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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homelab hardware choices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a 7530. (Is yours a typo?)

  Yes, those instructions look about right.

  My pfSense box has the username & password, so the router really is just being used as a dumb modem (I used to use Draytek modems)…

  … but…

  The router’s diagnostics will show the DSL details, so you can check if your external connection is ok (ie OSI Layer1), but it will always think it’s offline.

  So once you get your OPNSense setup and working, have a look around the Fritz diagnostics and get comfy with what you can / can’t see, because when there’s a failure you won’t know what is really failed.

  Also… write down what you did and how to reverse it, as you (or others) might want to reset it to full router if your OPNSense is down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homelab hardware choices⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The advice above matches mine.

  I have a home-built pfSense unit and when parts die (not if), then I just replace them with spares I have already waiting… as that box is now critical for you.

  I also have a Fritz in bridge mode with the pfSense doing PPPoE through it, so effectively, the firewall is the first real device on the WAN. Makes things much simpler as the WAN interface has status like packet drops, etc, much easier to diagnose issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨State of the Fin 2026-01-06 | Jellyfin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow.

  Ok, I don’t have anywhere near that amount of media, but MythTV takes seconds to rescan ~2TB of videos and maybe a minute to get any missing details like fanart, etc.

  Similar amount for music - but I feed it the files after I’ve run them through Picard.

  I’ve not done a complete rescan of eveything for ages, but from memory it’s like an hour absolute tops. More like ~30 mins.

  And that’s on an underclocked CPU (for quietness).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reitti v3.1.0: A year of self-hosting my location history (1.1k stars and 46 releases later)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks very interesting.

  I track the family’s location with GPS Logger (on Android) and the Home Assistant app on the iPhone user… it’s all going to HA at the moment to turn lights on when people get home…

  And I have a separate Immich server.

  So, reading this, I can combine this all together from HA and Immich - or do I need to send the GPS coordinates to this server too?

  I’m also not a container user… skimming the installation section, the instructions appear to be only support docker - are standalone instructions also covered? (I may have missed them…)

  But, this looks really nice.

  I liked thr piechart where you distinguish between walking, cycling, driving, etc, I presume that’s done by velocity…? So, do you calculate that or need that data from the phone app?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Hypermind: A fully decentralized, P2P, high-availability solution to a problem that doesn't exist.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t run any containers and this made me consider trying to get the whole infrastructure setup 😁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS decision paralysis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just basic commands will get you most of the way there… lsblk, fsck, etc.

  You can check the formatting and partitioning with something like gparted (a GUI for parted)

  For SMART, use smartctl or gsmartcontrol for a GUI

  Note: external USB enclosures / docks / adapters / etc. rarely pass SMART data, so you’d need to actually plug it into a mobo to check that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS decision paralysis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux should see most formats… you might need to install something to read NTFS… but if they’re FAT32, most distros have thst installed by default.

  If you can’t read them, and there’s nothing on there that you need to recover, then just zero them and check them with a full SMART scan, then you’ll know if they’re reliable before wasting time with a RAID array that keeps chewing up drives.

  But, I don’t know of any mobos that’ll connect that many drives…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS decision paralysis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are these external USB drives? You can certainly plug those in all over the place, but it’s not a scable, long term solution.

  Shuck the drives if they’re external and just use them as normal drives

  And you can’t daisy chain modern drives in the same sense that old SCSI / PATA drives used to be connected, but you could get a drive bay to fit an existing PC - I had one that put 4x 3.5" drives into a 3 bay 5.25" space… wasn’t great but did the job.

  But, you’ll want to get the drives into some kinda array - could be a JBOD initially, but you will NEED good backups as any drive failure = total loss of it’s files.

  Perhaps backup each drive to… somewhere… create an array and then restore all your data into that new array.

  Total available storage of RAID is less than the total space in all the drives due to checksums, duplication, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS decision paralysis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I want an external drive out of the house, but I feel like that is independent of my decision on how to store data at home. Am I wrong?

  Yes 🙂

  You’ll want offsite storage no matter what you build. This protects you from wiping your RAID array (RAID is not a backup), syncing the wrong data and losing files, etc.

  And… imagine your NAS is gone. Make sure you know how to get your (encrypted) data back.

  The first thing I did was backup a small chunk of files and then see that I could restore them to a different laptop.

  Yep, I have Arch with a btrfs RAID array because - for me - ZFS was too needy. I can use standard tools to maintain btrfs.

  It has SMB and NFS shares, powers up & down (when idle) automatically, and syncs our phones and laptops via syncthing (sync is also not a backup)

  Everything is backed up to an online storage provider AND a HDD connected to a RasPi in a family members home (and I reciprocate some of their backups)

  I do have Immich running natively on the NAS (no containers) because all our photos are there, so it made more sense to put it there, but all other functions (Home Assistant, etc) are on a separate device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS decision paralysis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First up… backups…

  You’ve got all your data on a single 8TB external drive?

  If you get lots of hardware, or stay the same, you’ll still want need to get your data off that system and preferably out of the house for the 3 F’s: fire / flood / feft (😉)

  At this point it might just be simpler to get online storage and upload it all… or a 2nd drive and just clone it.

  Now, you can breath as you change your system and oops, accidentally wipe the wrong drive… it’s all offline elsewhere

  Next up, to help with decision paralisis; the software and hardware you choose are going to be related… TrueNAS is going to want a new mobo with loads of RAM for the ZFS on the drives… OpenMediaVault will work on small hardware (as well as bigger too…), so decide with your wallet on hardware first.

  Everything (worth considering) supports RAID - you’ll want RAID1 if you only have 2 drives, RAID5 or 6 for many drives. If you use ZFS they modify the naming convention, but learn standard terminology first.

  I’ve tried it all, over the years, so expect to try something for a while, then ditch it for something else - another reason to have your data offline somewhere.

  I came back to a simple Arch linux box with 4 drives running btrfs 🙂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where are you running your wireguard endpoint?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The routers are running Arch? What hardware are they?

  I’m running pfSense as edge firewalls with a Fritzbox router as a bridge - no issues there, but would be interesting to replace that part too, if possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Holiday Upgrade Disasters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Upgrading a family member’s laptop while shooting the shit with everyone while drinking a beer or something is just fine. Don’t need 100% focus, you’re good there man.

  Yep, although I tend to avoid partition resizings whilst on the whisky 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Holiday Upgrade Disasters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s a great idea for work.

  But, for personal stuff, this is often the only time available…

  I “had” to free up space (0 bytes free) on a woefully underpowered Win11 laptop for the father-in-law. I swear it was originally Win7, so it’s been upgraded a couple of times, but no, Linux is a step too far for him… crawling Win11 is his wish…

  I’m now mid-upgrade for my Mum’s laptop (Mint 21 --> 22), but with a full clonezilla backup image on standby!

  Ah, it’s the “holidays”… for some…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Holiday Upgrade Disasters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And you did a backup first, right? 😉

  How big’s the array? If it’s PBs, then I can understnad it, but GBs… I agree, it should be done by now…

  … unless it’s still online and being written to by a database…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Holiday Upgrade Disasters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, my Pi Zeros are bettter on Trixie.

  My proxmox was also an adhoc, lets-see-what-happens-if… build, but I think I’m going to drop proxmox for Incus as I can script that in Ansible too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Holiday Upgrade Disasters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I started getting the base install on a separate SD card yesterday, and realised there’s still loads of things I’d missed in my Ansible script, like reducing journal writes, etc.

  So, I just put the old SD card back in and left it until I can look at it again

  Small steps…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Holiday Upgrade Disasters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look into radicale if that’s you’re using NC as a DAV server - and everyone’s using their phone as a client

  It’s so simple & lightweight (but admittedly the webgui is admin only - no visible calendar)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Holiday Upgrade Disasters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a friendly word of caution:

  if they don’t appreciate what you’re telling them to do, … and if the minis you’re building fail to do some magic data protection that they / you hadn’t thought about… it’ll be your “fault”

  They need to take some ownership

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Holiday Upgrade Disasters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice way to find (& document?) The system though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Holiday Upgrade Disasters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an interesting process… you could improve it with some ansible - if that’s your thing… or use snapshots on the VM(s) and roll back?

  That’s kinda what I’m doing with this (physical obviously) Pi… take a full backup now and again… do upgrades… rollback when completely borked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Holiday Upgrade Disasters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, yes, half-finished notes… had similar issues in the past too.

  But it’s a great feeling when you finally understand something, update the notes (and maybe the Arch wiki ) and sleep a little better…

• Holiday Upgrade Disasters
  Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨62⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A self-hosted approach to long-term file storage and control⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont want to dump on anyone, but this is v2.4.0 and v1.0.0 was last month…

  With 4 tickets…

  I’m also unsure that refering to zero knowledge architecture is the correct phrase here. Instead I think it should be zero trust in this context.

  But as other repos are French, perhaps the AI is from translations.

  In short - a good idea, but needs time - and clearer explanations of what’s going on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some unique Games to host server's of?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Armagetron ?

  Still going…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations to replace AWS DNS?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just chiming in with my suggestion - if the company’s location also benefits you:

  Mythic Beasts

  A private UK company which also hosts VPS in US and NL

  I’ve moved my domain here and used their DNS API to remove the need to pay for a couple of DynDNS companys.

  0 downtime over… dunno… 5 years?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Don't use nextcloud's auto upload on the android app as a backup⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I came from Nextcloud to syncthing, you’re in the right place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guidance for Noob? (Synching vs Nextcloud, Immich, Tailscale)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To answer your first bit:

  I went owncloud --> nextcloud --> syncthing + radicale.

  Not looked back.

  I run everything through a proxy in my home-built pfsense box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to propperly Ansible and selfhost without burning out?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re doing fine.

  After seeing someone at work burnout, I’ll offer this advice:

  Find what you enjoy doing and do nothing more (today). Itch only 1 scratch at a time.

  As an analogy - consider you’ve moved into a newly built house and have an empty garden. No-one would expect you to create that perfectly first time around. Esp. in 1 weekend. It needs time to grow. Some things will need cutting down, some things will need moving. Animals will crap on it.

  I think you’re trying to make it perfect, first time around. Perhaps as a fear of doing it “wrong”.

  There is no wrong, it’s all a learning experience, doing things good enough for now and improving / breaking things later.

  Ensure you know how to backup your files (3-2-1 rule) and the rest doesn’t matter.

  I’ve re-written my ansible scripts a few times, but over months and years as I’ve learned what works best for my system.

  For example, I had 1 complete script for each device. I can wipe the device (get it back on the network) and rebuild with no effort…

  … then I realised that most of the scripts had very similar parts to tweak SSH and other settings, so then I learned how to call scripts from within scripts, which also meant using variables (facts) to work out if this is a 32b or 64b RasPi (for example)

  That probably took 3 months

  But I enjoy sitting in my garden and looking at it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Longterm MythTv user here, watching the discussions

  🍿

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to search for a blog on this now…