nagaram @ nagaram @startrek.website

Just a guy shilling for gun ownership, tech privacy, and trans rights.

---

Read more

Posts

10

Comments

183

Joined

2 yr. ago

Ya know. I don't know. Every state does this as far as I can tell and so I've never questioned it.

If I had to guess, its how the DOT or Highway department shills to Tue new governor

"Hey look boss, we put ya name on da side of Interstate 69 from Illinois!,"

We had users at work who swore by that so hard that my boss bought licenses for "Classic Shell" that just did that.

Usefulness wise, the pinned program and search method is objectively much better.

I'm gonna say it.

I thought windows 8/8.1 were very fun

Putting Coreboot and NordVPN on the same tier is crazy

Slop

The fact that gods and magic also seemingly exist really fucks me up because its explicit in Tue original book that god is just a tool for smarter people (Foundation) to manipulate dumber people (everyone else).

Obnoxious atheist take? Sure I guess.

But it feels as if someone rebooted harry potter and made the kids saying something nice about trans people or Jews.

Legitimately, if they had just done a "A Foundation Story: Empire" and then just did the genetic dynasty stuff, I don't think any of us would be mad.

But I don't think general audiences have read much Foundation these days so they would have struggled to set it in that universe without an established Foundation Cinematic Universe.

Anyways, I'm super excited for Tue Foundation super cut that's just Empire.

That's what I was thinking too. Ijust feel better having another layer between the open web an my server

Ansible is next on my list of things to learn.

I don't think I'll need to dedicate all of my compute space to K8s probably just half for now.

The rats nest is behind it

I need to re do some of the wiring.

I have all 4 power cables braided and zip tied together with the single data cable so its nice to pull out and put back into the entertainment center.

Only problem is I only had four 1 foot Ethernet cables and three 7 foot cables. So I used the 1 footers for the Pis and the 7 footers are bundled up as best I could and neatly hidden.

I'm waiting on some color coordinated .5 foot cables from Cables and Kits and I will swap the switch and patch panel. I want the Pis to have that one cable and that's it, but I also want all the patch panel ports to work.

Rack shown

This is a 52pi 10 inch rack 8U

I have 4 raspberry Pi4's 4gb running with POE

Some TP-link gigabit switch with 4/poe ports

3 Thinkcentre Tiny with a ryzen 5 2400GE 32 gigs ddr4 RAM, 512 Sabrent PCIE Gem 4 NVME boot/VM drive, 512 PNY Sata SSDs for databases

I have a bigger server for AI stuff and storage. This is just Tue "production" server for my websites and Git repos

I stole the set up idea from my man Jan Wildeboer

https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/05/Cute-Homelab/

Yeah!

So i am running these three computers in a set up that let's me manage virtual machines on them from a website with Proxmox.

I want to play with a tool that let's me run Docker Containers. Containers being a way to host services like websites and web apps without having to make a Virtual machine for each app.

This has a lot of advantages but I'm trying to use the High Availability feature when you run these on a cluster of computers.

My problem is that I know I can use the Built In container software in the already clustered Proxmox computers called LXC Linux Containers. However, I want to use a container software called Kubernetes but I would have to build Virtual machines on my servers and then cluster those virtual machines.

Its a little confusing because I have three physical computers clustered together and I'm trying to then build three virtual computers on them and cluster those. Its an odd thing to do and that's the problem.

Quality answer. Glad my hunch was backed up by your experience. That's very appreciated.

I hadn't tried anything with Cloudflared and Kubernetes yet so it would be sick to see it just work.

Yes! They sell a NVME hat that I assume is for the Pi5 (these are 4's I had laying around). It also moves the HDMI and USBC to the front.

Its the RS-P11 Expansion board. I can only find it bundled with the normal rack mount kit. I got mine off newegg from a reseller I guess so no expansion boards.

https://52pi.com/products/rs01-1u-rack-mount-for-raspberry-pi5-4b-with-four-rs-p11-expansion-board-for-rs-p22-raspberry-pi5?_pos=1&_sid=69a185129&_ss=r

Fair point. I was also thinking it would be fun to use CoreOS so I can get one step closer to ArchBTW

That's so funny that you actually checked.

And also thanks for the kind words. I'm actually working on a few blog posts since my job and school have calmed down.

But you're right, I should also contribute to open source memery

I've been thinking about swapping my work laptop to Linux too.

The difference is I'm in IT and I know what all things I need to put on my computer to make it compliant with all our policies and all the software I need to do my job.

I've been experimenting by running some Linux VMs with all the EDR, patching, and logging software we need. But by the time I'm doing all that, there's really no point in using Linux except for the CLI which WSL has been great for that.

I would never glaze that hack! His ideas were far too disjointed and useless.

Now of you check my self hosted blog I go into much better more specific detail on why technology is bad!

It is more of a shit post than a shit post.

I do use arch BTW