I've moved to all containers and I'm gradually automating everything. The metaphor for orchestration and provisioning is much clearer in incus than it was in lxd, and makes way more sense than proxmox.
Proxmox is fine, I've used it for going on 8 years now, I'm still using it, in fact. But it's geared toward a "safe" view of abstraction that makes lxc containers seem like virtual machines, and they absolutely aren't, they are much, much more flexible and powerful than vms.
There are also really annoying deficiencies in proxmox that I've taken for granted for a long time as well:
horrible builtin resource usage metrics. And I'm happy to run my influxdb/grafana stack to monitor, but users should be able to access those metrics locally and natively, especially if they're going to be exported by the default metrics export anyway.
weird hangovers from early proxmox versions on io delay. Proxmox is still making users go chase down iostat rabbit holes to figure out why io_wait and "io delay" are not the same metric, and why the root cause is almost always disk, yet proxmox shows the io_wait stat as if it could be "anything"
integration of pass through devices is a solved problem, even for lxc, yet the bulk of questions for noobs is about just that. Pass through is solved for so many platforms, why proxmox just doesn't have that as a GUI option for lxc is baffling.
no install choices for zfs on root on single disk (why???)
etc
Ultimately, I have more flexibility with a vanilla bookworm install with incus.
/dev/null tests from dd are not an accurate indicator of performance unless you only have one disk in your pool. fio is a much more accurate tool for zfs pool testing.
If you follow lidarr's methods on cataloguing your music, sure. But most of us have developed our own way to organize music and lidarr blows at handling these:
concert albums
bootleg
international releases with different track listings than north american version
custom mp3 fields
certain artwork
playlists
cddb tagged music (yes, even pulling the music directly from a disc.)
flac album-year and album-artist tags
multi-disc albums
electronic music
vinyl music tagged with picard
And god forbid you give lidarr free reign on your collection, it will start renaming, re-downloading and replacing music, essentially destroying your collection.
The problem is that there really isn't a standard way to categorize music, but lidarr wants to impose one.
You're perceiving some kind of blame from those users asking, but tbh you didn't make your situation clear in your original post and they're fair questions.
And I'll echo most here and suggest you stop buying from that provider. It seems like the obvious choice. NewEgg isn't exactly the paragon of customer service.
You cherry-pick parts of historical record to promote a narrative that is absolutely not true by suggesting what did happen is somehow a mirage.
And next time your Russian boss tells you to promote their agenda, be a bit more subtle and don't give yourself away by decrying "descrimination against Russian language".
I'm coming from a place of administering a server and I attest to this:
Minecraft players want their particular mods on their particular seed, they don't see value in armadillos and whatever other nonsense MS is "releasing".
most of my player base has moved on to Vintage Story because Minecraft itself is stagnating like counterstrike did. And now we have the same situation CS had, where there's a huge base of mc players who are stuck on old versions because, let's be honest, Minecraft is stale AF under microsoft.
just because modern hardware is better at running vanilla doesn't mean paper won't run even better.
If you've given up, I can't do anything about that. But if you are willing to fight back, I'll defend your right to be a free voice.