Because mechanical disks require external power. Even USB 3 out of your laptop wouldn’t be able to provide enough. Try with an SSD

Yeah I agree, YAML is a few extra steps. But I’ve been so used to GUIs I figured a trip to YAML today wouldn’t bother me. Worth it!

I didn’t stop to think something like this would exist, I thought I was banished to using the Notes area in Proxmox to remember which VMs and containers go to which hostnames/IPs. Was browsing this subreddit earlier today and stumbled upon Homepage https://gethomepage.dev/

Simple dashboard, I’m sure some of you have crazy elaborate ones, which I honestly would love to see. And just for completion sake, my homelab:

- Dell PowerEdge T440
- 2x Xeon Silver 4110
- 128GB DDR4
- NVIDIA Tesla P40
- ~6TB SSD JBOD

I run a proxmox VM for Stable Diffusion but that’s about all I use Ubuntu for