+1 for PBS and it's dedup capabilities. I run a remote sync with it to offsite, along with ZFS reps of the underlying datastores.
As for Proxmox itself, I haven't bothered with backing the nodes themselves up, it's so simple to set up and cluster that if it went down, it would be a good chance for a nuke and pave, and restore VMs.
I usually see these at that angle, supposedly so it sheds water to either side instead of damming it by being horizontal. Metal roofs are pretty common in rural areas, and the boots are done like this.
Really, this looks fine. I've seen a pile of metal roof in rural ag areas, and this is the right boot, done the right way. Yah, if they'd thought ahead they might have been able to schedule the sheets to not land on the seem. But putting the boot at 45* and screwing them on either side of the seam is correct, though that bottom one is squonky, but it's at the bottom so it shouldn't be an issue. Proper caulking under and around. This is probably as good as it gets.
I have no idea how long this has been a thing, and maybe every clipboard works that way, not just Plasma, and I never realized it. It also lets you do things like Rt-click on it and do the regular operations like Search in Firefox. Spaces aren't preserved unless you specifically select them but search engines seem to be able...
Had a nice little foundation leak during the last rain storm. Installed a drain line last fall to divert two downspouts and front walkway run off away from the house which helped a lot....
I’m pretty new to this. I was considering replacing it with something else because it leaks slightly from the valve if it gets moved around at all, but I don’t know what this connection is to start with. It goes to a dishwasher.
I am currently redesigning my kitchen in a 1930’s Midwestern USA house. The kitchen has a decent floor area but the floor plan is oddly restrictive....
Dishwashers have become terrible for longevity and parts quickly become obsolete; be able to replace it inexpensively by sticking with a standard size.
The show had already established how Tendi has green blood earlier in the series after an injury and it would have been an easy to infer detail compared to humans in the show....
I get into phases where I use Activities, and I like the workflow, but then I forget about it for a while. I like having the separated workspace with no other thing showing up in the taskbar, but moving applications between the activities is a pain.
I’d like to see it stay but I don’t have the knowledge to maintain it, so I guess I’m at the mercy of the KDE team’s willingness to keep it on life support.
I’ve been running OPNsense on Proxmox for years now, it just seems to plug along. I run ZFS for the datastores and do a snapshot before updates, but I’ve never had to use one.
Recently got it working with HA and inadvertently tested it by having a drive failure on my primary node. I remoted in for for something else and realized it had failed over to the second node about a week before, and I’d never heard a word from the family about internet being down.
Proxmox will report SMART errors via email if you set that up. You could also run a system like Nagios to run the checks via another box. I actually run Home Assistant with the Proxmox HACS extension to monitor it. It’s on a VM so that isnt’ ideal, so I also run Node Red on the little I5 PBS box to send alerts if it can’t contact Proxmox itself now. The node going down without me realizing it was a bit of a wakeup call, though it failed my docker host and router over so seamlessly it was astounding.
I have nothing between the router and the modem except a switch so each Proxmox node can have a NIC on the external network and failover/migrating can pick up the modem and use it. I suppose I could VLAN, but the servers have 2 network ports anyway so that works fine.
My question: how does everyone on the KDE team continue to be so damn awesome? You guys put out a fantastic product with almost no funding, that rivals the corporate operating systems.
I just renewed my donation for this year, please keep doing what you do.
I’ve been seeing a lot of doom and gloom about VMware. The cutting of services and licensing changes of the cost of core offerings are huge issues. Is anyone planning or budgeting to change to another hypervisor? If so what?
We are less than 50 days away from the final version of #Plasma6.
Along with Frameworks 6 and KDE Gear 24.02, the Megarelaease on the 28th of February will be one of the biggest and more complex upgrades in KDE's history.
One more RC will be released on the 31st of January and then it will be (hopefully) clear sailing until the final release.
My new (first) home needs some significant siding repair. Wenconsider ourselves handy but it’s a lot for us to handle and we want to have the insulation redone as well....
Aluminum is a nightmare to keep looking nice. Vinyl in deep colors will fade unevenly and look dated eventually, but it lasts pretty good. Hardieboard is expensive and nice, but will need to be painted periodically.
Honestly, everything has its downside. I hate vinyl but it’s probably the best price to value relationship. Get it strapped out for the house and put in an actual closed cell, foil backed insulation, the insulated siding isn’t worth the money.
Get an actual siding company, a roofing company that does siding means you’ll have roofers scabbing on siding, and that will not go well.
Step flashing and diverter at the end isn’t working right. The last piece of step flashing above the gutter should have a bent out piece to get water running down the wall above to go into the gutter and not just run down the wall. I’d also be very suspicious the siding isn’t installed correctly there as well as it shouldn’t let water behind it.
I’d get an exteriors contractor to come and look at it, and see if they can bring the two problems together to be fixed.
This is for a rental unit, so I’m trying to keep the cost low, while also sealing it away from silverfish. I have very fine steel wool on hand as well as a tube of DAP ultra clear flexible all purpose sealant.
Assuming you can’t just deal with the pest problem because you don’t control what’s on the other side of the wall, I’d put in steel wool to keep rodents out, and spray foam this side of it to seal off the insects.
Home Depot sells a high-expanding foam that’s supposedly pest proof. The Great Stuff Pest Block is probably what you want.
I’ve contributed to KDE for some years because I couldn’t function on Linux without Plasma and apps like Okular and Dolphin. I wish it could be more, and maybe when I retire I’ll start to contribute code too.
And yet they fix hundreds of bugs and have a desktop experience head and shoulders above any other DE I’ve used, with many thousands of people apparently able to use it without issues. So you’ve decided KDE isn’t worth your time, that’s fine. Why are you bothering to follow the community, let alone throwing a negative comment in here?
I have been thinking of completely going off Google. I have a Nextcloud server for documents and contacts and calendar. Thinking of moving mail away too. Currently I am conflicted between hosting my own email server. On searching only advice I am getting is not to do it....
I use Mailcow Dockerized with no issues. But I’ve also ran email servers for 3 decades personally and professionally. If you try it, I would start out with a completely different domain and be prepared to be down for a long time while you figure out how to appease the anti-spam gods with things like SPF, DKIM, DMARC and DNS issues.
I don’t get why these need to become complicated enough to become trouble. They’ve worked very well with just a thermocouple and a gas valve for decades and you’ll get 20 years out of one with no issues.
Bringing problems to their attention becomes expensive, that’s my point. Now you have to deal with the “official” way to fix it, as opposed to the way you can afford.
My backup strategies for Kubernetes, Proxmox, Unraid, and Ceph. ( static.xtremeownage.com )
Sewer Vent Through Middle of Standing Seam ( sh.itjust.works )
Recently had a new standing seam metal roof installed. Roofers could talk the talk but I was not impressed with the quality of work overall....
Maybe I'm just new, but I just realized you can Ctrl-select or Ctrl-dblclick individual, separate pieces of text and copy them to the clipboard in one operation.
I have no idea how long this has been a thing, and maybe every clipboard works that way, not just Plasma, and I never realized it. It also lets you do things like Rt-click on it and do the regular operations like Search in Firefox. Spaces aren't preserved unless you specifically select them but search engines seem to be able...
Homelab Honeypot
I recently installed an instance of TPot Honeypot, and it looks and feels pretty fantastic....
Home Ownership is Just One Persons Fight Against Water ( sh.itjust.works )
Had a nice little foundation leak during the last rain storm. Installed a drain line last fall to divert two downspouts and front walkway run off away from the house which helped a lot....
What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? ( i.redd.it )
Riot cops line up next to a sign at University of Texas at Austin. ( slrpnk.net )
Edit: Name of University fixed.
What kind of valve is this exactly? Never seen that exact connection type ( lemmy.ml )
I’m pretty new to this. I was considering replacing it with something else because it leaks slightly from the valve if it gets moved around at all, but I don’t know what this connection is to start with. It goes to a dishwasher.
Talk me out of an 18" dishwasher. (or into it)
I am currently redesigning my kitchen in a 1930’s Midwestern USA house. The kitchen has a decent floor area but the floor plan is oddly restrictive....
xkcd #2907: Schwa ( imgs.xkcd.com )
xkcd.com/2907...
Pure love ( lemmy.world )
Can I hang kitchen cabinet on my subconstruction I built? ( lemmy.world )
Hey!...
Cold take: Lower Decks should have colored an Orion's blushing as green instead of red/pink. ( startrek.website )
The show had already established how Tendi has green blood earlier in the series after an injury and it would have been an easy to infer detail compared to humans in the show....
What’s going on with Activities in Plasma 6? ( pointieststick.com )
Banana Pi BPI-M7 router board now available for $165 (RK3588 processor, dual 2.5 Gb Ethernet, WiFi 6 and BT 5.2) ( liliputing.com )
Does this look like a decent starting point for a first router build?...
The History of KDE (From a little before 1996 to Plasma 6 RC1) ( www.youtube.com )
Leaving VMware? Consider these 5 FOSS hypervisors • The Register ( www.theregister.com )
VMWare FUD. Anyone moving away from it professionally?
I’ve been seeing a lot of doom and gloom about VMware. The cutting of services and licensing changes of the cost of core offerings are huge issues. Is anyone planning or budgeting to change to another hypervisor? If so what?
Went up my attic because I was hearing some random sounds at night, and came across these beams pulling off nails? Is this normal, or should I do something about this? (Pics in body)
files.catbox.moe/f32j05.jpgfiles.catbox.moe/lsi2fh.jpgfiles.catbox.moe/3kktlv.jpgfiles.catbox.moe/5m1j31.jpgfiles.catbox.moe/2biy91.jpg
What is this on my apartment hydronic baseboard heater? ( sh.itjust.works )
Siding repair
My new (first) home needs some significant siding repair. Wenconsider ourselves handy but it’s a lot for us to handle and we want to have the insulation redone as well....
Best OCR software for a small business with a one time need?
Hello everyone....
Dumb question: Is it safe to use extension ladder on interrior wall? ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
Title is pretty much everything!...
Leak and sheathing rot behind the end of a soffit. How do I fix this? ( i.imgur.com )
Hey folks, looking for some advice because I don’t know how to proceed....
How would you seal this gap around kitchen sink plumbing? ( sh.itjust.works )
This is for a rental unit, so I’m trying to keep the cost low, while also sealing it away from silverfish. I have very fine steel wool on hand as well as a tube of DAP ultra clear flexible all purpose sealant.
Infrastructure 😍 ( lemmy.world )
55% of women say listening to Joe Rogan is a red flag ( changeresearch.com )
Various nuggets of interest in this survey of Gen Z and millennials
xkcd #2827: Brassica ( imgs.xkcd.com )
xkcd.com/2827...
Do any of us host their own email?
I have been thinking of completely going off Google. I have a Nextcloud server for documents and contacts and calendar. Thinking of moving mail away too. Currently I am conflicted between hosting my own email server. On searching only advice I am getting is not to do it....
Called Bugout for a bug inpection, and the guy said i have mice in my attic. Told me this is a mouse pee stain. Is that right? ( programming.dev )
What are you guys up to these days?
I’m just curious
Why has the percentage of the population that are obese or overweight increased so much in the US?
First time ever installing a water heater, or doing any plumbing... ( lemmy.world )
Can I remove this pipe coming out of my lawn? ( lemmy.world )
We moved in to our house a couple years ago and were not told too much about a pipe that sticks out of our backyard....