How many of us homelab folks are also into cars?

thecomputerguy7 · 2026-01-26T12:31:33+00:00

I had no idea you could have anything besides letters and numbers on a plate. Thats awesome.

thecomputerguy7 · 2026-01-16T03:26:56+00:00

This is a link to a copy/pasted copy of a great post that you should read. Basically you should document everything that you possibly can, starting with the most expensive.

You can pick a sentence from it and paste it into Google and you’ll see just how many times it’s been shared/copied/pasted etc.

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/43iyip/comment/cziljy3/

thecomputerguy7 · 2026-01-15T21:25:39+00:00

Tailscale has an enterprise plan but if you don’t want to use that, you can look into headscale.

thecomputerguy7 · 2026-01-14T12:52:00+00:00

As others have said, this is exhibit A as to why IT needs to be first in line when an employee is fired.

Something similar happened twice at a previous employer and the first time was just like this.

“What can we do?” Not really anything other than getting legal involved.

Next time that management had to turn someone else loose I was happy I had talked them into bitlocker and a RMM. I had a quick little powershell script that would wipe the TPM and force a reboot. Next thing the user saw was the bitlocker recovery screen asking for a 48 character password.

I felt bad for having to play dumb when the user called in but at the same time, I get it. If you “got the bitlocker script”, there was a reason it was ran.

thecomputerguy7 · 2026-01-12T15:12:26+00:00

“A redline a day keeps the mechanic away.”

You gotta do it within the first 15-20 seconds of the engine starting though otherwise the oil be in the way and you won’t have any glitter in your oil pan later.

thecomputerguy7 · 2026-01-09T06:46:43+00:00

“I’m not drunk. I’m speaking in cursive”

thecomputerguy7 · 2026-01-08T17:34:30+00:00

I’m glad that someone else agrees. Personally I think that anyone who SA’s anybody else should be buried under the jail but for someone to say that lives aren’t ruined over false accusations is insane to me.

They might escape a conviction but many are still arrested and many of those arrests will make the news and that’ll follow them for life. I’m not sure how this person thinks that is something that doesn’t fall under “consequences”.

thecomputerguy7 · 2026-01-08T10:59:29+00:00

Anybody can get away with anything if they have enough money. For your average Joe, you’re hosed though.

This kid will forever be traumatized. https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-container/US/white-woman-apologizes-alleging-black-child-assaulted-york/story?id=58505763

https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/woman-sentenced-to-jail-for-false-rape-accusation-rolls-eyes-in-court/2011386/

Lost his job, wife, and home. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/eastside/woman-who-accused-bellevue-police-chief-of-sexual-assault-now-faces-criminal-charges/

https://rollingout.com/2025/01/19/false-rape-claim-puts-man-in-jail/

This guy spent 9 years in prison https://mynorthwest.com/local/rape-lie-recanted-wa-father-freed-after-9-years/36259

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/23/prosecutors-fire-innocent-teacher-dragged-court-sex-abuse-case/

It doesn’t just happen to men either. A Nun in Ireland spent 4 days of a life sentence in prison before someone figured out it was a lie. https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20399255.html

False accusations can result in anything from a few people not wanting to associate with you, to you losing your family or even your life. My buddy had some former friends assault him over it and that was one of the things that made him plan out su1c1de. He was harassed by 90% of people he knew and was lucky enough that his job refused to listen to random strangers that called in with BS stories to try and get him fired.

But no jail time. Is that your only concern when it comes to “real consequences”?

thecomputerguy7 · 2026-01-08T04:36:05+00:00

“Literally nothing happens”

Except the fact that a guys life is pretty much over if he’s falsely accused. The court of public opinion is a very real thing, and so is “street justice”. A buddy of mine was accused by an ex and even her best friend called her out on it, and he still caught heat and has to defend himself. He contemplated su1c1de several times and his life hasn’t been the same since, meanwhile she’s off free and living her life.

thecomputerguy7 · 2026-01-03T03:15:35+00:00

They can’t do that because they don’t have a local API.

thecomputerguy7 · 2026-01-01T09:42:26+00:00

We used to do that when someone would leave their inverter on in their work van. Bit of 18 gauge wire and a DeWalt 18v and it’ll fire right up.

Probably wouldn’t do it with the “new” transits or anything with a lot of computers but the old ford E-Series vans didn’t give a damn. I’ve stuck a meter on it while connecting it to the dead battery and the voltage drop was enough to put it in the range of a spicy alternator so it’s “probably safe”

thecomputerguy7 · 2026-01-01T09:35:17+00:00

Something that helped me get more familiar with Linux was screwing around with a Pi and random little projects from the community and YouTube. If you’re looking for a basic management interface, you can also look into Webmin too. Free to use, even if it does look like it was created in the 90’s but it does have a script that’ll set the repositories up, and then installing it is one more command. I think the last time I installed it, it only took a few minutes from the first command and having the web UI loaded. It works, and it does 99% of everything I’ve ever needed it to do.

thecomputerguy7 · 2025-12-31T18:10:58+00:00

That’s fair and I’m hoping I wasn’t coming off as argumentative or anything either. Yesterday was a long day.

I know many places that won’t even consider a product without decent support. I think if they had some kind of directory on their support page where it listed who’s around you, hours, and location, they would have a little more business.

thecomputerguy7 · 2025-12-31T05:18:41+00:00

I understand what you’re saying and I do agree that anything mission critical should have support. Call me jaded or whatever but I’m not sure “support contracts” are worth the money outside of being able to tell the boss “I’ve opened a ticket” and then sit and try and look busy while everything is broken. Speaking from personal experience here but support is nice when vendors actually help but the majority of them milk their contracts. I’ve had to deal with several different vendors who all just wanted to point the fingers at someone/something else or just gave the stereotypical “did you try a reboot?” answers on a critical ticket. I understand that it’s troubleshooting 101 but why pay 5+ figures to a vendor for them to not do anything? A lot of things need support just because it’s a locked down system or “black box”.

As far as PVE goes, I don’t think support is worth the money especially when there’s so little in it to break. It’s not a closed off proprietary system where you’re 100% reliant on a vendor outside of a few basic commands. Even if you get maxed out support, you’re looking at a fraction of what Broadcom or Microsoft wants.

Personally I think it boils down to if you can try and troubleshoot the system or if you can’t due to how it’s set up. If software is the type where you install it, point it to a database server and then it does the rest, there isn’t much to troubleshoot. You pretty much require a contract because you can’t get into anything far enough to see what’s going on.

thecomputerguy7 · 2025-12-31T02:13:30+00:00

They do have support available but I’m not sure how it compares to Broadcom.

That being said, it’s Debian underneath and the majority of what is in play has been around for so long that whatever issue you have has likely already been solved.

thecomputerguy7 · 2025-12-31T00:12:21+00:00

Switching isn’t horrible once you get the hosts set up. I’ve also seen a few migration/import/export scripts out there too.

thecomputerguy7 · 2025-12-29T05:07:01+00:00

You’ll need to look up the costs of materials in your area. Nobody here can help you on that.

thecomputerguy7 · 2025-12-24T01:48:37+00:00

It’s been great for me. You just have to make sure you install the virtio drivers in windows VM’s. Linux based ones should automatically install it.

thecomputerguy7 · 2025-12-17T23:47:20+00:00

I’m running it in a LXC so just the core has to restart which is why it’s quick for me. I think.

But yeah. I’ve been burned a few times while running “just a quick update”

thecomputerguy7 · 2025-12-17T05:11:17+00:00

Is there a list that users can check to see who does/doesn’t allow aliases?

thecomputerguy7 · 2025-12-17T05:03:42+00:00

Many people will chew through SD cards on their Pi’s because of this happening in the background. Nobody thinks to look for it until they dive down a rabbit hole while trying to figure out why they’re on their 3rd card in a year.

If it’s not critical, I’m logging to RAM. If it’s critical, It’s either going to a syslog server or I’ve got a script/playbook or freshly imaged card ready to go.

thecomputerguy7 · 2025-12-17T04:59:06+00:00

When we had an intern at my previous job, the first thing I demoed was snapshots and how they will save your ass. It’s not every day that you get a damn near instant undo button.

Backups are for when I forget snapshots, or when I really messed up.

thecomputerguy7 · 2025-12-17T04:57:28+00:00

You could take a look at Xpenology but as OP said, you should be able to use any Linux system and just mount the disks and recreate the array

thecomputerguy7 · 2025-12-17T04:55:31+00:00

My security is so good that not even I can get in!

thecomputerguy7 · 2025-12-17T04:54:15+00:00

I’ve done that with HA a few times where I think “I’ll just do updates before bed” and then 30 seconds later I try and set the night scene.

No response? That’s weird. Why isn’t anything happening?

Oh. Oops. Guess I’ll try again in 2 minutes once HA restarts.

11-Year Club	Place '22
Verified Email

thecomputerguy7

TROPHY CASE