If you are using Home Assistant and want to determine if the Apple Sleep focus mode is on or off so you can use it in automations, this post is for you. While on the surface this may seem like a trivial task, due to Apple's limited Focus APIs and personal iOS automations, one has to get very creative to solve this riddle. Literally all other Focus modes are easy to track via iOS Personal Automations. Sleep is "special". ...
Today, on June 28, 2023, Proxmox Virtual Backup Server 3.0 has been released to the public. This post will walk you through an in-place upgrade of Proxmox Backup Server 2.4 to 3.0. Proxmox is a very popular virtualization platform for home enthusiasts to run their servers on. It's a great platform for Home Assistant, Plex, Docker containers, and a lot more. This guide is aimed at home labs and NOT an enterprise that uses Proxmox Backup Server in production. You...
This post covers using an Intel 12th Gen (Alder Lake) CPU with Proxmox VE 8 to do VT-d vGPU passthrough to a Windows 11 Pro VM. This enables multiple VMs on the same Proxmox host share the GPU via virtual functions (VFs). What is VT-d vGPU and how is it different from 'legacy' GPU passthrough? "Legacy" GPU passthrough requires that the entire GPU be dedicated to a single VM. Other VMs on the Proxmox host can NOT share the GPU....
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