hrko hrko

dont buy ASUS motherboard for this topology - many of their motherboard do not implement full SW Connection Manager required for full spec USB4 / TB4 required for this topology and they are unable to articulate which motherboard do and do not have the required features and keep saying 20Gbp/s is the max speed of connection on intel NUCS - this is wrong. 13th and 14th Gen NUCs that implement a SW connection manager for USB4 / TB4 will work fine..

ProxMox Cluster - Soup-to-Nutz

aka what i did to get from nothing to done.

note: these are designed to be primarily a re-install guide for myself (writing things down helps me memorize the knowledge), as such don't take any of this on blind faith - some areas are well tested and the docs are very robust, some items, less so). YMMV

Purpose of Proxmox cluster project

Required Outomces of cluster project

RKE2 commands

Updated on May 29 to accommodate etcd container not having /bin/sh available anymore.

Install

curl -sL https://get.rke2.io | sh
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start rke2-server

Force RGB pixel format over YCbCr

There are some monitors, in my case Dell U2413, that report having YCbCr support when plugged in over HDMI. My AMD Radeon RX 570 Series video card sees this YCbCr pixel format and then prefers that over the RGB pixel format. The result is that fonts, graphics and other visuals are pixelated and not smooth in Ubuntu.

This actually is not just a Linux problem. A similar problem exists on macOS with the same monitor hooked up over HDMI. In fact an article by John Ruble on the Atomic Object blog called Fixing the External Monitor Color Problem with My 2018 MacBook Pro attempts to fix the exact same thing.

Solution

All of the articles I could find exploring this topic advocate patching the EDID for the monitor. Unfortunately the macOS solution would not work here. Luckily I found a Reddit post that covered how to get it working.

Exporting your 2FA tokens from Authy to transfer them into another 2FA application

IMPORTANT - Update regarding deprecation of Authy desktop apps

Past August 2024, Authy stopped supported the desktop version of their apps:
See Authy is shutting down its desktop app | The 2FA app Authy will only be available on Android and iOS starting in August for details.

And indeed, after a while, Authy changed something in their backend which now prevents the old desktop app from logging in. If you are already logged in, then you are in luck, and you can follow the instructions below to export your tokens.

If you are not logged in anymore, but can find a backup of the necessary files, then restore those files, and re-install Authy 2.2.3 following the instructions below, and it should work as expected.

	rm -rf /etc/systemd/system/ceph*
	killall -9 ceph-mon ceph-mgr ceph-mds
	rm -rf /var/lib/ceph/mon/ /var/lib/ceph/mgr/ /var/lib/ceph/mds/
	pveceph purge
	apt -y purge ceph-mon ceph-osd ceph-mgr ceph-mds
	rm /etc/init.d/ceph
	for i in $(apt search ceph \| grep installed \| awk -F/ '{print $1}'); do apt reinstall $i; done
	dpkg-reconfigure ceph-base
	dpkg-reconfigure ceph-mds
	dpkg-reconfigure ceph-common