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IRS has launched its free tax filing service, Direct File, in 12 states in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] Trickloss@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Would've liked to know this 2 days ago before I filed my taxes.

Well I'll try it out next year.

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How to get Guest VM to be accessible by other devices? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Trickloss@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hello. I wanted to know if it was possible to get a VMWare guest VM that's acting as my self-hosted streaming server to be accessible by other devices outside my host pc?

I know it would be able to if I just set it to a bridged network connection, but I also want it to strictly only have access to the internet through my host pc that would also be using a VPN, which is why I want to leave it on NAT.

Basically, I want all my local network devices on my router to be able to access a guest VM on my PC that is only able to access the internet through the host PC.

I'm using VMWare workstation Pro, with an Ubuntu guest VM that has Jellyfin, Plex, Jackett, and etc. for streaming media.

Need advice for a newbie on building a homelab in c/homelab@lemmy.ml

[-] Trickloss@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I just looked up what zfs is and I don't think I need to go with that for now since I'm only testing at the moment.

I was finally able to set up vCenter with two ESXi VMs after enabling nested virtualization. I'm out of RAM now just running those and a Windows 10 VM, even after adjusting the initial RAM settings lower. I was hoping to add some more VMs and a domain controller, but I think I might have to get more RAM than 32gb right now.

Need advice for a newbie on building a homelab in c/homelab@lemmy.ml

[-] Trickloss@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's a good idea. Too bad I've recently just built my current PC and won't upgrade for another 5-6 years, though. I've also passed down my old one to my sibling.

Need advice for a newbie on building a homelab in c/homelab@lemmy.ml

[-] Trickloss@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, I was just trying to copy what they have at my workplace, since it would be better if I was familiar with it. And it did work out great since I was able to fix a bug and complete a task that they had for a while thanks to setting up a VM of Windows Server DC and fiddling around with it and RHEL.

Is hosting on a Windows machine not ideal? Don't really have much experience with other OS to make a good assessment.

Need advice for a newbie on building a homelab in c/homelab@lemmy.ml

[-] Trickloss@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I do have an old laptop. Can you tell me why it's better to run a server on an old laptop than a gaming pc, though?

Need advice for a newbie on building a homelab in c/homelab@lemmy.ml

[-] Trickloss@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's an AMD CPU with 16 cores and 32 threads

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[-] Trickloss@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So if my PC had 32gb of RAM, I should be fine with running VMware vSphere, Windows Server 2016 AD DC, and some Linux VMs that could run other tools like system monitors and such on it together? At least for just practice and not really running them 24/7 like an actual server would?

Need advice for a newbie on building a homelab in c/homelab@lemmy.ml

[-] Trickloss@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Electricity isn't cheap at all here and I do live in a small apartment, unfortunately. It's why I want to know if just making some changes to my main desktop PC would be better, as that would allow me to save on space, electricity, and heat.

I do have two Rasperry Pis right now. One of them I run Pihole on at the moment.

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Need advice for a newbie on building a homelab (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Trickloss@lemmy.world to c/homelab@lemmy.ml

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I'm pretty much new to all things homelab as I've only started looking into it because of my job. I'm relatively new to my position (first job I got after getting my degree), so I wanted to learn more about virtualization and other related tools that could help me.

I want to practice using VMs and such. VMware vCenter, ESXi, PowershellCLI, Microsoft Windows Servers, RHEL, and others. And while my work does provide me a remote production environment for these, it's not always available to me. A lot of other people work on them and I can't really just go in and start messing around.

So I've been looking into getting a homelab setup for myself. I'm just not really sure what I should be going for, though. Do I get a Dell Poweredge Rxx0? I do have a PC of my own that I've been using with Hyper-V and VMware Workstation to create VMs of what I mentioned, but I dunno if I should just get a dedicated server or not? Should I just upgrade my RAM and add in some SSDs on my PC and would that work fine for me?