I haven’t gotten enough into JC2 to answer that question, but you just gave me another reason to play the game.

Um … characters in JC3 … well Mario gets developed. You get to see him dancing to a boom box. And he sends you to steal a scooter from some girl he doesn’t like. … There’s an announcer on the radio that crows about your victories. … There are some silly characters added with the DLCs. … And Sheldon. … But mostly I didn’t notice the characters.

JC3 was absolutely great. I finished it 100%.
JC2 is cool. I’ve not finished it.
JC4 is not fun. Boring. I’ve got about 3 hours into it.

Ya. JC5 is a no go.

Cool.

Here. SSH key issues. There was a huge forum war.
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/ssh-keys-in-a-proxmox-cluster-resolving-replication-host-key-verification-failed-errors.138102/
But its still a thing. That still needs to be fixed by a human. Today that’s me.

Regarding CEPH and corosync on the same network … well I’m just getting started with that now. I do have them on different vlans, but its the same 10gb set of nics. I’m hoping if it gets really lousy, my netadmin can prioritize the corosync vlan. I’ll burn that bridge when I come to it.

EDIT … The linked forum post above leads to the SSH key answer, but its convoluted.
Here’s what I put in my own wiki.

Get the right key from each server.
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Make sure they match in here. Fix em if they don’t.
/etc/pve/priv/authorized_keys

There’s a couple symlinks to fix too, but this should get it.

SSH key management in PVE is handled in a set of secondary files, while the original debian files are replaced with symlinks. Well, that’s still debian. And in some circumstances the symlinks get b0rked or replaced with the original SSH files, the keys get out of sync, and one machine in the cluster can’t talk to another. The really irritating thing about this is that the tools meant to fix it (pvecm updatecerts) don’t work. I’ve got an elaborate set of procedures to gather the certs from the hosts and fix the files when it breaks, but it sux bad enough that I’ve got two clusters I’m putting off fixing.

Corosync is the cluster. It’s a shared file system that immediately replicates any changes to all members. That’s essentially anything under /etc/pve/. Corosync is very sensitive. I believe they ask for 10ms lag or less between hosts, so it can’t work over a WAN connection. Shit like VM restores or vmotion between hosts can flood it out. Looks fukin awful when it goes down. Your whole cluster goes kaput.

All corosync does is push around this set of config files, so a dedicated NIC is overkill, but in busy environments, you might wind up resorting to that. You can put cororsync on its own network, but you obviously need a network for that. And you can establish throttles on various types of host file transfer activities, but that’s a balancing act that I’ve only gotten right in our colos where we only have 1gb networks. I have my systems provisioned on a dedicated corosync vlan and also use a secondary IP on a different physical interface, but corosync is too dumb to fall back to the secondary if the primary is still “up”, regardless of whether its actually communicating, so I get calls on my day off about “the cluster is down!!!1” when people restore backups.

I use PVE professionally. I could spent some time bitching about how it handles ssh keys and the fragile corosync cluster management. I could complain about the sloppy release cycle and the way they move fast and break shit. Or all the janky shit they’ve slapped together in PBS. I could go on.

But I actually pay for a license for my homelab. And ya, it is THE thing at work now.

I’ve often heard it said that Proxmox isn’t a great option. But its the best one.
If you do try it, don’t bother asking questions here.
Go to the source. https://forum.proxmox.com/

Hmm. I used to volunteer with Free Geek in Portland OR. It was essentially that, an e-disposal site and we made refurbs for community organizations. But they did have a store for sale to the public.

I have so much computer junk. I got rid of most of it, but then I got a bunch more when we closed the company office. Got at least 10 monitors, 5 PCs, a mini, couple laptops … and a storage shelf to put it on.

Buy? That’s garbage. Look in garbage places. Used shops of any sort.
I like the college junk store suggestion. I used to do that.

You better watch it. You will shortly have a closet full of junk computer parts.

Boom.

I still play this game.
The only one you need installed now is Classics: Revolution. That’s all of 1 and 2 wrapped up. But … there’s no update pending. Last one was 2020.
I guess I’ll download the monolithic SS2 and see what’s new.

… EDIT … Oh ya, my bad, the weird numbering. First Encounter, Second Edition … That’s all SS1. This article is about the not-so-great followup.

Well, thank you! I’ve been curious. And I don’t mind hard.

Finishing Portal was really satisfying. Also, I wanted to be done with puzzles. Yay!

Far Cry 2 was the last good thing Ubisoft produced. And it was very good.
Fuk Ubi. Forever. Never spending another cent on them.

Um … I definitely saw that coming. Gorgeous game tho. The sequels … meh.

Once you get past the tower where you have to run around while you wait for the elevator, things ease up. Still lots of chances to die, but that’s the only spot in the game where you are that hard pressed. Although the sewer run is pretty stressful too …

That’s a hell of a game ending, is it not? It fukin screams for a sequel.

B12 is alive! That flicker. He’s there. And we just freed the zurks …

Heh. I do shit like that. Before i quit/finished Fall Out 4, I killed all the Brotherhood, stole their power armor, and put it on the roof of the Atomic greaser’s gas station. Didn’t stop till I had it covered. It was a fukin monument. Looked cool as hell.

Ya, Brutal Doom is the fukin shit. Killer. Really. With lots of blood.
I have Selaco on my Steam wishlist. I’ll get it someday.

Skyrim has the best bars in any video game that I know of. I used to dump all my crap on the floor of the Whiterun tavern, so the npcs would kick it around as they moved. Hundreds of baskets and pans and garbage items. I’d leave the game running as I slept, listening to the trash being kicked, local gossip, awful minstrel, and pleasant sounds of people drinking.

d00d. I keep trying to play it. The world resets and I’m like wtf is going on? Something is not clicking for me. Boy do I suck at piloting too.

What do you think of Black Mesa? I haven’t finished the whole game. I did play the Xen stuff when they first released it.