mierdabird
@mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Adguard DNS: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today 2 days ago:
What was the ASUS privacy update? In the router settings page? I haven’t seen it yet but I don’t use any of their extra services
- Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site 1 week ago:
Guess I’ll be getting around to starting my own pihole after all
- Comment on Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2 October Update Triggers BitLocker Recovery 1 week ago:
Thanks for this, I accidentally locked my wife’s tablet when I was testing if Linux would run on it from USB drive. Came back to win 11 and it was bitlocked, with no codes in her Microsoft account and no idea where else to find them. Hopefully I can study this and figure out a way to bypass it
- Comment on Yunohost, CasaOS, or Cosmos? 2 weeks ago:
Bare metal cosmos installation is now recommended instead of the docker container. It’s technically still beta, but I’ve been running it since February and very happy with it. The dev has indicated updates will focus on bare metal installation going forward.
I have found it’s made everything vastly easier for me - the marketplace, integrated reverse proxy and URL manager mean you can literally spin many services up with a single click. Yet it has sub-menus for docker env and compose data that allow you to dig deeper into how the containers work if you’re interested in it.
- Comment on Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole? 4 weeks ago:
In terms of the tinyminimicro’s I think i5-6500T 7500T or 8500T (T signifies 35w TDP) could all fit your price point depending on RAM/SSD specs. I haven’t done much research on the n100 processors but I think they are broadly comparable to the above i5’s
- Comment on Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole? 4 weeks ago:
While I get leaning towards AMD products, I’ve been doing so as well, when I built my first server with a Ryzen 5 2400GE I have found that there just isn’t as much resources/support for enabling transcoding with the vega 11 in Jellyfin or Immich. Intel has a hardware chip specifically tuned for transcoding called quicksync that you should strongly consider.
Especially in the $100-200 price range tiny mini micro’s from HP/Lenovo/Dell are widely available and offer lots of capability in a power-efficient (~10-15w idle, 40-50w full load) and easily maintainable form factor. The Lenovo’s in particular are interesting due to a few models having full pci-e slots if you decide later you want a GPU.
Lenovo pci-eFinally for software I would suggest looking into Cosmos Cloud, I use it and have found it made it so much easier to setup and manage all my docker containers and domain name/reverse proxy settings.
- Comment on Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole? 4 weeks ago:
Any Intel CPU with quicksync will likely be plenty transcoding capability for his use case with significantly lower power draw
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 4 weeks ago:
If this is only 6 weeks ago now then you can still most likely do a credit card charge back if you paid that way
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If this is your first time trying to selfhost I highly recommend Cosmos Cloud, I’ve been using it for 6 months and it’s made every step of the way so much easier for me. It manages docker containers and has included reverse proxy and security features, with paid option for personal VPN like tailscale.
Most services work perfectly from a catalog of pre-built docker compose files, but Jellyfin I remember I did have to go to the internal docker IP on the actual host machine to set the server up and working properly from other machines
- Comment on v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD) 1 month ago:
Bro 2.0 came so fast I didn’t even have time to do 144, like why did they even bother releasing that when 2.0 was coming the very next day lol
- Comment on Frustratingly bad at self hosting. Can someone help me access LLMs on my rig from my phone 2 months ago:
When on your wifi, try navigating in your browser to your windows computer’s address with a colon and the port 11434 at the end. Would look something like this:
If it works your browser will just load the text: Ollama is running
From there you just need to figure out how you want to interact with it. I personally pair it with OpenWebUI for the web interface
- Comment on We are stopping shipments to the US - Kiwix 2 months ago:
The problem is big businesses like Temu can bulk ship and still only pay a certain %.
But it will ruin small businesses who do only small shipments and will now see a flat fee that may be half or more the value of the good.
- Comment on 1U mini PC for AI? 2 months ago:
I’m actually right there with you, I have a 3060 12gb and tbh I think it’s the absolute most cost effective GPU option for home use right now. You can run 14B models at a very reasonable pace.
Doubling or tripling the cost and power draw just to get 16-24gb doesn’t seem worth it to me. If you really want an AI-optimized box I think something with the new Ryzen max chips would be the way to go - like a framework desktop or the GMKtek option whatever it’s called. Apple’s new Mac Minis are also great options. Both Ryzen Max and Apple make use of shared CPU/GPU memory so you can go up 96GB+ at much much lower power draws. - Comment on Sony says it’s not done making Xperia phones just yet 3 months ago:
As an Xperia 5 III user I’m feeling very left out
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's self hosting Sunday! 3 months ago:
SSO is single sign on, so you don’t need individual username and password for every service. It’s a bit more advanced so don’t worry about it until you have what you want working properly for a while.
DNS is like the yellow pages of the internet - when you type www.google.com your computer uses a DNS server to look up what actual IP address corresponds to the website name. The point of Adguard or pihole is that when a website tries to load an ad your custom DNS server just says it doesn’t recognize the address
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's self hosting Sunday! 3 months ago:
Check out Cosmos, I struggled piecing things together but when I restarted from scratch with this as the base is has been SO much easier to get services working, while still being able to see how things work under the hood.
It’s basically a docker manager with integrated reverse proxy and OpenID SSO capability, with optional VPN and storage management
- Comment on Ex-Google CEO: Power Grid Crisis Could Kill AI's Next Big Leap 3 months ago:
Funny that decades of the GOP sabotaging progress on renewable energy like solar and wind, and torpedoing research into modernizing the power grid - specifically because it would make deploying renewable easier, will end up helping to hand the lead of possibly the most consequential industry of the 21st century over to China.
- Comment on I want to leave tech: what do I do? 4 months ago:
The meme in the article cracked me up fwiw
- Comment on Recommendations for External GPU Docks for Home Lab Use - Lemmy 4 months ago:
I haven’t used any but have researched it some:
Minisforum DEG1 looks like the most polished option, but you’d have to add an m.2 to oculink adapter and cable.
ADT-Link makes a wide variety of kits as well with varying pcie gen and varying included equipment. - Comment on No Internet For 4 Hours And Now This 4 months ago:
Black-out typically means it just doesn’t let any light into the room, not necessarily the actual color of the curtain
- Comment on I've massively improved my home organization with this free and open-source [Self-Hosted] tool [HomeBox] 5 months ago:
Homebox has this capability too, you can generate QR codes for assets and scan it later to identify whatever’s inside.
- Comment on I've massively improved my home organization with this free and open-source [Self-Hosted] tool [HomeBox] 5 months ago:
The current version does have the ability to create QR codes for your assets and scan them later for identification, but I don’t know of a way to scan a new item and identify it automatically.
- Comment on I've massively improved my home organization with this free and open-source [Self-Hosted] tool [HomeBox] 5 months ago:
I think it becomes more useful as you accumulate stuff - I get frustrated when my wife buys crap on Amazon that we already have. So while I don’t have the time or energy to sort everything in our house, I am beginning to catalogue things as we buy them in the hope it becomes more useful over time to find things we rarely use and/or avoid re-buying excess items
- Comment on Need a second opinion on a project idea (Pi5 car headunit) 5 months ago:
a.co/d/hh2N98y Something as simple as that, though I’m not sure 5v/3a is enough for a pi5 you’d have to check power specs
- Comment on Need a second opinion on a project idea (Pi5 car headunit) 5 months ago:
I would especially advise against relying on battery banks due to the heat, if you’re just going to use it in the car and already going to the trouble of customizing so much hardware I’d find a way to run a power supply off a switched 12v fuse or wire from the car - just convert to 5v/USB power. I’m sure there are generic kits online
- Comment on Advice needed on Nextcloud + Immich Setup (with a SSD and HDD's) 5 months ago:
You know, my thumbnails load super slow on my phone but your comment made me think I should check where the thumbnails are located. First though I noticed I had this setting on, after disabling it they now load almost instantly:
- Comment on Advice needed on Nextcloud + Immich Setup (with a SSD and HDD's) 5 months ago:
My setup is exactly what you’re aiming for: Immich and it’s database resides on the main SSD while the photos and videos are uploaded to my NAS using NFS shares and a bind mount to /mnt/
It isnt the snappiest experience loading media off the HDD’s but it’s been very reliable.
- Comment on Your favorite "one click" self hosted open source app installer/server manager? 6 months ago:
My first time I started winging it with a raspberry pi, docker, and nginx and it took me like 2 months to get one service up and running and I didn’t feel it was very secure - fail2ban didn’t work, geoblocking didn’t work, and updates were manual.
When I re-started from scratch with an x86 device and cosmos it has been shockingly easy in comparison. Not only is it much quicker to spool the service up (app store), they can be automatically updated, the proxy has options for geoblocking, rate limiting, etc. I’ve even got some of the services below built from a custom compose file instead of the app store, some use remote storage and some are set up with OAuth SSO. There’s still mild troubleshooting for a lot of things but it’s been much easier for me to understand and fix issues, plus there’s an active discord community as well.
- Comment on Your favorite "one click" self hosted open source app installer/server manager? 6 months ago:
I’m all in on Cosmos Cloud, been very happy with it
- Comment on Aptera’s production-intent solar EV completed its first road trip traversing over 300 miles 7 months ago:
Same here lol, it’s been so long that I don’t think I can even take delivery of a 2 seater anymore due to family size changes
