Why stop there? Pretty sure BL3 was free at some point recently.

Again, your ISP does DSCP markings. They will only benefit you if you are facing congestion issues inside your local network. When that external FaceTime call packet is received by your router, if you receive it at all because your ISP doesn’t care about markings, and you are having Internet issues, it’s going to reach your end point crazy fast inside your LAN, but I bet the call will drop regardless because the UDP steam is either too jittered, or completely frozen anyway because of the upstream ISP issue.

It’s great to configure this to understand the principle, but I’ve been in the industry long enough to know when QoS is required over a 10MB MPLS pipe, and not required over a 1GB+ pipe. The pipes are so big today that flow control has little use case any longer and can cause more issues and hand holding configuration than necessary.

I guess what I’m trying to say is if you’re having issues with your home Internet, you will see it regardless of how much mitigation you try to configure inside your own LAN.

Flow control is really a thing of the past. In production, we mark priority based on source port and destination host at the WAN edge. SMB\NFS replication across the WAN is an example of this. As another commented mentioned, voice should be tagged at the switch later and carried over the network. Tagging at your router is a moot point in residential because your ISP is discarding any DSCP you hand them.

Yeah, now think of how many 1x1 pieces there are in here that adds to piece count. As I’ve built a few more sets recently, the amount of 1x1 is rediculous given they could use 2x1 or 3x1 in many situations I’ve seen their usage in. And it’s in almost every single set.

I was a little unfair in my post towards Proxmox. It really is a great solution and I can’t really complain, but it sucks in comparison to ESX where many “custom” items are still hidden in the cli or custom configuration items,. Many of these things are available in the GUI in ESX which is a pretty rough translation for some that have worked in ESX for many years like myself. ESX isn’t without it’s CLI moments but they are rarely ever needed, and if needed only for drastic measures.

The UI is not very intuitive and really looks quite dated too. ESX, Nutanix and XCP-NG have much better interfaces imo, and if Proxmox could throw some of that extra money they’ve earned from the VMware exodus in their UI it would be worthwhile.

Again, I shouldn’t complain but as I get older there’s not much “tinkering” time anymore, and the less time I have to sift through forum posts or official documentation on why something isn’t working as intended, the more easily frustrated I get.

Don’t go Podman. When I started years ago I installed Fedora with the “containerization” option. This installs podman, not docker as I’m sure most know. I did not.

Podman works great for the most part, but it’s slight differences from docker will have you fighting tooth and nail for certain services to work correctly. And not many (if any at all) have any documentation on getting their containers working with Podman of they don’t start. If you make a GitHub issue asking why or how to get things running in Podman because their docker stack doesn’t work flawlessly like it will in docker, good luck getting help (Mailcow comes to mind specifically here).

Looking back, this decision really shoehorned some very fundamental ideals about containers in my mind, but it was a long fought road I would not choose again. The knowledge I gained about containers with docker would have come soon enough on the easy road.

And yes, you can install Docker on Fedora, but I was much too far down the Podman track before finding out. My environment has changed drastically as of late and most things have been migrated to docker apps in Truenas now, living directly next to their storage as intended (the arr stacks really take a performance hit running their databases over NFS once you have a lot of media for example).

Quick note about Proxmox after coming from ESX myself - it sucks compared to ESX. I’ve tried to move away from it and Nutanix was the closest I could find to ESX, but after my server started complaining it’s drives were not compatible I jumped ship to avoid any write damage to them. I’m downsizing my lab now, I have proxmox running in 3 small NUCs with CEPH storage share and it’s working pretty good. Would love to run ESX or Nutanix instead, but they require a loaf of bread in resource requirements where proxmox only needs a slice of bread in comparison.

The 1TB version came with a completely different screen is what he meant though. A screen protector won’t be able to replicate a physical display difference.

Use file configuration, it’s a lot easier to grasp IMO.

So you called out a shitty boss\employee to upper management and they fired him. I’m pretty sure that response means they actually do care about these kind of situations. Sorry you dealt with a manager that didn’t understand an applicable HR situation, but that doesn’t mean the whole company is trash. Hopefully they do react the same for this situation.

I’ll save the drip, I’d like sour milk after sitting by the time I need to use the tap.

You can’t DPI a VPN tunnel because it will break the tunnel connection.

I’ve been having the same thoughts recently. Your mention of carrier pigeon and smoke signals now had me thinking that embedding data inside a birds sing like the recent jpeg someone tested could be our future soon.

I’m sure they did, and they wouldn’t take the farm down until there was X% failure, but the amount of time and effort it took to perform those repairs made it unfeasible.

It worked well until there was a component failure, requiring a whole farm to be taken down to replace said failed components. This is why they dropped the project.

That’s how long my wife and I made it into “A Family Affair” with Zach Effron and Nicole Kidman. Gave it a try but holy cow was it bad. And we typically don’t turn off movies or leave shows.

As of the last update released on August 1st, the “old” VMs are now visible again. The latest Electric Eel chain also merged all Core features into Scale, so the jump should not be as drastic any longer. I’ve always lived on Scale, but I assume you could try backing up your config and spinning up a new Scale VM and restoring the backup to it. No matter how you dice it though, it will be spicy!

If it melts, just print another!

What type of disk (HDD or SSD) and how many disks in the pool?

RAIDZ1 configuration will bring your write speed down some due to data having to write to multiple disks at a time. This is true for most any RAID. Once written, your read speeds should remain the same or improve a bit though.

AMD is apparently king now, and Intel has had some pretty big snafus in recent years. Personally I see them as interchangable.

I’ve never heard of that manufacturer for power supplies. The first search result I saw on that model is a PSA to not get it with many comments that they don’t work. I would go for an MSI or EVGA PSU instead. Everything else looks good.