Omg… I’m a dummy. Thank you, stranger!

OK… I guess I’m an idiot… Where is the pre-reg on the playstore?

Keep reading about Nix. I need to setup a vm and play with it I think. From what I’ve seen, the concept looks pretty cool.

I’m currently running pfsense, and then mikrotik and ubiquiti switched and ubiquiti AP’s. I’m slowly removing the ubiquiti switches and moving to mikrotik as I’m upgrading to 10gbe. Mikrotik switches have a reputation of being reliable, capable, and cheap-ish. So far I like them. While I love ubiquiti’s single pane of glass approach with the unifi controller, I wanted to get away from that a bit. I work in IT, and most things I encounter don’t have that… And are configured via cli and or web interface. When I built my home network I jumped into ubiquiti for the ease. Now I’m back tracking for more learning.

Thank you, friend! 👍

Pay walled.

At that depth, I feel like creaking and cracking is probably common. However, I don’t think there would be any spraying as an indicator. Based on this tweet I saw earlier.

Incase anyone is wondering… Little clip of an implosion

RIP to those who parished. I think most can take solace knowing that if it turns out to be true that it was an implosion, it would have been instant, and the occupants likely felt nothing. .

I’m running Trunas. I’ve been using it for many years, and it’s been an fantastic solution for me.

As far as resources, what do you mean? It’s an older server, so Google is your friend for sure. But I’ve had zero issues sourcing parts that I may have needed.

• Radarr
• Sonarr
• Lidarr
• Prowlarr
• Plex
• Pihole
• Papermerge
• Syncthing
• Guacamole
• Klipper
• Octoprint

There’s probably others. Just a quick off the top of my head list.

I was using a home built machine for several years as a Nas, and it was fine, but I ultimately upgraded to a Dell R510. They can be had pretty cheap, and have 12x 3.5" bays. I also added an HBA that I plug into a Lenovo sa120 (direct attached storage) I bought, for a total of 24x 3.5" drives.

I mention the sa120 because it just leads to expandability down the road for you. My r510 is one of my most favorite machines. I’m currently migrating data from 15x 4tb drives, over to 6x 10tb drives and I’m going to be shutting the DAS down to save electricity.

The r510 isn’t easy on electric usage, but it has been Rock solid for me.

I’m seriously debating switching to opnsense. I’m in the process of upgrading my homelab to 10g, and wonder how pfsense will play with my 10g nics. I think I read before that pfsense plays with it fine… But if not, I’ll jump to opnsense.

I also wonder how long pfsense will keep things going for CE… Seems like the writing is on the wall that it isn’t going to last, but we’ll see.

How do you like vyos? I had looked into it, and it seemed a little cumbersome last time I looked at it. I believe it’s entirely cli? I suppose that’s not a bad thing, but sometimes a gui is nice.

I’ve run pfsense both ways. I’m currently running (and have been for a number of years now) running pfsense as a vm within Proxmox. I personally love it, but my setup is a little different then most. I have a dedicated server running promox strictly for pfsense (then have three Proxmox nodes for my cluster). I have a quad nic that I pass through to the vm and this has been Rock solid for years. I’ve not had a single issue.

In my stack I’m also using PBS, and I love the backup process (and or restoring a backup). Have a dedicated Proxmox machine for pfsense means I can shut down servers in my homelab without taking the internet down.

Running pfsense bare metal never gave me any issues, and going with a vm was more about the exercise of just doing it, and playing with pci pass through. Once it was setup and I setup the backups, it was a no-brainer for me to keep it running that way.