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- Comment on Docker or Proxmox? Something else entirely? 4 days ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
adevăr, măria ta!
- Comment on Plex server patching required 1 week ago:
Client availability is valid. I use an android tv, that’s been easy for me. There are mobile clients for every phone and tablet.
- I don’t know what smart collections are, but I do get automatic collections for franchises (like all “28 x later”) via a plugin. I don’t have playlists, but I guess I never felt the need for one… What would you use them for, binge watching franchises?
- skip intro and credits is a thing, built in since a few versions (used to be a plugin)
- the UI is subjective, and I don’t know any other one… I personally like how it looks, I customized quite a bit, easy to do via CSS.
- Comment on Plex server patching required 1 week ago:
I’ve never used Plex. What are some of the features that you’re missing in Jellyfin? Genuinely curious.
- Comment on No bias, no bull AI 2 weeks ago:
No Bias, No Bull AI I’ve spent my career grappling with bias. As an executive at Meta overseeing news and fact-checking, I saw how algorithms and AI systems shape what billions of people see and believe. As a journalist at CNN, I even hosted a show briefly called “No Bias, No Bull”(easier said than done, as it turned out). Trump’s executive order on “woke AI” has reignited debate around bias and AI. The implication was clear: AI systems aren’t just tools, they’re new media institutions, and the people behind them can shape public opinion as much as any newsroom ever did. But for me, the real concern isn’t whether AI skews left or right, it’s seeing my teenagers use AI for everything from homework to news without ever questioning where the information comes from. Political bias misses the deeper issue: transparency. We rarely see which sources shaped an answer, and when links do appear, most people ignore them. An AI answer about the economy, healthcare, or politics, sounds authoritative. Even when sources are provided, they’re often just footnotes while the AI presents itself as the expert. Users trust the AI’s synthesis without engaging sources, whether the material came from a peer-reviewed study or a Reddit thread. And the stakes are rising. News-focused interactions with ChatGPT surged 212% between January 2024 and May 2025, while 69% of news searches now end without clicking to the original claiming neutrality while harboring clear bias. We’re making the same mistake with AI, accepting its conclusions without understanding their origins or how sources shaped the final answer. The solution isn’t eliminating bias (impossible), but making it visible. Restoring trust requires acknowledging everyone has perspective, and pretending otherwise destroys credibility. AI offers a chance to rebuild trust through transparency, not by claiming neutrality, but by showing its work. What if AI didn’t just provide sources as afterthoughts, but made them central to every response, both what they say and how they differ: “A 2024 MIT study funded by the National Science Foundation…” or “How a Wall Street economist, a labor union researcher, and a Fed official each interpret the numbers…”. Even this basic sourcing adds essential context. Some models have made progress on attribution, but we need audit trails that show us where the words came from, and how they shaped the answer. When anyone can sound authoritative, radical transparency isn’t just ethical, it’s the principle that should guide how we build these tools. What would make you click on AI sources instead of just trusting the summary? Full transparency: I’m developing a project focused precisely on this challenge– building transparency and attribution into AI-generated content. Love your thoughts.
- Campbell Brown.
- Comment on Proxmox 9 released 2 weeks ago:
My “servers” are headless, in the basement, so even if I’m home, it’s still remote :D
- Comment on Proxmox 9 released 2 weeks ago:
It’s always good to red the docs, but I often skip myself :)
They have this nifty tool called
pve8to9that you could run before upgrading, to check if everything is healthy.I have 3 node cluster, so I usually migrate my VMs to a different node and do my maintenance then, with minimal risks.
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- Comment on Native Arch Linux Games - Share Your Favorites 4 weeks ago:
rimworld, project zomboid, starsector…
- Comment on Self host sff project 1 month ago:
This was my starting up machine. Of course, an nvme makes sense, especially running windows on it. I went for Proxmox, and now I have 4 different machines, a cluster of 3 similar sffs, and a chunkier boi with an i7, 64gb ram and a quadro gpu. This one was the most expensive, around 250€.
Beware, this is how it starts. From a single machine in my office, I went to a mini Datacenter in my cellar, with 4 “servers” (micro-pcs), two Nas devices, a raspberry pi cluster, a dell wyse cluster, new switches and access points, and so much more :))
- Comment on Self host sff project 1 month ago:
you can get away with half that. i run my setup (similar to what you wrote) on a dell micro sff with an i5 6500t and 16gb ram that i paid 90€ for. not the snappiest, but works just fine.
- Comment on VMware’s rivals ramp efforts to create alternative stacks 1 month ago:
I don’t use any GUI… I use terraform in the terminal or via CI/CD. There is an API and also a Terraform provider for Proxmox, and I can use that, together with Ansible and shell scripts to manage VMs, but I was looking for k8s support.
Again, it works fine for small environments, with a bit of manual work and human intervention, but for larger ones, I need a bit more. I moved away from a few VMs acting as k8s nodes, to k8s as a service (at work).
- Comment on VMware’s rivals ramp efforts to create alternative stacks 1 month ago:
I do the same in Proxmox VMs, in my homelab, which is… fine. I was talking more about native support, manageable via an API or something.
Say I need to increase the number of nodes in my cluster. I spin up a new VM using the template I have, adjust the network configuration, update the packages, add it to the cluster. Oh, maybe I should also do an update on all of them while I’m there, because now the new machine runs a different docker version. I have some Ansible and bash scripts that automates most of this. It works for my homelab.
At work however, I have a handful of clusters, with dozens of nodes. The method above can become tedious fast and it’s prone to human errors. We use external Kubernetes as a service platforms (think DOKS, EKS, etc), who have Terraform providers available. So I open my Terraform config and increase the number of pods in one of my pre-production clusters from 9 to 11. I also change the version from 1.32 to 1.33. I then push my changes to a new merge request, my Gitlab CI spins up, who calls Atlantis to run a
terraform plan, I check the results and ask it to apply. It takes 2 minutes. I would love to see this work with Proxmox. - Comment on VMware’s rivals ramp efforts to create alternative stacks 1 month ago:
Man, I’ve been living and working in Germany for close to 10 years now. Proxmox is like that 50yo colleague of mine. Hard worker, reliable, really knowledgeable, a treasure trove of info, but he can’t be budged. He insists on installing any new VM using the GUI (both Windows and Linux), he avoids learning “new things” like Docker or Kubernetes, and really distrusts “the cloud”.
I will keep using Proxmox, as I have for many years both at work and at home, but we are migrating from a VM (with Docker) setup to Kubernetes. It would have been great for Proxmox to offer some support there, but…
- Comment on Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline 1 month ago:
I see what you mean, interesting. Didn’t really look at NixOS as a server os. I personally prefer using multiple compose files (in the process of migrating to k8s). I share resources too, like in your example, I just point to the existing DB instance, not create a new one for each new service.
- Comment on Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline 1 month ago:
May I ask what you mean by NixOS support? There’s a docker compose you could use in their repo…
- Comment on RETIRED: Readarr - Sonarr for Ebooks Book Manager and Automation 1 month ago:
I believe R-- stands for Readarr and G–R-- stands for GoodReads.
- Comment on how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? 2 months ago:
Hosted with Jellyfin, for clients I use Symfonium on Android and Feishin on desktop.
- Comment on What's the real difference between a shell script and Ansible (and which should I use)? 2 months ago:
ansible can seem like just a fancy way to run shell scripts with extra syntax, but the real power shows up when you start managing more than one machine or need repeatable, “idempotent” (i love this word) setups. ansible handles state rather than just running commands, so you can describe what you want instead of how to do it step by step. it’s also easier to maintain over time, especially if your setup grows or changes. just add that new vm to the inventory list.
if you’re already comfortable with shell scripts and just want to get a few vms going, you could totally get by without ansible. but if you’re planning to do this more than once, or want to be able to rebuild things cleanly, it’s worth it, imo. it could save you a lot of headaches later on.
i use it at work, i manage about 40 vms in our pre-production environment with ansible. if i need to install a new package on all, it’s one line and one command (ran in a pipeline). if i need to change the settings for
unattended-upgradeson the debian machines only, same thing.however, our “production” environment is k8s and a handful of external services, and we use terraform to manage all that.
i guess it all depends on your needs.
- Comment on OpenAI's annualized revenue hits $10 billion, up from $5.5 billion in December 2024 2 months ago:
They also have an API, I think a chunk of that revenue comes from there. Think 3rd party apps and services having chat bots, writing assistants, etc that use openai’s API.
- Comment on If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better? 2 months ago:
Not exactly answering your dilemma, but I was watching a cooking channel yesterday (Sorted), and they were talking about seaweed - it’s wild (heh). You can use it to make straws, bags, packaging and all sorts of stuff that’s foodsafe and biodegradable. And apparently, even if we replaced all the plastic used for that kind of thing with seaweed, we’d barely make a dent in the ocean’s seaweed supply - we’d use less than 1% of it.
- Comment on Ansible sounds interesting 2 months ago:
Oversimplifying it, Ansible playbooks are nothing more than some commands that should be run on a remote machine via ssh. Ansible knows or has modules for a variety of different package managers (apt, yum, etc) and automagically knows how to handle services or various config files.
It can get complex, but I think just the startup phase, until you have an inventory of remote machines, the ssh keys are in place, etc. I second the Jeff Geerling recommendation, his stuff is solid, both ready to use playbooks, and tutorials.
I would suggest to also look into
cloudinit. Makes setting up VMs on proxmox easier, faster, more consistent, with users, networking, ssh keys, etc ready to use (by you or by Ansible). - Comment on This was the theme song used in a documentary about a failed corporation. Can you name the company? 3 months ago:
Do they make cardigans?
- Comment on Is it possible to set what DNS server cloudflare tunnels uses when resolving local ips? 3 months ago:
Yeah, I think coredns offers all the options you need.
- Comment on C4illin/ConvertX: Self-hosted online file converter that supports 1000+ formats 3 months ago:
This is a great addition to my home-lab, no more “free online convert” tools needed.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Am tot auzit și eu, da’… sursa?
- Comment on Cucumbers taste like the white part of watermelons 4 months ago:
My family pickles watermelons, for generations. They are delicious.
- Comment on How do I host Jellyfin in the most secure manner possible? 4 months ago:
I agree with you, but this was specifically about jellyfin.
- Comment on How do I host Jellyfin in the most secure manner possible? 4 months ago:
I don’t think so, but don’t quote me on that. My machines come with a 65w charger.
- Comment on How do I host Jellyfin in the most secure manner possible? 4 months ago:
A micro sized PC with an i5 and 8gb or ram can cost under 100€, and it’s way more powerful compared to a pi. Power efficient too. That’s what I used for a long time for my jellyfin server.
