But … that’s bok choy. 😟

Restic to Wasabi S3.

For the nginx reverse proxy - that’s how I ran things prior to moving to microk8s. If you want I can dig out some config examples. The trick for me was to set up host based stanzas, then update my internal DNS to have A records for each docker service pointing to the same docker host.

With Kubes + external-dns + nginx ingress, I can just do a deployment/service/ingress and things automatically work now.

I love my Synology DS1618 - it’s a bit older now, but the 10Gbps is a delight.

I want to move my 4x SFP+ from their current MicroTik switch to my new Brocade. Then I’m very strongly debating running both VM and Ceph over the same 10Gbps connections, removing the ugly USB Ethernet dongles from my three Proxmox Lenovo M920q boxes.

After that? Maybe look at finally migrating Vault off my ClusterHat to Kubernetes.

That means a lot to me - I’m learning as I go here and trying my best. :)

Also, this is the level: Ryobi AirGrip (Home Depot). It’s probably not great for a daily driver level, and I’m not sure of the longevity - but it’s great for a hands free, no damage level.

Yup, good old punch down keystones. Ended up buying a cheap $10USD cable tester to make sure I didn’t mess up any of the connections.

I used a vacuum laser level to get the top height right, then a small hand held level to make sure the vertical lines were plumb.

It helped using one of these low voltage drywall mounts - they have tiny holes in the corners to help cut out the exact dimensions required for mounting.

The hole in the wall wasn’t as bad as drilling through to the basement with the flexible auger. I made a pilot/test hole first at the baseboard to make sure I wasn’t drilling into electric or cooling.

That’s the smaller hole at the baseboard with a bit of weed wacker filament pushed through. The final hole was about two inches to the right.

I’m probably on some spectrum because literally every outlet in my house has the screws aligned. It helps that we painted before we moved in so all the covers had to come down in preparation.

I’m slowly realizing that this isn’t a rental and it’s okay to do permanent things like drilling holes and replacing bathroom vents.

I love that level. It’s solid and long enough to handle most things that need leveling around the house.

This is the only good culinary thing to come out of St Louis. They are also known (I’d say infamous) for their pizza which is like a cardboard cracker with “cheese”.

Archived version: https://archive.is/wvXV8/again?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fdigital-license-plate-jailbreak-hack%2F

Same here - they finally said in a recent email how many of those pictures were at risk… 2. Just two pictures. Fuck off Photobucket.

Nah, they’ll still have to come into the office 3-4 days a week for “collaboration” and “cross-team building”. But they can do their drone whatsyhootzit from their cramped cubicles!

That’s 932 in freedom units, if anyone was curious.

Ceph is… fine. I feel like I don’t know it enough to properly maintain it. I only went with 10gbe because I was basically told on a homelab reddit that Ceph will fail in unpredictable ways unless you give it crazy speeds for it’s storage and network. And yet, it has perpetually complained about too many placement groups.

1 pools have too many placement groups

Pool tank has 128 placement groups, should have 32

Aside from that and the occasional falling over of monitors it’s been relatively quiet? I’m tempted to use use the Synology for all the storage and let the 10GbE network be carved up into VM traffic instead. Right now I’m using bonded USB 1GbE copper and it’s kind of sketchy.

And Prince. Two god aliens that kept reality sane.

To be fair - both synologies are running big spinny NAS drives - I could reduce my capacity and my power usage by going with SSDs, but shockingly, I can’t seem to figure out what to cull in the 35TB combined storage.

I am debating moving my Vault cluster from a Clusterhat to pods on my fresh kubes deployment - and if I virtualize Pihole, that would also reduce some power consumption. Admittedly, I’m going overboard on my “homelab” - it’s more of a full blown SMB at this point with Palo firewall and brocade 48p switch. I do infosec for a living though, and there’s reason to most of my madness.

Unfortunately, no - not specifically. I want to get a kilawatt monitor at one point. The best I can do is share my UPS’s reported power output - currently at around 202-216W, but that includes both my DS1618 and the DS415+ along with my Ubiquiti NVR and two of my Lenovo M920Qs.

I should probably look at what adding the 5 bay external expansion would take power wise and maybe decommission the very aged 415

Edit: this is also my annual reminder to finally hook up the USB port on my UPSs to… something. I really wanted to get some smart - “Oh shit there’s a power outage and we’re running low on reserves, intelligently and gracefully shut things off in this order”, but I never got around to it.