I’ve had a good experience with TrueNAS scale on bare metal and proxmox in a VM. I don’t have a lot of heavy weight stuff on proxmox though, mainly LXC containers and a few VMs. I also have a VM in TrueNAS for jellyfin that I pass a GPU into. It’s been running that way for several years without issue.

If you’re up for roasting your own (it’s easy and fun!) there is a great variety of decaf green beans.

www.sweetmarias.com/green-coffee.html

I regularly roast their decaf fazenda and it’s great.

Oh ya makes sense. Anything in a rack form factor would be much too loud to live with. I think in that case you’ve made great choices in hardware!

Pretty much everything else virtualization. I have a few small LXC containers running Ad Guard and Unifi Controller, and VMs for a gitlab instance, gitlab runner, and some game servers. I could host all that in TrueNAS directly but I like proxmox’s UI.

My setup is TrueNAS SCALE on bare metal with VMs for Proxmox and Jellyfin. I pass an Arc A380 to Jellyfin for transcoding and it works great. I also leverage LXC contains a lot for small services. I keep everything behind a VPN. It’s pretty easy to distribute Wireguard configs and import them on most OSes, but It’s been a mixed bag getting family members to use it though.

I’m a fan of having dedicated network hardware and VLANs on one router. I generally go for Mikrotik. I used to run pfsense on a VM and when the server when down so did everything else, which caused the house to erupt into chaos.

Also if you’re considering new hardware already I really recommend looking into surplus enterprise gear. I run my whole lab on an R730XD. It holds a ton of drives, has an IDRAC (I can’t live without it now), ECC for extra peace of mind during ZFS scrubs, and they hold an insane amount of inexpensive RAM. They’re fairly cheap on eBay or from refurbishment companies. Bring your own drives with warranties though, used drives are a headache. Servers like this can be really noisy though, I keep mine in the basement.

I’ll also suggest a second drive to mirror your boot drive. You can and should back up your configs but a mirror saves headache and down time if the boot ssd fails. Probably even more important if you’re planning on using this pool for VM storage.

Have fun! 😁

Do you have a source for that? I can’t find anything related to TrueNAS deprecating VMs.

Do no research, read no guides.

This looks like classic photoshop to me.

Haha that’s awesome! We have four in total and it is a constantly rotating series of names, and one even has his own religion. Cats are fun

She’s so cute! We have a tripod that’s missing a back leg, she also can’t jump as well as her brothers but she makes up for it with her completely jacked upper body. I’ve seen her scale a window drape like she’s in Assassin’s Creed.

I really suggest talking to a therapist. I’m in a similar stage of life going through similar relationship things. Just in the past few months of seeing my therapist I feel way less underwater and helpless. I’m making plans and I see the whole situation in a different, clearer way. It might sound obvious but being able to think clearly is crucial to making smart decisions and getting yourself out of tough situations like this.

I have bazzite running on an HP EliteDesk 705 G5 mini PC with a 3400G in it that I got used from eBay for pretty cheap, a little over $100. It handles 1440p 120Hz, it’s max output resolution at 120Hz, and 4k 60Hz just fine with steam remote play from my desktop on LAN. It also does up to GameCube emulation really well if you’re into that kind of thing. I’d really only consider upgrading from this if I wanted 4K 120Hz in the future, or if HDR becomes worth it, but the 1440p 120Hz experience is great.

Shredded pork comes out great in a crock pot too, though it’s a 4-6 hr affair vs 30 mins. I use a Boston butt