MXX53
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- Comment on It's Gonna Be A Good Day, 'Tater 1 week ago:
Sorry I didn’t get back to you right away. But this is correct. I just have Prometheus scrape cAdvisor.
- Comment on It's Gonna Be A Good Day, 'Tater 1 week ago:
I just did the same thing. Grafana with Prometheus, cAdvisor, Loki, alloy. It has really stepped up my overall systems monitoring.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 3 weeks ago:
I am a devops engineer and application architect who spends their entire day developing automated docker deployments for custom applications from scratch and I manage all our reverse proxies and TLS termination and certificates.
5 years ago, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you what a docker container really was. Thankfully migrating legacy apps to docker on Linux hosts is my full time job and it has allowed me to become proficient enough in a fairly short amount of time.
We all have to start somewhere and shitting on someone for not knowing something now will dissuade them from ever learning it and potentially remove a future contributor to the open source tech stack before they ever even get started.
- Comment on Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why. 5 weeks ago:
This is interesting to me. I run all of my services, custom and otherwise, in docker. For my day job, I am the sole maintainer of all of our docker environment and I build and deploy internal applications to custom docker containers and maintain all of the network routing and server architecture. After years of hosting on bare metal, I don’t know if I could go back to the occasional dependency hell that is hosting a ton of apps at the same time. It is just too nice not having to think about what version of X software I am on and to make sure there isn’t incompatibility. Just managing a CI/CD workflow on bare metal makes me shudder.
Not to say that either way is wrong, if it works it works imo. But, it is just a viewpoint that counters my own biases.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 5 weeks ago:
No new devices, but I migrated my homelab from an intel nuc to an old recycled HP z240 with a p1000 gpu I got for free. I had Nextcloud and jellyfin on it, but jellyfin gets the majority of the use.
I then added a gitea docker container to my server for my personal projects. Then I configured a miniflux container with some of my favorite RSS feeds for a lightweight way to view my feeds on my computer.
I would like to get pihole configured again in a docker container(I have only ever run it on a raspberry pi), but I have small children and a baby and they make it hard to find extra time in the day.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Maybe that should be the case. But according to them they are unwilling to budge on any of the guidelines as to not sacrifice any of their goals of privacy and security.
Hopefully someday they either support more devices, or preferably more devices meet the guidelines. I personally would like to see devices that are better supported from a repairability point of view, like the fairphone or hmd skyline.
But, none of that changes the fact that if you want to forgo google play services on android in a secure and private way today, a pixel with Graphene is going to be your best bet. What I would like to be, or what I think should be has no bearing on that answer.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
For me it isn’t absolutism. It is about trying to get the most private secure setup I can. Currently, that is Graphene and that required a pixel. If there ever comes a time where another device is supported, preferably one focused on repairability, I will go that way.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Why would I buy brand new when I could provide life to a phone that might otherwise end up in a landfill?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The reason for pixel has to do with meeting graphene’s specific security and privacy guidelines. You can read them here grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices. I’m not a pixel fan specifically, but I am Graphene fan and I like my privacy and security.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Buy a used pixel in cash, install Graphene. This is probably the best way to accomplish running without google services.
- Comment on AYANEO's "Small, Yet Mighty" Pocket ACE Breaks Cover | Time Extension 2 months ago:
After playing with shaders in retroarch on amoled, I will never be able to go back to LCD. Otherwise it looks pretty cool.
- Comment on Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch? 2 months ago:
I did the same thing when I started self hosting. I followed some guides that recommended all these tools. The more I learned, the more I realized I hardly used some of the stuff but when I disabled them it broke the stuff I did use. That’s when I took the time to wipe my system and build from the ground up, but this time actually understand what I was doing and not just blindly following guides.
Good luck!
- Comment on Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch? 2 months ago:
I don’t think you’re crazy. Sometimes when my shit gets bloated and I start getting confused about how things go together, I wipe everything and start fresh to refresh myself and organize better.
- Comment on HP Mini 1000: The Windows XP Netbook 16 Years Later 3 months ago:
I had an HP mini 110, which was a windows 7 basic netbook. My girlfriend (now wife) bought it for me during our senior year of high school. It was my first Linux machine (Ubuntu 11.10 netbook remix) and introduced me to the joys of trying to get unsupported Broadcom network cards to function.
That laptop also carried me through my first two years of pre-med before transitioning to software engineering.
Unfortunately, one day it decided to just turn off and never come back. That was one of the jankiest machines I ever had, and may have been my favorite computer I ever owned. I took it everywhere with me for 3 years.
- Comment on I saved a bunch of floppies and drives from the landfill: what's it worth? 3 months ago:
I have such fond memories of my first new to me pentium 4.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 3 months ago:
I never used Plex. Up until my kids were born I used to just watch my videos on my desktop, but now I find myself watching on my phone and TV more often. My Jellyfin server has been super stable for the last 6 months or so running on a super low powered machine and external hard drive. The only issues I have is with movies with Dolby digital, they tend to get out of sync when scrubbing the timeline. I am assuming that is due to the lower power of the machine. But, I have a 400watt desktop with a 7th gen i7 and a pascal Quadro P1000 that I am planning on migrating to. Then adding a 20tb internal drive for storage. Hopefully that will resolve the small issues I have seen with it.
- Comment on Which reverse proxy do you use/recommend? 4 months ago:
I use traefik. I like it. Took a bit to understand, but it has some cool options like ssl passthrough and middlewares for basic auth.
- Comment on How do you keep up? 4 months ago:
This is a good point. Generally if can accomplish what I want with my own scripts, I will go that route. I’ll probably avoid adding additional software to the mix since what I have works fine enough.
- Comment on How do you keep up? 4 months ago:
I’ll check it out! Thanks!
- Comment on How do you keep up? 4 months ago:
I run a Fedora server.
All of my apps are in docker containers set to restart unless stopped by me.
Then I run a cron job that is scheduled at like 3 or 4am that runs docker pull on all containers and restarts them. Then it runs all system uldtwa and restarts the server.
Every week or so I just spot check to make sure it is still working. This has been my process for like 6 months without issue.
- Comment on UFO 50 is a retro gamer's dream - I highly recommend it 8 months ago:
I have been completely hooked on this game. Night manor so far has been my favorite and I cherried that on. But Bushido blade has been great too. Lately I have been bashing my head against star waspir, and it is so much fun.
Vainger is also really cool.
So far everything I have played on this game has been great.