Yeah, same, my d&d group calls me by my first character’s name :)

This was my starting up machine. Of course, an nvme makes sense, especially running windows on it. I went for Proxmox, and now I have 4 different machines, a cluster of 3 similar sffs, and a chunkier boi with an i7, 64gb ram and a quadro gpu. This one was the most expensive, around 250€.

Beware, this is how it starts. From a single machine in my office, I went to a mini Datacenter in my cellar, with 4 “servers” (micro-pcs), two Nas devices, a raspberry pi cluster, a dell wyse cluster, new switches and access points, and so much more :))

you can get away with half that. i run my setup (similar to what you wrote) on a dell micro sff with an i5 6500t and 16gb ram that i paid 90€ for. not the snappiest, but works just fine.

I don’t use any GUI… I use terraform in the terminal or via CI/CD. There is an API and also a Terraform provider for Proxmox, and I can use that, together with Ansible and shell scripts to manage VMs, but I was looking for k8s support.

Again, it works fine for small environments, with a bit of manual work and human intervention, but for larger ones, I need a bit more. I moved away from a few VMs acting as k8s nodes, to k8s as a service (at work).

I do the same in Proxmox VMs, in my homelab, which is… fine. I was talking more about native support, manageable via an API or something.

Say I need to increase the number of nodes in my cluster. I spin up a new VM using the template I have, adjust the network configuration, update the packages, add it to the cluster. Oh, maybe I should also do an update on all of them while I’m there, because now the new machine runs a different docker version. I have some Ansible and bash scripts that automates most of this. It works for my homelab.

At work however, I have a handful of clusters, with dozens of nodes. The method above can become tedious fast and it’s prone to human errors. We use external Kubernetes as a service platforms (think DOKS, EKS, etc), who have Terraform providers available. So I open my Terraform config and increase the number of nodes in one of my pre-production clusters from 9 to 11. I also change the version from 1.32 to 1.33. I then push my changes to a new merge request, my Gitlab CI spins up, who calls Atlantis to run a terraform plan, I check the results and ask it to apply. It takes 2 minutes. I would love to see this work with Proxmox.

Man, I’ve been living and working in Germany for close to 10 years now. Proxmox is like that 50yo colleague of mine. Hard worker, reliable, really knowledgeable, a treasure trove of info, but he can’t be budged. He insists on installing any new VM using the GUI (both Windows and Linux), he avoids learning “new things” like Docker or Kubernetes, and really distrusts “the cloud”.

I will keep using Proxmox, as I have for many years both at work and at home, but we are migrating from a VM (with Docker) setup to Kubernetes. It would have been great for Proxmox to offer some support there, but…

You are right, it is a region switcher. I didn’t realize that, maybe because the “change region” button was in a language I didn’t know? :)

I believe R-- stands for Readarr and G–R-- stands for GoodReads.

Oh damn, they’re expensive! Good find indeed!

Hosted with Jellyfin, for clients I use Symfonium on Android and Feishin on desktop.

ansible can seem like just a fancy way to run shell scripts with extra syntax, but the real power shows up when you start managing more than one machine or need repeatable, “idempotent” (i love this word) setups. ansible handles state rather than just running commands, so you can describe what you want instead of how to do it step by step. it’s also easier to maintain over time, especially if your setup grows or changes. just add that new vm to the inventory list.

if you’re already comfortable with shell scripts and just want to get a few vms going, you could totally get by without ansible. but if you’re planning to do this more than once, or want to be able to rebuild things cleanly, it’s worth it, imo. it could save you a lot of headaches later on.

i use it at work, i manage about 40 vms in our pre-production environment with ansible. if i need to install a new package on all, it’s one line and one command (ran in a pipeline). if i need to change the settings for unattended-upgrades on the debian machines only, same thing.

however, our “production” environment is k8s and a handful of external services, and we use terraform to manage all that.

i guess it all depends on your needs.

They also have an API, I think a chunk of that revenue comes from there. Think 3rd party apps and services having chat bots, writing assistants, etc that use openai’s API.

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Not exactly answering your dilemma, but I was watching a cooking channel yesterday (Sorted), and they were talking about seaweed - it’s wild (heh). You can use it to make straws, bags, packaging and all sorts of stuff that’s foodsafe and biodegradable. And apparently, even if we replaced all the plastic used for that kind of thing with seaweed, we’d barely make a dent in the ocean’s seaweed supply - we’d use less than 1% of it.

I’ve been using Zen for a few months. It’s based on Firefox, with some UI changes. I really like the workspace management, having separate “environments” for work and private use.

My son went from fortnite to project zomboid and rimworld, lately rdr and doom eternal. Sometimes terraria and minecraft, but rarely.

Germany.

• 30 vacation days.
• 16 public holidays.
• Unlimited sick days (6 weeks paid by employer, the rest by the health insurance, at a lower rate)

These are all paid, all working days some public holidays may fall on the weekend.

I started this year with 9 vacation days from last year, I had to take them before the end of March, so I just randomly took a couple of weeks in Feb and Mar.

I usually align my vacation days with my kids school holidays, but I take 2-3 weeks continuously in the summer, usually late August.

Do they make cardigans?

Yeah, I think coredns offers all the options you need.

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