tburkhol

@tburkhol@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Contract for self-hosting help⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I see you’re getting lots of advice just to use c/selfhosted as a free consultant. That’s good advice if you’re self-motivated and focused.

  If you want someone to be a coach through the process, to keep you focused and moving, that’s a) a slightly different skillset and b) worth putting in the description. I mention this only because I have a bunch of aspirational projects on my to–do list that have just sat there for literally years because of perfectionism, anxiety, and maybe some undiagnosed ADHD. I’ll also counter by noting that a lot of people, this time of year, buy a gym membership on the theory that spending the money will somehow force them actually to go to the gym, only to find that spent money is not actually a motivator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam can do massive numbers spikes because they have essentially infinite inventory. The whole reason scalping video cards works is that Nvidia can not make as many as people want, even at full retail price. The existence of scalpers implies that Nvidia could raise prices, sell slightly fewer units at higher margin and get greater total return.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BentoPDF is a self hostable, privacy first PDF Toolkit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Great project. I like the 1-star reviews complaining about the lack of advertising and tracking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestions for Community Organizing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want it to be an actual community service, then you want it to be something that outlives your residence, your tenure as event coordinator, and your interest in being the neighborhood IT guy. It’ll be much easier to transfer control of a VPS to your successor than to give them hardware that also hosts a bunch of your personal services.

  You can start with a very small, nearly free VPS while you recruit users & scale up as (if) anyone bites. Probably even get the HOA to pay for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOJ Redacted Names of ‘Politically Exposed Individuals’ in Epstein Files: Report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They definitely didn’t redact Bill Clinton: he features prominently in this first tiny slice of documents. Almost like they’ve cherry picked docs that would be worst for Dems while protecting their friends.

  How do you do the shocked Pikachu emoji?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we have No Man's Sky fans here?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my problem, too. I’ve gotten so entrained to hoard resources and make gold go up. I explore enough planets to put mines for every resource next to teleporters, then I run around the teleporters collecting resources until the overflow my storage. I’m a little jealous of people who have the creativity and attention to build big, elaborate bases with all of those resources - they look cool, it must feel very rewarding to see them develop, but if it’s not utilitarian, I can’t motivate myself.

  Of course, I’ve got probably 200 hours hoarding resources…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raspberry Pi 4B⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got my Pi4 to be a media player - LibreElec or Kodi - for my old, not-smart TV. It plays my library of CDs&DVDs, frontend for OTA TV, and a variety of streaming services. Fanless, so it doesn’t distract from audio, low power, so I don’t mind leaving it on 24/7. You can configure it to listen to a USB IR receiver, but I control mine from phone via web. The actual media library/NAS and tvheaded run on an old desktop in another room.

  My favorite thing is all the sensors you can hook up. Adafruit & Sparkfun have a wide array of sensors with breakout boards for simplicity and well documented python libraries. I started just logging temperature, humidity, then air quality, CO2 to my own database and web page, but eventually expanded to full HomeAssisstant system.

  Pihole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  SATA is really convenient for larger storage, though. I keep my OS on nvmes, but I’ve got a couple of SATA drive and a hot swap bay for games, media, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun/interesting things to self host?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tandoor: I ended up there because it has an API that I can access and cross-reference to my grocer (Kroger.com also has API) to get current pricing, calculate recipe costs, nutrient costs, or find what’s on special this week. It’s theoreticcally possible, but I haven’t sorted out how to integrate that directly into tandoor & its shopping lists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home server / NAS scaling⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot depends on how many users you expect and how much media you expect. For one or two users with that stack, transcoding media is really the only CPU load. If most of your media is already in your desired format, then that’s not a big deal.

  My stack is pretty similar (no *arr, plus tvheadend, homeassistant and a kodi frontend) for two users and it sits near idle all day long. It runs on an N100 NAS system off Aliexpress with 16GB and will transcode 1080p to x264 at just about playback speed… System runs from a 100 GB nvme, with a couple half-full 4 TB WD Reds for data. 35-ish Watts, maybe an extra 5 when actively transcoding. Used to be ~150 USD,

  If you want a lot of 4k content, then I’d definitely go with the GTX 1660.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which SBC for TV streaming?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. Eventually upgraded to a Pi 4, which doesn’t have any trouble with 1080p content. Pi 3’s onboard wifi was also problematic, and I had to run it over wired networking. Kept that for the Pi 4, so I don’t know if its wifi is any better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sean Murray just crushed my hopes of playing Light No Fire anytime soon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Infinite” universes, like NMS or Starfield sound good in marketing, but if you’re really moving around them, at scale speeds, they can’t help but feel isolated and instanced. Even LNF, if it’s a whole ‘earth like’ planet, is huge. Earth has about 50M square miles of habitable surface - if you drop 10,000,000 people in there randomly, you’re going to have to walk half an hour to have a chance to find another player, if they happen to be on at the same time. It shouldn’t have the sharp breaks between biomes that fast-travel to a different planet gives, and I expect that will make it feel a lot more coherent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The landscapers and cleaning staff are probably fine people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨!@$& Homelab Networking⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I made a self-hosted forgejo repository of /etc. Commit messages aren’t always informative, and I’ve never actually gone back to the repository to figure something out, but it’s there, just in case. Me cosplaying a sysadmin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I want it to be a successful product, that I can buy, and will be supported for a useful number of years. $800-1200 feels OK for that. $2000 feels like Apple Vision territory.

  Jesus, man: haven’t you ever been excited about a thing before it’s on shelves? Speculated about a sports game before it’s over? Talking about your anticipation is part of the fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop cramming everything onto one Pi: treat your home lab like a tiny ISP - hardware, stack, backups and an update plan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like he’s split out the individual USB wires, run the power to the USB port, and the signal wires to different places on the exposed board, maybe to force fast mode in the charger. Then just buried everything in silicone for insulation and to keep wires from pulling loose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God ****** dammit, here we go again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  legit places…

  My university, 23andMe, Transunion, Equifax, CapitalOne, United Healthcare…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That girl can rant. Love her work, but always watch it at 2x to maximize the frustrated-teacher vibe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Dream of a Home Router / Server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you allow the converse: FoF to store data on your system? Data that could be CSAM - maybe encrypted, maybe not - ‘terrorism’ content, etc?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Dream of a Home Router / Server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My problem with chains of trust is the Kevin Bacon problem. Sure, I trust my friends, but some of their friends can be a little sketchy. Plus, they don’t have any direct social contact with me, nor any personal consequences for betrayal. And nevermind the sketchy friends of the sketchy friends.

  Federation has its uses, but trust is not one of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So, the US GDP is about $30T. Walmart revenue is about $700B, or 2.3% of GDP. Amazon, 2.1%. United Healthcare, 1.3%. Roughly one out of every 20 dollars spent in the US goes to Walmart or Amazon. That’s kind of terrifying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In contrast to the housing bubble, where a lot of the value was in overpriced houses sold to individuals, this overpricing is almost entirely in tech stocks, and tech stocks are almost entirely owned by by the wealthiest 10%, even 1%. The tech billionaires have limited ability to divest themselves of their own overpriced companies and absolutely will lose money.

  None of them are going bankrupt, they’ll all be just fine when the market recovers in a few years, because that’s the nature of capitalism. A bunch of peons, who convinced themselves that the bubble-value of their 401k meant it was safe to retire, will suffer, will have to go back to work - if you’re not an oligarch, losing money is painful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its a solar powered phone / webserver! Made from a pixel 6a, solar panel, and hopes/dreams.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like California, USA

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its a solar powered phone / webserver! Made from a pixel 6a, solar panel, and hopes/dreams.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.