u/Pizzzathehutt

My non-technical aging parents were paying ATT $165/month for 2Mbs internet and a house phone. So I plan to move them to TMo home internet. But I need a solution for the house phone.

They have a cell phones, but its not attached at the hip and often gets left downstairs at night or in the car. I need a house phone or something for them mainly for emergencies. My dad just wants to port the home number to his cell as a second number, but that does not help if one of them needs to call 911.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

I'm trying to test if transcoding is working. Is there a way to force it to not do Direct Stream?

https://preview.redd.it/oyi5pn8ymryg1.png?width=295&format=png&auto=webp&s=46def170637ff548aa5c61e4edf2d8073084f6f0

Update: I figured out that I can pick a lower quality on the client and it changes to Transcode, but looks like its not using my GPU as my CPU is capped

https://preview.redd.it/npnmf6o2oryg1.png?width=290&format=png&auto=webp&s=cf61094a8b578eeb4371f8590a6d826fb3f9e57e

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From what I can tell Ubuntu can see my GPU, but I dont think its properly working. Within Proxmox I added the PCI device.

https://preview.redd.it/uxnob6g7m5yg1.png?width=864&format=png&auto=webp&s=81a916320d0dbc0883f5adad9b34f61fcd5949f4

After that Ubuntu started throwing "amdgpu psp load smu failed" errors, so I assumed it was seeing the card and needed drivers. So I downloaded the latest drivers form AMD https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/25.35.1/ubuntu/noble/amdgpu-install_7.2.1.70201-1_all.deb

The errors are no longer showing, but if I try and locate the GPU with "ll /dev/dri/", I should see something like "Renderer", correct?

https://preview.redd.it/qf9k46hpn5yg1.png?width=493&format=png&auto=webp&s=60311a198ec5b9da3f48823f894b5344547b76fc

How do I validate that the GPU is properly working?

I have a couple Docker servers running different flavors of Linux that i want to combine into a single host. I have a dashboard, Plex and *arr stack that I dont want to reconfigure from scratch.

Assuming I have all my existing file shares mounted, I should be able to just move the root Docker directory and run "docker compose pull && docker compose up -d" on the new server, right? Or is there something I am missing?

I have a few VLANs setup for isolation (Trusted, IoT, Guest, Lab, ect). But I am struggling with where to put a service like PiHole thats a shared service across multiple VLANs. I dont want the IoT and Guest network reaching into Trusted to get DNS resolution.

Where do you all put shared services?

Someone here suggested using a shared domain for everyday non-primary accounts, but with sub-domains. I want to make sure there are no future pitfalls.

Originally my wife and I were going to go with 4 separate domains. we each get a primary for family, bank, ect communication. Than a junk domain for everything else. As I mentioned someone suggested sharing a single junk domain using sub-domains. So she would use something like<website>@her.junkdomain.com and I would use<website>@me.junkdomain.com.

I kinda like this option since its one less domain to come up with and purchase.

Doing it this way will she be able to manage all her aliases on her own? I dont want to be the one managing all her aliases, so I want a sub-domain to be the same as if she had her own junk domain. Are there any other pitfalls or concerns that I need to consider for this configuration?

Shes all in with moving to custom domains, because she wants to take control back from Google. But if I keep changing how we do things she might get discouraged. So I am trying to plan everything out correctly now.

My wife and I have a Proton DUO account. Each of us have our main personal domain and a domain for everything else (So total of four domains)

Do we configure them all in Proton mail or SimpleLogin? Or do we split them up, where personal domains are in Proton and the "everything else" domains are in SimpleLogin?