I wasn’t specifically planning to. And yeah, proxmox is a VM management system. I’ve never used it myself, but it’s apparently the “new hotness” and I’ve been meaning to do a VM/container build for a while.

I’m more familiar with FreeBSD jails, but not everything lends itself to that well. Bhyve was also something I looked at, but proxmox seems to leverage qemu and ZFS together.

Plus, since I’ve never actually used it, it gets me out of my comfort zone and I’ll maybe learn something neat.

That won’t do anything about Bluetooth audio compression.

I’m about to drop a supermicro Xeon board plus an E3-1275 and 32G of ECC ram into the guts of this old Optiplex 790 mini tower I have. (i3 2100, so a generation newer, and a Xeon instead of an i3)

I plan to eventually get a better case but for now this is fine. Right now it’s running Plex media server on FreeBSD on bare metal, but I’m planning to swap to proxmox once I get the new board installed.

Unfortunately that won’t be for another week. While the board will be here today, it is a little more power hungry than the old system, and I’m already pushing the OEM 375W PSU with 5 drives (SATA SSD and 4 7200rpm SAS drives) so I also have a PSU coming. But that is not expected until middle of next week.

Last week isn’t really that long ago. Going through my mom’s old things and found a PC she bought new back in 2013. A Dell Optiplex 790 with a dvdrw in it.

I just happened to have a couple of blanks so I verified that it worked before pulling it out and using it as an external drive. Works that way as well on my much newer Ryzen 5800x build in a case with no 5.25" bays. (Or externally accessed 3.5s for that matter. No external bays of any sort other than some USB ports on the front.)

My 2006 Honda also has a 6 disc changer and it sounds better than the Bluetooth adapter I connected to it. (It is wired to the back of the factory sound system, but Bluetooth audio just sounds flat to me, even on the best speakers)

Maybe they can call it kdm.

Oh. Wait

Apparently you don’t. Because you are the one confused about how one can get a car delivered to their home instead of going to the dealership.

The same trucks that tow cars can tow new ones to you.

It’s not a difficult concept.

Tell me you’ve never had to have your broken car towed to your home because you couldn’t afford a mechanic.

People have cars hauled to their home all the time on a flatbed tow truck.

Those cars do not rack up mileage while on said flatbed truck.

The dominant failure mode of an SSD is to become read-only. There’s no data loss there…

People were using them to shoot car and house windows out here.

Proton doesn’t always work, and what’s worse is it’s not consistent.

What works on one person’s machine, may not work on a different one. But in windows, the game works fine on both.

I’m looking at you, Distant Worlds and Distant Worlds 2.

I’ve never gotten DW to work, and DW2 worked for a while, but hasn’t worked for me in over a year.

There was a string of people swapping marbles into paintball guns for a few years here locally.

Correct. Unlike zigbee and zwave Matter does not define a single communication technique.

It can be used with thread, or over a standard tco TCP IP network.

Typically, Matter devices will support either thread or WiFi, but there’s no definite distinction to Matter itself.

If you also want to use Matter over Thread devices, you will need a thread dongle. The ZBT-1 can do either thread OR zigbee but not both at once.

In fact, the biggest issue I see with Matter is that there’s no real easy way to tell if the device uses WiFi or thread.

There are a lot of Matter devices out there now, but only a few use the Thread protocol.

My Matter (and Zigbee, and Z-Wave) hub is a laptop I paid 300.00 for almost 10 years ago, when I wanted something cheap for the semi truck.

I run Home Assistant on it now. I have both a $40 zwave USB stick, and a similarly priced Zigbee stick.

The software for the hub comes with HA. Just install the matter server

Their zbt-1 dongle can do either zigbee or thread, but matter does not technically need anything else. Thread does, but not Matter. Install Matter Server addon and you can use any matter WiFi device.

Weird. My Google Pixel 9 Pro XL has 3 navigation buttons.

That’s something that’s customizable using the stock firmware.

Settings -> Display & touch -> Navigation mode.

My Google Assistant still responds to “Hey Google” or “ok Google” just fine as well on my Google phone.

Weebles wobble, but they don’t fall down!