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Beszel is a new, lightweight monitoring app that natively supports Mac and Linux. I'll cover how to set it up natively in Windows or WSL2 in today's post.

Solving an issue with 4Kn sector disks and passthrough in Proxmox with direct KVM arg injection.

Since fairly recently my Proxmox install has shown an almost barf inducing amount of errors along the lines of edid block 0 is all zeroes or kernel EDID has corrupt header. The issue is present on at least Promox 8.1.5 running kernel Linux 6.5.13-3-pve. Thanks for the fix goes to a couple of threads here and here. Some folks suggested disabling AST graphics, or blacklisting the i915 driver - this had no effect on my ASRock Rack E3C246D4U motherboard with i5 8500 CPU. This is a vanilla install

The promise of GVT-g technically was very high. One box to rule them all. However in practice, it just didn't live up to expectations.

We're back! A fresh new installment of Perfect Media Server ready for 2021 and we launch perfectmediaserver.com

Passing through an entire GPU is very useful for specific tasks but isn't a very efficient use of resources. Wouldn't it be nice if we could slice up 1 GPU and use it with multiple VMs at once?

Use ZFS to store your most critical data without breaking the bank for your less important files.

HASSIO is probably the easiest way to run Home Assistant. It's a pre-packaged appliance aimed at a few key devices such as Raspberry Pi and so on. Being an appliance has pros and cons. The primary con is that installing software and advanced system configuration is not possible, though this is conversely also the primary advantage! You spend time with Home Assistant not administrating the system. Bad things happen and backups are your last line of defense in the event of hardware failure, theft

My issue was that the initramfs didn't contain the necessary drivers for the emulated hardware and as such the VM refused to boot except into emergency mode.

I'd liken Xfce to the VW Golf in some ways. Years of refinement is the only way to achieve the level of polish that both of these products have. No monstrous rethinks of how we use the desktops here. And that, is a good - no great - thing.

These people, the hosts, are a huge part of my life. I couldn't help but get a little emotional that I was listening to the intro music in studio with the guys. It was a super cool moment.

This article will cover some of the tips and tricks I learned as a Red Hat consultant working on this stuff every day, it's not perfect and there are probably better ways but here's my take.