Tango gameworks says hi. One of the few ever to escape this hell cycle, albeit painfully.
The just dripping irony of Microsoft praising the studio as making exactly the kind of excellent games it needs and then shutting the studio down suddenly will never be beat though.
Vulgarian sound like “vulva.” It was probably that weak similarity to dirty, evil sex that got the line cut.
Honestly glad to help. We all start somewhere.
You should be able to access idrac, if it’s licensed, by pointing your browser at the ip address that its dedicated nic has. Find that address from your router or whatever else you have that is handing out dhcp. It is a management portal, yes. You can control power, fans, get info about the servers state, set up logs and monitoring, and even use its “virtual screen” to see what you would if you hooked a monitor up to the server. The above is a great way to remotely add an OS or troubleshoot a server.
Idrac will either have a default password you can google or the server will have a little plastic pull out tab with a unique password you can reset on login.
If your server doesn’t have it, as you generally have to pay a fee to have it on, it’s okay. A monitor is a good stand in for one server. Less convenient and feature packed, but that’s homelabbing sometimes.
Well, the first step is realizing it’s okay not to use it. My homelab is a mix of salvaged mini PCs and prosumer networking gear. It has nothing to do with the 6/7 figure gear I use at work, and I prefer it that way. Its simpler and lower stakes, is quieter, and uses way less power.
That all said, it’s a great server. if you do want to use it, there are many ways to start. First, you don’t need to plug both power supplies in, but you can. The server can run entirely on one of them. It has two in case one fails it can keep running, not because it needs 2x the power. For the monitor, yes you will likely need VGA. Servers rarely have modern video ports, because vga just works, costs nothing to add to a server, and is almost never used. Most of your physical interaction with a server should be though “out of band,” which dell calls “idrac.” This is a seperate networking port labeled on the server that lets you connect to a local website, put in a password, and then fully control the server. That includes powering it on, reboots, loading disc image iso files, on and on. The idrac will stay powered even when the server is off.
You may or may not have qn idrac license for that server. If you dont and your boss can’t give you one, you can use something like jetkvm instead when it’s released.
As to what to do either it, i would recommend installing different hypervisors or kubernetes suites and playing around. Proxmox, xcp-ng, k3s, harvestor, on and on. Once you find one you like, figure out how to use automation software to setup VMs and containers, like cloudinit, terraform, ansible, or nixOS.
Good luck, and enjoy. Getting started from scratch can be a lot, but it can also be a lot of fun. Go into it expecting to fail, fail a lot and try to learn what you like. That’s the best thing a homelab can do for you.
Amen to the weird network quirks. I was trying to use the Tailscale docker sidecar examples, but could not work put how to use them in quadlets.
I expect i need to make a .pod or .network file and comingle the quadlets that way, but just setting up a dedicated tailscale subnet router VM with /32 allowed addresses was about 10x easier.
I disagree, as kodi syncs jellyfin DB without issue for me and I much prefer its UX.
The nice part of jellyfin is that they support both kodi and a “jellyfin on kodi” experience natively. Plex has neither, with both being 3rd party apps where the support is hit or miss. I used “plexkodiconnect” for years and was glad for it, but it was a journey to keep working at times.
Here’s a pretty good list to get started with:
Plex was bought out by venture capital and has been enshittifing for years. “Free” media stream sources added riddled with ads that you have to opt out of, opt out “everyone can see what everyone is watching” features, nebulous “we need to upload hashes of your media to skip credits” privacy issues, abandoning apps for various platforms like kodi, on and on.
I have a lifetime pass, but no longer consider plex a viable platform. The issues are not baseless, but rather based on what plex has decided to do to make money.
Meanwhile, jellyfin is FOSS with no profit motive, no privacy issues, skips intros and credits with no issue, pulls subtitles down and indexes media flawlessly, and has native kodi clients with Database sync support so a show paused in one room can be resumed at the same point in another room.
Hard to beat “slick, private and free.”
The addons are great too. The intro/outro skip is slick and nearly flawless, background subtitle download is seamless, on and on.
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Can’t say I agree about the hair or the mess. These are two different characters interacting with each other.
It looks like Kirks holding his hands over his hair in the 1st frame, but you can see the same “crown” baldness he shows in the 2nd, which is consistent with the character from the show.
The 3rd cell is an entirely different character, a hybrid of Kirks boss from the cracker factory that fired him and Dr. Manhattan from Watchemen, who killed rorschach. The comic is blending these two scenes together.
It doesnt. Its just shadow as an homage/tracing of the original comic, where rorschach has a black “smudge” on his head from taking off his black faced mask.
Depends on the era and whose writing him that day.
A lot of sprinting in those 7 miles too. Aint that many “long distance sprinters” for a reason.
Right? Personally I would just remember 1234 as the first 3 digits of the Fibonacci sequence starting on 1 as intended by Fibonacci and not 0 and also not using the 1,1 cadence common later + the 4th digit of the Fibonacci sequence - the first digit of the Fibonacci sequence.
Easy.
Here’s a good example for Jellyfin that got me started with quadlets.
Note on the above: the linuxserver.io jellyfin image has an ffmpeg bug in it, so swap to the official docker image in the config.
The issue with subtle critiques of facists is that facists will enjoy them non ironically.
See Watchmen, V for vendetta, starship troopers, warhammer 40k, on and on.
Its no longer actively supported. It likely still works, but redhat is moving away from it in favor of quadlets.
Quadlets use systemd files to manage containers, which is excellent, its just a departure from compose.
Im betting she has enough of her own money.
This is maybe more a cinderella situation. She likely grew up when the name “kennedy” was synonymous to royalty.
It aint no more.