toma

@toma@lemmy.omat.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why and when should I use LVM?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LVM is just a way more flexible partition table. It gives you the possibility to grow partitions at a later date. You probably not think you can do that with MBR or GPT too. Well yes, but only when the spare room is adjacent to the partition you want to grow. With LVM you can grow partitions even if the free space is somewhere else on the disk.

  So you can grow any disk ‘partition’ at any time as long as you have some free space in the group.

  Another advantage is that you can encrypt logical volumes easily. Usually that’s supported when you install the OS.

  You can also stack LVM on top of a software RAID, so you can create a mdadm from a disk partition of several disks and create a VG on that with LVs to spilt it into pieces.

  I usually use LVM on every server. There is no need not to and gives you options for the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Setup guide Proxmox, Opnsense, HA, OpenWRT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, so it is not that hard then I guess. Install proxmox on the appliance, then install two vm’s, HA and pfsense. Deal with further segmentation of your lan and the bridge to the router in pfsense.

  But if you ask me, drop the idea of vlans for appliances and keep it simple. Only make a guest network on WiFi, but using vlans is a pita, people want to stream to tv’s, use the app to control heating, etc. If you are concerned about appliances connecting to internet, just block internet access in OpenWRT or pfsense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signed up to a whole new account, whole new email, and STILL getting this from Youtube.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve no idea what you are talking about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 40,000 admin portal accounts use 'admin' as a password⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t you work at NASA ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X will begin charging new users $1 a year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and one day the Tesla owners wake up and will be faced with $1 per trip in their car too. Reminder me in 2 years please.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Way for non-technical users to upload to my server with resumability⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There is NextCloud. It has the possibility to create an upload link where people can upload stuff. We use it daily to receive stuff from our customers.

  If you need the resuming part, you would be better off giving them a NextCloud account and share a folder. Their NextCloud app will sync it in the background and resume automatically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for selfhosted app for managing and playing podcasts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I settled on www.audiobookshelf.org Might be a bit confusing at first, but after setting it up, it does exactly what I want. Easy to listen to podcast on my iPhone, including setting speed & sleep timer and the server fetches the new episodes every day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How terrible is double NAT? really?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll be fine. In the past stuff like ftp and sip could get confused by double nat, but not so much today. And stuff like opening a port from outside to the inside needs some planning through double nat.

  We run it in the office for years now and it is totally fine. We are in a building with multiple companies sharing internet and we wanted our own network within, so we are using double nat (internet modem and our switch).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Network overview / documentation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Netbox is ok, but I’m looking for something more visual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Network overview / documentation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, but I’m looking for something else. I know about draw.io, but it’s just a drawing tool. I can use 10 different tools for that. I’m looking for something more advanced than that.

• Network overview / documentation
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for new router for home network.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I had very similar wishes, but settled on a Velica (GL-B2200). It comes with OpenWRT out of the box, and can be flashed to the newest version. It has great WiFi coverage, which is nicer than top speed imho. Downside is only 1 wan and 1 lan, but with a VLAN and a separate switch it might be ok for you.

• WiFi setup
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Hetzner so stingy with server quotas?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just answer them with a little explanation like you did here, you will be fine. Done that, been there.

  They just want to protect against people buying lots of servers for a short time, then not paying or doing ddos shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home Assistant - am I missing something?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You probably tried to do too much in one day :)

  Netatmo had a delay indeed. There is an option to get a developer account at Netatmo so changes get pushed to HA. But still, it has some quirks.

  Advice is to work on one integration at a time, read the documentation, search for your problems. After the integration works, setup your dashboard. After that start with the automatons.

  Good luck, HA it’s really worth it, invest a bit more time in it.