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- Comment on PSA: Don't use nextcloud's auto upload on the android app as a backup 1 day ago:
I came from Nextcloud to syncthing, you’re in the right place.
- Comment on Guidance for Noob? (Synching vs Nextcloud, Immich, Tailscale) 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week ago:
I want to search for a blog on this now…
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 1 week ago:
Not arguing with you, it’s just a choice.
The question was whether Immich had to be executed from within a container system… and it doesn’t have to.
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 1 week ago:
I guess that’s true.
I’m running it outside of a container and outside a VM… as there’s no abstraction layer on top of the underlying OS. Which I guess is inside the bare metal.
So, Yep.
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 1 week ago:
I’m running it bare metal on my NAS.
No problems, plus I don’t have to do extra container stuff.
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 1 week ago:
I’ve not seen that option, but I use syncthing instead of the phone application to sync my photos to a specific folder on my NAS which is then an external library for Immich.
TBH, I don’t want anything deleting anything automatically.
I’ll often delete newer pictures of temporary stuff but keep older pictures of my frinds & family, so, that’s not a feature I’d see any value in. It tends to just make me lazy and build up GBs of junk photos on my NAS (and backups…)
- Comment on Bad experience on selfhosting nextcloud 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re looking for a calendar on a web page?
So, probably not what you meant, but Radicale is a really good caldav server I use for our calendars
It’s a server, you need clients (ie phones, etc) to see the calendars, but I found that no-one wanted a web calendar, they just used their phones… so maybe it’s an option…?
- Comment on Bracing for impact 2 weeks ago:
1st, definitely get backups offsite. Either cloud or drives at someone else’s home, but do that.
When (not if) something breaks you’ll need to fix it “now”
So, if you were intending on hosting a failover system in the cloud with Jellyfin, Adguard, Wireguard, etc. that won’t be a simple replica - you’ll need to redo your whole networking design.
IMHO, you’re better having physical spare parts / devices at home and focus on that.
If you’re running on an old PC, you’ll probably be better getting a newer, more efficient (lower electricity costs) - possibly smaller and quieter - device and moving stuff across… your old PC can then be the backup device.
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 2 weeks ago:
By which country?
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- Comment on Cams, anyone? 2 weeks ago:
If the timestamps on the current live cctv image looks completely different, then you’re out of luck using it as evidence.
After all, it’s your video evidence, why would you want to fake it if you’re trying to prove that someone stole that Amazon parcel off your front door step…
This isn’t X-Files… 🛸
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 2 weeks ago:
Well, slap me sideways with a boxed edition of Windows XP SP3.
I never knew that!
Thanks for sharing.
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 3 weeks ago:
Slightly off topic and something I read from somewhere else, but make sure whatever you use can write the date & time onto the camera images, otherwise it isn’t usable for any police / insurance claims.
I’d guess all systems do this now, but just wanted it to be on your checklist of features.
If the camera doesn’t do it, then the storage server must.
(And make sure the clock is sync’d to something 😉)
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 3 weeks ago:
Me too (btw).
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 3 weeks ago:
Zoneminder is an option.
It’s been around since before containers were a thing, so fairly stable.
Not used it myself, but when I get around to needing cameras (I’m in a small house in a low crime area), then thats what I’m planning to use.
It has (had?) an integration in MythTv too, so I can see who’s a the door whilst watching TV at the same time.
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 3 weeks ago:
Sigh, unfortunately not.
You should see the Linux community asking about which distro to use - now that’s where a pinned post is needed…
- Comment on We Surveyed 2,158 Self-Hosters: Here's What Keeps Us Hosting 4 weeks ago:
Define “properly”…
- Comment on Backups of Backups 4 weeks ago:
I see lots of solutions here, but some explanation of the basics are missing for someone starting out… this is not meant to sound preachy…
RAID is not a backup. It’s just better hardware fault tolerance. Delete does the same thing on RAID as it does one 1 drive.
Everyone syncs / copies / duplicates files somewhere, but you need a way of finding the previous backup in case something was deleted. This can be done with various ways / tech, but the point is - have some history not just 1 copy. Many pointers to 3-2-1 in here, but that also doesn’t mean 3 copies of just today’s data…
Backups are nothing without Restores. Test the backups. Various ways, but do it. Often.
And consider what you’re backing up and why… ie just your data? (Ie photos), or all the config files, databases, operating systems, etc to do a full restore on new metal. If the latter, I recommend keeping your data separate from the OS / config files, etc.
Source: decades of tech disasters 😁
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Sooo… where’s the self-hosted material coming from if Bluray’s aren’t being produced any more?
If the high seas dries up, are we up shit creek and have to stream?
- Comment on Can a Smart TV piggy back the internet of a HDMI device? 4 weeks ago:
Oooh, names? (Of ISPs)
- Comment on What OS do you like for digital signage/kiosk/dashboard only? 5 weeks ago:
Microsoft Windows surely?
/s
- Comment on I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against. 5 weeks ago:
Interesting.
I have an old free email provider that’s just passed the email service to another provider
I’m looking to move because I used to be able to use <anything-at-all>@my-email.domain and I’m not sure I’ll be able to do that anymore
I basically do what you’re doing - using email prefixes for the site I’m registering with… I even caught a company out once when I suddenly started getting spam from that email address. They’d sold my details…
- Comment on I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against. 5 weeks ago:
Just to address the resourcing point…
VM resources can be over allocated, meaning that the hypervisor will try it’s best to meet their requirements, so you’re not wasting anything and could run more VMs than you have resources for.
Yes, VMs can also be configured to need a certain amount of resources and the hypervisor will have to stop, but I just wanted you to know it’s not fixed.
- Comment on OPNsense Bare Metal vs Virtualization 5 weeks ago:
Performance is going to be the same.
Security is the main point here.
If this is your internet facing firewall then you want minimal layers of software complexity, so bare metal is the answer.
I’m a pfSense user, so I don’t know how regularly OPNsense is updated, but, it’s so much easier to just reboot that 1 box whilst everything else is mostly unaffected.
Better still, do a full device backup before an update and then you have a simple disaster recovery backup in case of any problems.
- Comment on opencloud - I migrated from nextcloud. Screenshots and docker-compose-compose.yml included 5 weeks ago:
My journey:
Random stuff --> OwnCloud --> Nextcloud --> syncthing + Radicale
I gave up with the constant changes during upgrades and increasing dependencies for features that we weren’t using.
Now my system’s lean, light, responsive and just works (on a Pi3)
Prosody’s next…
- Comment on Immich v2.2.0 adds OCR 5 weeks ago:
Every way?
Well, apart from simplicity and security I suppose… and networking…
Oh, and storage…
But, before you think I’m arguing with you, I’m not… Containers have their place, VMs also, they are just for different uses.
In this case, I have a NAS, with Immich installed directly on it and I don’t have to mess with any abstraction layers… and it all plays nice with the other applications.
Maybe yours is different… but mine is better on bare metal.
- Comment on Immich v2.2.0 adds OCR 5 weeks ago:
Gotta chime in with a +1 for bare metal too…