traches
@traches@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Cloud storage/backup 1 month ago:
So there’s a storage protocol called “S3” (I wanna say it stands for simple scalable storage?), first created by Amazon for AWS. Many types of software, including backup programs, have been designed to use it as a storage backend. There are now many S3 compatible providers as well, last I looked the best value was backblaze B2.
You need a backup program with end-to-end encryption, S3 compatibility, and whatever other features you like. I use restic but it’s CLI only, there’s also borg backup and many others.
If you encrypt locally with a good key, you don’t have to trust the remote storage provider. They just see a bunch of meaningless noise. Just don’t lose the key or your backup is useless.
- Comment on Best way to keep a hot spare SD card for a raspberry pi? 2 months ago:
lol raid1c10
- Comment on Best way to keep a hot spare SD card for a raspberry pi? 2 months ago:
Oh cool, this is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks :)
- Comment on Best way to keep a hot spare SD card for a raspberry pi? 2 months ago:
Performance is all but irrelevant in this case
- Comment on Best way to keep a hot spare SD card for a raspberry pi? 2 months ago:
It’s a 4gb pi4, think it could boot from ZFS?
- Comment on Best way to keep a hot spare SD card for a raspberry pi? 2 months ago:
I like the DNS on the router idea, I’ll look into it. I do have some split DNS set up as well as adblocking lists (technician). Not sure what my router can do.
- Comment on Best way to keep a hot spare SD card for a raspberry pi? 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’m getting a pretty strong consensus here that an SSD is the way to go. I’ve also had at least one SD card die on me, and because I didn’t have backups it was pretty inconvenient. Had to recreate my homeassistant setup from scratch.
I get the config only backup, but when I have a mondohuge nas available and we’re dealing with like less than 100 gigs, why not just take a full disk image?
- Comment on Best way to keep a hot spare SD card for a raspberry pi? 2 months ago:
Well, this is my DNS server which means if it’s down the internet is down and I can’t resolve hostnames to ssh into. I know that can be worked around, but I’d really like a quick and easy fix that I could even talk someone through over the phone if I had to.
My real backups are squared away, no worries. Nightly automatic restic snapshots, one to an external drive on this very pi and another to a NAS at my parents’ house.
- Comment on Best way to keep a hot spare SD card for a raspberry pi? 2 months ago:
I’ve also been using BTRFS for awhile, and recently I’ve been getting into zfs which IMO does a better job of handling large software raid arrays. They’re both pretty great!
- Comment on Best way to keep a hot spare SD card for a raspberry pi? 2 months ago:
Yeah, I definitely won’t be buying a new pi anytime soon for exactly that reason but I’ve had this one for awhile and would prefer to do something useful with it.
- Comment on Best way to keep a hot spare SD card for a raspberry pi? 2 months ago:
I have a decent Samsung card in there now, it might survive. Can’t remember what brand the one that failed was, but I don’t tend to buy crappy ones
- Comment on Best way to keep a hot spare SD card for a raspberry pi? 2 months ago:
That’s true, just booting from an SSD would be a lot more reliable and simple.
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- Comment on OpenAI has a 99.9% accurate ChatGPT AI text detector, but won't release it. 3 months ago:
„It’s probably broken and I don’t believe you”
- Comment on Dynamic IP - Self hosting 3 months ago:
If you can avoid it, don’t open ports in your firewall, don’t publish your home IP address, and keep everything behind a VPN. If only you and your family will be using these services, go with Tailscale or one of its competitors. Otherwise, VPS or cloudflare tunnel/competitor.
- Comment on Immich v1.109.1 released with optional paid license 3 months ago:
If they have an email address they can send a license key
- Comment on Immich v1.109.1 released with optional paid license 3 months ago:
In the discord they said they will give you a license, and they’re planning to do it automatically
- Comment on Immich v1.109.1 released with optional paid license 3 months ago:
I’ll repeat here what I said on discord:
I’m no fan of stallman, but I like his quote: “I’m happy to pay for good software so long as it’s free”.
It’s important to remember that anyone with the skill to work on this project could earn a pretty good living elsewhere. We can debate the terminology, but at the end of the day devs gotta eat.
Personally, so long as it stays on the GPL they can call us “god-kings” and “filthy peasants” for all I care
- Comment on Immich v1.109.1 released with optional paid license 3 months ago:
There is absolutely an option to pay for the server itself, the per user option is so that it’s cheaper if you have fewer than 4. I haven’t seen anything yet about transitioning from a user license to a server license
- Comment on Immich v1.109.1 released with optional paid license 3 months ago:
It’s had an external library feature for awhile now
- Comment on Looking for games that feel like a summer adventure 3 months ago:
Yeah, I bounced off it once for the same reason. If you can get past that it’s worth it
- Comment on Looking for games that feel like a summer adventure 3 months ago:
If you haven’t played outer wilds yet, do it. Go in blind, read/watch nothing unless you are absolutely stuck. It truly is one of the best video games ever made, and it’s definitely a cozy adventure (for the most part).
- Comment on Recommended containerized CardDAV/CalDAV solution? 3 months ago:
+1 for radicale, I’ve been using it for several years now and have barely had to give it any attention at all.
- Comment on The interior of your house is hot, the exterior cool. What would the most efficient orientation be for a box fan? Pushing hot air out of a window or pulling cool air in through it? 3 months ago:
Same reason why blowing on your hand close to your mouth is warm, but farther away is cool.
- Comment on Monitoring Borg backups 4 months ago:
+1 for healthchecks.io, and I also use ntfy.sh so every morning I can wake up to a warm, fuzzy, “backup successful” notification.
- Comment on Homelab Organization 4 months ago:
- caddyserver for reverse proxy
- docker-compose for ~75% of documentation
- logseq for notes, though I don’t keep much.
Docker and docker-compose are nice because every service you want to run follows the same basic pattern. You don’t need much documentation beyond the project docs and the compose files themselves
- Comment on Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked? 4 months ago:
Use any old computer you have lying around as a server. Use Tailscale to connect to it, and don’t open any ports in your home firewall. Congrats, you’re self-hosting and your risk is minimal.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 6 months ago:
It’s a gag, I promise. He’s talked about it on their podcast
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 6 months ago:
The guy who wrote it is the editor-in-chief.
- Comment on Dynamic DNS vs Dedicated VPN IP 6 months ago:
First I’d ask if you need to open ports at all - if this is only for your family’s use then Tailscale or one of its alternatives can accomplish the same goal without opening ports in your firewall or worrying about security flaws in your hosted services.
If it’s for public use, maybe consider cloudflare tunnel?