Well I managed it a couple of times, but there’s something off in the config somewhere. I’m only topping out at the max of 1gig and cant get much higher. I’ve NVMEs at both ends, but I’ve just thrown more money at the issue and bought a UDM Pro and some fiber cabling to hopefully start the entire rack again and go from there. If nothing ends up working I’ll keep the UDM and send back the 10gig switch – I dont want to, I really dont want to, it would be really sad to do so but will see how tomorrow goes because 7 straight ours of tinkering yesterday really didnt make much of a difference other than making me hella angry and tired!

I was hosting the controller and Pi-hole and other items on Docker on the unraid, and I had to take docker down every time I wanted to make a network change and didnt want to risk damaging anything software wise as unraid has really been running like a dream just doing it’s own thing in the background.

Pi-hole I’ve got running now on a Raspberry Pi Zero W, and the Unifi controller on a Raspberry Pi 4. Means at least I can keep docker down so long as I’m not too bothered about Plex which I can live without for now.

Fingers crossed tomorrow bears some positive networky fruit.

So purrrttyyyy…. Dead easy to get up and running, I’m still waiting for some SFP+ cables, and an SFP+ PCI card for my server. After that, we should…. should…. be off to the races!

More speed is more better, it’s a proven fact. Ask anyone if they would rather have more or less of something and they’re going to tell you: MORE.

At the minute my rack is as below:

I have a self-built Ryzen 3600 Unraid build, a patch panel, a brush panel (which I’ve really never used), a US-24-G1 gigabit switch, another brush panel, and the USG-3P router. Also is a Phillips Hue that I bought on a whim and used for about 5 minutes. All of this sits in the Startech 25U rack, with a lovely covering of dust and other paraphernalia that gets junked ontop of it when I need to make space in the spare room (please forgive the carpet).

The rack has been like this for over a year now, it’s all working great. However, today is the day!

Just a random Sunday morning post, Ive been using my Windows machine for a bit and thought Id switch back to my Mac Mini (stats above, it also has 10gig built in, take that M1!) and I’ve been using Safari really for everything web based. I installed Firefox, which wasnt too bad, but has never really matched the snappyness of Safari and I thought ‘Okay, well its third party so maybe it’s not as optimised’, but just installed Google Chrome this morning and man, it runs like a total dog.

It’s so heavy! The lag while resizing browser windows is HORRIBLE. I know Chrome is a giant beast of a browser, but it makes me wonder how much of the lag is macOS doing it on purpose to promote Apple’s own brower. Yes, Im a cynical sod, but it’s night and day difference even between Firefox and Safari, but Chrome is a terrible experience IMO.

Again, this isnt anything new, it’s just a real surprise that we’ve come so far and the differences between first party and everything else is so skewed it makes me wonder whether its Google’s fault, or Apple’s.

So Xmas was a thing and now it’s gone. I’ve been knackered. Absolutely effing tired but now have a week off and I am doing a little gaming here and there but basically sleeping as much as possible. Hopefully after the new year I might feel somewhere near approaching the edge of human again. Hopefully…

Santa was quite generous, I was going to throw all of his pennies against the old CC bills but since I’ve moved my last gaming update build into my Unraid server, I’m still gaming on my old 4770k system. As such, I’ve bought some updated gear for my gaming build:

• Ryzen 3600
• Aorus X570 Pro
• 32GB DDR4 RAM
• Sabrent 1TB PCIe 4 NVMe

The build that is now my Unraid server was very similar but it’s using the Asus X570 TUF plus Wifi board, which was great to game on and was head and shoulders better than my 4770k system. The 4770k bits I’ve replaced will be officially retired and stored in a box forever (probably), the case, power supply etc were updated for my gaming build at the start of the year so I’ll keep them for this build. I also have a 500gb NVMe drive for the OS. I really think that 1TB of data for the storage drive for games will be fine, I picked up a 2060 Super through the year, also a new monitor (1080p) which is also fine. I couldnt really give a tits about 4k gaming.

I think the final nail in the coffin for spending money was that Amazon would deliver tomorrow, cant really beat it!

Will see how the build goes…

/var/snap/nextcloud/current/nextcloud/config/config.php

Aarrgh! Its such a pain remembering with actual memory over the age of 26. I’m now 40. I can’t do it anymore.

I had to migrate Nextcloud due to an issue on Linode’s servers due to an impending upgrade. Its taken me about 20 mins I never want to have to spend again trying to find the config.php file that would let me change the trusted servers.

Sigh. At least it’s the weekend!

Edit: I’ve pretty much nixed the idea of using a VPN altogether. Im not sure it was really doing a great deal for me anyway. May try again at a later date. Original post still below.

Okay so I use Manjaro Gnome and ProtonVPN and it’s fine. Installing ProtonVPN is really easy, but getting that mother to start up on login, jeezaass it’s a pain in the butt.

I actually had it working fine previously, I’m sure I created a systemd service and had it start at boot. I’m guessing I can’t remember the exact syntax I used as I spent hours last night trying to create and tweak the service file, sh files, using rc.local to try and get it to autostart and there was no luck whatsoever. As my memory is so rubbish I know Ill forget to initialise it every time I log in, I also blame my crap memory for not actually checking and backing up the working settings before I nuked it to put windows on that laptop… I know, I know.

I’m going to turn comments on for this, Ill update if I find a fix to get it running, if anyone happens to see this and can help then please let me know. Thanks.

PS Vita Slim, 250gb SD card with sd2vita, PKGj, emulators all good! Although to be honest its not all roses and ice cream. SNES emulation seems to suffer slowdown – its unbelievable after seeing the Vita games in action. PSX doesnt do too well either, Adrenaline just seems too soft and doesnt even hold up to a Raspberry Pi.

Vita games are fine, its nice to try things that are platform specific – but there’s also a lot of fluff thats multi-platform. Tbh after the reviews of the Vita being the ‘god of emulation’ Im a bit disappointed. The Switch is much better, but it suffers from drift on the joycon if you play it handheld. Sigh. Next I think I might go for one of the proper 3rd party emulation handhelds.

I hate it when you have OS specific applications that you need to run, and a VM just isnt up to snuff. Here we go…

Its either this or format my Manjaro laptop, fingers crossed it works!

I really would have thought there would have been proper Vita hack apps for linux and Mac. Nevermind!

I cant even remember the spec of this thing. I bought it for £100 about 5/6 years ago, maybe more. Ill have to do a boot test and will report back. Its still pretty sexy!