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THANK YOU!
I vape. I really need to stop. I can give you all the excuses as to why I haven't, but they're just excuses, you don't need them.
I've been weighing the importance of quitting versus the struggle it will be to quit, and my transition is a key part of that. What makes it really hard is how much the world has (completely understandably) turned against any form of nicotine use, and therefore how ready people are to provide inaccurate facts to try to convince anyone to stop regardless of the accuracy of their information.
It doesn't help. It just makes it feel biased and untrustworthy, and makes it harder to find the actual facts that will actually convince me to quit.
Reminds me of when my parents told me smoking weed would cause all of these terrible things, that it would make me dumb and useless. The thing that actually got me to stop smoking it? Recognizing that while the propaganda was wrong, I still had a dependence on a substance and was smoking it constantly enough to be a barrier to good things in my life. It didn't make me dumb, it didn't give me cancer (though it probably could have, still carcinogenic), it didn't burn holes in my brain.
I don't want the 'burn holes in your brain' answer to why nicotine is bad for my transition, I want the 'you might use it as a crutch and miss opportunities in your life if you're not careful' equivalent answer when it comes to how nicotine use affects my transition.
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I say this as someone who uses AI to make my home assistant shine and to decide my damn breakfast (I'm dieting):
It would work, and it sounds like you'd just need to keep the ai content unfiltered and deal with some annoying dashboard posts?
I vibe code my own shit, I know I can keep it up to my standards.
I don't use other people's vibe coded shit (knowingly, at least), because it's not likely to be up to my standards.
I don't publish my vibe coded shit, because it's not likely to be up to other people's standards (and I suck at maintaining anything I've lost interest in)
Even as someone that's embracing ai, I'd like to know if it was used when evaluating a project.
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My wallet says I'm one. Send help.
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Tech is full of queer women. I am also a wife endlessly chasing the wife approval factor.
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I mostly use OpenCode with GPT, most of this was done with 5.6 Sol. Agent in a terminal on my computer, passwordless SSH to the home assistant server with the MCP server available as well.
If you have a Claude subscription, install Claude Code, and quite honestly just have a chat with it about the best way to get it connected. If you have ChatGPT, same thing, though they let you bring your own harness with their subscription so I prefer opencode over Codex.
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Right now just the built-in home assistant list functionality, but I have a separate meal planning and health tracking app that I plan on integrating once I have the inventory functionality ironclad.
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(AI Assisted, full disclosure)
I've been on a smart display kick lately using a stack of old android devices, plus a main web console for myself and my wife with info we care about.
We put a button in place to kick off zigbee pairing from the dashboard, so my wife can fix it without having to ever look at the settings menu.
My main goal is for every dashboard in the house to follow a similar, familiar, and warm design language. These dashboards have brought a MASSIVE increase in Wife Approval Factor, and made things a lot easier when we have company as well.
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Because the other player can just slow down. If it's co-op two player, when you activate your sandy, you aren't slowing down 50+ people across the world. You're just mildly annoying your buddy, who can also get a sandevistan and activate it when you do so he can keep up.
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This was the best interaction I've witnessed this week.
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Bring Marathon to Linux, then we'll talk
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Looking at this a year later, and holy shit. The good old days.
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Oh I love two. I know it's 1 for 5 at this point compared to the other comments, but 2 just tickles my brain in a satisfying way.
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Shit, the freedom police got him. He used the wrong kind of freedom of speech.
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For someone who just wants a NAS, I'd say you're totally right. Who in this sub just wants a NAS, though?
When I first installed Proxmox, it felt a little silly having a hypervisor running one debian container that had docker and an SMB share. I went with it because I'm tired of reimaging machines, the overhead didn't cost much, I was long on power and short on things to do with it.
Now I have at least two LXC's on each of my three proxmox hosts, high availability there if I want it (I can't be assed), and when I want to spin up an app that's truly isolated (I have a couple of chump change side gigs that run on my lab and bring in a few bucks, for instance), I can put it in its own LXC so my other tinkering never touches it.
Dedicated NAS software doesn't have that kind of flexibility, but then again, I'm not the target user of dedicated NAS software anyway.
I suppose if I had space and machines to spare, a dedicated NAS that only ever operates as a NAS would be a good addition to the stack. I'm printing another mini rack soon, and I just might consider it after this convo. I have a spare HP mini pc that might make the cut, if I can figure out the right way to get a series of direct sata connections to come out of it instead of my current elegant solution of a hacked together PSU powering my 3.5" drives and a bunch of sata to usb cables carrying data.
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I mean, Debian is no more a NAS software than Proxmox. In fact, I'd argue less so, with no built-in web console (and does it handle ZFS natively? Not totally sure tbh).
I also don't see any reason a debian container would be better at handling the disks than just on Proxmox itself, I just like putting things in containers and increasing isolation as a general rule to avoid cross-contamination between components and projects. I think it would be more or less fine to just run your cifs or nfs share right from proxmox.
That said, after a little more research, you absolutely have a point with regard to OP's initial question. UnRAID is a perfect fit over Proxmox by a mile, specifically because of how cleanly it handles independent disks of varying sizes. With plain old ZFS, the largest disks would be wasted to pad for the smallest.
I didn't bring any of this up to be contrarian, I just noticed you and thebigshoe getting salty at each other without actually discussing the tech stack or raising any details as to why one is better than the other, so I figured I'd start some productive tech talk for those wandering the thread.
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It's a virtualization platform and simplifies ZFS setup and it's really just debian, it's not hard to set up your network shares from there.
I mean yeah, it's not technically a NAS software, but what functionality does a NAS software provide that isn't easily covered with Proxmox or a Debian LXC within Proxmox?
This may come across as sarcastic, but I'm actually legitimately asking. I touched Truenas once, at the beginning of my homelab journey, when I didn't even understand network sharing, RAID, or ZFS well enough to have any business touching it. So maybe I'm missing something, and hell, maybe it's worth trying unRAID or Truenas on a spare bare metal machine if there's features I just gotta have.
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Just have Wes Johnson voice the whole thing, worked for oblivion.
The first mod I will download, and make if it's not available, is floating paintbrushes. Just for the sake of nostalgia.
Item duplication is probably off the table as that was engine level. I imagine with the script extender one could create a near facsimile, but think it's unlikely.
But those paint brushes. They were so much fun.