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Merry (early) Christmas and Happy New Years everyone! I hope you all have had a wonderful holiday season.
Homelab
I’m going to save the truenas and proxmox showcase mostly for next year I think. I don’t have it setup how I really want yet, and I’m still trying to understand linux permissions when it comes to NFS (Did you know that the ids for a group and a user on a linux system actually matter? I didn’t really know about their existence until recently.), some of that stuff is really tricky.
What I have now is a proxmox install with like 10-12 containers running most of the services I use (jellyfin, radicale, minecraft servers). I have a VM running truenas with an HBA controller with 2 12TB drives passed through to the truenas VM, but it’s not storing anything at the moment. I have 2 18TB drives mounted within proxmox that I pass through to some containers that contain all of my media for jellyfin as well as the container storage. I use cockpit made by 45drives to manage nfs shares to those drives. It’s a fine setup, but I don’t have snapshots and any sort of backups setup (not sure if that’s possible with cockpit or if I’d have to do that in proxmox itself).
The idea I think would be to move all the media into truenas onto the 12TB drives, reconfigure all the containers to use those 12TB drives over NFS for the storage and everything, then once everything is off the 18TB drives I’d put those drives onto that HBA I mentioned and set them up in truenas, then move everything from the 12TB back to the 18TB drives. I think that’s what I’d want to do. I’d move everything from the 12TB to the 18TB drives because I’m not sure if one of the 12TB drives is actually totally working as it should. I used to have just the 1 12TB drive back in the day when I ran Plex on a bare Ubuntu server install, and it started acting funky like where it wouldn’t mount sometimes. All of these drives were shucked from WD external drives, and you have to put electrical tape on some of the pins to get them to work properly so it might’ve just been that the tape shifted or something. Either way, I don’t want like critical stuff on those. I think I might try setting up the 12TB drives in like a raid0 and use them for storage that doesn’t matter or something. Raid0 is used for the speed benefits, but with spinning disks that aren’t 7200rpm I’m not sure how much benefit I’d really get from them.
With all of this going over the network and everything I’ve thought about trying to fully upgrade my network. I only have a modem, a router/access point, and 1 unmanaged switch (pretty sure it’s unmanaged, I use it like a splitter for cables I run under the house). I really don’t know that much about networking so it’s bit me a few times in the past, it would be cool to understand everything going on. That’s probably down the road though.
Cubing
Nothing much in the way of practicing or learning algs, but I’ve started thinking about trying to stream my solves a little bit. I follow a couple of people who go live on tiktok pretty frequently, and my friends go live on twitch sometimes so I have a lot of resources to be able to ask questions. There’s a few issues with each platform, but they’re both solid for cubing I think.
I like the ease of tiktok because I can just open my phone and start it (although I’d want a little more production in it). It’s also easier for some of my friends to watch if they wanted because they’re already on the app. I don’t really like the whole gifts, battling, caring about ranks stuff being the norm though. I’d just be talking about stuff instead of asking for all that, although I think that’s how you get pushed to more people. It just feels like it rewards e-begging.
Twitch might be cool because you’re not limited to a vertical phone screen, and since you’re on a computer (you can stream on your phone on Twitch I think, and you can stream your computer on tiktok if you’re on windows) you can show off your timer and stuff easier. But, I think it’s a little harder to find an audience (not necessarily the worst thing for just starting out and getting in front of a camera though).
I’m not sure if I will or not, this is all just ideas of stuff I might do. I get a little anxious when talking. I heard a good quote recently though that sorta made me start thinking about it a little harder. Not exact, but it basically said “You don’t have social anxiety, you’re afraid of being perceived, you’re afraid of putting something out into the world that could be negatively perceived, you’re afraid that it’s gonna confirm a narrative you have about yourself… Someone made you feel bad for showing up authentically or being yourself, and that’s a wound you have to dig into. Kinda like cleaning a wound with peroxide, it hurts, you dig into it and it stings but then it scabs and scars over.” - Michael Smoak. Which, he’s right, I’m sure everyone has been told to calm down or that they were too much at one point or another but it’s not something that should dictate the rest of your life. Cubing is something I’m pretty proficient in, but it’s kind of a niche hobby that I don’t get to talk about often (except on here really). I think that’d help a lot being able to talk about something I’m very interested in to people who are also interested in it.
I’ll go ahead and wait until next month to write up the results of my resolutions and what they are for next year. I don’t think I hit too many of them unfortunately, but I’ll try to put a positive spin on it. See you guys next year!