Year: 2024

EDIT: I have a tale to be told below, but I found the simplest answer to getting mods installed on your Linux server. In your arkmanager.cfg file or in your "instance" config file just add the modid to the line of mods to load (ark_GameModIds) and then restart the server. This will inform you to use arkmanager to download the mods, but it will also just do it for you. That is the simplest method. Everything else is noise. Yes, it does pay to understand how it all works, but the path of least resistance is always the best. The developers did a good job of making this program and arkmanager is a great tool, however, when it is as simple as adding the mod the mod line in your…

All software these days is complex, especially in the open source world. In the open source world though, good luck on resolving the issues with help. No, I don't mean you can't ask for help. You can, just don't expect anything but the basics. And blog posts about your problem. The very worst these days. Everyone repeats what everyone else said and very little context about the issues that you can expect to find. Mostly junk. Blog posts are garbage. They are noise, period. This doesn't mean there aren't any good ones, but most of the time the blogs are garbage posts about open source. I'm going to give the example of the pihole. Everyone thinks this is great. It can block ads and help maintain your privacy. What happens…

I wanted to add a bind mount to a container so I could index the content for playback. This would allow the program in the container to index the data without the need to store it locally. The media is my music library. I want to be able play it while driving and while at work. This became a multistage process. First I had to mount the remote folder in my Proxmox host. Then I needed to provide that folder as a bind mount in the container where the program that needed the data that ran. The two steps are to use a secure method to talk to the remote computer. I used SSHFS to contact the server and mount the connection in the PVE host. I used the root…