lka1988
@lka1988@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole? 1 week ago:
As tempting as that is, I’m not expecting to build up something that hefty. Love the wireminding and all, but I’m hoping to keep this as something I can mount nicely in my teeny tiny network cabinet. The horsepower I’m looking for, alongside the low thermal and power loads, are my goal. Maybe I’ll expand beyond eventually, but who knows?
Understood! I’m just showing you that a tiny/mini/micro PC is incredibly beefy for what it is, especially when you stuff it with an i7 and a bunch of RAM.
Thank you for the suggestion though! Also love the R&C refs :) Still need to finish Rift Apart.
I name all my physical machines after R&C characters. HA is “Ace” as in Ace Hardlight, and the Optiplex (running Frigate) on the left is “Skrunch”… As in Qwark’s monkey sidekick 😂
Rift Apart was super fun. The final battle sequence is awesome for grinding if you wanna 100% the game. I’ve got it down to a science haha.
- Comment on Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole? 1 week ago:
I use RPi 4 2Gb for Pi-Hole.
Pi-hole will run on far less than that. I run Pi-hole and PiVPN on a Zero W. Uptime is over a year now.
- Comment on Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole? 1 week ago:
Buy a 7th gen Intel based tiny/mini/micro PC instead of a Pi or NUC. You get much more bang for your buck. 35W max draw. They are far more capable than people give them credit for. I run 3 of them (4 if you count the Mac mini).
- Comment on Another update that no one asked for 3 weeks ago:
That’s kinda their schtick though. They’ve been that way since before they split off from Owncloud.
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 3 weeks ago:
I just don’t understand why I’d want the hardware at home instead of remote. I don’t have much space at ome, and my home internet is crappy.
Because plenty of us do have space and have good internet.
- Comment on How to manage docker compose apps? 4 weeks ago:
Same here. It’s so much easier to use than Portainer, no weird licensing shit, and works parallel to existing stacks. Also helps me keep Docker stacks organized.
I have 4 VMs on my cluster specifically for Docker, each with its own Dockge instance, which can all be linked together to access all Docker stacks from any instance.
- Comment on Entry-Level NAS recommendations? 4 weeks ago:
“NAS” is just an acronym for “Network Attached Storage”.
A NAS is literally any computer that is setup to host storage that’s accessible over a network. That’s it. Don’t get suckered into overpriced underpowered crap. Literally any PC made in the last decade has more horsepower than a brand new “dedicated NAS”. A Pentium G4560T (i.e. 6th/7th gen Intel) will run OMV or TrueNAS or whatever without a hitch. Stuff an old ATX case with hard drives, load OMV or TrueNAS or something, and go to town.
- Comment on PinePods Release v0.8.0 - "Mobile apps and massive perfomance bumps" 4 weeks ago:
As someone who daily drives the Pinebuds… Me too. 😅
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 4 weeks ago:
And this is why I’m setting up Jellyfin. I paid for a lifetime Plex pass a while ago, and I would have been happy to toss them some more money if they had just stuck to the core service (like Nabu Casa/Home Assistant - absolutely worth $7/mo), but nooooooooooooooo Plex decided to spin up their own streaming servers and go down that path instead.
I smell an IPO coming soon.
- Comment on Reevaluating my password management 3 months ago:
I use KeePass (Keepass2Android, KeePassXC, OG KeePass, and KeePassium) for everything. Been using KeePass in general for 20-ish years.
Recently, I decided to export all of my passwords from Firefox, Chrome, and Edge, import the data into my KeePass database under their own folders, then delete everything from the browsers. That way I can move entries that weren’t already in the database to their respective locations in the database hierarchy, delete duplicates, and change insecure passwords.
The database is hosted on my phones (work and personal), laptop, gaming PC, and a server at home, all synced with Syncthing. My work laptop also has Portable KeePass that accesses the database via WebDAV to my server.
- Comment on Reevaluating my password management 3 months ago:
I do the same thing on my laptop and gaming PC. My only beef with KeePassXC is that they refuse to implement WebDAV, despite the OG KeePass having it. Otherwise it’s fantastic.
- Comment on Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks] 4 months ago:
Yeah, super hard to find…
- Comment on Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks] 4 months ago:
It never went away. It’s still a feature. It’s just stored locally on your device. Thats it.
- Comment on Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks] 4 months ago:
Misleading as fuck. The Timeline feature never went away - it’s just device-only.
- Comment on PSA: filebrowser is no longer being actively developed 4 months ago:
Ah, this makes sense now. I was wondering why it hadn’t been updated in a while, that was my only hangup.
- Comment on Jeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated). Youtube removed his content, saying that self hosting content is "dangerous or harmful content" 4 months ago:
What if I decide to digitize my entire movie catalog? I would have to rip those DVDs and blurays…
- Comment on Jeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated). Youtube removed his content, saying that self hosting content is "dangerous or harmful content" 4 months ago:
Synology is already enshittifying itself
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 4 months ago:
$5 for mine
- Comment on Selfhosting on old MSI laptop 5 months ago:
Not if you get a laptop that supports battery charge limiting. Like a Thinkpad.
- Comment on Considering a refurbished Lenovo ThinkCentre M920q for use as a discrete HTPC / SteamLink console. Is this a good idea? Does anyone here have any experience with these? 6 months ago:
Tell them to suck it up and deal with it. ¯\(°_o)/¯
- Comment on Considering a refurbished Lenovo ThinkCentre M920q for use as a discrete HTPC / SteamLink console. Is this a good idea? Does anyone here have any experience with these? 6 months ago:
The M920q is 8th gen
- Comment on Best ‘simple’ budgeting app 6 months ago:
Ah, ok, I get the general idea now. UCCU uses this software, too (you said you worked for MX, which is based in Lehi… I also work in Lehi 😅), but I gotta be honest - I’m not a huge fan of the mobile app. It just feels like a PWA. But that might just be UCCU’s implementation, so, IDK.
- Comment on Best ‘simple’ budgeting app 6 months ago:
The whole thing 😅 how do I know if my bank uses MX?
- Comment on Best ‘simple’ budgeting app 6 months ago:
Can you elaborate on this some more?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 6 months ago:
You’re not wrong, and I agree in that it feels like W10 is where MS finally got it right.
However, hindsight is 20/20, and those sentiments were definitely not felt in the first few years after W10 was released. Once all the big issues were worked out and people figured out how to remove the bloat/spyware shit though, it was a solid OS.
What did W11 add that we didn’t have before? A TPM requirement? Ads? AI slop/shovelware/spyware?
W11 right now is essentially a shitty skin on top of W10, with more ad/spy/bloatware shit. The kernel is still version 10.x.whatever FFS 😅. But SHINY INTERFACE and ONEDRIVE
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 6 months ago:
These are the people that companies like Apple pander to, with the whole “it just works” schtick.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 6 months ago:
Microsoft: you had a good thing with Windows <previous version>, and you pissed it all away when you put out the crap that is Windows <new version>.
Ftfy.
That said, there is something to be said for how popular Windows is, and the modifications and QoL improvements offered by 3rd party devs.
- Comment on Does it ever make sense/is it possible to move certain docker volumes to another physical volume, but not all? 7 months ago:
I have several NFS shares that host multiple docker volumes. So yes.
- Comment on OMV remote access 7 months ago:
Sounds like you’re pretty familiar already! I use OMV for my NAS and have several NFS shares for various services. It’s a solid solution IMO.
- Comment on OMV remote access 7 months ago:
First and foremost: Do not expose your host system or the OMV admin interface to the internet. Ever. Only expose services that have been properly isolated from the rest of the network and host system. Everything else you can access via VPN, or locally.
Secondly: OpenMediaVault beginner’s guide by DB Tech. Him, Craft Computing, Hardware Haven, and a few others whose names currently escape me, are all solid sources for hosting things at home.
After OMV, I would start with learning Docker and other containerization methods, and VMs.
