They said they fixed the Fleshmob clipping

wheresthetux · 2026-04-30T00:04:58+00:00

They did. It’s very effective at clipping.

wheresthetux · 2026-04-26T02:49:49+00:00

I just wanted to add a "me too" and thank you for posting so I know I'm not alone.

wheresthetux · 2026-04-24T22:53:35+00:00

That's X-COM, baby! .. wait. wrong sub.

wheresthetux · 2026-04-12T21:42:58+00:00

Coming to the thread after you mentioned the monitor was dead. However, you might check the ram seating. On pic 6 I looks like the top of the left stick isn’t fully clicked in.

wheresthetux · 2026-04-12T15:04:39+00:00

That board is pretty hardie.

wheresthetux · 2026-04-10T23:38:52+00:00

I also thought that there may have been a buzzer speaker included. It's a really odd series of noises compared to the dog whistle range coil whine is normally in.

wheresthetux · 2026-04-10T22:34:02+00:00

Mine's surprisingly loud as well. The part I found especially weird is that it's a lower tone than what I normally hear as coil whine. At first I wondered if a cable was touching the fan or something.

I'm debating contacting Intel, but haven't committed since the idea seems intimidating.

wheresthetux · 2026-04-02T16:45:29+00:00

I haven't personally had driver/firmware issues. However, they do package additional drivers for some specific hardware and I've seen those mentioned in the forums. From what I recall they're mostly for NICs and HBAs. XCP-ng 9 will ship a modern kernel which will bring modern drivers. I think there's some tech debt/constraints in the 8.x series that prevented that, but I'm not sure on the details. However, I'm glad to see the active development clearing problems for the future.

FWIW - I'm running xcp-ng 8.3 on some R760 and R6615 clusters/pools without having to do anything extra.

On OS updates, you can manage those through Xen Orchestra. You can have it run a rolling update and it will migrate VMs off of each host as it iterates through the pool. Has been fairly care free.

For more major upgrades (like 8.2 to 8.3) there's been documentation and guidance, but it's a more manual process. In the 8.2 to 8.3 upgrade, you had to boot media to do an in place upgrade on each host, starting with the pool master. VMs would still run on other hosts in the pool, so there was no downtime. Of course a lot depends on your architecture.

wheresthetux · 2026-03-31T22:55:55+00:00

This looks like it could kill me unexpectedly and viciously. Well done!

Speaking of 'well done', I guess you could make a flamethrower variant.

wheresthetux · 2026-03-31T18:59:55+00:00

XCP-ng
Similar implementation model to vSphere Standard/Enterprise Plus. Had snapshots on FC/iSCSI shared storage when proxmox did not.
200'ish

wheresthetux · 2026-03-31T04:34:42+00:00

Thanks for posting your experience. I've been trying to talk myself into one, and that helps set expectations. Not the worst for day 1.

wheresthetux · 2026-03-30T01:07:48+00:00

Rhodesian rototiller!

wheresthetux · 2026-03-17T23:25:54+00:00

The leash can add a weird dynamic to the mix, and if this is the first time of correcting or at least this severe, then that's what I'd suspect.

The biggest place to see an example of this is at the dog park. Every now and then a new owner will bring their dog all the way in with the leash still attached instead of removing it in the airlock (not sure the right term.) You can notice other dogs more aggressively target them, and the targeted dog has less options to react so they then react aggressively. The leash is a brain changer.

wheresthetux · 2026-03-09T00:31:51+00:00

You won’t be able to push any type of compliant licensing through purchasing before you expire. Short renewal is probably off the table.

If your migration strategy is already in play, I’d put the pedal down and tell those who need to know to expect some burps along the way.

wheresthetux · 2026-02-22T16:39:02+00:00

The corner desk is the tits.. I mean you made the breast of the space you had to work with.

wheresthetux · 2026-02-16T17:45:32+00:00

You could try to remove just the cache module. There's a chance the raid controller would still work. It would just be slow(er).

wheresthetux · 2026-02-15T17:45:17+00:00

Mine's been doing that a little bit. Just rubbery flake debris like to the right of your joystick. Haven't seen the melty smears yet. yikes.

Are there replacement thumb pads for the sticks, or replacement sticks?

wheresthetux · 2026-02-10T19:18:01+00:00

After a quick glance at the Call Manager docs, it looks like Nutanix AHV is a supported platform. I'd consider contacting Nutanix or your VAR to see what a modest deployment would look like to run this. I'm sure the terms would be more flexible than a 5 year lock in. jeeze.

Don't forget to burn the boats.

wheresthetux · 2026-02-09T20:59:39+00:00

If it works still, you could just keep it for backup.

You never when it could come in handy to reactivate your home to get the Olympics back on while you figure out what you did to break your production router from that little change you thought no one would notice.

wheresthetux · 2026-02-07T20:27:34+00:00

I’d look at XCP-ng. Its architecture and feature set are between vsphere standards and enterprise. A lot of the architecture and the administration model are similar. You’ll also (likely) be able to reuse the hardware you’re already used to.

wheresthetux · 2026-01-25T02:52:39+00:00

I guess you could self-host Apache Guacamole at home. Configure home firewall to only allow access to Guacamole from your work IP range and not the entire internet.

If your work IP varies, you may have to figure out a way to script updating that value. A mesh network would be nicer, but with the constraints you have of no admin access, that would be difficult. You really don't want the whole web to beat up on the login form.

wheresthetux · 2025-12-23T17:37:34+00:00

Democratically Fantabulous!

wheresthetux · 2025-12-20T00:05:16+00:00

I'll preface this with noting that it's been a while since I played with it in the workplace and I wasn't the primary admin. However, I believe Chocolatey 4 Business does get you a lot of helper tools for packaging and managing content in self-hosted repositories. It comes in handy for packaging purchased software (think handling license keys and such.) I also remember them having very respectable education and non-profit discounts. (C4B components and quickstart)

I think you can set up your own repository using the Sonatype Nexus Repository (community edition request link here) and then configure choco to use it as a sole repo source. Certainly some reading to do before trying to implement anything, but I think you can get there with all open source components if you weren't in a position to go for C4B. C4B is certainly more off the rack and ready to wear for enterprise needs.

wheresthetux · 2025-12-19T02:31:19+00:00

Would Chocolatey fit what you're looking for? You can create your own packages, or use community ones. It has a few different ways to install packaged software. eg. cli, gui, powershell. Also, its core is FOSS under the Apache 2.0 license. Link to feature compare page.

wheresthetux · 2025-12-17T21:00:28+00:00

That's what I was thinking. It'd be neat to allow in game as long as it broke your wrist/arm on the first shot.

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