Thanks!

You intrigued me in part 1, I’m looking forward to reading this. Do you have an RSS feed or mailing list I can subscribe to get updates in future?

S-Mode is an appliance mode for Windows that prevents installation of any app not from the Microsoft Store. Disable S-Mode and you can install any application like you’ve always done, including Firefox.

Fedora should play nice with Secure Boot enabled. You also shouldn’t need to do anything with the TPM.

No worries!

I just switched from using Medusa and CouchPotato to Sonarr and Radarr. During the library import process, you can specify if the application should “monitor” the media which is what it means to download new content or try and replace with higher qualities. You can import entire libraries as “Unmonitored” so it will show it, but effectively ignore it unless you go back and change it. You can also just not import your library, and start “clean” if you wanted, and I believe it will just ignore the files for anything you don’t add.

I’m in the US. I can send you my address if you have somewhere I can send it. I don’t want to post it publicly for obvious reasons. :-)

Well, I can’t see a parts list in that repo, but I did find others. If the offer’s still open, I’ll definitely take a couple PCBs. Where did you buy the rest of the parts from?

I’d definitely be interested. What else would I need to build it?

I’ve got a couple keyboards with VIA/QMK and layers, I’m specifically interested in the 36 key split keyboard they mention.

Which keyboard is that?

If you mainly want to “hide” your IP, you can’t. Look at the headers of any message. It’ll still show the original source IP, which will be yours.

For the rest of the time I’d recommend getting a spam filtering service. Mimecast, ProofPoint, Barracuda, etc.

Messages sent to you go to the filter, which then forwards the message over to your mail server. Outbound you configure your server to use the filter as a smart host. These filters will also buffer messages if your mail server is offline. So if the server is down, the filter holds on to messages and retries delivery later when your server is back up (within reason).

I don’t recall in virt-manager off the top of my head. But if you make changes in the XML of a domain, you do have to shutdown/restart the domain before they’re effective. And just to be safe, I would say to shutdown the domain, then check the XML, then start up again.

You do say you’re just using qemu, so if that’s the case and you aren’t using libvirt in front of it, shutdown the VM, make sure your qemu command specifies an e1000 network device, and run again.

I can check virt-manager when I get some free time this evening, if that’s what you want/need.

You may need to shut down the VM, check the device config to ensure it’s set to e1000, then boot it back up. The PCI ID on your original post belongs to the virtio-net device.

Instead of trying to backport the virtio device drivers to that version, I’d recommend editing the VM to use the emulated e1000 NIC.

When you see the Windows and Apple icons on a game, that indicates native Windows and MacOS support. The Steam logo is native SteamOS/Linux. You’ll also see a “SteamOS/Linux” section on the system requirements.

I’m not aware of any that would run all of it at the same time. Most of this equipment is built for use with a server CPU and motherboard, which obviously has more PCI-E lanes. The Zen 5 consumer CPUs only have 28 PCI-E lanes, so unless you buy a motherboard that breaks out more through the use of a PCI-E switch, that’s all you’ll get.

That’s right. So on the top backplane, you’ll connect the Oculink ports to the Oculink outfitted HBA. One port per drive.

For the bottom 8 drives, it looks like you’ll have one miniSAS HD connector per four drives, plus another for the rear bays. I initially thought they were plain SATA and would go to the motherboard. But it looks like you’ll need a third connector - so you’ll want a 16 port HBA (Supermicro AOC-S3216L-L16iT).

Reading through all the documentation I can, it looks like you’ll have the option to run all the bays as NVME or SAS disks. The controllers and layouts I’ve listed are for running four bays as NVME, and the other 10 as SAS.

If I understand the ports you have - Supermicro AOC-SLG3-4E4T for the U.2 bays and a Supermicro AOC-S3008L-L8e for the SAS bays. You could replace the SAS card with a Dell HBA 330 as well. The Dell PERC cards that support NVME storage don’t appear to have the Oculink ports your backplane has.

Centralized logging like Graylog or Grafana Loki can help with a lot of this.