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- Comment on What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server. 4 days ago:
I had to modify the wiring in a - fairly new - tractor once.
I opened up an inspection panel and found a pair of pliers in there, used them to fix the wiring and took them out.
I gained a tool and fixed an annoying rattle too.
- Comment on Dying of prosperity, 14TB HDD left unused 4 days ago:
If you’re not usng it for your own purposes, I doubt you’ll do what a bunch of strangers on Lemmy will tell you to do.
It needs to be running, either in your possession, or someone else’s, so sell it and make some profit from the recent price rises. Put a minimum sell price on ebay and it’ll go eventually.
- Comment on OPNSense Reverse Proxies and Giving Internal Services Domain Names? 1 week ago:
Hmmm… there’s a few different things going on here.
As others have already said you don’t need a cert if you’re just messing around internally, you can use an internal TLD -
.localis reserved for mdns, Avahi, etc. so that’s fine… personally, I use.homeI use pfSense, but I presume that OPNSense has the same function in DHCP to provide the Domain Name in there, so any static mappings will respond to
thing.homeI also have HAProxy to resolve external IP:Port to an internal thing.home (note: no S internally)… this simplifies my setup, and I presume it could work internally too, but I’ve not set it up as DHCP solves that for me.
I don’t use containers, instead each thing is it’s own VM, or physical machine, so I don’t know whether NAT (on proxmox) would resolve your issues with everything’s on 1 VM…?
- Comment on RasPi Local / Remote Music Playback 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I have 3 Ruckus APs scattered around the house and the devices are on their own SSID which I’ve VLANd off and blocked from the internet… until it’s time to do updates.
The Zeros are in far corners of the house to get a better idea of which location people are with the Bluetooth detection, but in the end I just had to throttle their bandwidth (in the Zeros) and they seem more stable now… hopefully won’t impact you, so it’s just an FYI 🙂
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 2 weeks ago:
Nice. Did you have to sell a house to afford the parts?
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 2 weeks ago:
I found the best thing to deal with a device that won’t work…
I’m trying to get the 3.5" adafruit touchscreen working and it’s being stubborn…
So… I went outside and split a large pile of logs.
Problem still not fixed, but I feel a hellofalot better
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 2 weeks ago:
Ah… nice
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 2 weeks ago:
Sound proofed… wow… does that also mean heat can’t escape?
- Comment on RasPi Local / Remote Music Playback 2 weeks ago:
Hmmm, ok, I’ll try it again…
And the touchscreen 👍🏻
- Comment on RasPi Local / Remote Music Playback 2 weeks ago:
Playing around with it today, I’ve found Moode works fine…except for the 3.5" touchscreen… it literally turns off the power to the screen (which is showing a CLI login prompt) when I enable the WebUI.
Notneven heard of konstakang, so I’ll check it out.
- Comment on RasPi Local / Remote Music Playback 2 weeks ago:
Nice.
I’ve had a lot of problems with Pi Zero W(2?) falling off the wifi.
Not sure if it’s because I’m using them for bluetooth presence detection, so they’re scanning all day… but it’s put me right off using them for something like music.
YMMV
- Comment on RasPi Local / Remote Music Playback 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I installed it again yesterday…
Seems really unintuitive after the initial setup steps (which do a good job of walking you through the initial setup), so I did bork it up once.
I think the hardest point for me is that it’s based on Tiny Core Linux, so I can’t install anything else (ie even
tmux), so I’m having issues with getting the touchscreen working.I’ll try Moode today…
- Comment on RasPi Local / Remote Music Playback 3 weeks ago:
Kindof, if I understand correctly, that’s part of piCorePlayer:
docs.picoreplayer.org/components/
TBH, when I tried piCorePlayer a few years ago, it felt like a bunch of things duct-taped together, so I don’t really know which bits were which… maybe I’ll try lyrion separately…
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- Comment on SMART data on some old drives, can anyone beat my powered-on times? 3 weeks ago:
Fuuuukkkk…
Longer uptime than you’d been alive!
- Comment on SMART data on some old drives, can anyone beat my powered-on times? 3 weeks ago:
I just hope you’ve got backups 🙂
Seriously though, we found an old Dell server at work that hadn’t been rebooted for years.
We knew that it was fine whilst it was running, but the stress of a reboot would finish it off with all those POST fan speed tests, RAID array tests, etc.
We took as much data off it that we thought might be relevant and rebooted it.
1 drive failed immediately. 1 fan must’ve had all the dust as that blew out a cloud during the fullspeed test.
A few days later more drives started failing and it just gradually died.
It was actually a sad day when we powered it off for the last time. 🥲
- Comment on Homelab Documentation 4 weeks ago:
I’m kinda overlapping with a few other comments here, but perhaps adding a little…
As others have said, getting something down is the main point, so I keep everything in Logseq markdown files. The instantaneous ability to create links between topics means that I can write a note about installing [[X]] and then realise I should mention I had to update the [[DHCP]] and [[DNS]] entries… job done.
I try to automate things in Ansible and put rough notes and URLs I was following in the ansible file. I recently setup an old Ras Pi 1 B+ as a NUT server and the instructions on 1 site didn’t work correctly, so I just threw links into the comments and mentioned it in Logseq… next year I’ll visit it all again and maybe improve the notes.
I also have a DEATH.txt file which my partner knows where to look… that gives them a high-level overview of what’s going on, where the keepass and logseq files are, etc. Maybe they’ll understand, but our friends will be able to help… just in case…
- Comment on Keeping Backup Costs Down with B2? 4 weeks ago:
I moved from Backblaze to a Hetzner storagebox, to backup my Arch (btw) NAS.
Simpler to work with and cheaper.
- Comment on Reliable messenger for family use? 4 weeks ago:
+1 for XMPP
I’m currently using a public server until I get my own (Raspberry Pi) server running
Never had a missed notification / message and video calls are great too… even Grandma can use it
Using Conversations (Android) and Monal (ios)
- Comment on Music Library Management 4 weeks ago:
Not tried beets (this thread only now made me aware of it), but adding a +1 for Picard
I let it run on a huge chunk of my music and apart from a few tracks it thought should be in compilation albums, worked really well.
After the big sift, I basically just run it on new stuff when I get it…
Sometimes I use Puddletag to fine-tune some data.
I find most new things I get from Bandcamp, etc are in MusicBrainz, so not much editing required… although I have spent some time over the years carefully entering some older, more obscure music.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (17 July 2026) 4 weeks ago:
Logseq OG will continue to be maintained. It will receive security and Electron (the cross-platform software framework) upgrades, but no new features.
Doesn’t seem like it 😮💨
I don’t want a DB version as I’m modifying the
.mdfiles outside of logseq, so I’ll be hanging on to it as long as I can. - Comment on PSA Mint + Timeshift + KVM hosters: /var/lib/libvirt is excluded by default from snapshots 1 month ago:
Wow. Thanks for the detailed breakdown, that’ll take me a while to work through!
- Comment on PSA Mint + Timeshift + KVM hosters: /var/lib/libvirt is excluded by default from snapshots 1 month ago:
I was looking into this recently and un-convinced myself that rsync was handling all the symlinks and permissions correctly.
What’s your command options? I was using
-Prvtzfor ages, then thought I needed anAatoo (from memory) - Comment on How much do you secure a home server that's only accessible with VPN? 1 month ago:
And, to be fair, you’ll know more about your setup when you don’t use the defaults as you have to learn more…
- Comment on Setting Up OPNsense on Proxmox: Doubts regarding NIC setup 1 month ago:
Nice. Thanks for the info on the fans
I guess you’re running the Fohdeesha firmware, I’ll have to look into this a little more…
Thanks
- Comment on Setting Up OPNsense on Proxmox: Doubts regarding NIC setup 1 month ago:
OT, but how are the Ruckus switches?
I’m using 2nd hand Ruckus WAPs with the Unleashed firmware and they’re great
- Comment on Immich v3.0.0 is out, with Workflows preview 1 month ago:
Yep, esp. as the Immich team (and most likely others) should be using automation for their builds anyway…
- Comment on Immich v3.0.0 is out, with Workflows preview 1 month ago:
Which distro are you using?
My NAS is running Arch (btw) and I have Immich installed baremetal because someone’s nicely maintaining it in the AUR… would need a little work to convert that script into something for another distro…
- Comment on The prices differences of different providers for the same domain is crazy. 1 month ago:
They don’t seem to be very accurate, or check availability… Amazon.com for ~$5 ?
- Comment on Are ISPs responsible for bots having residential IPs or is this a user problem? 1 month ago:
Yeah, a long time ago I started blocking outbound traffic to all but our laptops and it’s interesting how many things work perfectly well, but continually try to get out… the SolarPv inverter is VERY persistent to get to China due to an overly helpful installer setting it up on the wifi.
I now have a firewall alias to only allow certain devices out and then just update that alias, do whatever (usually updates) and then revert the alias.