Pixel 8 stock, haven't gotten around to Graphene OS yet and a little worried it won't work with my bank/credit card apps. I think I can revert to stock if things don't work for me so I might try soon.
I'm in a similar boat re ham radio. It seems like a cool hobby, I'm into the idea of building and running radios. Even better if you add backpacking, DX-ing, "fox hunting" or other ham radio games. But the culture is a little off for my taste. People are generally polite and friendly enough on short contacts but you can hear some bad takes if you chat long enough. It would be cool to see younger, diverse, more left leaning new hams, it would get me more interested in going on air.
Declawing cats is animal abuse it really fucks them up mentally. And you shouldn't wash a cat unless they've gotten into something messy, they do a fine job on their own.
What ways do you use meshtastic? Did you setup any friends or family with terminals? It's kinda just like a group text right?
I've been thinking about setting one up myself but I'm not sure what I'd do with it. Im not sure I could convince anyone to use it even if I gifted them a radio. And I get enough of hams just chatting about their gear on HF...
I've had a good experience with TrueNAS scale on bare metal and proxmox in a VM. I don't have a lot of heavy weight stuff on proxmox though, mainly LXC containers and a few VMs. I also have a VM in TrueNAS for jellyfin that I pass a GPU into. It's been running that way for several years without issue.
I sympathize with wanting to feel comfortable and connected with a partner. I hope you can find an arrangement that makes you happy.
I also totally know the feeling of finding little passages or pieces of art or media that I really emotionally resonate with and struggling to communicate what they mean to me. I'm not surprised, things like that are so strongly influenced by your own context, but I still find it disappointing.
Ive been playing around with these Alchitry boards. The IDE they've made for them is a little funky looking but you can make bit files with standard tools like Vivado and just use their tools to flash them.
https://shop.alchitry.com/collections/products
I'm a big advocate for open source hardware and software, which The FPGA industry really struggles with. I've heard the ICE40 FPGA is supported with an open source software tool chain. It looks capable enough to make a CPU and low speed peripherals, but I haven't used them.
I spent a lot of time playing Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts alone and online with friends. A lot of people I've talked to view it negatively and are surprised when I say it was one of my favorite 360 titles. It's one of the main reasons I want to try out Xbox 360 emulation.
Pretty much everything else virtualization. I have a few small LXC containers running Ad Guard and Unifi Controller, and VMs for a gitlab instance, gitlab runner, and some game servers. I could host all that in TrueNAS directly but I like proxmox's UI.
My setup is TrueNAS SCALE on bare metal with VMs for Proxmox and Jellyfin. I pass an Arc A380 to Jellyfin for transcoding and it works great. I also leverage LXC contains a lot for small services. I keep everything behind a VPN. It's pretty easy to distribute Wireguard configs and import them on most OSes, but It's been a mixed bag getting family members to use it though.
I'm a fan of having dedicated network hardware and VLANs on one router. I generally go for Mikrotik. I used to run pfsense on a VM and when the server when down so did everything else, which caused the house to erupt into chaos.
Also if you're considering new hardware already I really recommend looking into surplus enterprise gear. I run my whole lab on an R730XD. It holds a ton of drives, has an IDRAC (I can't live without it now), ECC for extra peace of mind during ZFS scrubs, and they hold an insane amount of inexpensive RAM. They're fairly cheap on eBay or from refurbishment companies. Bring your own drives with warranties though, used drives are a headache. Servers like this can be really noisy though, I keep mine in the basement.
I'll also suggest a second drive to mirror your boot drive. You can and should back up your configs but a mirror saves headache and down time if the boot ssd fails. Probably even more important if you're planning on using this pool for VM storage.
Pixel 8 stock, haven't gotten around to Graphene OS yet and a little worried it won't work with my bank/credit card apps. I think I can revert to stock if things don't work for me so I might try soon.
I really miss my LG G8 though.
I'm in a similar boat re ham radio. It seems like a cool hobby, I'm into the idea of building and running radios. Even better if you add backpacking, DX-ing, "fox hunting" or other ham radio games. But the culture is a little off for my taste. People are generally polite and friendly enough on short contacts but you can hear some bad takes if you chat long enough. It would be cool to see younger, diverse, more left leaning new hams, it would get me more interested in going on air.
That was really sweet
That sounds like a good idea! What kind of soup?
Declawing cats is animal abuse it really fucks them up mentally. And you shouldn't wash a cat unless they've gotten into something messy, they do a fine job on their own.
Try and come at us, we have a rock
What ways do you use meshtastic? Did you setup any friends or family with terminals? It's kinda just like a group text right?
I've been thinking about setting one up myself but I'm not sure what I'd do with it. Im not sure I could convince anyone to use it even if I gifted them a radio. And I get enough of hams just chatting about their gear on HF...
I've had a good experience with TrueNAS scale on bare metal and proxmox in a VM. I don't have a lot of heavy weight stuff on proxmox though, mainly LXC containers and a few VMs. I also have a VM in TrueNAS for jellyfin that I pass a GPU into. It's been running that way for several years without issue.
I sympathize with wanting to feel comfortable and connected with a partner. I hope you can find an arrangement that makes you happy.
I also totally know the feeling of finding little passages or pieces of art or media that I really emotionally resonate with and struggling to communicate what they mean to me. I'm not surprised, things like that are so strongly influenced by your own context, but I still find it disappointing.
Speaking of speaking of power lines, are you a fan of Any Austin? https://youtu.be/mTtMCoJrGxk
If you're up for roasting your own (it's easy and fun!) there is a great variety of decaf green beans.
www.sweetmarias.com/green-coffee.html
I regularly roast their decaf fazenda and it's great.
Ive been playing around with these Alchitry boards. The IDE they've made for them is a little funky looking but you can make bit files with standard tools like Vivado and just use their tools to flash them. https://shop.alchitry.com/collections/products
The Digilent Arty boards aren't very expensive and are well supported, including board files and programming support in Vivado I believe. https://digilent.com/shop/arty-s7-spartan-7-fpga-development-board/
Cheaper than those you'll probably need to change FPGA vendors, like this Lattice board https://www.tindie.com/products/tinyvision_ai/upduino-v31-low-cost-lattice-ice40-fpga-board/
I'm a big advocate for open source hardware and software, which The FPGA industry really struggles with. I've heard the ICE40 FPGA is supported with an open source software tool chain. It looks capable enough to make a CPU and low speed peripherals, but I haven't used them.
The way I see it, more engines for us!
I spent a lot of time playing Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts alone and online with friends. A lot of people I've talked to view it negatively and are surprised when I say it was one of my favorite 360 titles. It's one of the main reasons I want to try out Xbox 360 emulation.
Oh ya makes sense. Anything in a rack form factor would be much too loud to live with. I think in that case you've made great choices in hardware!
Pretty much everything else virtualization. I have a few small LXC containers running Ad Guard and Unifi Controller, and VMs for a gitlab instance, gitlab runner, and some game servers. I could host all that in TrueNAS directly but I like proxmox's UI.
My setup is TrueNAS SCALE on bare metal with VMs for Proxmox and Jellyfin. I pass an Arc A380 to Jellyfin for transcoding and it works great. I also leverage LXC contains a lot for small services. I keep everything behind a VPN. It's pretty easy to distribute Wireguard configs and import them on most OSes, but It's been a mixed bag getting family members to use it though.
I'm a fan of having dedicated network hardware and VLANs on one router. I generally go for Mikrotik. I used to run pfsense on a VM and when the server when down so did everything else, which caused the house to erupt into chaos.
Also if you're considering new hardware already I really recommend looking into surplus enterprise gear. I run my whole lab on an R730XD. It holds a ton of drives, has an IDRAC (I can't live without it now), ECC for extra peace of mind during ZFS scrubs, and they hold an insane amount of inexpensive RAM. They're fairly cheap on eBay or from refurbishment companies. Bring your own drives with warranties though, used drives are a headache. Servers like this can be really noisy though, I keep mine in the basement.
I'll also suggest a second drive to mirror your boot drive. You can and should back up your configs but a mirror saves headache and down time if the boot ssd fails. Probably even more important if you're planning on using this pool for VM storage.
Have fun! 😁
Do you have a source for that? I can't find anything related to TrueNAS deprecating VMs.
Do no research, read no guides.
That's awesome, congrats! This is the kind of inspiration I need.