Yes, big fan of XCP-ng, we use it extensively in work, but I’m not convinced it’s my best option in this case.
Yes, big fan of XCP-ng, we use it extensively in work, but I’m not convinced it’s my best option in this case.
I’m using plenty of containers, accelerated and otherwise, but I also want a full-blown desktop that I can access from wherever. Even on a wired LAN, streaming that desktop is slow and laggy when it’s hosted on my NAS, which I think is due to the lack of hardware acceleration on that system. I want to move the VM to a host that has that feature (currently running Ubuntu Server) but I need a hypervisor that doesn’t require its own desktop system to be installed in order to manage it.
Plenty of good replies here to help me though.
Well indeed, that’s why I want to move the VM off the NAS and onto something with some hardware acceleration. Are there any remote frontend options for KVM?
I don’t remember exactly but it’s something to do with new safety and emissions fuel efficiency regulations brought about in the 90s(?) that would fine manufacturers who didn’t meet the new standards. “Light trucks” such as the F150 were exempt so manufacturers started pushing those hard as the fashionable choice.
Fast forward 30 years, the regulations haven’t changed, and here we are. There’s a good video about it somewhere…
Yeah here we go: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo
Thanks, I’m going to have to put some research into this!
I’ve heard Shelly bandied about quite a lot in the HA circle but this is the first thing that’s made me sit up and take notice. You’re saying they’re far more customisable than, say, your standard ZigBee light switch?
Admittedly it was a few years ago since I last tried, but even in WPA2 compatibility mode I had no end of trouble either getting things to join in the first place or weird stability issues afterwards.
Maybe things have improved now, but when 2 “just works” and is good enough for most use cases I’ve been reluctant to try 3 again.
Came here to post this and you beat me by 8 hours.
Yes of course! I enabled experimental features to use a template add-on, but I later removed it and turned the option off.
Either they A/B tested this or they accidentally released some of it early because I got all of that new UI stuff a few months ago, complete with addons appearing in the HA updates section. A few days later, just as I’d got used the change, it disappeared!
At least I now know I wasn’t going mad.
To be fair the Synology lineup is confusing, but if you get the right model - one with a Ryzen processor and support for 32GB memory (officially; they can take more) - then you’ve got yourself a proper little workhorse with low power consumption, a stable, reliable OS, and super easy expansion thanks to the hot-swap drive bays and their Hybrid RAID option. My 8 bay model is running a couple of full-blown VMs and what must be two dozen or so docker containers while barely breaking a sweat. The DS723+ is the equivalent 2 bay model.
For things that need some acceleration like Plex and Immich I’ve added a little N100 box (a Beelink S12 Pro) with Ubuntu Server and another Docker instance, and mounted the NAS storage via SMB. This also sips power even when transcoding 4x Plex streams at once.
All of which is to say you don’t need to do a complex, potentially power hungry and difficult to expand self build to do what you want.
Neither does the BBC’s couch to 5k app, for who knows what reason.
Ohhhhh I see. The wording on that page could be so much better!
According to the Crown Prosecution Service, making indecent images can have a wide definition in the law and can include receiving them via social media.
Edwards’s barrister Philip Evans KC told the court: “There’s no suggestion in this case that Mr Edwards has… in the traditional sense of the word, created any image of any sort.”
I suppose the facts that he a) retained some of the images, b) didn’t report having received them and c) continued talking to the man has some bearing on his charges.
I don’t get it. What’s it supposed to be doing?
This is excellent but alas I can’t get it to work in nginx-proxy-manager. Keen to see if anyone else can figure it out.
Yeah that’s undoubtedly part of it, but it’s fueled (excuse the pun) by the vast Summer to Winter disparity in energy usage. My own energy bills are currently very low thanks to rooftop solar, but my house is very poorly insulated so I’m expecting my Winter bills to be 10 to 15 times higher than they are now once the temperature drops into the mid teens and my gas heating goes on.
Most housing stock in the UK is unfortunately just as badly insulated so people like to know they’re not going to get massive unpayable bills in the Winter by paying more than necessary in the Summer.
“Most people” don’t budget very well and would prefer to pay a known, fixed amount every month rather than get lulled into a false sense of security by cheap Summer bills when the heating is off and daylight abundant (we don’t generally have air conditioning), only to then get hit for massive bills that they can’t afford when the heating goes on in the Winter.
To make this work they try to find the sweet spot so that your balance fluctuates between building credit in the Summer and going into debt in the Winter, but ultimately balancing out to zero-ish throughout the year. If your balance goes too far negative they’ll ask you to increase your payment and if you build too much credit you can reduce your payments and/or get (some of) the credit back.
All that said though, if you’d rather just pay each month’s bill in full then Octopus will let you do that. You might need to contact them to make the change.
Make an offer of $0.01. Assuming the responses aren’t automated, every time they reject it, raise the offer by 1c. Keep doing it till you hit the $15 mark and then just stop. It could waste literal years of their time.
Mind officially blown! I’ve just spun up a Debian KDE instance and it’s running beautifully. Exactly what I wanted, thank you!