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  • VMs under KVM are pretty much bare metal and Proxmox doesn’t use much for resources itself, it’s basically a headless Debian with a webserver interface to do all the KVM stuff.

    Proxmox, especially if you use ZFS for the VM datastore, makes a home lab so much easier to revert, backup and deploy/clone VMs and LXCs. I highly recommend it if you’re just starting out. Once you wrap your head around it, it gets out of the way and lets you just tinker with your projects, and not have to manually do everything in VirtManager or at the command line.

    Combined with Proxmox Backup Server, it’s a production ready hypervisor for anything you decide to keep. Also, the HA features work well enough that I had my main routing OPNsense VM jump between nodes when the primary node lost a drive, and I didn’t notice for a week, it was that seamless.






  • ikidd@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldAnon makes fun of @ebassi
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    17 days ago

    IDK, I’ve found Gnome unusable for a long time. I tried to make up for it with extensions for a while, but every release would unapologetically break something I found essential and the extension devs would give up trying to keep them going.

    I understand that eventually they got better about dropping breaking changes without warning, because extension devs were leaving in droves, but at that point KDE got good again with Plasma, and I’ve never looked back.

    Gnome has their vision to be a completely hands off, dumbed-down, unbreakable DE for the lowest common denominator. I guess judged by that light, it’s a success. It’s the default in a lot of distros because it’s low maintenance for packaging and support. Frankly, I think it’s a major reason for the slow speed of Linux desktop uptake, but what do I know.






  • While there’s probably a better way of doing it via the docker zfs driver, I just make a datastore per stack under the hypervisor, mount the datastore into the docker LXC, and make everything bind mount within that mountpoint, then snapshot and backup via Sanoid to a couple of remote ZFS pools, one local and one on zfs.rent.

    I’ve had to restore our mailserver (mysql) and nextcloud (postgres) and they both act as if the power went out, recovering via their own journaling systems. I’ve not found any inconsistencies on recovery, even when I’ve done a test restore on a snapshot that’s been backed up during known hard activitiy. I trust both databases for their recovery methods, others maybe not so much. But test that for yourself.



  • 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.