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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to combat large amounts of Ai scrapers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re able to, use GeoIP ranges to only allow access from the countries you want.

  That immediately limits a lot of everything

  Then - again if you’re able to - use a block list that covers known scrapers in case they’re in your country.

  I use pfBlockerNG on my pfSense firewall for exactly this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a small question.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Take a backup and go for it.

  Personally, I ditched OMV for standard Arch Linux and just added the packages I wanted…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reevaluating my password management⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This

  x10

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  MythTV for the main storage, stored in folders by my genre.

  All metadata updated via Picard.

  Syncthing to replicate to a Raspberry Pi (2 or 3, I don’t recall which) running Volumio with a DAC board to connect speakers to.

  The Pi is in the bedroom, so I only replicate the genres that I want, which cuts down on storage needed on the Pi, and means I don’t need MythTv / NAS / etc. powered over night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: filebrowser is no longer being actively developed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to query why fork instead of just maintaining, but after reading theose comments I see the problem.

  So, ok, I need to start shifting packages…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Part 2 of car Raspberry pi 4 GPS project⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the CoMaps pointer, didn’t know about that / issues with Organic Maps

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any open source tv focused os/ui?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  MythTV - as others have already mentioned. It’s designed to work with the 10’ interface

  Even records TV programs (presuming you have tuner hardware of course) - which I don’t think the others can do?

  We don’t stream Netflix, but we do watch other various streams (ie BBC iPlayer), yoochoob, etc - all works fine, inc… video files from various sources, and music…

  We use it with a Logitech K400 wireless keyboard and it works great for us.

  I have played with a more traditional looking TV wand remote in the past, but you still need a keyboard to type in program websites, names, etc. so the K400 became our defacto remote.

  MythTV used to come with Ubuntu as Mythbuntu back in the day, but most of the pre-installed distros have fallen away, so you’d need to pick a distro and install it yourself.

  It’s a very mature application, so you won’t need to keep updating every time you want to watch anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else going basic with their NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. And No.

  I have a home made (arch btw) NAS that stores all our files - mostly via syncthing, even from remote family.

  That was it.

  Then I installed Immich so that we could see the photos… so… it’s technically just a NAS, but it does now have a web application running on it…

  Videos & Music are on a completely separate MythTV box which existed before the NAS - I saw no point in moving ~3TB of data to a separate box that would need to be powered when I want to watch / listen to something… my NAS powers itself up & down throughout the day to save electricity (and it was interesting to learn how to make it know when it was / wasn’t being used)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Music Downloader⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Download with yt-dlp. All of it. Even into a single folder if that’s easier.

  Then run it all through Picard and that’ll do everything else for you - albumart, metadata, folders, filenames, the lot.

  Anything that Picard doesn’t know about, enter it into the MusicBrainz db to give back to the community.

  Done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Source Paid Remote Desktop⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We use VNC as we can record the sessions easily for later priof / discussion with our customers.

  It’s in a VPN tunnel of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A bit of my selfhost journey [that no one asked about]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re looking for a different approach, I moved from Nextcloud to Radicale for my family calendars, which includes ToDo functionality.

  From an app point, for Android I’m using Fossify Calendar (which I think you’re using?) and Tasks.Org ToDo - and this definitely handles recurring tasks (inc. with different types of schedules)

  From a remote access point of view, I have HA Proxy to convert the internal HTTP traffic into external HTTPS traffic (with Lets Encrypt certificate)

  (Yes, I also have a VPN for other things… just focusing here for the calendar / todo)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Safest CalDAV/CardDAV server⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My journey⋮ Nextcloud —> syncthing + radicale

  Much simpler, easier to maintain, less resources needed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any good decentralized cloud storage for personal backups as a self-hoster?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Got a link for that? Searching for “garage backup storage” doesn’t really get me anywhere…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice. I’ll go that way when I next brave the dust and cobwebs where the server’s currently located

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aha! I was considering moving from proxmox to incus too, but incus seemed quite new and not much documentation (at the time)

  How do you find it now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PeerTube crowdfunding to develop mobile app⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Happy for them to be developing an app (which already appears to exist), but at ~20‰ with 16 days left… wouldn’t it be “better” to collaborate with existing apps like Pipepipe / Newpipe and direct those funds into the platform instead?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ansible Playbook - How do I reverse engineer a running system?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, at least others are confirming what I had assumed, rather than everyone pointing me to a blindingly obvious tool that did it all for me!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ansible Playbook - How do I reverse engineer a running system?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, good point on not writing from scratch - which is what I had been doing for the first few… whixh is rewarding to learn how it works, but it is slow.

  Thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ansible Playbook - How do I reverse engineer a running system?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, that’s not a bad shout actually…

  I can fire up VMs to replicate the real system and maybe (depending on space) keep them as a testbed for future mods.

  Thanks, good idea.

• Ansible Playbook - How do I reverse engineer a running system?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you document your Homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A combination of Logseq (what, why, hiw) and KeePass for IPs and passwords (obviously)… I use the heirarchy in Keepass to show a device and then the services on it and then their configs, ie

  • Hypervisor1
    • VM1
      • root user details
    • VM2 (Etc)

  I used to do Visio drawings, but they were always out of date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨self hosted browser sync?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have a look at Vivaldi

  According to their help page it’ll do what you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recs: Calendar and Contacts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just another calendar…

  So, we have:

  • Me
  • Them
  • Us
  • House Stuff (ie bin day reminders)
    • I use this for Home Assistant
  • Birthdays
    • I don’t recall at the moment, but an app used this for contact’s birthdays…

  I then setup DavX to sync to Me and Us on my phone and Them and Us on their phone.

  In Fossify Calendar it’s really easy to show /hide separate calendars as well as selecting the correct calendar when adding / editing events.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recs: Calendar and Contacts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely Radicale

  We have separate calendars (ie we individually sync between our phones and other devices) plus joint calendars that we also sync…

  On Android I use davx to sync and Fossify Calendar which allows me to see multiple calendars but only sounds reminders for my personal & joint appointments, not others.

  On my laptops I’m currently usong Vivaldi’s built-in calendar and that’s working well for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, ok if Tom Lawrence has made a video then I know it’ll work!

  Thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a friendly reminder that RAID is not a backup…

  Just consider if something accidentally overwrites some / all your files. This is a perfectly legit action and the checksums will happily match that new data, but your file(s) are gone…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is exactly what I’m about to do (later this week when I visit their house)

  I’ve been using syncthing for years, but any tips for the encryption?

  I was going to use SendOnly at my end to ensure that the data at the other end is an exact mirror, but in that case, how would the restore work if it’s all encrypted?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self Hosted Network Analyzer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It varies of course, but most of my torrents are movies and linux ISOs (for real)

  I seed any Movies I leech at a 2:1 ratio… most are leeched from Europe, but I’ve had them from Canada, South America, Asia, but weirdly not many from North America.

  I like to give back more to the Linux community, so I’m constantly seeding Arch & Mint ISOs (as that’s just what I’m using… maybe something Raspberry-ish) - they go everywhere.

  I had a weird instance once where the same Chinese IP address was constantly re-downloading the same ISO. Could’ve been a VPN endpoint, but after I’d shared something like 40:1 there, I started using GeoIP to block it and similar regions I was uncomfortable with… so the world’s becoming smaller for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spottarr: A modern spotnet client and index for your *arr apps.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So, I’m a little behind the times here… should I be moving away from torrent search sites to this new fangled spot stuff?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self Hosted Network Analyzer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 for this.

  You need to see all the data flowing through a sensor to be able to map it, so a router / firewall is often the central point.

  I run it as an addon for pfSense and it’ll show me all sorts of info.

  If you setup the GeoIP you can see which countries your network’s connecting too… interesting for torrents…