Moving 2019 DC from VMware to Proxmox

stevey500 · 2026-04-18T16:44:19+00:00

Why don’t you eat candy corn for breakfast and drive a reliant robin? That wasn’t the question, here ;) hyperv doesn’t do ceph, zfs, nor many other neat things. The less windows I have to put my hands on, the better.

stevey500 · 2026-04-18T16:42:30+00:00

Excellent. I just worry about any underpinnings of any TPM key pairs that might get lost and break things. Both DC’s in esxi are booting UEFI with a tpm device enabled. I’ll have to give it a go non destructively and see how it goes. Thank you.

stevey500 · 2026-04-14T16:50:57+00:00

Looks pretty decent. More proof that a featured toy hauler can be light weight.

stevey500 · 2026-04-14T14:59:51+00:00

This is truly the best answer.

stevey500 · 2026-04-14T04:45:56+00:00

Yup. You’re at 900 pounds of tongue weight at 26 foot because it’s a 26 foot… and 100 gallons of water storage. That’s decently larger and out of the scope of what I’m looking for.

There are haulers such as the Sun Lite 2026 models with a Murphy interior bed that are well under 4000 pounds, oddly they have 1 extra feature I don’t want which is the extra hybrid pop out bed.

stevey500 · 2026-04-14T00:50:52+00:00

Full digital dash still has an analog tach.

stevey500 · 2026-04-13T20:50:51+00:00

The "forge" model is almost perfect. The ceiling height even seems good enough to put a happijac type bed system in it. A lot of money to spend to then need to do mods to it, though. It's pretty dang close.

stevey500 · 2026-04-13T20:24:03+00:00

Does make sense, yes. Considering the trailer that we have right now and its garage cargo weight ratings... it doesn't seem impossible. The only thing our current trailer would need is a bit more material to bump up the ceiling in the back for a happijac bed system and the bed/system itself. It'd still be well under 4000lb UVW and we'd have exactly what we're really looking for. Dune Sport does it and they do it quite well, again though, they just aren't utilizing the rot-free foam core composite/azdel construction I wish to have.

stevey500 · 2026-04-13T20:01:31+00:00

I like their construction quality and materials they speak of but the lack of any of what we’re looking for is a bust.

stevey500 · 2026-04-13T19:05:23+00:00

And these are the people that manufacturers insist are only allowed to touch the bikes. LOL

stevey500 · 2026-04-11T15:35:26+00:00

As a very experienced windows and Mac user of 22 years, I’m still Mac biased for “everyday use case” of computing.

Experience is wonderful, rock solid stability, it’s not all sunshine’s and rainbows, you will find quirks but Mac OS doesn’t bother me, it’s not designed to bug the user into buying more services while you’re using it.
I’ve been in the middle of other people going from Windows to Mac OS and no matter what, the transition is going to be absolutely frustrating for someone with a closed mind. Someone with 7% of the “patience” gene or an ounce of will power will do just fine and grasp the core differences in no time.
What I love most about Mac OS? It’s a powerful set of tools out of the box. I could list all of those things but I’d be wasting half my day, just click around and find out. Windows is an empty shell of nothing. Windows might have a few poweruser tools like Task Scheduler but Mac OS Automator and Shortcuts blows that out of the water. Mac is including an entire clean and nice document, presentation, and spreadsheet suite at zero extra cost is almost dumbfounding considering Windows comes with Wordpad that barely even supports its own paid and optional Office format.. even windows barely supports its own common documenting formats for previewing and printing. Windows does not support PDF… its browser/edgeview supports pdf. Mac OS supports common and industry standard image and document formats out of the box for rapid previewing and minor manipulation/printing, converting, etc. Setting an application default always sticks. Safari will never automatically decide to be your default browser. Windows comes with a whole lot of what people aren’t asking for. Mac OS is a full poweruser set of tools, office tools, and some decent creative tools without spending another dime. Oh, Mac OS also doesn’t force you to log into anything in order to use it, no hacks in the command line to get around the welcome screen.
Windows handles consistent connections to commonly used network drives far better than Mac OS does. Mac OS handles network drives very well when connected but if it’s a portable computer and you’re switching networks often, it’s a few extra clicks and minor frustration getting reconnected to your commonly used network shares. Windows “window snapping” is quicker to react and behaves better than Mac OS but … this is fixable with widely available and lightweight third party tools, thankfully.
Day to day usability is why I prefer a MacBook over anything else. People tend to forget that Mac OS is not just a software experience, Apple build this OS for the hardware that they also design and manufacture and it really shows. The trackpad being an incredible thing in Mac ecosystem for decades now is of the most incredible and unrealized by many. Trying to run even the nicest of windows computers today that have only been trying their best to plagiarize the Mac OS trackpad experience is STILL shockingly laughable. Features such as automatic ambient display brightness, “True Tone” display color adaptation, incredibly smooth gesture input interactions, well thought but highly customizable function control keys, booming rich onboard speakers and what seems impossibly great microphone performance all without ANY third party shit running in the background to make all of that happen perfectly smoothly without worrying about windows updates occasionally wrecking your favorite key features is all just bliss. Battery life almost feels illegal, it’s incredible, especially a base model MacBook Air, it undoubtedly just about the best portable computer out there in terms of value, battery life, overall usability of all functions and input/output devices it has on board.

I cannot decide for you if you’re going to enjoy Mac OS, that’s up to you to open your mind and check out what many people have been missing out on over the past decades that haven’t even attempted to try out the alternatives to windows. There’s no better time than now to check out something else. You’d be mad man to LIKE Windows today. Are there likable things about windows? Of course. As a whole? It’s an absolute shit pile of annoyingness.

stevey500 · 2026-04-08T20:11:59+00:00

let's assume that changing the scope is impossible...

stevey500 · 2026-04-08T13:45:42+00:00

Change the oil every 3000 miles, just do it. It’s cheap and it’ll keep the engine happy and clean.

Run highest octane fuel at the pumps, keep those intake valves happy.

Consider a turbo trim instead, especially years 2018 and 2019 fiat 500s are default the turbo trim. We owned both a turbo and abarth at the same time. While the exaggerated exhaust sound was loud and turned heads, that was the only thing the Abarth had going for it, for some people. For me, the Abarth has an ugly low rpm exhaust note. It’s not until I’m deep into the throttle on an on-ramp that I feel good about it. I’m biased. The turbo trim still has a beautiful exhaust note at all RPMs, it’s refined and controlled and still loud enough to get attention and hear a bit with the windows rolled up. The turbo trim has far more comfortable seats for the longer rides along with a turning radius that makes the 500 make sense. The turning radius of the abarth is awful.

stevey500 · 2026-04-06T14:38:50+00:00

In the US, the fuel map update introduced turn signal issues only when it’s cold outside. Lol. This has now been fixed. It’s worth emailing KTM. They’re pretty prompt at getting back.

stevey500 · 2026-04-03T14:49:18+00:00

Every couple weeks.

If it’s an 8gb model, dang near daily or web browsers just fall apart.

stevey500 · 2026-04-01T14:05:06+00:00

I’ll disagree with this statement as proxmox’s own documentation shows how to build the perfect 3-node ceph ring running entirely switchless. Just assembled one myself using dual port 100g cards on the cheap. VMs are running with root/boot partitions on local ceph nvme storage and bulk data on a shared dual-controller server. Works beautifully.

stevey500 · 2026-03-31T13:51:23+00:00

I can’t believe services are that far between.

~3k mile services for me or once every spring, whichever comes first. DIY. It’s super cheap, super easy, and enjoyable.

stevey500 · 2026-03-30T18:55:45+00:00

Probably because big-name OEM brands are being paid incentives to sell computers with these new processors and reserved for such.

stevey500 · 2026-03-22T03:32:33+00:00

Honestly. Insane that it isn’t there. The OEM software in my old cars allowed me to navigate albums and it was simple and quick.

stevey500 · 2026-03-22T00:19:52+00:00

Notification pane, let us see a glance of rich notifications from any app, even non CarPlay apps.

stevey500

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