tburkhol

@tburkhol@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its a solar powered phone / webserver! Made from a pixel 6a, solar panel, and hopes/dreams.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like California, USA

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its a solar powered phone / webserver! Made from a pixel 6a, solar panel, and hopes/dreams.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  From the power draw, it looks like lemmy federation got hold of it around 16:30. As of 17:20, it’s still holding up.

  I understand the Mastodon federation system can be very DDOS-ey on web sites, if you’re tempted to post it there.

  Cool project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday! What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a systemd guru, but it turned out pretty easy. dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/…/using-systemd.html#sys… Basically just make [mysqld@copy] sections in my.cnf then systemd start mysqld@copy and systemd is smart enough to pass copy into mysql.

  I did it slightly different, using systemctl edit mysql@.service to define different default files for each instance, then [mysqld@copy] sections in each of those files. Seems like the port option for each has to go in a [mysqld] section, but otherwise ok.

  Replication because I want to put some live data, read-only, on the VPS, exposed to the world while the ‘real’ database stays safely hidden in my intranet. SSH tunnel so the replica can talk to the real database.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday! What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m hung up on unrecognized charset #255. Tried rolling everything back to utfmb3; suppose I could go all the way to Latin1. I imagine there’s a lot of depth I could learn, but dropping mariadb for mysql seems like the path of least resistance right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday! What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been trying to convince a VPS to run two instances of mariadb - one for local databases, one to replicate the homelab. Got mariadb@server and mariadb@replica sorted out through systemd, but now stuck on replication from mysql to mariadb. Looks like I’ll be ripping out mariadb and putting everything on mysql.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got all my internet infrastructure on one monitor - 50W for the N100, the cable modem, an ooma VOIP device, and UPS. I’d guess the server, with its WAP, 4x GbE ports, 2x spinning disks, and USB TV tuner, is 35-ish of those watts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have the spare cash, I found the N100 NAS motherboard to be a great source of occasional weekend projects, and now it very definitely looks like I’ve gone overboard.

  I started out just wanting a file server to store backups.then…

  • DHCP and NAT because my ISP would only allow one user.
  • DNS so I could refer to systems by name
  • pihole
  • mythtv/tvheadend so I could watch OTA tv & archive CDs & DVDs
  • hostapd for Wifi
  • homeassistant
  • immich
  • nextcloud
  • tandoor recipes
  • just added fastenhealth for medical records

  It didn’t feel like a lot, because it took years. Among the amazing things has been all the times I’ve been able to upgrade the motherboard by just plugging the HD into the new board. Started out just using old desktop boards; the N100 was the first purpose-bought board, and also the most complicated upgrade, because it added UEFI. There definitely are projects out there that don’t have an arm option, so something x86 is more flexible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pi 4 should be plenty to run Jellyfin, homeassistant, pihole and octoprint. Docker setup is pretty straightforward, and I can vouch that HA & pihole containers work great on RPi, if you want to leave the Jellyfin setup as-is and put the others alongside.

  If you’re looking for an excuse to expand, my vote is for an N100 type system. I got one with 4 ethernet ports, PCIe for a wifi card, couple of NVME slots, and a half dozen SATA ports for $100-150. That’s a huge step up in potential without much increase in power draw. With the right wifi card, you can even use it to replace your WAP/router.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IPv6 and TP-Link Omada troubles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you sure the ISP will delegate a /56? Mine supports prefix delegation, but will only give a /64, and it seems like subdividing that ¿into /72s? would be questionable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting old and would like a better way to track health the self hosted way⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fetched it. Started it. Did a really nice job fetching my whole health record from insurance co & has a wide array of compatible providers. Decent presentation of repeated test results. It’s got a bunch of areas “not implemented yet,” but it’s a decent way to visualize the records. Probably even better if you have health records from multiple providers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They do care that I wear clothes. Ain’t nobody’s day improved by seeing more of my skin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you to the people providing a counterweight over on the Relooted forums⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IKR. An endless supply of real-world adjacent McGuffins, stored in secure locations, with justification for plenty of guards, and none of them are “nuclear codes,” “war plans,” or “drugs.” It’s a great way to keep doing familiar and popular game mechanics with novel narrative, just by picking a different cultural reference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Safe deposit box is exactly the right size to hold a 3.5" HDD. Or several. I keep a backup Yubikey there too, because I love the physical token 2FA, but I’m pretty sure I’m going to lose it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A lot of media depict the United States as being invaded by fascists from the outside. Nobody thought fascism will come from within until now.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Came to say this. I recall especially the books private, paramilitary “marching clubs” being turned into law enforcement, which feels a lot like how the Proud Boys and 3% have fallen out of the media at the same time as ICE has co-opted their tactics.

  “We’ll have fascism in [America], but we’ll call it anti-fascism” - Huey Long

  The whole of US political commentary 1935-1939 feels very relevant today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm stupid...how do I avoid wires when mounting things to the wall?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The really nice ones :) Concrete is a lot quieter. They’ve put up several new complexes in my area, and even for $600k, you get just framed party walls. Some of the builders go so far as to build little brick extensions on the exterior facade, so it looks like masonry wall extends between the units. My unit has a daylight basement, and the below-grade party wall is cinderblock, like the below-grade exterior wall, but that ends at grade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm stupid...how do I avoid wires when mounting things to the wall?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For example, in my 1980s townhouse, all the plumbing goes through one interior wall. There’s void space in the bathroom that carries chimney and ductwork. Wiring goes variously through that one interior wall and the exterior walls. The kitchen has a fake wall built in front of the party wall to give space for extra outlets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm stupid...how do I avoid wires when mounting things to the wall?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In most cases, the ‘party wall’ between two townhouse units is not allowed to carry any services - no wires, pipes, or ducts. The ones I’ve seen being built lately often have a couple extra sheets of drywall just sitting in the wall between units, presumably as a fire/noise retardant, and that might confuse stud detectors.

  You’re also not supposed to do stuff to those party walls, at least not without consent from the neighbor, because they are essentially co-owned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a simple personal homepage⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t even need to learn HTML to do it. Any word processor will ‘save as HTML,’ but the markup should be straightforward enough for anyone considering selfhosting. CSS can be a real rabbit hole, but browser default styles aren’t awful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simplify home hardware for selfhosting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve used a retired desktop for my home server since 1999. It doesn’t have the fancy web-UI management of commercial NAS, but I’m comfortable with command line and config files.

  At some point, I realized I could use its wifi card and hostapd to replace my WAP. That was a bit of an adventure initially finding a card that really supports AP mode and setting up hostapd, but has now allowed me to migrate from 802.11g to n to ac much cheaper than buying whole new devices,

  Recently converted to an N100 with 4x ethernet ports, which let me unplug my little 5-port switch.

  Managing this doesn’t feel like a second job: it’s stable and just works. Automatic updates, with kernel blacklisted; periodically log in, update kernel & reboot. It does give me the opportunity, when I get inspired, for a weekend project, like adding hostapd or a new service, either via docker or bare metal. I like that I have one device doing “NAS,” WAP, and router jobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That drive averages 900 hours between power cycles? In Windows?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What percentage of the world population ages 30+ do you suppose is capable of financially supporting themselves & living & thriving independently?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of those 45+ are in two-earner households. They might be ok independent of each other, but not at the same level. Then the whole retiree population…is someone on social security ‘financially supporting themself?’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one of my pet peeves with containerized services, like why would I want to run three or four instances of mariadb? I get it, from the perspective of the packagers, who want a ‘just works’ solution to distribute, but if I’m trying to run simple services on a 4 GB RPi or a 2 GB VPS, then replicating dbs makes a difference. It took a while, but I did, eventually, get those dockers configured to use a single db backend, but I feel like that completely negated the ‘easy to set up and maintain’ rationale for containers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect that tech management & executive culture has learned & become accustomed to exploit the mental health of their employees. Software and tech are stereotypically jobs well suited to neurodiversity and ADHD, and those people are prone to hyperfocus & long hours and may benefit from tight timelines. If management just gets used to recruiting for autism/adhd, then develops management strategies that work well with that population, it’s going to be difficult as the field matures and attracts more neurotypical people.

  I used to tell my mentees that no one was going to explicitly tell them that 10, 12, 14 hour days were mandatory. That long hours were not a metric for success. It was that they would be competing for jobs with people who really did want their life to be their job and would happily spend that much time working, because that’s all they want to do. It’s only when the pool of available jobs grows beyond the number of those obsessive workaholics that they have to start hiring people who have any interest in work-life balance or collective bargaining.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨human geography⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Spawning my own enclave of ‘glitter bat’ users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People will accept either intelligence or stupidity. They will pay for a flattering sycophant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starting out with Selfhosting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The services you’ve mentioned are all pretty low compute impact, just bandwidth, so I’d expect your MBP to be fine. Transcoding for jellyfin is the only real wildcard, and that depends on your media and client setups. I run pihole, homeassistant, immich, and kodi on a raspberry pi 4 with plenty of overhead for more services. NAS is nice if your library outgrows a single disk and your storage bandwidth gets choked by USB multiplexing.

  My suggestion is to consider a cheap VPS and vanity domain for external access. Domains cheap as $5/year; fair VPSs cheap as $30/year. Use SSH to forward localhost ports on the VPS to container ports on the MBP, then nginx on thee VPS to reverse-proxy to those forwarded ports. You get unique names for every service, LetsEncrypt certificates, and an offsite location for critical backups. Make sure you are the one paying for VPS & DNS so they don’t get surprise-cancelled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was worth $80 to a few pre-orderers, but not enough for the market analysts to project a profitable launch.

  In monopoly capitalism, the prices are all made up numbers, especially for digital goods, with very little to do with what they cost. If they don’t get enough preorders at $70, they’ll either drop it to $60 or cancel it altogether to maintain “$70 market conditions.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨set up local DNS using Pi-hole + nginx + audiobookshelf⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Second not using local.com If OP doesn’t want a real domain, use an unresolvable TLD, like “private” (so, pihole.private, audiobookshelf.private), but a real domain will just work better, will let them use real TLS certs, and prevent problems from apps bypassing system DNS. Even if it’s not as pretty or memorable as the hijacked domain name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z's 'overemployed' solution for a broken economy: 5 jobs and $3K per day. It's totally legal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve spent my entire career so far working with bosses that tell me I’m family, but treat me like dirt and discard me at the very first sign of an economic downturn.

  They say ‘family’ hoping you’ll think Ward & June Cleaver, but there’s a lot of families out there I want nothing to do with. Come in drunk & beat the shit out of the partner. Lose the rent money on DraftKings. Little hanky-panky with the kid. When the boss wants to be family, that’s what you should think about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘An uphill battle’: why are midlife men struggling to make – and keep – friends?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I feel like their “close friends” in 1990 were probably just the guys at the Lodge or the bowling league. I’m not sure those relationships are any deeper than the parasocial relationships we form online. Just a bunch of guys with nothing else to do on Wednesday nights, so they just go down to some social club and roleplay.