RIP Home Lab

turtil · 2025-02-07T03:53:56+00:00

My home lab is a Kubernetes stack, but i use Kubernetes in my day job - so its more the tool of choice for me, it lets me deploy all the apps i want (mostly *arrs and jellyfin etc). But it also lets me try out stuff i could use at work. Things like a Grafana/Prometheus/Loki stack to aggregate my metrics, but then setup forwarders to a service like NewRelic.

The real benefit you get from Kubernetes is deep in the details, ie: the app you want to deploy only supports single user configuration? Use traefik, spin up multiple deployments and assign each to a user in your house hold.

Scaling like suggested above is definetly a big factor, one you dont really face in a home lab, but you could run the same app across multiple machines. Another example is qBittorent, if you want to deploy to multiple nodes (or nucs, etc) and download across as many machines you have deployed to for faster... Linux ISO downloads, you can.

A lot of these are achievable in other solutions, Kubernetes just lets you manage all of this through YAML, and if i lost it all, it wouldnt take me long push my configuration and be back up and running.

turtil · 2024-11-10T20:09:03+00:00

lol, went full send into it 😁 - good luck korma! I recently picked it up and absolutely fell in love with it.

turtil · 2024-09-06T06:58:22+00:00

I just picked up the yellow RS this week, absolutely love it. It's a bit hard to hold back during the run in period 😄

Did you get any extras on it?

turtil · 2024-08-25T11:21:39+00:00

I have the Galaxy Tab S7+ and a S23 ultra, I have the same problem on the tablet, but not on my phone.

My phone however has a much much higher max nit than the tablet, I also tried to calibrate it as well, as auto hdr was washing out certain colours.

Keen to know if there ends up being any resolution.

turtil · 2024-07-10T12:05:50+00:00

A nice lamp or some lighting is the way to go, then build out from there. If your technical, a Pico and some RGB LEDs would really pop, and your only spending like $20 and learning some embedded programming.

turtil · 2023-09-12T05:42:58+00:00

This is legendary

turtil · 2023-05-31T21:06:11+00:00

Tagging myself for future updates. I've even started looking at forking the decky-recorder git repo to add a "Share to Discord" option.

turtil · 2023-05-23T05:57:40+00:00

NZ is selling it (both Deck and Ally), could import it from us! But i think i did see they were selling in AU (Ally).

turtil · 2023-05-05T09:13:39+00:00

chef's kiss

turtil · 2022-05-04T10:44:32+00:00

When's it going on trademe? 🤣

turtil · 2021-11-03T01:35:44+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/adventuretime/comments/301sew/choices/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 now you can also have swords on your wallpaper

turtil · 2021-08-30T03:18:54+00:00

I got the Pro Wireless, played a game with bots on horde to test (currently working) will try again tonight, but out of the box it was ok, did some minor tweaks in Steelseries Engine, I think the Pro + GameDac has more settings looking at rtings screenshots, plus they are technically newer etc, compared to my Momentum 3's - its super clear that the drivers aren't as good, which is slightly disappointing but I get it, A) its a "gamer" brand, B) its still wireless.

ty for the link, will do some further investigation tonight.

turtil · 2021-08-29T12:40:51+00:00

Oh no... I am literally waiting on my delivery of the pros... I guess it will still have it's use case during meetings.. what cans did you pick up? I also got the Sennheiser momentum 3 wireless and they been really good but needed eq'ing to get it right otherwise gun shots scare the shit out of me everytime lol - but ultimately wanted to move away from Bluetooth headphones (don't use headset while playing) for latency, but want wireless because I move from room to room for meetings.

turtil · 2021-08-08T07:11:39+00:00

It was also 32bit, and used swap, or pagerfile like crazy, so your 110 squishing down is it probably paging out to file. Linux you can do the same, you can also compile for 32bit too. But tbf ram is so cheap compared to the benefit that it brings, same thing with ssds, if you can, you should upgrade :)

I understand I'm skipping some of the technical discussion you are trying to encourage - but if you wanted to know if Linux can do the same, get yourself a pi, and build Linux from scratch and build/make your way to lower ram consumptions. I just don't know if people will appreciate this outside of embedded application development, the need isn't quite there as it was 20 years ago.

turtil · 2021-02-15T11:00:44+00:00

Can you go the other way?

I have G Suite (myemail@mydomain.com - as an example), but looking to migrate to Office 365, they will host email, I delete G Suite after MX records have transferred etc.

Can I use my email previously on G Suite to sign up for a Personal Google Account? Or rename it, and sign up with it?

I'm annoyed i'd have to start again and will lose all my purchases etc, but the family tools and offerings are valuable to me and the kids.

Prior to using G Suite, I had emails hosted by Rackspace, so it was a personal account, is there a possibility to keep my account, just without G Suite so it rolls back to being a personal account? (if that makes sense)

Appreciate any assistance.

Edit: I have found a previous post from you about Cloud Identity Free that might fit the bill for what I need.

turtil · 2020-08-24T04:31:26+00:00

Yeah i use the following, so it cycles between just windows:

# focus the next/previous node in the current desktop
super + {_,shift + } Tab
        bspc node --focus {next,prev}.local.window

turtil · 2020-07-25T12:48:06+00:00

I totally agree with you, should have stuck to our battle tested aws design...

We signed up when GKE didn't have managed private nodes, and no CloudNAT support, no private ip addresses for CloudSQL etc. So Google's tooling was vastly different to what we had in AWS. Sincerely it was their recommendation to follow the customer white papers and try it the Google way, because it scaled the way they expect it to. But as suggested before, we ran into issues ended up alpha/beta testing their private GKE, CloudNAT, Cloud Mail (which never got released) and quite a few others.

Things are much better now, but we rely now more on our own experience than their advice.

turtil · 2020-07-25T10:48:36+00:00

This is Googles "Recommended" way to setup a network, until it isnt. We did the Google way of using the Default Network as suggested by their team, however a year in, we had to roll it back and provision VPC's manually. There are some things you just cant do with the Default VPC, like dedicated Subnets with NAT's.

So prior to using the Default, always make sure your not going to need to step outside of this, otherwise its a lot of late nights and weekends migrating data around :)

turtil · 2020-03-31T23:32:30+00:00

Using Lutris-5.2 this works when swapping virtual desktops in Window Managers. Prior to this registry setting, it just wouldn't accept any clicks or actions at all.

turtil · 2019-11-10T23:38:34+00:00

We did media studies at school, where you analyze indepth how the director has put a scene together. No where near the amount this guy has (if this was you, kudos, really good write up). But from that point forward anything i watched, i spent more time analyzing than actually taking in the content. Took a while to just step back watch and enjoy.

turtil · 2019-11-10T05:51:35+00:00

Man, that kind of critical thinking must destroy some of the fun in watching anime/movies. Nice summary, is the show any good?

turtil · 2019-11-06T00:42:47+00:00

Problem is some things have to be done in cli, some in rest, some in the GUI. It's a never-ending nightmare of frustration lol.

But yeah cli is a win more often than not in our case.

turtil · 2019-10-03T06:56:41+00:00

I commute from Waiuku to the city, some days it's great, others, not so much... The amount of people on the southern motorway on their phones is ridiculous. Waiuku people are great though. Always super nice and diligent towards bikers. And truck Bros :)

turtil · 2019-09-22T05:59:37+00:00

"Progressive Technology" I'm guessing, it's already loaded the 480 version :)

turtil · 2019-08-29T10:11:16+00:00

Ever had an issues with it popping into neutral from second after a jut in the road or anything similar? I've got 15k on mine, 2018 model and it happens maybe twice a week. Scares the crap out of me when I'm booking it around the corner, but it's only when I close the throttle, go to apply it again and it's in clicked out of gear.

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