Bronzie
@Bronzie@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on NAS decision paralysis 2 weeks ago:
I also have a Synology NAS and second this.
Yes, it’s super cool to selfhost a NAS yourself, but I really just want my storage to work and not need to be tinkered with at all. I’d be mauled by the missus if something was to happen to my AIO-server/NAS, so I’d rather split them.
Let a professional company deal with keeping your storage online at all times, and have fun with the “not so important” things like docker containers on your own server.
It costs a bit more, but it gives me peace of mind. - Comment on Contract for self-hosting help 2 weeks ago:
Whatever you reason: let’s get you started!
Let me know if you’re taking me up on the offer or feel free to ask me directly if you’re more comfortable with that.
Happy New Year!
- Comment on Contract for self-hosting help 2 weeks ago:
Agree with everybody else here: don’t pay anyone for this.
We’re all a bunch of people hating that everything costs so much, so we selfhost what we can.Use us, learn from our mistakes, make your own and start over when you fuck up to badly. We’ve all done it and still do it.
We’ll hold your hand every time you come back and ask for help, as long as you’ve shown at least a tiny bit of effort on your end.Depending on your timezone, I could hop in a quick Discord call and nudge you in the right direction if it gets you going. I have some experience with ADHD so I know from second hand experience how you feel.
My TZ is CET.Best of luck anyways!
- Comment on With New Year's a couple days away what selfhoted party games do people have going? 2 weeks ago:
Nice!
We always get to mountain, then run out of steam before restarting a few months later.
Have fun! - Comment on NAS decision paralysis 2 weeks ago:
I agree.
Separate NAS/storage from server for some redundancy, and flexibility. SMB or NFS for access to files.
It’s also nice paying a premium but letting someone else be responsible for keeping it running.If you have a distaste for Synology after their recent antics, then go with someone else.
I’d say go with a 4-bay and put two disks in, then you have loads of room to expand in the future. This is mainly because of Jellyfin and how these libraries have a tendency to grow a lot with time.
- Comment on Proxmox with arr 2 weeks ago:
You’re not wrong, but I think you might be leaving some future capabilities on the table, that’s it.
There is nothing wrong with running everything through Portainer at all. It’s how I started myself. The downside is that it’s limited if you ever wish to do e.g. HA OS or a sandboxed OS for testing/playing around. Automatic backups, re-sizing LXC’s or giving more memory is also easier to do with a GUI than in CLI. At least for me hehe.That’s the great thing about self hosting though: if you’re happy with it, then it’s perfect!
Don’t change anything because someone tells you to if it works for you, friend! - Comment on Proxmox with arr 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s a bit of an unfair comparison that. Hypervisor VS conainer manager.
The reason you run Proxmox is to do «everything» in one place, including docker.If all you host are containers, then I agree it’s overkill, but if you want VM’s and containers combined, maybe even in a cluster, then Proxmox is hard to beat.
I host LXC’s with Portainer inside Proxmox, as I find it easier to deal with and maintain. Then in a VM I run the full HomeAssistant OS instead of the Docker image.
Unless you don’t need it at all, I’d recommend you give it another try. It’s a very flexible system that «does it all» once you get going.
- Comment on Bracing for impact 1 month ago:
Like others have said, I also prefer having a backup and getting new HW when shit hits the fan.
You can build a warm-standby solution, but that road is both costly and more labor intensive.The family can survive for a few hours while I run out to get a new drive or NUC to fix stuff.
If you’re lucky, it happens right after dinner so you can skip clean-up too! - Comment on Do you guys know how awesome a printer is that is just working? 1 month ago:
Where were you and your amazing advice before we bought a house and made tiny humans???
- Comment on Do you guys know how awesome a printer is that is just working? 1 month ago:
Same, so much so that I swallowed my pride and bought a H2S as well. The P1S has just been a champion since day 1. Zero issues, perfect prints.
I hate the direction they are moving in, but having a partner means compromises must be made. It needs to be fire and forget every single time.
My dream is to have a RatRig in the future that I can tinker and play with, but for now it’s happy partner or no printer in the house. - Comment on Rate my printer gore 2 months ago:
Ooof, this is the reason why I religiously watch the first layer and why my daughters ain’t printing without me or the missus around just yet!
- Comment on I'm unsure what to self-host 2 months ago:
I have three servers running these days.
One is a NAS that hosts the .arr suite and my torrent client. This is just to keep the media management in one place.
A N100 NUC that runs a lot of stuff in Proxmox, like Jellyfin, Heimdal, HomeAssistant, PiHole, Tailscale. I hope to add Caddy to this in the future, but I’ve never played with a reverse proxy before so I’m a tiny bit scared hehe.
Lastly is a inudstrial PC I got from work that hosts game servers. Right now it’s down as we haven’t had time to game, but usually it’s either a Minecraft server or Valheim.For backup I have one copy on the NAS and I upload the most critical data to a cloud service I trust and pay for. This is now Proton.
My dream is finding a tech friend with his/her own NAS so we can set up a encrypted partition on each others NASes for automatic backup. I give you 1 TB, you give me 1 TB, life’s good! - Comment on I'm unsure what to self-host 2 months ago:
As with most things: it depends…
If you’re in a country where ISP’s freely give out user info, I’d say you should have a VPN.
If you’re on a private tracker, you might not need it, but you never know if the people hunting pirates managed to get in there too.
I don’t use one as our ISP’s mostly throw those letters in the trash and I’m in a private tracker, but your mileage may vary.To get started, you only need a server (like Jellyfin or Plex) and a torrent client. Then you can automate it with the .arr stack, such as Radarr and Sonarr, race others with autodl-issri/Autobrr, share your media with friends and family with open ports (not recommended) or Tailscale/Netbird…
It gets as advanced as you yourself want it to be.Feel free to ask if you have any questions, not just about piracy but how to set things up in general.
Good luck, and remember to have fun while doing it. If you don’t, you won’t bother keeping it updated and working in the future. - Comment on 2 months ago:
Webrips. That’s how we get movies and shows today without waiting for physical media being released
- Comment on How can I optimize my jellyfin, specifically transcoding and the CPU usage involved? I'm running it off a mini pc so resources are everything 3 months ago:
Are you streaming to a Chromecast, by any chance? Or a older Galaxy device?
The 4k Chromecast with Google TV does not support AV1, but the 1080p version does. Jellyfin tried Direct Playing AV1 files, which obviously went poorly.I run the same CPU in my NUC as you do, and all data is on a NAS shared with NFS. It’s been absolutely bulletproof for about a year, so I’m confident you should be able to make this work.
Any other containers running at the same time?
No cooling issues?Just asking because mine dropped massively in temp when repasted.
- Comment on FYI (opinion.) don't buy an MMU 3 months ago:
I disagree, but not just to disagree.
AMS is still very useful for having hazzle free filament swaps, keeping the filament dry and with the AMS 2 even drying the filament.
If all you do is multimaterial or multicolour, then sure, INDX/Snapmaker/Vortek is amazing for time and cost saving, but most people at home will never ever be able to reach a volume of poop where it makes financial sense to pay the premium.
The Snapmaker is obviously an exception, but it sacrifices both build volume and a heated chamber to achieve the <1k price.95% of what I do is mono colour, so the ocational toy for the kids with 200g of poop for a 50g part is worth the trade.
People also severely underestimate the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) for many of us. If my missus has to tinker more than 15 seconds before a print, I recieve the brunt if her frustration. It’s quite probable that all these tool-/hotend-swap systems will require some love as well. RatRig’s IDEX and Prusa XL have had many experienced people giving up.
I think this topic is highly subjective and personally just ordered the H2S. Quick math showed me I needed >75 rolls of pure poop before the H2D would make sense, and H2C will cost even more. I’d rather look at these systems down the line when more quirks have been ironed out.
- Comment on Hot on the heels of the H2S, Bambu Lab announces the seven-color, wireless nozzle-swapping Vortek H2C 4 months ago:
I really have no clue.
It looks like a cool system, but I also think they might be rushing it to have a reply to the U1.
Will it work well from the get go?
How long does it take to change filament and hotend?
Will mis-alignment stop prints often, as things get worn?They also cannot possibly price it lower that the H2D, as it is the same printer with more tech.
Prusa has also more or less confirmed to be releasing the INDX-system soon, which seems like a smarter system to me.If it turns out as polished as Bambu often do and not to expensive (sub 3k), then it will demolish the competition. I’m happy we all get to be a part of the insane development race going on these days.
Also: if Prusa wants to compete, they have to offer a heated chamber and decent camera as standard. I still can’t fathom how they dared to release the Core One without.
I’m willing to pay quite a bit more for European made, but not if it feels like a complete rip-off. - Comment on Bambu Lab announces the Vortek H2C, an automatic nozzle-changing version of the H2D 4 months ago:
Yeah, I think it’s very clever, but like you say it will be interesting to see how the system fairs outside a lab environment over time.
And even if it does work flawlessly, there is no way they will price it lower than the H2D which is already outside what I consider reasonable for sporadic home use.If all my dreams come true, the competition heats up and they end up dumping the prices over the board.
Realistically though, I’ll keep an eye on the H2S over the next few months and see if people have issues with it before I give away even more of my hard earned money. - Comment on Bambu Lab announces the Vortek H2C, an automatic nozzle-changing version of the H2D 4 months ago:
I’m thinking more and more that this is a semi-rushed response to Snapmaker having insane success on KS with their U1, more than a goodwill gesture from BL, tbh.
I also struggle seeing the true point of it, depending on what the price ends up being.
Let’s say it lands at 2500-3000€. The H2S will have higher print speed (lighter gantry), fewer movable parts and a thoroughly tested hot end setup at 1150€.
1500€ in poop is going to take most people a lifetime to produce, not considering the advanced Vortek system needing maintenance. That’s like 75 full 1 kg rolls of pure poop if you pay 20€ for each.
It will also require at least two AMS units to function fully, both of which are proprietary and useless the day you buy another branded machine.
If you don’t need a heated chamber or the increased print size, you can get away with the P-series for even less money.Add the closed ecosystem to the mix, and I can’t really see any viable reason to wait for the H2C at all…
Am I just being dumb here? I’d genuinely like to know - Comment on Router suggestions for a complete noob 5 months ago:
I don’t know why it wouldn’t be, as they are great products out of the box.
A bit pricy, but worth it. I’d give the same recommendation as you for anyone wanting to dabble a little and have room to grow and play with VLAN’s, ACL’s and expandability in the future. - Comment on Ice cream trucks still around? 5 months ago:
Yeah they drive around all summer in Norway. Hear them once or twice a week.
- Comment on Tips for TPU? 5 months ago:
Still haven’t been able to find any Magigoo, so I gave it a crack and it worked like a charm!
Thanks for the advice!
- Comment on Best plex/jellyfin compatible streaming box 5 months ago:
I’m using a Chrome ast with Ghogle TV, simply because that’s what I had when I started.
Hoping a new Shield will come before it does, alternatively I need to find something else.After I migrated to a N100 that does all transcoding for me, the media device itself is more about codec support, a nice UI and response times and less about raw power.
- Comment on Tips for TPU? 6 months ago:
I’ve been trying to get a hold of Magigoo for TPU, but it’s chronically sold out locally.
Have you tested it on smooth PEI, or just textured?
Appreciate the feedback!
- Comment on Tips for TPU? 6 months ago:
Appreciate the insight mate! Much appreciated!
Tape seems to be a cheap way some of the “older” guys run with, so I have to test it at some point.
- Comment on Outgrown my Synology NAS, time for a proper dedicated machine 6 months ago:
Cool, well then I can at least share what I went with that has worked really well: GMKtech N100 NUC from Aliexpress with 16 GB of RAM.
It’s hosting Jellyfin with transcoding, PiHole, Home Assistant, Heimdal, a Valheim server and loads of other small LXC’s in Proxmox.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen it break a sweat.
The NAS holds the .arr stack and Qbit, but that’s it.I cannot speak to the longevity of it, but I repasted the CPU once I got it and it’s chilling below 45 degrees all day long, so I expect it to last for many years. I also enabled C-states to get idle consumption as low as possible, around 7-8W.
Best of luck with whatever setup you end up with mate!
- Comment on Outgrown my Synology NAS, time for a proper dedicated machine 6 months ago:
I run a 4 bay and a N100 NUC.
The Synology is almost a pure storage machine. Works really well with Proxmox on the side. Not a single file has made it kneel yet, and I’ve thrown some high bitrate badboys on it.
Is not upgrading the drives an alternative?
I feel like you sacrifice a lot of practicality removing the NAS, such as automatic backup from phones and very easy remote access.
Personally I also prefer separating data and software, so I don’t lose it all if a component fails.Just my .02
- Comment on Tips for TPU? 6 months ago:
You have my deepest condolances.
Come to the Nordics for a coolcation next year, but stay safe untill the heat wave passes my friend!
- Comment on Tips for TPU? 6 months ago:
Thanks for the advice! I might try a small Z-offset for first layer
- Comment on Tips for TPU? 6 months ago:
IPA is on the list of things to test. Cheers mate!