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- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 10 months ago:
Me at Reddit funeral peertube.stream/…/50518ff5-0884-4a44-b7df-39f7148…
- Comment on This Week in Self-Hosted (22 December 2023) 10 months ago:
bestie why do you have <link rel=“alternate” type=“application/rss+xml” title=“selfh.st” href=“”> in your <head>? It doesn’t point to an rss feed, unless your site is an rss feed in itself?
- Comment on Looking for low power devices for selfhosting 10 months ago:
- Comment on Can I build a NAS out of a desktop? [Request] 10 months ago:
Yeah. That’s what I used to do when I started out.
The simplest thing to do is install Debian on the computer and create partitions. You have 4 HDDs and 2 SSDs so it’d be stupid to create 6 separate partitions for each drive.
See in the BIOS if your motherboard supports software RAID1, so you are protected against drive failure somewhat. This will allow you to get something barebones running that’ll use at least 2 drives with redundancy. I assume the mobo RAID1 is stupid and only allows for max 2 drives.
With a system like that you could probably set up some small NFS for sharing your files.
Note that going with raw linux is “simpler” in the sense that it’s perhaps easier to wrap your head around or tinker with, but TrueNAS or Unraid have GUIs that will allow you to create e.g. the mentioned NFS share with a few clicks, rather than having to do it from the terminal. Depends on what you’re looking for.
Once you have that,
I only ever dealt with ZFS and TrueNAS. ZFS will allow you to create a “partition” (pool in zfs terms) from many drives at the same time, so you’d be able to use more drives than just the two from RAID1.
The drives that you have are probably shitty SMR drives whose write speed dramatically slows down once you’re writing to them for a longer time. Consider buying CMR drives in the future, or just going all-SSD if it fits your usecase.
- Comment on What's your favorite note-taking application? 10 months ago:
Chiming in with my org mode setuo as well: -Keep notes on my NAS
- Mount NFS share with notes on desktop and edit with Emacs
- Create a WebDAV share of the notes (so shared both using nfs and webdav). Use the Android “Orgzly Revived” app from F-droid and log into the webdav share
I used to use Syncthing to avoid having both NFS and Webdav but it didnt sync
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 11 months ago:
basically im very smol
- Comment on Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts 11 months ago:
- Comment on Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with its return-to-office policy, leaked documents show 1 year ago:
Well, not like anybody is getting promoted at my company either…?
- Submitted 1 year ago to technology@lemmy.world | 44 comments
- Comment on Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud 1 year ago:
I guess it’s because it’s “insecure”. Any device on the network could control the lights. Tasmota allows setting a password for the control panel though.
- Comment on How to make setup more resilient? Proxmox mini-PC \w iSCSI to TrueNAS 1 year ago:
Hey, OP here again.
Here’s what I ended up with:
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upgrading my TrueNAS CORE to TrueNAS SCALE - it was really easy, just upload a 1.3GB upload file through the web UI. CORE’s apps/plugins are based on BSD jails, where SCALE apps are based on Kubernetes/Docker, so I can any arbitrary Docker container from Dockerhub as I please, rather than being limited to BSD jails
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migrating all the VMs/LXCs to matching TrueNAS SCALE Applications. So e.g. my hand-made Navidrome LXC was migrated to the TrueNAS SCALE Application. Sometimes there was no equivalent TrueNAS app for what I was using - e.g. Forgejo, so I just ran an arbitrary container from dockerhub.
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decomissioning the Proxmox mini-pc (Lenovo M920q). I’ll sell it later or maybe turn it into a pfSense router.
I installed a custom TrueNAS app repository called Truecharts. It has some apps that the default repo doesn’t have, and it also has a nice integration with Ingress (Traefik), which allows you to easily create a reverse proxy using just the GUI.
I’m still yet to figure out how to set up Let’s Encrypt for the services I made available to the Internet. I can no longer do things the Linux way, i must do it the Kubernetes way, so I’m kind of limited. Looks like HTTP01 challenges don’t work yet and I’ll have to use DNS01.
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- Comment on Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud 1 year ago:
I too get the feeling that the selection of devices with Tasmota pre-flashed is rather limited. Due to the nature of Tasmota, those devices will only be Wi-Fi devices, which further causes problems with battery usage (contrary to Zigbee/Z-wave etc.) 15 minutes ago I was looking at smart buttons that can run Tasmota, and I’ve only found the Shelly Button 1. And funnily enough, it’s possible to connect it with microUSB (!) so it stays charged.
All zigbee devices’ firmware is proprietary though, no? This is why I’m willing to suffer for Tasmota
The device list seems larger if you’re willing to flash Tasmota yourself: templates.blakadder.com
- Comment on Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud 1 year ago:
Factually, it was how you described. Poetically, it was making my life as a customer unnecessarily difficult to the point where the word “impossible” is a valid form of artistic expression. I didn’t want to have to beg anybody to please unlock the device I paid for.
…home-assistant.io/…/tp-link-offers-way-to-add-lo…
We are hoping for a better solution, but for now this is what you should do: Submit a ticket to technical support 27. Make sure to include the MAC address of your plug. Go to the forums and send this user 24 a message with your ticket ID and MAC address (just to be sure).
Please be advised that I intentionally cherry-picked the comments that support my point, as I was just skimming the thread.
- Comment on Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud 1 year ago:
I’m not sure how do Hue lights work, but if they have any Wi-Fi component they’re essentially a device in your network. If compromised (by a hacker or by Philips themselves) they’re no different than a device next to yours on public Wi-Fi. Someone will definitely have a desktop PC with vPro with default credentials, or once in a while someone will log into something using HTTP without the S and leak plaintext credentials.
- Comment on Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud 1 year ago:
I bough a TP-Link smart bulb once. It was very nice - I could just download a “tp link bulb client” written for everyone by some third-party dude. If I wanted to, I could add a desktop shortcut to turn on/off the bulb.
Then TP-Link decided to automatically update the firmware of the bulb without my knowledge. The update turned off the REST API that made the third-party client to work.
The update was impossible to revert (though TP-Link said “Ok write to our support and we’ll give you the downgrade file” no fuck you).
Ever since I’ve vowed to heavily think whether I want to buy a non-open-source firmware smart device ever again. Recently I bought a smart bulb and two smart sockets that come pre-flashed with “Tasmota” and “WLED” firmware out of the factory and they work great.
And I OWN them too
- Comment on Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series & Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee 1 year ago:
reminds me I need to setup sonarr, radarr and jellyfin
- Comment on What would it take for you to move away from Github? 1 year ago:
ForgeFed and whatever Gitlab is doing with the PR federation taking off.
In the meantime I make my gh account as lean as possible.
- removed real name, photo and all links
- profile changed to private mode
- all gists and stars removed
- removed most useless repos, migrated one important repo to self hosted forgejo instance, remaining 2 are laying around
- Comment on Apple announces iPhone 15 with USB-C, a camera upgrade, and the Dynamic Island 1 year ago:
Man I really laughed out loud when they said “USB3 allows for 20x times faster speeds than USB2”. Of course it does doofus nobody uses USB2 anymore
- Comment on Which domain name registrar should I use? 1 year ago:
Ah right, sorry, switched things up. Indeed, I also use my registrar’s DNS system, but if I switched to something that has an API supported by certbot (e.g. dns zones that cost 0.5 eur in large cloud providers) it would work.
- Comment on Which domain name registrar should I use? 1 year ago:
I used [large american registrar], but switched to a small one in my country because I wanted to pay a local business. I found it from somebody’s compilation of companies that offer a TLD for my country, and I just picked the recommended one in that post. It was the one that charged the least.
Keep in mind that with a smaller registrar you won’t be able to get a TLS cert using the “do some shit with my domain records” method - you’ll have to always install the nginx/Apache etc. plugin for Let’s Encrypt
- Comment on Some people just wake up and choose violence 1 year ago:
I recently made a small pure JS package at my company. It just fucking worked, can you believe it? No setting up compilation and CI/CD for build + release. Just put it in the repo and publish manually, and it just worked, it’s ridiculous
- Comment on How to make setup more resilient? Proxmox mini-PC \w iSCSI to TrueNAS 1 year ago:
Thanks for making it clear that iSCSI power down is in fact one of the more grim scenarios, I couldn’t make it out how bad of a situation it is. In an enterprise environment a SAN being down would require some type of incident report.
UPS - as you suggested - would solve most of my problems to be honest.
- Comment on How to make setup more resilient? Proxmox mini-PC \w iSCSI to TrueNAS 1 year ago:
I edited my post to clarify. TrueNAS also keeps documents, photos, torrents, music. I also use the mount feature so that the music server LXC can access music
- Comment on How to make setup more resilient? Proxmox mini-PC \w iSCSI to TrueNAS 1 year ago:
I edited my post to clarify that TrueNAS keeps more than just VMs. It has photos, documents etc. as well.
Generally when people run two different servers at home, they keep the VM drives on the hypervisor and just use the NAS for storing bigger things like media files
This is simple and makes sense as well. My TrueNAS is only 2 HDDs, which is not ideal for VMs. I could get a larger drive SSD/M.2 drive for the hypervisor, though the Lenovo M920q supports 1xM.2 and 1x2.5" drive.
Hosting VM drives over iSCSI works in an enterprise environment, but if you can’t guarantee uptime for your storage solution then all you’re doing is adding failure modes.
Well, my whole setup comes from the fact that I wanted to cosplay as an enterprise environment (famous last words for a homelabber). I’ve been powering the TrueNAS up and down a lot due to some electricity-related construction in my apartament, and it brought out this flaw in my setup. I guess an UPS would be in order, as another poster pointed out.
- Comment on How to make setup more resilient? Proxmox mini-PC \w iSCSI to TrueNAS 1 year ago:
It’d be nice to have Proxmox and TrueNAS side by side on one machine, but since TrueNAS forums are against the virtualization of TrueNAS I’m somewhat stuck with having to have one bare metal machine per appliance.
- Submitted 1 year ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 16 comments
- Comment on Leaked Zoom all-hands: CEO says employees must return to offices because they can't be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom 1 year ago:
man i just spent 30m this morning telling jokes to my remote coworker over slack, I’ve seen him only once in my life, according to this CEO I couldn’t have possibly gotten to know him.
Funny watching the CEOs trying to do the verbal splits, coming up with excuses where it’s just “waah we’re paying for an office that nobody uses :(”
we have nothing to lose but our commutes
- Comment on Requiring ink to scan a document—yet another insult from the printer industry 1 year ago:
There is none.
Closest I’ve found is this guy rooting his printer using a security exploit: tenable.com/…/rooting-a-printer-from-security-bul…
There’s also OpenPrinting printer list: www.openprinting.org/printers
- Comment on Fairphone 5 - release date and US support?? 1 year ago:
FP5 specs leaked on geekbench this month. Same happened to FP4 in 2021, and it released at the end of October.
I’ll leave the heuristics to you
Also waiting for the FP5 :) Hope my Xiaomi 8T with half dead battery lasts until the release
