“AHHHHH!!! DAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FORTNITE!!! IT WON’T WORK!!!!”
“BABEEE!!!! THE INTERNET ISN’T WORKING. I CAN’T ANSWER MY FACETIME CALL”
Yes, the wonderful, glorious sounds of your family when you decide to run a networking homelab on ‘their’ internet connection. The good news is, after about an hour of rebooting systems, trying different instances of GRUB boot options to get the right kernels booted, pulling out live, running, spinning 7200RPM disks and putting them back in, I then finally rebooted the Proxmox server, pfSense router and the TrueNas box. After finally doing all of this, everything seemed to be back up and running flawlessly.
Also, I had to uninstall gde3 (was it gdm3?) because for some reason the desktop environment was causing Proxmox to go to sleep every 20 minutes. I tried going into settings, but it acted really wonky logging in from an unprivileged user instead of root like some configuration files needed to be edited to allow my unprivileged user access to core system functions. The graphics were also messed up with some icons not rendering at all or looking like an old Atari game’s main character.
I haven’t been working on the cloud migration much here the past few days. Kind of lost inspiration on what direction to take it. I do have a few small websites I’d like to try to get moved over to my dedicated server to host cheaply for them and to offset the cost of having a dedicated server by a little bit for me.
In other news: I should be working on doing some website updates for https://marblemary.com‘s marble-selling e-commerce store. I also have a local custom apparel business I’d really like to get a website going for so that she can sell her stuff to customers by allowing them to upload their own designs and customize their orders. Something I will be looking into soon.
I have my first security camera installation job coming up this week or next. Going to learn on my mom’s new security camera kit when I go to fix their Starlink that has been down for twelve days now. Luckily, Starlink gave them a credit for a month of service since there have been so many problems with the cables we have gotten from them. We are on our third cable in about 8 months of ownership. I decided to get them a spare one in case this one goes bad to try to keep them online while they wait for yet another RMA replacement cable. They really need to design them better. It’s hard to believe they supposedly have the best engineers in the world, yet they didn’t think that those small pins and that small gauge Cat6 can’t handle the power needed to heat a Dishy.