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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The upcoming skate. from EA will be unsupported on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck due to anti-cheat⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Yup, easy way to get me to put away my wallet
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
It’s locked into the Xbox ecosystem. Even if it can be changed, which I assume they’re going to work really hard to not allow with steamos being so easy, most would simply give up before trying something else
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
The sad thing is that a few dozen people will buy it no matter the price, and will have a thousand dollar piece of e-waste when Microsoft decides to kill it off
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Photos: The Scale of China’s Solar Power Projects⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
We’ve been eclipsed in so many other ways - and now we will here too. We’ll still eventually get to full green, that just makes that process slower, but in the meantime we’re just letting others pass us by.

I wonder what they’ll do with all that money they aren’t spending on fossil fuels.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Docker with Ansible to k3s: I don't get it...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Glad to be of help. It is the right decision, I have no regrets if migrating, but it is a long process. Just getting my first few services running was months, just so you are aware of that commitment, but it’s worth it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Docker with Ansible to k3s: I don't get it...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I’ll post more later (reply here to remind me), but I have your exact setup. It’s a great way to learn k8s and yes, it’s going to be an uphill battle for learning - but the payoff is worth it. Both for your professional career and your homelab. It’s the big leagues.

For your questions, no to all of them. Once you learn some of it the rest kinda falls together.

I’m going into a meeting, but I’ll post here with how I do it later. In the mean time, pick one and only one container you want to get started with. Stateless is easier to start with compared to something that needs volumes. Piece by piece brick by brick you will add more to your knowledge and understanding. Don’t try to take it all on day one. First just get a container running. Then access via a port and http. Then proxy. Then certs. Piece by piece, brick by brick. Take small victories, if you try to say “tomorrow everything will be on k8s” you’re setting yourself up for anger and frustration.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got my first script kiddy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah with Amazon’s sheer size this has definitely been done before, curious what limits op is going to hit. My guess is they have a quota for submissions, and they’ll be banned from submitting tickets.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got my first script kiddy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I mean go for it? They literally can’t do anything, you might as well complain that fire is hot though. It’s part of being in the Internet. They provide safety gloves, via VPCs and fireballs, but if you choose not to use them then… yeah I mean youre probably gonna get burned
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got my first script kiddy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Uh sorry dude, but no this isn’t a script kiddy, these are bots that scan every IP address every day for any open ports, it’s a constant thing. If you have a public IP, you have people, govs, nefarious groups scanning it. AWS will tell you the same as if you were hosting it locally, close up the ports, put it on a private network. Use a vpc and WAF in AWS’ case.

I get scanned constantly. Every hour of every day dark forced attempt to penetrate our defences.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumor: MMO Developer ZeniMax Online Studios May Have Closed Most Of Their Locations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Oh come on, it’s Microsoft. They’re forced to use copilot
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumor: MMO Developer ZeniMax Online Studios May Have Closed Most Of Their Locations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I mean they only made one of the most successful MMOs to date, of course Microsoft is closing them
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outgrown my Synology NAS, time for a proper dedicated machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I really wanted it to work, for me it made the most sense I thought, as little virtualization as I could do. VM felt like such a heavy layer in between - but it just wasn’t meant to work that way. You have to essentially run your LXC as root, meaning that it’s essentially just the host anyway so it can run docker. Then when you get down to it, you’ve lost all the benefits of the LXC vs just running docker. Not to mention that anytime there was even am minor update to proxmox something usually broke.

I’m surprised Proxmox hasn’t added straight-up support for containers, either by docker, podman, or even just containerd directly. But, we aren’t it’s target audience either.

I’m glad you can take my years of struggling to find a way to get it to work well and learn from it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Personally I agree. I’ve seen way more startups kicking off with these waves of layoffs. It’s a silver lining, not much more, but I’m happy to see people finally realizing they don’t want the big tech solutions anymore.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outgrown my Synology NAS, time for a proper dedicated machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Not at all. Proxmox does a great job at hosting VMs and giving a control plane for them - but it does not do containers well. LXCs are a thing, and it hosts those - but never try to do docker in an LXC. (I tried so many different ways and guides and there were just too many caveats, and you end up always essentially giving root access to your containers, so it’s not great anyway). I’d like to see proxmox offer some sort of docker-first approach will it will manage volumes at the proxmox level, but they don’t seem concerned with that, and honestly if you’re doing that then you’re nearing kubernetes anyway.

Which is what I ended up doing - k3s on proxmox VMs. Proxmox handles the instances themselves, spins up a VM on each host to run k3s, and then I run k3s from within there. Same paradigm as the major cloud providers. GKE, AKS, and EKS all run k8s within a VM on their existing compute stack, so this fits right in.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outgrown my Synology NAS, time for a proper dedicated machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Just focus on one project at a time, break it out into small victories that you can celebrate. A project like this is going to be more than a single weekend. Just get proxmox up and running. Then a simple VM. Then a backup job. Don’t try to get everything including tailscale working all at once. The learning curve is a bit more than you’re probably used to, but if you take it slow and focus on those small steps you’ll be fine.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outgrown my Synology NAS, time for a proper dedicated machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I think at this point I agree with the other commenter. If you’re strapped for storage it’s time to leave Synology behind, but it sounds more like it’s time to separate your app server from your storage server.

I use proxmox, and it was my primary when I got started with the same thing. I recommend build out storage in proxmox directly, that will be for VM images and container volumes. Then utilize regular backups to your Synology box. That way you have hot storage for drives and running things, cold storage for backups.

Then, inside your vms and containers you can mount things like media and other items from your Synology.

For you, I would recommend proxmox, then on top of that a big VM for running docker containers. In that VM you have all of your mounts from Synology into that VM, like Jellyfin stuff, and you pass those mounts into docker.

If you ever find yourself needing to stretch beyond the one box, then you can think about kubernetes or something, but I think that would be a good jump for now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My statue Peebee (Mass Effect Andromeda)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Personally I couldn’t stand her, but I’m glad she brought you so much joy!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft layoffs are reportedly underway, with ZeniMax and King employees losing their jobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Remember kids, don’t buy into hype anymore. Hype is a marketing tool. They don’t have to make any promises that a game will be good or even come out just because they hyped you up for it. Don’t allow yourself to be excited for anything until it actually releases.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft cancel Perfect Dark reboot and shut the developers down in the name of "continued success"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Gotta love how they always have a euphemism available for “ruining people’s livelihoods so we can appear slightly better to investors”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to block dead Lemmy servers from search and interactions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Defederate doesn’t mean it’ll delete the local history. Every post and comment is federated at time of creation to your instance, and will stay there as long as your instance keeps them. Defederate simply means it won’t receive future updates.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to block dead Lemmy servers from search and interactions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They’ll automatically defederate after a few days. As for search, it only searches your local instance and what is already there, so it’s just historical searches. It won’t be anything new.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's real problem was never PlayStation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They ran off even their most loyal players one by one with their asinine moves. Lame games, vendor lockin, nickle and dining.

I was die hard for Xbox. Had every one, dozens of games, more probably. Have fond memories of lan parties and friends coming over to play split screen. I remember playing through halo 3 the night it dropped into the early morning, and getting the beta from Reach.

Then they killed off split screen. And lan gaming. You had to use Xbox live to play with your friend in the room. Oh no they don’t have Xbox live. Oh no there’s an update. Now they don’t have their password. They can’t join my party. The audio doesn’t work. It became a hassle to play with people

Steam just works. And it’s a fair price
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What we can? How? I’ve been eating ramen and hemorrhaging savings paying for cobra
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virtual Machines- is there a better way to jump start a VM?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Sounds like it, I think docker is exactly what you’re looking for
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virtual Machines- is there a better way to jump start a VM?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
There’s many ways to do this. Saving the disk state is one, I believe that’s what the other person suggested - essentially stores the disk as an image which then you use for future vms as your jumping off point. This is also essentially how workstations are deployed at companies. (Essentially being the key word). Cloud providers have different names for this too, in AWS this is called their AMI.

Another option is Ansible, which essentially handles deploying a VM by running your scripts for you. I haven’t played too much with this, and I doubt it works with VirtualBox, but it’s something you may want to look into, it would definitely uplevel your skills.

Thirdly is dependent on what you actually use your VM for, you haven’t given your use cases but this is one of the reasons containerization became such a thing - because when running an app we mostly don’t care about the underlying system. It may be worth it to learn about docker.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sortable Table view with $/TB for serverpartdeals.com⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Is there a site like this for other refurbished items beyond storage? More cases, tam, cpus?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cleaner ironmaking tech a bright spot as US firms retreat from green steel⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The same thing happened in 2016. They tried to roll back every green initiative, but no matter what they try, green just makes more sense. Not only green and long term, but financially too. You have a one time setup with solar and wind and then very little maintenance - or you have constant mining operations, transport, and burning of heavy, dusty, gross coal. It’s the same here, whether they like it or not - it literally makes more sense.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah with their “everything is an Xbox” nonsense it’s pretty clear they want to focus on the platform, marketplace where you buy games. Playing them is kind of second. I’m sure they’ll still have something, but it’s going to be more geared towards cloud streaming, pc, handhelds, and “play where you want” so they can just do the digital side. I wouldn’t be surprised if they get partners like Asus to build boxes now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The article said there’s a phone companion app
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
There’s a good chunk of us who used it with the web, and they’re adding that to the vast Google graveyard. That in and of itself makes me excited to see an alternative because Google will kill the app version on a whim too.