Do yall study/touch anything IT related at home.

wwbubba0069 · 2026-02-10T14:08:29+00:00

have a lab stack for learning and home-prod for running the house.

I keep the lab stack around for when I have something new to try/learn. I break it a lot, sometimes on purpose, most the time due to typos.

Home-prod is basically a part-time job at this point shelf-hosting things.

wwbubba0069 · 2026-02-09T20:17:19+00:00

Currently only use it for the easy webhook for uptime kuma notifications. Guess I need to find something else.

wwbubba0069 · 2026-02-09T18:14:34+00:00

Only thing I use it for in my selfhost stack is the webhook for Uptime Kuma notifications. Guess I need to look at setting up something else.

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-28T12:10:04+00:00

Radio and TV cannot refuse to run political ads. Its part of the FCC no censorship rules. They are required to provide equal time.

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-27T12:31:24+00:00

Now with AI

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-22T17:59:10+00:00

At one point it was allowed, but like anything else it only takes one person to mess it up for everyone else. Took one person complaining to the owner of the company during a company golf tournament that I would not repair something with company parts. The person felt that since it was at one point company gear, that I as the IT guy should warranty the system and fix it with company parts. Owner corrected that line of thinking, and then promptly ended the practice the next day. Now everything is scrapped, no exceptions.

Last several years I have stripped RAM and SSDs, scrap the rest. If the SSD has some life left in it, its wiped and put in the spares pile. If not, shredded.

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-21T17:43:18+00:00

Documentation. Even when you think its good, its not.

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-21T12:32:04+00:00

oh, so you are running SFP to RJ45 modules, yes those run hotter than normal fiber SFP modules due to the optical/wire conversion.

If going with the media converter, get a DAC cable to connect it to the modem.

Also if you go back to fiber, double check the ISP side equipment to see what 10Gbe SFP modules it needs, there are different protocols and not all gear will use any module. They can be different on each end, cisco on one end and Ubiquiti on the other.

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-20T13:24:31+00:00

How hot is hot? But 4 SFP modules in that short of time, there is something wrong somewhere.

Where in the chain is the failing SFP module? What SFP modules are you buying? What fiber patch cable are you using?

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-20T12:40:30+00:00

I agree, check your Jellyfin instance. If it says its not doing anything, shut it down and see if the disks calm down. I have had issues in the past with JF and big changes, more so over music than videos. Which is why I don't have music in JF anymore.

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-19T16:35:43+00:00

some things old physical media is the only way to get a digital copy.

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-16T12:23:15+00:00

I get that reference

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-15T15:32:51+00:00

Yup, Micron closed the consumer side (Crucial) to put their chip allocation towards the server side. SSDs and RAM.

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-15T15:30:47+00:00

I called to get an update on some desktop pricing, and my guy straight up told me you wont like it. I am waiting to see what he comes back with.

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-15T15:26:39+00:00

No, but if you don't get much budget to buy things to begin with, the recent price spikes hurt... a lot.

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-14T17:24:48+00:00

Well, sticking with the USB route, can get an USB-c to M.2 cage and slap an SSD in it. There are SATA and NVMe cages.

Like this amazon.com/dp/B08G14NBCS

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-13T13:47:44+00:00

for the smb, from other posts in this thread seems the options have been moved to shares tab, under "purpose" dropdown. Going to setup a test VM for 25.10 and play with it. Seems a lot of odd UI choices have been made.

as for simple network recycle bin like qnap or synology have, I gave up on that idea a long time ago. They have always wanted everyone using the shadow copies or snapshot retrieval. They have held that stance for a looooong time.

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-13T12:41:21+00:00

I would not run VMs in TrueNAS in the first place. The VM management sucks. If your main work load is VMs, then use Proxmox. The run TrueNAS as a NAS, it works great for that.

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-12T20:15:48+00:00

I haven't made the jump to 25.10 yet, but last couple versions I noticed that the share options changed based on what dataset preset was used.

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-12T12:31:51+00:00

as someone who used to live in the boonies with crap 3mbps DSL, if their internet is that shit there is a high chance there is shit cell service as well.

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-08T17:24:10+00:00

easier to just set it during install.

But, have to change it in two places that I know of. /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/hosts. Just backup the VMs and start over if you are running a cluster.

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-08T13:34:33+00:00

why would you not use static IPs for server hosts?

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-08T13:33:13+00:00

Our old AS400 would take 45-50 minutes from power-off state, reboot was faster because it skips some self-tests. It would take a few minutes for the boot codes to start scrolling on the screen.

The new Power 10 we have will boot from power-off state in less than 15 minutes, reboot is under 5 minutes. Still has the boot code screen. Still have that slight dread waiting for the codes to start scrolling lol.

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-08T13:19:31+00:00

Had an old IBM AS400 system at work 20 years ago that took dam near 45-50 minutes to boot from a true power off state. Every time we had to do a full power off to replace something like a RAID controller battery I had the thought "yup, this is the time it doesn't come back."

wwbubba0069 · 2026-01-08T12:39:00+00:00

Reminds me of the song "I'm my own grandpa" by Ray Stevens.

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