TheRagingGeek
@TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world
- Comment on How to start off small with the intent to expand 4 days ago:
That’s fair, I was half asleep when I wrote it so probably the half that controls word rate was in that half that was still offline.
- Comment on How to start off small with the intent to expand 4 days ago:
I started my descent into the depths of self hosting with an old phenom II black PC, I bought a bunch of HDDs and put them in a RAID 10 via mdadm and eventually learned my lesson about not using LVM on my Linux for my storage management. Having volume flexibility has helped immensely there. I can echo some people’s recommendation of portainer though be careful as if you want to get into multi device docker management portainer has some limits on what you can do for free. I upgraded to their pro tier using their free promo for 3 instances, but then had 2 mini pcs dumped on me by my brother in law, which took me to 4 managed nodes which exceeded their latest limit. I have since switched to dokploy managing my docker swarm, so considering this platform decision early can save some growing pains, dokploy also has built in management for traefik so it is pretty slick though I have been maintaining my own nginx proxy by hand(not even npm, just nginx and a bunch of service config files). I definitely recommend pi.hole, something like AMP or crafty controller or some such if you want to host game servers on it still, duplicati is a nice web interface for creating timely backups of things, and supports a variety of cloud storage(I currently offsite to a backblaze B2 storage bucket which is AWS S3 compatible). Blue iris I think is something I saw passed around recently for security cams, all the Arrs are pretty easy to setup once you get one of them setup. My one drive replacement ended up being own cloud, as I fought with nextcloud getting it setup the way I liked so had to pivot. Link warden is a tool I have used for archiving websites and creating a shareable bookmark collection. Audiobookshelf and Calibre(plus calibre-web) make a decent way to manage audio and ebooks. If you are sharing this server and its services with others I highly recommend getting some kind of SSO setup, I ultimately picked Authentik for this, it has great integration documentation for most popular services, now my family can access all my services without having 22 different passwords. Outside of those recommendations I can recommend checking out some sites like selfh.st for some inspiration on the kinds of services you can run and figure out what your needs/desires are and do some A/B testing on some that operate in the same space to see which ones fit your needs better. I can also say looking at the greeting pinned post in this community is pretty good as well to get some ideas. I posted my most recent list of services in there(though it is now 2-3 services behind since I am addicted and growing). If your old gaming pc rig has a decent GPU in it you could also consider running Ollama and open-webui and host your own personal agentic AI. I really feel the sky is the limit when it comes to self-hosting.
- Comment on What is lunch like in exclusive private schools for rich kids? 3 weeks ago:
Wha I find crazy is that my best food I ever had in school was in junior high in Oklahoma we had a salad line, a main line, Taco Bell express, slushies, candies and pastries and on thursdays we had delivered pizzas, and I think the nachoes were every day as well. Never seen a school have so much choice ever since.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 4 weeks ago:
Starburstius sounds a bit wild
- Comment on In search of riches, hackers plant 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi in bank network 2 months ago:
Any of the major banks consider breaches as cost of doing business at their scale compared to smaller banks. My bank prides itself on never having a breach, and it is insufferable to develop code for, but I guess it’s the price of security
- Comment on Hughes.net? 2 months ago:
As someone who had to support resold Hughes net networking I can tell you that satellite internet is great at downloading large bulks of information, otherwise you run into a problem of physics, adding 88,000 miles of round trip to your internet connectivity(1 hop to space then back to Hughes network gateway on earth, then back to space and then to you) are going to be super latency, gaming is not recommended nor is streaming, it can also be hella spotty as any weather events at your location or at hughes(which I think is in North Carolina?) will impede the line of sight needed between the dishes. I’ve never heard a good experience with satellite.
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 2 months ago:
Everything has been a downward slide our entire lives which means it also rolls downhill for all the future generations too until someone can yank back on the economic flightstick and get us out of this dive.
- Comment on Didn't ask. 3 months ago:
Explains American politics, MAGA = Tzeechian cultists
- Comment on Driving through Nebraska twice nearly broke me. The people who live there must be among the hardest motherfuckers alive. 4 months ago:
Yeah Lincoln has lucked out compared to Omaha, feels like they’re getting worse every year here I’ve had a couple close calls in recent years that have required us to seek shelter. Power grid has gone out more frequently too. That said I love the city, it’s great for foodies, but driving I-80 through both Iowa and Nebraska I wouldn’t wish on anyone especially if they are at all fatigued, just a whole lot of not much to look at
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 4 months ago:
Did anyone here use the L shift +O shorthand for load? I feel like I never see it mentioned anywhere
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 4 months ago:
Sneakernet was great back then
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 4 months ago:
I am also this old. C64 for life
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 4 months ago:
My first computer had the following to get a directory listing of a floppy: LOAD”$”,8 That’s how old I am
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 5 months ago:
Kind of a niche answer, honestly me and my wife of 20+ years might still be “living in sin” if it wasn’t for her decision to join the military, in order for me to move with her to her home base, we had to be married. It allowed me to visit Alaska which was a great adventure, though I am glad that she is out and we are living normal lives since.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 11 months ago:
Now you can slam the top of the machine to boot it up