rockyracoon @ rockyracoon @lemmy.world

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The way I see it, more engines for us!

I spent a lot of time playing Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts alone and online with friends. A lot of people I've talked to view it negatively and are surprised when I say it was one of my favorite 360 titles. It's one of the main reasons I want to try out Xbox 360 emulation.

Oh ya makes sense. Anything in a rack form factor would be much too loud to live with. I think in that case you've made great choices in hardware!

Pretty much everything else virtualization. I have a few small LXC containers running Ad Guard and Unifi Controller, and VMs for a gitlab instance, gitlab runner, and some game servers. I could host all that in TrueNAS directly but I like proxmox's UI.

My setup is TrueNAS SCALE on bare metal with VMs for Proxmox and Jellyfin. I pass an Arc A380 to Jellyfin for transcoding and it works great. I also leverage LXC contains a lot for small services. I keep everything behind a VPN. It's pretty easy to distribute Wireguard configs and import them on most OSes, but It's been a mixed bag getting family members to use it though.

I'm a fan of having dedicated network hardware and VLANs on one router. I generally go for Mikrotik. I used to run pfsense on a VM and when the server when down so did everything else, which caused the house to erupt into chaos.

Also if you're considering new hardware already I really recommend looking into surplus enterprise gear. I run my whole lab on an R730XD. It holds a ton of drives, has an IDRAC (I can't live without it now), ECC for extra peace of mind during ZFS scrubs, and they hold an insane amount of inexpensive RAM. They're fairly cheap on eBay or from refurbishment companies. Bring your own drives with warranties though, used drives are a headache. Servers like this can be really noisy though, I keep mine in the basement.

I'll also suggest a second drive to mirror your boot drive. You can and should back up your configs but a mirror saves headache and down time if the boot ssd fails. Probably even more important if you're planning on using this pool for VM storage.

Have fun! 😁

Do you have a source for that? I can't find anything related to TrueNAS deprecating VMs.

That's awesome, congrats! This is the kind of inspiration I need.

Haha that's awesome! We have four in total and it is a constantly rotating series of names, and one even has his own religion. Cats are fun

She's so cute! We have a tripod that's missing a back leg, she also can't jump as well as her brothers but she makes up for it with her completely jacked upper body. I've seen her scale a window drape like she's in Assassin's Creed.

I have bazzite running on an HP EliteDesk 705 G5 mini PC with a 3400G in it that I got used from eBay for pretty cheap, a little over $100. It handles 1440p 120Hz, it's max output resolution at 120Hz, and 4k 60Hz just fine with steam remote play from my desktop on LAN. It also does up to GameCube emulation really well if you're into that kind of thing. I'd really only consider upgrading from this if I wanted 4K 120Hz in the future, or if HDR becomes worth it, but the 1440p 120Hz experience is great.

I love libraries and the people that work at them ♥️📙

A coworker of mine refers to it as "crack water" because he drank so much. I like it better than any other brand of seltzer water.

Angela Collier has some great stuff on physics, and she's a great teacher.

I've been playing Pillars of Eternity after giving up on Pathfinder King Maker in frustration. It's been very cool! A lot of lore to learn though and I feel like it really needs my full attention to get the most out of it.

How do you like the color? I'm looking to upgrade from an H2O like you did!

I really hope whoever buys it makes a true KSP2.

Nice, another good option. Hope you have luck debugging your machine!

Another option is if the machine has a serial port that might be dumping useful info as it boots. A serial to USB cable is really cheap and you can read it with PuTTY.

If you don't want to deal with the used market (which might be necessary to get super cheap) the Intel Arc a310 cards have HDMI/Display Port and are slot powered so no PCIe power needed. They're also sought after for their quite good video transcoding performance so reselling it after you're done would be pretty easy.