talkingpumpkin
@talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world
- Comment on NAS decision paralysis 1 hour ago:
A NAS is any computer with space/connectors for drives and an ethernet port… besides the drives, it doesn’t need to be powerful or state-of-the-art, and there’s really no reason it should be expensive.
Of course companies will be more than happy to sell you an outdated J4125-based computer with 4 disk bays for over 500EUR, but that doesn’t mean you have to bite.
As for RAID, if you want to use it, just setup mirrored drives (ZFS, BTRFS or even LVM) and be done with it: you’ll need backups anyway so don’t overthink it. Unless you want to avoid downtime (which isn’t probably a big issue for most of your data?), you can do without RAID and just restore from backup if a drive happens to break.
If you don’t want to build your own PC, I’ve heard good things about these: aoostar.com/collections/nas-series (beware: I didn’t try any of them - my N3150-based NAS is not old enough to need replacement yet)
- Comment on Suggestions for Community Organizing 1 week ago:
Leverage whatsapp and hang good old posters around the neighborhood?
- Comment on What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on What are you using n8n for? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Did you ask an AI to do the list for you? (no need to answer)
- Comment on Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down 4 weeks ago:
Intriguing.
What’s the mechanism for dealing with spammers?
In lemmy there’s a clear escalation path that will lead to either the spammer’s instance dealing with the issue or the instance itself being de-federated.
How would that work in a p2p system?
Each user having to individually block every spammer will work as well as it did for email back in the day.
- Comment on Any experience of Diode? 2 months ago:
- Comment on I'm "use NFS forfilesharing old." what's the current optimal solution for shared drives if I have like 3 linux machines in the house? 3 months ago:
If it’s for backup, zfs and btrfs can send incremental diffs quite efficiently (but of course you’ll have to use those on both ends).
Otherwise, both NFS and SMB are certainly viable.
I tried both but TBH I ended up just using SSHFS because I don’t care about becoming and NFS/SMB admin.
NFS and SMB are easy enough to setup, but then when you try to do user-level authentication… they aren’t as easy anymore.
Since I’m already managing SSH keys all over my machines, I feel like SSHFS makes much more sense for me.
- Comment on Second set of eyes - DNS Nameservers 3 months ago:
AFAIU bluehost does not support the acme protocol, so you’ll either have to manage your certificate manually or (recommended!) move to a different dns registrar.
If you are wondering which provider you should switch to, basically all the serious ones will work… IDK if this is relevant for nginx, but here’s a list of the supported ones for the client I use go-acme.github.io/lego/dns/
If you are unsure and want to experiment before touching your current setup, you could register a new cheap domain (less than 1$, see tld-list.com), use it for your tests, and then not renew it.
- Comment on Turn linux server into a router? 4 months ago:
Not sure if others already said this (I seem to see mostly comments explaining how to do it, but didn’t read them all), but, while it’s certainly feasible, you may not want to do that.
A router is the cornerstone of your network (if it goes down, so does the network) and if you are a self-hoster you’ll probably fiddle endlessly with your home server, and of course break it from time to time… the two things just don’t go well together.
Personally, I’d recommend getting some second-hand router appliance that can run openwrt and use that (make sure to check the flashing procedure before deciding what to buy - some are easier than others). Or you could get a dedicated x86 machine… probably overkill though.