dream_weasel

Happy cake day. I was asking, before I dive into the hunt, if you saw any docs for doing the same sort of firmware update / swap for plain old irobot vacuums.

Idk how motivated to be to go do this. Just started reading about valetudo.

COA => course of action

Is this a COA for irobot Roombas?

Big if. That’s a trial and error journey unless some of the tools are part of your job description.

Edit: downvoted by Linus Torvalds I guess. Can’t even follow a video and hope it’s right unless you just duplicate a setup

Better to read and don’t reply, or send a message and expect it was received IMO

If it’s worth replying, write a reply. I do not need a notification from anyone of a round asshole flashing different colors and gyrating because you casually agree in a congratulatory fashion.

If it isn’t the first email you’ve ever exchanged, why can’t you just plan for the fact that they got your email and if they drop the ball the fault is not yours?

“I’m sending you this thing, if anything is wrong please let me know; otherwise I will assume all is agreed and we can move forward.”

No response required. Stay off my lawn, don’t send me an email or a text or anything else that just says “ok”. Maybe I’m showing my age…

Nope. Straight to jail

Couldn’t say, for me it was way way easier than ESXI which was my first break into the space. And also more complete / straightforward than bare metal which was what I had been doing before unraid.

I paid for the lifetime license. No regrets.

Because it’s easy and does all the hard stuff out of the box? Also any sized drives!

Oh hi I picked up Linux for the CLI and shell and the UI for me has nothing to do with it.

There is no easy way to break into the scene and unraid is a one stop shop. So you want to set up a few little projects on your own? It’s learning containerization, learning networking and NAT, figuring out filesystems (and shares and share locations) and backup strategies, how to integrate with VPN, deployment strategies and templates (think Ansible, docker compose, make scripts, etc). There’s a shitload to know and not a “for dummies” place to learn it.

Considering the “easy” first project of ARR suite + jackett, integrate with transmission, and integrate with jellyfin or Plex: this is not a couple hours of work if you’ve never done it before. With unraid it’s probably one video tutorial and less than an hour? Idk I haven’t done that one yet. But it’s a common request.

There are a lot of things that need to hang together for a good homelab to work, and unraid for me has made it so I don’t have to spend all my time doing plumbing and background work to try a project and see if I even want to use it.

I would absolutely do a 101 on self hosting, but it seems everybody has different priorities on what to host and how so it’s probably not cut and dry to implement.

Write code, get feedback, write more (better) code, get more feedback and repeat.

Just hacking your own stuff 10 hours a day isn’t making you better if you’re just doing what you have already done or doing things the same way you’ve done them before.

Why did I have to read so far down to hear someone say “get feedback”? It’s core to deliberate practice of any kind.

Yep. My home assistant production deploy is on a separate rpi, same as my pihole, and I’ve promoted out a few other services out of unraid. As an almost 40 father of 2 with a full time gig, I don’t want to dick around with experiments that interrupt the rest of the family and I also don’t want to spend a year of “30 mins before bed” to figure out how to deploy a service I’m not even sure I want to use long term.

Exactly. I like doing clever scripting and neat one off projects, I don’t like having to become a networking expert, a containerization expert, a hardware expert, and an integration expert so my wife can reliably watch law and order.

I can roll a custom arch build no problem, but I can not set up custom vlan or nat rules or easily swap to a new file system with baked in snapshots or tell you anything about how my GPU compares to anything on the market or how to make it reliably perform hardware acceleration. I would be happy to learn those skills, but sometimes it’s all just too much.

If I’m gonna do it, I want to do it. If I need to verbatim copy someone’s YouTube video where I use proxmox to use someone’s Ubuntu KDE VM to set up couch potato, I’d rather just use unraid and not pretend I’m a FOSSing haxor :).

Already bought the lifetime license. It’s great, I don’t miss rolling my own bare metal arch servers.

(Because I still do that too)

Edit:

Unraid is stupidly point and shoot. It just works for whatever weird configuration of hardware you have and the provisioning is extremely intuitive, fast, and it just fucking works. Why yes, I will have a paperless server and have it auto update and sure here let’s make this space a samba drive to receive docs. Paperless is not brain surgery in arch, but man 5 minute setup for stuff is nice. Ive got maybe 10 containers running that I set up the first time I launched Unraid more than a year ago and I otherwise haven’t touched it. The upside and downside is that I didn’t have to learn anything to do it. Esp if you get your stuff from the same maker/provider the latest versions all hang together and updating can just be automated.

The 42U rack in the basement will be… hard to steal.

I only use 3U of it for compute and all of it came from my university salvage for less than… $350 total (switch, rack, 2 servers).

Idk why we had to get rid of swipe up from the bottom where the 3 icons used to always be. Now if you want to get at all the open stuff I have to execute a corner.

That first day was a real bitch and a half.

Gotta make an even mix!

Well there’s your problem right there!

Recipe:

1 egg

3/4 cup of your favorite oil

1 medium banana

1 pinch lemon zest

Put oil in pan over medium high heat until oil just smokes, allow to smoke for 15 seconds, then reduce temperature to “egg making temperature”. Add egg. Burn the shit out of that innocent bastard and push it around while repeating “egg slide freely!”. Remove your egg with a crispy, brown bottom and wet, runny whites from the skillet. Reserve oil.

Into one large coffee mug, pour your oil, add lemon zest.

Last, throw all this in the trash with your Teflon skillet, and eat the banana.

Then dont shop there if you don’t like the practices of a store? Bob at the door is not trying to dick you around, he’s just doing his job.

You have no obligation to follow store rules, most rules of etiquette, people’s house rules, etc. but it sure makes you look like an entitled Karen if you go into a situation expecting to do it.