I didn’t skip it, I installed ddclient.

Cloudflare is the devil!

It really was easy. And it works so well I didn’t have to lean the names of stuff haha

For anyone following along, I meant portainer to manage dockers. Podman is a different container technology it seems.

Proxmox was the answer for me. OpenMediaVault in a VM for NAS, LXC containers for things that need GPU access (Plex and frigate). Hell, I even virtualized my router. One thing I probably should have done was a single docker host and learn podman or something similar. I ended up with 8 or 9 VMs that run 8 or 9 dockers. It works great, but it’s more to manage.

You’ll want 2 network cards/interfaces- one for the VMs and another for the host. Power usage is not great using old gaming parts. Discrete graphics seem to add 40 watts no matter what. A 5600G or Intel with quicksync will get the job done and save you a few bucks a month. I recently moved to a 7700x and transcode performance is great. Expect 100-150 watts 24/7 which costs me $10-15 month. But I can compile ESPHome binaries in a few seconds 🤣

I use Ubiquity at work, and decided on TP-Link Omada at home. I virtualized opnsense and the controller, but if you’re just getting started I think this is the device you’re looking for. Street price is $250.

https://www.tp-link.com/us/business-networking/omada-router-integrated-router/er7212pc/

You’ll then need a modem and access points. I use an S33, and I’m happy with it. As for APs- they are $100 and up depending on features you need. The mesh and roaming work very well. I over-spec’d to the 670s, 610s would have worked. WiFi 7 APs are <$200 if you’re into that.

https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Multiqueue#Multiqueue_virtio-net

Details about 1/5 the page down,under Network Device.

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu/KVM_Virtual_Machines

You can old nvme -> SATA -> new nvme with any old SATA drive you have lying around.

From the wifi wikipedia page> Hardware>Embedded Systems

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi

Increasingly in the last few years (particularly as of 2007), embedded Wi-Fi modules have become available that incorporate a real-time operating system and provide a simple means of wirelessly enabling any device that can communicate via a serial port. This allows the design of simple monitoring devices. An example is a portable ECG device monitoring a patient at home. This Wi-Fi-enabled device can communicate via the Internet.

Pretty much, yes.

I think you’re underestimating the computing power of these devices. If it has WiFi, it has an operating system.

You’re looking for something like ESPhome maybe. It’s a project from the same people that do home assistant. There’s a web server (and/or local API) available that allows you to toggle outputs locally, your browser directly to the microcontroller.

I use photo prism but be aware they paywall features

I’ve had good luck with the two inland nvmes I got from microcenter if you’re trying to save a buck. Samsung 970s have been good too, I’ve got 8 of them running at work.

The water is not that hot!

My guy Wendell says that Hardware Raid is Dead and is a Bad ldea in 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l55GfAwa8RI

I shill audiobookshelf every chance I get.

Frigate just released v13!! I can’t wait to try it out this weekend

Ultimate partner-approval-factor is Lutron Caseta. The Diva line is what I used.

https://loadcalc.net/

That’s for sizing equipment, but in the top left you can change the design conditions to get two points and interpolate between them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_motor#Applications

The reason for the stupid lockout. Pretty ingenious, but yeah they all lie. The worst offenders are heat pump dryers. I think they’re gaslighting their customers.

Over six days, that’s about two megabytes per second, so 16mbit/sec. Residential plans are often 25 or 35 mbit/sec in the US on cable.

A similar traffic pattern might be a 4k security camera, typically 10mbit/sec, and likely over a VPN.

I think Dr CD outlined a specific arc that companies follow, but the term has been co-opted to mean any process that drives out competition before turning the screws on their customers. Did Netflix follow the three steps?

Netflix was certainly good to its subscribers 15 years ago.

Were they then good to their business customers (studios) at the cost of the users? I don’t think they were ever good to studios.

Have they now clawed back surpluses for themselves? Abso-fuckin-lutely.

I think step 2 is the key to the original definition, and the one commenters often ignore. All companies burn cash to get started. All companies try to become a monopoly, and monetize everything once they do.

What kernel are you on? I’m at 6.5.11-7-pve with headers and a .run Nvidia driver working fine

The header package is pve-headers I thought, but I somehow had pve-headers-6.xxxxxx installed without the base meta package