Fedegenerate
@Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup 1 week ago:
I used proxmox to set up my ZFS pools and use bind mounts. It’s fine, I’m sure it’s a “grass is greener” thing.
Home labbing is a winter hobby, so in the summer months I hate the time spent updating all the machines when I could be outside.
If I had purely Docker set up, in winter I’d be complaining that “everything is too simple” and “I want more control” etc.
- Comment on My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup 2 weeks ago:
You can pry proxmox from my cold dead hands.
I do sometimes dream of running everything in Docker though for how easy it is to update. I’ve got the community scripts running and still it’s a bit of a maintenance job.
A TrueNAS + Docker machine is pretty tempting. If I were to migrate, that’s where I’d go.
- Comment on My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup 2 weeks ago:
Don’t start here. Get something tiny: some ewaste, a rPi3/4 or an n100.
Build a Pihole to block ads, malicious sites and trackers on your network
Risk free, tonnes of learning opportunities, huge utility, tonnes of documentation and guides to help.
Once you’ve built a couple Piholes (break and rebuild then) you’ll have an idea of what you might want to do next and what is achievable for you.
- Comment on Sonarr - How to troubleshoot fake downloads 2 weeks ago:
I don’t believe so. Maybe someone’s written a script on github, I haven’t looked.
A thing I like about lazylibrarian is that it just keeps rerolling until success. You probably miss good files just because LL couldn’t parse the folder structure or something, but it’s just set and forget.
Not that I use LL, I just think it’s neat… From a purely onlooker POV.
- Comment on Sonarr - How to troubleshoot fake downloads 2 weeks ago:
Here’s my list, saved you a click. Ignore the *.iso, I added that for the seven seas people’s. Obviously all I share are Linux ISOs
*.exe
*.sh
*.lnk
*.iso
*.zip
*.zipx
*.iz
*.izh
*.arj
*.scr
*.lnk
*.cmd
*.msi
*.bat
*.scf
- Comment on Sonarr - How to troubleshoot fake downloads 2 weeks ago:
Have your torrent client not download malicious file types like .exe, doesn’t solve the immediate problem but it helps in two ways.
First you don’t help spread the nonsense.
Second qbit will mark the torrent as complete and sonarr will flag then flag it for manual import with the reason no valid files to import. They’re easy and quick to spot an reroll that way.
- Comment on How to use a domain I own to self-host services? 2 weeks ago:
Oooo this might be the path I take to finally get off IPv4. Cheers.
- Comment on Home server advice 2 weeks ago:
+1
I’m running media/back up server for 4 households on a single n100 mini pc and a couple USB drives. It’s a “good enough”, low cost, high wife acceptance factor entry point into self-hosting. It’ll happily age into a firewall if I want to build a dedicated box later on.
It’s revealing what I do/don’t need vs what I want. It’s teaching me what people use, what they don’t where I might want to go in the future.
- Comment on Tax pubs on profit not property value, urges Greene King boss 3 weeks ago:
I wonder why Greene king want to tax profits? It’s because they don’t make any.
Nope, you chose to expand beyond what you can handle. Tax the wealth, if you can’t afford to run your pubs give them back to the people and pay less tax that way.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 3 weeks ago:
I dunno, the second silent generation? Born into hard times, don’t know any better. Defined by their fiscally conservative ways and “none of my business” outlook?
They haven’t been to silent though, and more power to 'em. The un-silent generation?
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 3 weeks ago:
Maybe. Their generation starts 1946 so I thought they were the product. One way or the other they are involved in a baby boom.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 3 weeks ago:
They’re just place holders until the generation gets a shared culture to refer to. Millennials saw the millennium. Boomers were products of the baby boom but they also saw their economy boom. Gen X are missing, their letter was fitting.
My prediction is one of them will become gen algorithm, as they never knew a time when their media wasn’t decided for them. Maybe, gen android, few of them know how to use a file system after Chromebooks became ubiquitous. Or they’ll be the second greatest generation due to ww3. This stuff is entirely unpredictable.
- Comment on Which guides to trust for novice / normie getting started? 3 weeks ago:
I must have been having more basic problems than you. I found LLMs to present the most common solution, and generally the most common way of setting it up is the “right-way”, At least for a beginner. Then I’d quiz it on what docker compose environments do, what “ports: ####:####” meant, how I could route one container through another. All very basic stuff.
By the time I wanted to do non-standard stuff I was better equipped with the fundamentals of hobbiest deployment and how to coax an LLM into doing what I needed.
Goes without saying I’d take the output of the LLM to Google for verification, then back to the LLM for a hobbiest’s explaination, back to Google for verification…
Properly made software has great documentation and logs. If you know how to access those logs and read documentation (both skills in themselves)… Not to mention not all software is “properly made” some of it is bare bones and just works ™.
- Comment on Which guides to trust for novice / normie getting started? 3 weeks ago:
For all its flaws. Low level tech support, rubber duck, command explainer is something LLMs do really well. Kept my early mistakes off the web and got me where I needed to be most times.
- Comment on England’s reservoirs at lowest level for a decade as experts call for hosepipe bans 3 weeks ago:
Me too. It was a statement about society in general.
Sad state of affairs that people can’t assume others know water companies don’t have anything to do with oil drilling and explorationg licenses. The company we keep hey?
- Comment on England’s reservoirs at lowest level for a decade as experts call for hosepipe bans 3 weeks ago:
Ban the hosepipes, but don’t stop contruction of new oil? What a joke.
- Comment on Tailscale addressing concerns over potential enshittification of the platform 4 weeks ago:
Thank you, saved. I’d still be a little but fucked, but not entirely.
I guess I should get on with learning/donating to this soon while the sun’s still shining with Tailscale. Slower, more gentle transition, fuck up in some dev environment instead of my actual server. Goddamn was tailscale so easy though.
- Comment on Tailscale addressing concerns over potential enshittification of the platform 4 weeks ago:
Big words. I hope, though don’t trust, they can live up to them. But if tailscale goes, I’m just plain fucked. Thats certainly an indicator they’re worth some money to me, but there’s many a FOSS project before I get to paying a VC one.
- Comment on Large Language Model Performance Doubles Every 7 Months 4 weeks ago:
Someone doesn’t know the folly of extending straight lines graphs into the future.
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 4 weeks ago:
I’m a little embarrassed about how many of these, if not for the thread, sound like believable names to me. Mayhaps I’m not as cultured as I would like to think.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 4 weeks ago:
Not to defend Germany, but given their relative size of prison populations, and number of citizens extra judicially killed by law enforcement. The US is, measurably, the worse of the two.
- Comment on More than 80% of UK farmers worried about climate crisis harming livelihood, study finds 4 weeks ago:
Climate change risks their livelihood. It’s not their livelihood their prioritising.
- Comment on More than 80% of UK farmers worried about climate crisis harming livelihood, study finds 4 weeks ago:
Did they vote Green? Can’t have been too worried then, I wonder what they thought was more pressing than climate change.
- Comment on A receipt printer cured my procrastination [ADHD] 1 month ago:
Vikinja feature request: once a day export “due today” tasks to printer, mark as done when printed. One day I’ll learn python and could script this myself… One day
- Comment on I have some questions about selfhosting 2 months ago:
Hardware wise I’d go AIO. A mini and a pair of mirrored USB drives is my setup. I have an off-site backup running: another mini + USB. Finally, I have an inherited laptop as a redundant network box/local backup/immich compute. I have 5 households on my network, and aside from immich spiking in resources (hence the laptop), I have overhead to spare.
An n100 mini is cheap enough and powerful enough for you to jump in, decide if you want to spend more later. They’re small, quiet, reasonable Value for Money, easy Wife Acceptance Factor, and can age into a bunch of devices if you decided self hosting isn’t for you.
This way, when spending x00s on a server, you’ll have some idea on what you actually need/want. The n100 can the age into a firewall/network box/local back up/etc if/when you upgrade.
All that said. An AIO storage-compute box is where I’m headed. I now know I need a dedicated graphics card for the immich demand. I now know I want a graphics card for generative AI hobby stuff. I know how much storage I need for everyone’s photos, and favorite entertainment, permanent stuff. I know how much storage I need for stuff being churned, temporary stuff. I now know I don’t care about high availability/clusters. I now know… Finally, the ‘Wife’ has grown used to having a server in the house: it’s a thing I have, and do, which she benefits from. So, a bigger, more expensive, and probably louder box, is an easier sell.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 2 months ago:
The specific works? Who knows. It’s irrelevant
My point is your original premise was wrong. Creation DID happen without IP laws. People DO create with out the need for compensation.
I propose, people will create things because they always have.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 2 months ago:
Creation happened before intellectual property laws existed.
Creation happens that can be immediately copied with no compensation now, open source software is an example.
- Comment on Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding 5 months ago:
Me? None. But I left room for someone who might.
- Comment on Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding 5 months ago:
Seeding to ratios is self correcting, in my inexperienced opinion as I only share ISOs.
Unpopular thing sits on someone’s computer (not mine) for ages just happily waiting until it’s useful. Popular thing is in and out. Purely for files intended to be churned; try a distro (in facebooks case a book) use it, and delete it.
1:3 could be said to be a minimum (1 for to pay back, 1 to pay forward, and 1 to pay for a leecher)
Things that are going to be archived can be set as limitless as long as strain on hardware can be tolerated.
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 5 months ago:
I’m glad I’ve already pulled my audible library, didn’t have many ebooks. I’m moving to librofm this month I think.