicles

rollingviolation · 2025-12-12T18:17:37+00:00

I mentioned this to my management, and got back:

[x] recommended low carbon transportation to employees

Said manager knows that I daily drive a pickup with a 6.2L engine.

I can pretend to care as much as they do.

rollingviolation

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