@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
hating ZFS more and more each day, lol
I've quickly discovered there is a fervent populus of ZFS defenders and apologists. It reminds me of the RAID-5 knife fights ....err I mean discussions 
You sure do know how to pick a nemesis, SAM 
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Moving from iOS to Android...
Honestly wasn't ready to but events have transpired to move things along.Not sure how I feel about it.
My condolences. I'm a PC/Android guy but it doesn't matter who you are. Completely changing platforms SUCKS no matter who you are lol
On that note, the past 2 years or so, I've been getting fed up with tinkering with Android. It was the reason I fell in love with it to begin with, but Android 1.x/2.x etc. was a LONG time ago. It's evolved to something I don't recognize as "fun, innovative, interesting, empowering" anymore as I once did. I'm LITERALLY SERIOUSLY considering switching to an iPhone. Google seriously disgusts me more than M$ + Wal-Mart combined anymore these days. It's a shameful disgrace. Oh well, things change. Adapt as needed, I guess lol
Snorkeling with every "flavor of penguin" (Linux distro) I can find because exploring is FUN! 
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Remember that Eli the Computer Guy that ran scams on Spiceworks a number of years ago? He has this massive YouTube channel with over a million subscribers and whatever. He partnered with Spiceworks but gave anti-IT advice (I can't remember details, but he wasn't technical and was just there to sell whatever.) Anyway... my youtube channel passed his this month! woot woot
I only ever knew of Eli The Computer Guy from his harrassing Louis Rossmann incessantly for some period of time. He was basically preaching to Louis that he should stop running a repair shop and just do YouTube, and therefore "live a better, more adventurous and luxurious life like he does" or whatever. LOL He apparently thinks he REALLY knows what's best! heh! XD
(movie trope) "Ah don't want... yor lahf" 
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@GUIn00b said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Contemplating how to leverage 2 ISP's for supplemental bandwidth when needed using 2 separate routers that are both servicing the same LAN.
......So I'm gonna go post a new topic!
Saw the post. It's not a fun thing. What I did when I had this was I just separated things by machine. Some machines used one connection and some the other based on their workloads. It was "static" but let me use both.
You described basically what I want to do. For general user media consumption (YouTube, Facebook, Amazon shopping etc.) it can just be shipped out the Spectrum cable connection. But for my servers I more or less want those bound to the WAN with static IP. However, my static WAN has slower download speeds than the Spectrum cable. (Static WAN is 50Mbps up and down, Spectrum is 300Mbps down). So when it's time to do a giant update or download new ISOs or whatever, the 300Mbps makes a big difference in time spent waiting.
Separating things at each machine that needs the static WAN by giving them static DGW's is worthwhile for me, but it would be nice to have some load balancing intelligence happening so that large downloads come in through the fast pipe no matter the machine.
I've set up a LANcache for my Steam library which helps a lot for 130gig games and whatever. But when there's a 3-4gig update that isn't cached, the request is sent out the client machine's DGW. I think there's a way to do "Split Horizon" or something so I can setup a couple lists of domains that get allocated to one Gateway or another. Like one list of domain/hosts would be like the known Linux repo hosts would definitely be piped over to the fast download cable. But any requests for say some Linode hosted VPS's I'd want trafficked out the slower static pipe.
Yeah, I still haven't made a decision one way or the other and still have them operating with separate LAN's lol! Full disclosure, I enjoy the relationship between my a** and my couch way too much to be bothered. Potato chips not required but quite frequently present. That's just truly my happy place. So the idea of having to bend over to move a cable or something to get all this setup like I want is just a total buzzkill 99% of the time. But that's the key. 99% of the time. Not 100%. So.... someday. Someday....
I have 2 ISP's at my house that I have been hopping back and forth on manually in the past as needed. I'm somewhat beginning the process of converging both WAN's to the same LAN using 2 separate routers. For now of course, there's still a manual process if I need to use the non-default WAN at any given time (changing DGW on the client).
The scenario is that one ISP is 50Mbps up and down, and the other is like 30 up and 300 down. The 50/50 connection is from a local wireless provider (I'm like 3 blocks outside of their 1 Gbps fiber service, darnit!). I have static public IP's on it as well, so that's what will be hosting my main WAN-facing services. The other ISP is cable residential, so it's DHCP WAN ( I know DynDNS is a thing, not high on my priority list at the moment ).
It's REALLY nice when I'm downloading gobs of ISO's, Steam apps, etc. to be on the cable connection, obviously. As for day to day activities that don't require lots of ingress bandwidth, I just let devices do whatever they're currently on at the time. I've set up a LANCACHE server (mostly for Steam to start with; I setup the monolithic deployment so from what I understand it'll cache a bunch of stuff besides Steam out of the box like Blizzard apps, others). The way it works is LANCACHE runs a stub dns service of its own, and anything you want to be able to use LANCACH data just set that client's DNS to the LANCACHE IP. If the DNS query is for something besides a LANCACHE-able download, LANCACHE upstreams the DNS query to the DNS server you specified in LANCACHE's config. In this case, it'll upstream to my LAN-hosted Technitium DNS which is pointed at Quad9 dns using encryption protocols. (NO MORE TRACKING MY SHOPPING AND PR0N HABITS, GOOGLE! AMAZON! WHOEVER! lol)
Anyway, I'm not sure how to go about this. Since I'm running all Linux stuff now, I don't care about M$ services, and with the way the Linux world handles OS and app updates with package managers, I'm comfortable with the visibility I have into knowing WHEN I need this gateway changing sorcery to occur. Anybody have any ideas how to accomplish this or even suggestions of resources I can read up on that would "learn me" a few options? Both routers are running OpenWRT.
Contemplating how to leverage 2 ISP's for supplemental bandwidth when needed using 2 separate routers that are both servicing the same LAN.
......So I'm gonna go post a new topic! 
It turns out the GPU I bought is defective. It arrived brand new in box, totally pristine. I started seeing random "artifacting" with weird colors changing like an old TV that is at the end of its rope. Looking at the PCB, there are a few electrolytic capacitors. Being a Radeon HD 4250 which is about 15 years ago, I imagine those capacitors are just dried out by now. Of course that's the best case scenario. I'll be able to repair it for a few dollars. Hopefully, the solder balls under the GPU haven't fractured/separated from old age. It's anybody's guess if it was stored in consistently ideal temperatures all these years. Even if it was, that's no guarantee. I'll find out eventually.
For now, I put the old nVidia quadro 2000 back in it (solid-state capacitors on that one, btw lol). It will have to do.
Staring at my hobbled ProxMox host because GPU shenanigans. I'm pretty sure if I just remove the GPU, I can access it remotely again. But it's MY HOST and I WANT A WORKING DISPLAY OUTPUT. ..... Cuz I have nothing else I can do with this old 17" Dell LCD from 2003 lol
(I've posted this on the ProxMox forum but no reply so far lol https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/host-startup-failure-radeon-failed-initializing-uvd.139740/ )
This host originally had an old nVidia workstation card installed. I've since switched to a "VisionTek Radeon 512MB 4350 SFF x1 PCIe DMS59" because it's an x1 card and gave me back a valuable x8/x16 slot so I can expand the storage. The host seemed to work fine for a while. I did run updates at some point, and it was sometime after that it began failing to fully start. I'm pretty sure I had rebooted a time or two AFTER the system updates and it was fine.
Anyway, I tried changing the CSM settings to specify Video as UEFI. This didn't work. I'm not sure what else to do. I like having a GPU so I can connect a monitor for console access. I don't care about doing any transcoding/GPU passthrough/etc with it. I just need my host to boot again. Any guidance is much appreciated. I've been Googling for about 4 hours and my brain is fried lol! Thank you. Attaching a pic of the console output it parks on.
I think I fixed it lol but please if anyone sees otherwise, let me know. It's a new adventure for me!
root@pve:~# lvcreate --type raid10 --size 7t --stripesize 2048k --name LVOBR10 OBR10
Logical volume "LVOBR10" created.
root@pve:~# lvs
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
LVOBR10 OBR10 rwi-a-r--- 7.00t 0.00
data pve twi-aotz-- <141.23g 1.60 1.18
root pve -wi-ao---- <69.37g
swap pve -wi-ao---- 8.00g
vm-100-disk-0 pve Vwi-aotz-- 80.00g data 2.82
root@pve:~# vgs
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
OBR10 4 1 0 wz--n- 14.55t 568.06g
pve 1 4 0 wz--n- 237.47g 16.00g
root@pve:~# pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/nvme0n1p3 pve lvm2 a-- 237.47g 16.00g
/dev/sda OBR10 lvm2 a-- <3.64t <142.02g
/dev/sdb OBR10 lvm2 a-- <3.64t <142.02g
/dev/sdc OBR10 lvm2 a-- <3.64t <142.02g
/dev/sdd OBR10 lvm2 a-- <3.64t <142.02g
root@pve:~# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 3.6T 0 disk
├─OBR10-LVOBR10_rmeta_0 253:5 0 4M 0 lvm
│ └─OBR10-LVOBR10 253:13 0 7T 0 lvm
└─OBR10-LVOBR10_rimage_0 253:6 0 3.5T 0 lvm
└─OBR10-LVOBR10 253:13 0 7T 0 lvm
sdb 8:16 0 3.6T 0 disk
├─OBR10-LVOBR10_rmeta_1 253:7 0 4M 0 lvm
│ └─OBR10-LVOBR10 253:13 0 7T 0 lvm
└─OBR10-LVOBR10_rimage_1 253:8 0 3.5T 0 lvm
└─OBR10-LVOBR10 253:13 0 7T 0 lvm
sdc 8:32 0 3.6T 0 disk
├─OBR10-LVOBR10_rmeta_2 253:9 0 4M 0 lvm
│ └─OBR10-LVOBR10 253:13 0 7T 0 lvm
└─OBR10-LVOBR10_rimage_2 253:10 0 3.5T 0 lvm
└─OBR10-LVOBR10 253:13 0 7T 0 lvm
sdd 8:48 0 3.6T 0 disk
├─OBR10-LVOBR10_rmeta_3 253:11 0 4M 0 lvm
│ └─OBR10-LVOBR10 253:13 0 7T 0 lvm
└─OBR10-LVOBR10_rimage_3 253:12 0 3.5T 0 lvm
└─OBR10-LVOBR10 253:13 0 7T 0 lvm
nvme0n1 259:0 0 238.5G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 1007K 0 part
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 1G 0 part /boot/efi
└─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 237.5G 0 part
├─pve-swap 253:0 0 8G 0 lvm [SWAP]
├─pve-root 253:1 0 69.4G 0 lvm /
├─pve-data_tmeta 253:2 0 1.4G 0 lvm
│ └─pve-data-tpool 253:4 0 141.2G 0 lvm
│ ├─pve-data 253:14 0 141.2G 1 lvm
│ └─pve-vm--100--disk--0 253:15 0 80G 0 lvm
└─pve-data_tdata 253:3 0 141.2G 0 lvm
└─pve-data-tpool 253:4 0 141.2G 0 lvm
├─pve-data 253:14 0 141.2G 1 lvm
└─pve-vm--100--disk--0 253:15 0 80G 0 lvm
root@pve:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 32G 0 32G 0% /dev
tmpfs 6.3G 1.9M 6.3G 1% /run
/dev/mapper/pve-root 68G 3.5G 61G 6% /
tmpfs 32G 55M 32G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
/dev/nvme0n1p2 1022M 344K 1022M 1% /boot/efi
/dev/fuse 128M 16K 128M 1% /etc/pve
tmpfs 6.3G 0 6.3G 0% /run/user/0
root@pve:~#
I'm missing something again. When I tried to create a VM and use that as the location to store the VM's virtual disk, it generated an error saying there was no free space. I'm going to put on some easy listening circus music while I Google and read some more for now!
I'm very jazzed about Pi 5. Fingers crossed there will be a PiStation 2 case!
Here's the PiStation1 case. Pi4 can basically emulate every game system up to PS1. This things was TOO COOL and I couldn't pass it up! I love it! PiStation2 for Pi5 would be perfect!