@CloudKnight said in User profile migration to new Windows 11 PCs:

Hasn't Windows become a shitshow.

It always has been. Now it's just obvious to everyone.

@Oksana said in How to Remove Ceph from Proxmox: Step-by-Step:

Ceph removal in Proxmox requires more than just GUI clicks – it’s a multi-step process. Our latest practical walkthrough by Paolo Valsecchi, a System Engineer, for StarWind covers everything from VM disk migration to OSD destruction and full configuration purge. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/u5

Does Starwind run on a Proxmox cluster now? I've lost track of new features being released over the past year or so.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller

Never finished B5,.. I should go back for it...

I've been trying to finish Airwolf, Streethawk and a few others...

I have AIrWold on my server, too. LOL

B5 gets SO dramatic by the end. It started strong.

Yeah, B5 had a pre-planned 4 season plot laid out in advance. So when season 5 got tacked on, they had to make it up on the fly.

@scottalanmiller said in User profile migration to new Windows 11 PCs:

This thread makes me so happy we run all Ubuntu and MacOS around here. Not a single official Windows instance. woot woot

I'm supper jelly here.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Testing Matrix home server deployment while watching baby monitor during infant night shift.

Matrix like Synapse? My Matrix server is NicaHabla.com

Well, I just found something to do when I get home tonight. Matrix with the Synapse stable branch, time for another subdomain in the home lab.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Weekend of coding here. How is everyone?

Started a new job a couple weeks ago. So much better than the last one, bosses idea of managing is not yelling at everyone else and ignoring everyone with more experience. Nice to be looking forward to going to work again!

@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1 I've been pretty disappointed in Firefox personally, ha.

It's still better than Chrome, but that's not saying much.

@scottalanmiller said in OpenAI ChatGPT 4.1 vs 4.5 Models:

Until you spend a lot of time in technical tasks, you might not be aware of just how significantly different the output from different models can be for coding and other technical tasks where we want discrete results and not wordy soliloquies. After weeks of deep diving into using several models for technical research GPT-4.1 is a clear winner by quite a stretch. Keywords has a great breakdown of the two latest ChatGPT models, 4.1 and 4.5 and how they stack up (and why) for different tasks.

https://www.keywordsai.co/blog/gpt-41-vs-gpt-45-a-comprehensive-comparison

This is a somewhat surprising because all the recent reviews I've read or heard claim o3 and o3-mini are the best models so far at least for programming purposes. Are 4.1 and 4.5 newer than o3?

@scottalanmiller said in HPE Acquires Junipeer:

Just got this press release..

On July 2, 2025, Juniper Networks was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). As this integration moves forward, we will continue to steward your data with HPE's help. The personal data we hold about you is being transferred to HPE and will be processed by them in accordance with their privacy statement.

If you currently receive marketing emails from us, you will continue to do so, and your preferences will follow your data to HPE. You can manage your preferences using the Juniper preference center.

Yours sincerely,
Juniper Networks, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company

I wish I thought that means that firmware updates will no longer be held behind a paywall.

@gjacobse said in Recommendation for home WiFi router:

@JaredBusch
the UniFi Express 7 looks pretty decent in capacity and features - and likely a contendor replacement for the UniFi Lite Router I have since my NTG days. Has that really been ten years ago now?

I will say I sort of feel that they seriously missed the mark in the design. Seems that USB-C has to be shoved into everything - but seriously - why!!??

They could have easily put the PSU into the unit and only had the AC power cable. True, the unit shouldn't need to be moved once in place. But,.. really? Get real - Just because USB--C can do so much, doesn't mean that you need to use it everywhere - especially when all you are suppling is 5v. Incorporate the whole thing and it'll be a better format.

That said,.. I'm still likely to move to something like it or this in the future.

I had a location with a UniFi Lite router that died around a year ago. Upgrading to the UniFi Express doubled their throughput with QOS enabled. Went from 300MB download to 600MB. Upload is limited because of the cable connection.

These aren't necessarily Mesh Central replacements (one actually uses Mesh Central on the back end) as they're actually RMMs.

The first one that comes to mind, but is the one I haven't used myself yet, is RustDesk. It's completely self hosted, and includes clients for Windows, Linux and MAC. There is a completely free OSS version, and then the licensed versions are very reasonably prices imo. I'm not sure what the differentiators are between the OSS and different paid for versions.

The second one is TacticalRMM. This is the one that uses MeshCentral as the back end remote access, but you never see MeshCentral unless you go looking for it. So depending on what the issues are pushing you away from MeshCentral are, it may be a hard no-go for you. Only provides Windows clients for free, MAC and Linux clients are the only things you pay for.

Both would be way more functionality than what I remember ScreenConnect or Mesh Central making available themselves.

Please do let us know what you end up choosing.

@scottalanmiller said in Proxmox backup to remote PBS over Zerotier:

If you haven't played with it for tiny scale stuff, TailScale makes this SO easy to do.

I do have a TailScale account, but didn't think of it because I already had some other stuff at the location already on Zerotier.

@Mario-Jakovina said in Recommendation for home WiFi router:

Hello everybody!
(I'm sad to see Mangolassi dead, but here is a topic from me)

1. Can you give me some recommendation for new home Wifi router?
Here is description of my "system":

• internet link is 300/30 Mbps
• 15 devices should be connected to it (6 phones, 4 laptops, 3 TVs, one WiFi access point + occasionally ,some guest or our HTPC
• of these 15 devices, 3 should be connected via LAN (2 TVs, one HTPC), others via WiFi

Reason for buying is that my internet provider changed the router type (after upgrade of speed from 200/20 to 300/30, but this new device seems to struggle with the load).

2. Is there some Mikrotik device that you would recommend for this? (we have good local Mikrotik dealer here)

3. If I put telecom's router in "bridge mode" and put better router behind it, is it reasonable to expect that the telecom's router's should not be a noticeable bottleneck (or not as much)?

Thank you

I'm not sure which MicroTik routers would be a good fit.

We use a lot of the Netgate/PFSense routers at work, and I've been impressed with the price/performance of them. If they're available in your area, you should look at a Netgate 2100 for your needs.

Once you have the ISP router in "bridge mode", it should cease to have any performance impact at all. Even the cheapest devices can forward traffic at line speed these days.

While I was attempting to look up how to backup a Proxmox host to a remote Proxmox Backup Server over Zerotier, all the instructions I found were very complex. While those instructions are true if you want to route an entire network, it is very easy to get a single Proxmox host and single PBS server connected over Zerotier.

1. Join both host and PBS to the same Zerotier network
2. Add 2 routes in Zerotier, each pointing to the remote subnet the Zerotier IP of the remote host as the Via address in Zerotier.
3. Add the PBS server to the Proxmox host like normal.

As an example, this is my Managed Routes section of Zerotier with a working backup job.