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While I cannot say I have seen the logo or user thumbnails change recently, I have noticed seemingly slower performance when loading or saving content.

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Can you offer any feedback?

gjacobse

In the most recent apartment complexes I have rented from, none currently had the ability to offer internet; either by wire or wireless.

As with any rental, house, apartment regardless of type I supplied my own router and Wi-Fi.

gjacobse

I can't say I trust it,.. to few would suggest it, and the few that might mention it have regularly said - no.

That said - ... what I really find interesting is that I have now seen it mentioned twice now in almost as many days... Just seemed funny and needed some 'additional' exposure.

I have an end goal - and with that an expectation that it will be done similar to how (sane) enterprise solutions would be done. In some regard - I enjoy the challenge of making a number of differently aged platforms work together - but if I want to extend my marketable skills - they need to be,.. in line with the market.

Proxmox may not be common in day to day discussions, but it's been around long enough - and has proven itself that it is 'on par / scale' as most Virtualization software out. So, I'm learning that and rather enjoying it.

But, storage is a failing point for my rack currently. With the ReadyNas biting the dust about a year ago, I decided on a solution, and would rather build anything I put online.

I have several monster cases which could be used,.. or I could go with an prebuilt system... But they quickly exceed the permissible budget..

gjacobse

Recently had a discussion about NAS devices, Synology, ReadyNAS, TrueNAS, OpenNAS, OpenMediaVault and the like.

Co-Worker suggested going with UNRAID and in look at it - it seemed an option for the fifteen year old hardware I have (much much newer drives). The GUI looks impressive - hitting all the metrics like a very experienced used car salesman out fishing the lot. (FWIW: Co-worker came from Google, is deep into AI, has a strong and impressive Proxmox system (some five or six nodes) - so likely knows more of it than I)

UNRAID appears to only come up once here on ML, this from 2017: Examining unRAID Storage from @scottalanmiller mentions it is a non-starter. Poor performance, low reliability and a number of other things.

While generally the core of a system does not change much over several years, I am curious if somehow this software gained any improvements in almost nine years.

gjacobse

You know you’re good when YouTube tries to recruit you via Text

gjacobse

Looks like the day is a catch up day -

Just finished a campaign in Sniper Elite 5, so break over some house chores in order,.. and while they run look at ordering parts for a programming cable for a Maxon SD-125e V2. There has been some interest locally into building a VHF radio network.

Also need to finish 'mixing' a plate / cable spacer for the Yodeck player (Raspberry Pi 4 in a NEO case) for digital signage at the office and manufacturing floor. With the cable braid there was to much stress on the connect / jacks so this addresses that.

gjacobse

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse I just made a video today about why we use desktops as servers now!

Well first off I get this message:

Uhm.. okay.

Desktops as servers; in some cases - they are useful. Sadly the issue I am running into is that the twelve year old computer has more cores than anything I have available to me in the office,.. I am running an old Dell with 8-cores, and everything I have only has 4-cores.

Were I running several rPi VMs that might be fine, but I am running full Windows or Linux for testing and Ham Radio. It's working but a little strained and I can't do much more without maxing the system resources out.

Oh well.. will find something some time..

What Ham radio tasks is using so many resources?

The basic of it is that it isn't so much the Ham Radio applications - but the Host: Windows. While there is a Linux equivalent to the one application function and appearance is vastly different.

Most of the applications written for Ham Radio are written by Ham Radio Operators themselves, so they use what they feel they can learn or already know as a programming language. Some of these don't port well to Linux from Windows, or iOS from Android.

Ham Radio is a hobby,..so there generally isn't much profit in it unless you are a 'commercial radio manufacturer'

Windows needs a certain level of resources to run. Windows 10 you could trim it down, but most are being forced to move to Windows 11 due to support.

Now, if you are aware of things you can do with Windows 10,.. you can get by with continuing to use Win10, but of course you accept some risk doing so.

You can move to Linux, but for many in the hobby, Linux is more then they will understand having been in the Windows eco-system for so long, and limited support or applications.

I have been able to shift between Windows and Linux as it is something I've done for years. But there are some aspects that still escape and frustrate me...

gjacobse

Realizing that I have left my Ubuntu VM off for to long. This means I have forgotten to keep it updated and it cannot be updated.. Ooops.. Guess that is a lesson learned.

Time to back up data and kill it.. not much of a VM anyway.. so - something to learn on.

gjacobse

xByte -

That is the name I just could not come up with.

Thank you

gjacobse

It's been some years since I searched for servers or such. There was one I recall being pretty prominent, maybe out of Florida. Sadly I cannot recall the name.

Does anyone recall the name - or a source for a used server? Just looking for the home 'lab' and ham radio tasks..

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