johnnixon
@johnnixon@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear? 5 days ago:
I’ve fun OPNsense, PFsense, OpenWRT, and high the consumer routers and I’ve found Unifi the most stable. I’m also less able to screw it up and I’ve had to divert functions to VMs because I couldn’t do it on my UDM. But having Internet service fail over with notifications that the normies in the house can understand is helpful. Then being able to find the WI-FI password for the Iot network from the app is helpful. VLANS by port through a pretty simple WebUI is helpful. Their handing of power (do they support NUT yet?) and redundant links is less good. I get errors when I have two routes between switches like I broke something. I’ve brought the network down due to STP not stopping loops but I also don’t know what the hell I’m doing. I’d do it again though.
For NAS, ceph storage plus NextCloud plus WebDAV has been good lately but I’m sure I’m leaving performance on the table. It’s just hard to break.
- Comment on What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear? 5 days ago:
Their PDU-PRO has three network ports on the front and I believe only one of them works. They even gray the other two out on their site. I don’t know what they thought they would do with it but they sure failed.
- Comment on Geo-distributed Jellyfin 1 week ago:
I checked for relay. I recall it’s pretty easy to see on the desktop icon. I’ll have to try again next time I’m away to see.
- Comment on Geo-distributed Jellyfin 1 week ago:
I was trying to stream my Jellyfin server on vacation…Over Tailnet I couldn’t reliably stream anything. Over VPN it was as good as local. I can’t believe it’s just a routing issue but I wasn’t proxied so it should have been the same. So a VPN for one user might fix the issue. The headaches of segmenting the network on that VPN are another problem even if the hardware/router is capable but doable.
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 1 week ago:
I’m fascinated by the process you’ve described and it’s not far off. I knew that once I put these online, especially here with you people, someone would piece the steps together in no time. I’ve been doing pixel art for decades which has always been a mix of algorithms and manual labor. This mosaic process has been a few years coming between scripts, models, scales, pre/post processing, and output medium. The FOSS part was that I was including the print files for any FOSS project but not proprietary stuff. I’m still looking for a way to monetize the image process so I can spend more time making things I think are beautiful and less time grinding for the boss. One can dream.
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 1 week ago:
It isn’t but that’s a great idea. Mosaic of photos of us to make our initials. You’re a genius.
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 1 week ago:
Groovy straight up looks like shit. I thought Lua looked okay if you stood 10 feet from the screen and squinted. Even the moon, in recognition of its Brazilian Portuguese roots was included. Understand the intended use is a 2 inch tall sticker so fine details should be lost. It’s the forest, not the trees.
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 1 week ago:
I didn’t feel that Tailscale was FOSS but I’ll add that one to the gallery. I swore I checked Debian when I stuck it so I must have rotated the swirl in production pre-hexing. AOSP could replace Android but a) I’m not running an AOSP device and 2) their current logo isn’t that shape friendly. But I might try anyway.
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 1 week ago:
Something entirely not tech related but I love the investigative spirit
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 1 week ago:
I watched a friend beat TOTK so I just ran around and tried to 100% the game rather than beating it. Slower times too.
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 1 week ago:
I only have one laptop, so not every sticker is a self hosted software. Others are things I use and enjoy.
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 1 week ago:
The GIMP one is the worst
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 1 week ago:
Per your suggestion I put the high res files up, self hosted, for anything that is FOSS. I guess someone can pull one of those for their Gravatar that way. I thought of a way to use this art style for conference badges but the detail is already small at a 2" hex that it wouldn’t be practical.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 1 week ago:
Yes! At this point I wonder how much of the show has spoiled my eventual run through the game.
- Comment on Is there a good email server that can be run through Docker? 1 week ago:
What happens if your server is offline and an email comes in? I’m genuinely curious what it would do. Or must you VPS host your mail server for maximum uptime?
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 1 week ago:
Anything on PS5. I bought one thinking I’d catch up on whatever I’d missed since the PS1 days. Heard that that mushroom zombie game was good. Never started it. I just sit at the desk and play another round of CS2 deathmatch.
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 1 week ago:
Fixed. I don’t know why the node went down but I forgot to put it on the HA list. It’ll be more resilient now.
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 1 week ago:
I appreciate the feedback. I figured out how to fit 5 on a 6x6 sticker. So that’s five stickers for $12. I can also fit 4x that on a big sheet, so it’ll be 20 stickers for $25. I just need to find a group of 20. The downside is that Etsy doesn’t do volume discounts, I have to build the multipack myself. I’m also trying to figure out how free shipping works to take that off larger orders.
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 1 week ago:
If you don’t want to pay, print them for yourself.
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 1 week ago:
You’re not wrong that modern advertising works like that. In my case I haven’t shown these anywhere and just got my first batch in yesterday and was so happy with them I wanted people who would actually appreciate the comment to see. No links. No cart. Just “I’m proud of this”. If someone went and bought some hex stickers from RedBubble after seeing this, good. If they found mine, good on them for tracking them down. On the FOSS chain of thought, I think, at least for the FOSS stickers, these should be on GitHub or a self hosted web server as whatever creative commons means don’t sell my files/prints. That would take a day to spin up and might let people print them themselves if they’re so inclined.
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 1 week ago:
No, but I refuse to pay my VPS for GPU time so I self host Gemma3:27B with RAG on Ollama over tailnet to make a choose your own adventure medical protocol simulator. I’m sure Claude could give me some context breathing room but not at those token prices. I did see something on pointing Claude Code to your own Ollama server and that would maybe justify the self hosted butthole.
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 1 week ago:
I’m proud that I got enough users to justify moving that server out of my closet. You think I should replace it with ceph?
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 2 weeks ago:
I got them from Etsy. They all came with borders so I had to 3D print a jig to get the cuts right with a razor knife. They’re still a little wobbly but they’re good enough.
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 2 weeks ago:
I did self host a steamcache years back but no, its one of the few “normie” stickers but few I know that would even recognize that. I also don’t self host the Zigbee protocol, and I gave up OPNsense for Ubitquiti 2 years ago so no, that’s not self hosted either. I only have one laptop so my hobbies have to coexist on it.
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- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread 11 months ago:
Scripting enlarging 2400 10x10 png files to 512x512 Stable Diffusion generated images that look like high resolution cityscapes in the style of Salvador Dali. I can’t get the API to spit out a single image.
- Comment on What do you use for notes? 1 year ago:
Trillium. It works well via browser and reasonably on a mobile browser.
Obsidian is excellent but I can’t install any applications on my work computer and the web hosted version was buggy and slow. If I didn’t have IT blocking me I’d be using Obsidian again.
- Comment on What are your Homelab goals for 2025? 1 year ago:
Get VLANs working, proper IOT network isolation, and Nextcloud as my primary document storage. If that first one didn’t bring down my homelab entry time I try I’d be more inclined.
