Cyber
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- Comment on Holiday Upgrade Disasters 9 hours 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 10 hours 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago:
Nice way to find (& document?) The system though
- Comment on Holiday Upgrade Disasters 1 day 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 1 day 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…
- Submitted 2 days ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 54 comments
- Comment on A self-hosted approach to long-term file storage and control 6 days 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? 1 week ago:
Still going…
- Comment on Recommendations to replace AWS DNS? 1 week ago:
Just chiming in with my suggestion - if the company’s location also benefits you:
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 2 weeks ago:
I came from Nextcloud to syncthing, you’re in the right place.
- Comment on Guidance for Noob? (Synching vs Nextcloud, Immich, Tailscale) 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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?? 4 weeks ago:
I want to search for a blog on this now…
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 4 weeks 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! 4 weeks 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! 4 weeks 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! 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
By which country?
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 70 comments
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 5 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? 5 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? 5 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? 5 weeks ago:
Me too (btw).
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 5 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? 5 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…