h3ndrik
@h3ndrik@feddit.de
- Comment on Recommendations for cheap hardware upgrade 12 hours ago:
Out of curiosity: Did you measure the power consumption?
- Comment on Recommendations for cheap hardware upgrade 13 hours ago:
A second-hand used laptop.
- Comment on how to set up jellyfin with podman and selinux and an intel gpu (a380) for transcoding? 15 hours ago:
Hmm. I wasn’t trying to recommend privileged or non-privileged mode, just trying to use that to single in on the actual issue.
Alright, if it’s just av1, maybe try to use a tool like
vainfoto find the supported codecs. I think it fails if an unsupported codec is explicitly specified. But take care if Encoding is mentioned. Some hardware has decoding capabilities only.It’s a complicated topic. And it also took me 2 whole evenings to get the permissions and everything right. I’m using systemd-nspawn, so my experience doesn’t directly translate. And it’s not any easier than docker.
For video acceleration I found the arch wiki somewhat helpful. But it’s lots of info and not specific to Docker. Maybe it helps for debugging: wiki.archlinux.org/…/Hardware_video_acceleration
- Comment on how to set up jellyfin with podman and selinux and an intel gpu (a380) for transcoding? 17 hours ago:
Hmm. I mean niw reading your first outpot in privileged mode, I don’t see any errors, or am I missing something… Seems it loaded vaapi sucessfully?!
- Comment on how to set up jellyfin with podman and selinux and an intel gpu (a380) for transcoding? 1 day ago:
Have you tried verifying it’s not the group permissions? You could preliminarily set permissions with
chmod 666 /dev/dri/render128My older Skylake processor has a bit worse video quality (occasional artifacts) with QuicSync.
- Comment on Tunnel app for my openwrt home server 3 days ago:
Maybe a port forward can do it? That’s under Network -> Firewall. in the “Port forward” tab.
I’d need more info on the intended use-case and what’s the requirement for a tunneling software that’s making ssh tunnels and vpn tunnels unsuitable.
- Comment on For discussing Fediverse accessibility, where would you recommend me to go? Or stay here? 3 days ago:
Judging by the history of this community, I’d say you’re invited to discuss it here. But it won’t change anything. You’d get back a few random opinions of other Lemmy users. But I’m not sure if anyone concerned with the developmend process reads this. (Correct me if I’m wrong.)
And I’m not sure about the Lemmy software. The developers always say they have enough on their plate. UI changes are rare. And they mostly implement what’s on their agenda, not what users wish for.
If I were you, I’d take this to one of the newer projects that’s going to replace Lemmy at some point. That would be PieFed for example. They’re pretty active and welcoming and open to suggestions. I think accessibility is already on their agenda: see piefed.social/post/17408
Another tip: The real discussions regarding software development usually don’t happen on social media. You’d need to go to the project page on GitHub or Codeberg (in this example) if you want to get in contact with the development community.
- Comment on Need recommandations for a home server 1 week ago:
To follow that up: 45W isn’t that bad. Depending on where you live, I’d say it’s worth it if you get something out of it. (Be able to fit the HDDs, upgradability, …)
Ultimately you’d need to do the maths. Check what it costs to afford an additional 20W of power in a year and whether you should spend that money on better hardware. If my maths is right, 20W for a year at a high price of 30ct/kWh is about $52. So there isn’t that much to be gained. And your electricity might be considerably cheaper anyways.
- Comment on Need recommandations for a home server 1 week ago:
Hmmh, No I don’t think you can make the idle power consumption go down. Sure, you got to set the right options in the BIOS and Linux. But there is a baseline and that’s with which chipset the mainboard was designed and what kind of components they chose.
And there’s the efficiency of the power supply. Usually they’re built to have a certain degree of efficiency (>80% or >90%) but that’s measured at a certain percentage of the maximum power draw. They’re not at all that efficient at 40W draw. You’d need an expensive PSU not to lose additional efficiency at low power. And generally they don’t come with a standard PC.
So you’d probably end up replacing half of the components of a standard PC while making it more power efficient. And I don’t think that’ll be cheap. You better find something that’s already designed to factor that in.
I think mostly it’s about the mainboard. Most of the time there are some chipsets that are known to be more power efficient than others. But I’m not up to date anymore and can’t give any good recommendations.
If you want it cheap and most power efficient, generally the advise is to use an old laptop. They’re made to idle at like 10W. But you won’t get any SATA ports that way. You’d need external HDDs and connecting them via USB isn’t really super reliable.
With the upgradability it’s always the question. That’s an additional requirement that makes it more difficult. If it’s an old machine you could end up needing to replace most of it anyways, since you need a new mainboard for a new CPU and along with that the next generation of RAM and then you’ve replaced most of your computer anyways. I’d say there is a limited window of opportunity when upgrading makes sense. But if you’re buying an old machine it may not always be a good idea to make it a requirement.
- Comment on Immich x FUTO Q&A 1 week ago:
Most important thing with FUTO is, they learn how to do open source and engage with a community. Maybe it helps if they adopt a few projects with existing communities and which are more than source available.
- Comment on Need recommandations for a home server 1 week ago:
Most mainboards in full-sized PCs aren’t optimized for power efficiency.
The german c’t magazine publishes guides to build efficient home-servers or workstations every other year. But that’s well above your budget: heise.de/…/Bauvorschlag-fuer-einen-sparsamen-Heim…
The Lenovo seems to draw around 45 Watts on idle. You could go well below 20 Watts if you wanted.
I’d say for most power efficiency along an extremely low budget, you want an old laptop as a home server, or a mini pc like an Intel NUC. But you might want to refine your requirements… What do you need that thing for? How many SATA-Ports etc do you need? Are you more willing to compromise on price or power efficiency?
- Comment on Would lemmy benefit of implementing Polls? 1 week ago:
Sure? Maybe also small Wikis.
- Comment on Sovereign Computing | Start9 1 week ago:
Hehehe. Yeah they put everything in on their site. From a canary to their company ethics, to an origin story, all necessary buzzwords, job offers (which they have none), a marketplace … Lot’s of flowery words. And honestly, it doesn’t even seem AI generated. They’ve probably mastered the bullshit bingo and decided to go all in. I kinda like it (in a twisted way.)
- Comment on Sovereign Computing | Start9 1 week ago:
Oh wow, thx. No. I’m just clueless. And there is a cultural difference, so souvereign citizens aren’t the first thing that comes to my mind when reading that word… But thanks for explaining the joke to me, anyways 😅
- Comment on Sovereign Computing | Start9 1 week ago:
And how do ultra-libertarians tie into hosting open source services?
- Comment on Sovereign Computing | Start9 1 week ago:
Sry, I don’t get at all what you’re trying to say…
- Comment on Sovereign Computing | Start9 1 week ago:
Gow’s it standing out? What’s the benefit over other self-hosting distros like YunoHost, Cloudron etc? Except the added Bitcoin?
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I think I get it. I mean the analogy is a bit flawed. What she invented is that alike synchronizing the rolls of player pianos, you could build a mechanism that hops frequencies (instead of piano keys) to make remote controlling torpedos resilient against jamming.
Idk. To me it feels like calling the inventor of three-wheeled vehicles the father/mother of cars, if we want to stay with that analogy. It’s remotely related, not an integral part and nowadays solved differently. But the first car was a tricycle. (Benz Patent-Motorwagen)
But I don’t want to invalidate her achievements either…
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
Hehehe, you can call her the mother of early 802.11 (and Bluetooth).
- Comment on It's time for a hard fork of Mastodon (DRAFT, REVISION IN PROGRESS) 2 weeks ago:
You’re right. I implied that with the “additionally”. I don’t like Ruby on Rails and all the resource usage of Mastodon anyways. I’d like something more efficient and with less frameworks involved.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
But that’s not part of 802.11n or 802.11g or a or what we call “Wifi”… 802.11 in itself is a pretty long standard, including all kinds of different things.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 weeks ago:
Wifi doesn’t use frequency hopping. That’s bluetooth.
- Comment on What existing platforms do you wish were federated? 2 weeks ago:
Craigslist / Facebook Marketplace
- Comment on It's time for a hard fork of Mastodon (DRAFT, REVISION IN PROGRESS) 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re a bit late to the game. There are like 20 different forks of Mastodon to address exactly that which deveopers have already migrated to. Additionally there are Misskey, Pleroma with their respective forks. Some of them are pretty active.
- Comment on The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse 3 weeks ago:
Also the software needs to be efficient. Use less RAM and CPU cycles. And I don’t think the ActivityPub protocol in itself is very efficient. I’d like those aspects compared to an old federated technology like NNTP or email.
But I’d agree on the things in top. Content should get compressed and cached on demand. Neither transferred every time from the original instance, nor transferred without a user ever viewing it.
- Comment on Are there any innovative platforms in the Fediverse? 3 weeks ago:
fediverse.info/explore/projects
There are a few projects that give some idea a new spin. Most of them are about microblogging or alternative platforms for some existing concepts, though.
- Comment on Alternatives to Hoppy Network 3 weeks ago:
iptables or nftables. Or firewalld depending on the Linux distro and version you use.
Sometimes the Arch Wiki has some good info on specific configurations. I mean it’s not that easy to write firewall rules on the command line. But it’s no rocket science either.
- Comment on Alternatives to Hoppy Network 3 weeks ago:
Hmm. It’s kind of just a VPN. It tunnels your traffic and terminates it at some server. It’s just that NordVPN makes you share an IP with other users and doesn’t offer port forwarding. But the rest of Hoppy isn’t unique.
I rented a VPS and installed wireguard myself. And created the firewall rules to forward (some) incoming traffic to my home server. That’s the same thing Hoppy does. Just that Hoppy does the setup of the firewall and Wireguard for you.
But I’m not aware of any similar services that do it automatically.
- Comment on I think we should slightly rethink how login works on most Fediverse apps (Mastodon, Lemmy, but not only) 3 weeks ago:
I’d agree. Either have a “Register” link that leads you to a website explaining how to choose an instance and register there. Or maybe a drop-down menu with choices of instances and you can put in custom text if your instance isn’t amongst the defaults. That’s certainly not ideal as it prefers some instances over others, but maybe okay. Regardless, the onboarding orocess could be easier.
(And do away with the passwords, I think they’re an annoying concept and go away in the future.)
- Comment on Reactionary memes when sorting by new 3 weeks ago:
Hmm, I can’t believe that. Usually it takes a few minutes for me. Ocassionally I see some spam or hateful comments in my feed. And they disappear within minutes.