phanto
@phanto@lemmy.ca
- Comment on What kind of person am I if I decide to stay in a job, even if my supervisors work against me? 4 weeks ago:
Not similar, but my old job sucked, hated my boss, hated many of my co-workers, and despised the company. I took a package out and am back at school, and don’t regret it for one minute. Fear of the unknown is how bad bosses keep good employees.
- Comment on Any “small-web” search engines? 2 months ago:
Yeah, I did try that. Basically, if I doubled the memory I allocated, I gave it half again longer before it crashed, but it still crashed, eventually.
It’s no big deal, this was last year, I may try again one day. Loving Searxng though!
- Comment on Any “small-web” search engines? 2 months ago:
I tried running yacy for a while but it just ran for a bit less than a day then ran out of memory and crashed, over and over. Tried to figure out the problem, but it’s niche enough that I couldn’t get anywhere googling the issue.
- Comment on Dynamic IP - Self hosting 3 months ago:
I have dyndns, have since they were 10$ a year, and I’ve gradually realized that my ISP changes my IP on average less than once a year…
- Comment on Pros and cons of Proxmox in a home lab? 4 months ago:
I have it working with LaCP’d 4gb networking for the transfers. Five nodes. I agree though, It’s a beast on RAM.
- Comment on Pros and cons of Proxmox in a home lab? 4 months ago:
I have tried a couple of Proxmox clusters, one with overkill specs and one with little Mini PCs. Proxmox does eat up a fair amount of memory, but I have used it with Ceph for live migrations. Its really useful to me to be able to power off a machine, work on it, then bring it back up, and have no interruptions in my services. That said, my Mini PCs always seemed to be hurting for RAM. So that’s my pros and cons.
- Comment on This is not a stereogram. If you look at it a certain way it will not resolve into anything. 6 months ago:
A schooner is a sailboat!
- Comment on Have an old NUC... 7 months ago:
I have two old usb2 4tb drives attached, and the only issue I run into is a bit of delay at the start of a video in jellyfin. My jellyfin is running in a container in the Nuc though, not natively, and it’s a Celeron from a while back, so…
- Comment on Can you un-smart a smart tv? 8 months ago:
Hmm… The nice thing is, I don’t use the remote. I have a little wireless keyboard plugged in to my Tiny PC… But yuck. I guess I’ll have to start tinfoil hat wearing soon.
- Comment on Can you un-smart a smart tv? 8 months ago:
I have a “smart” TV with a network cable plugged into nothing at all, with no wifi connected, plugged into an Oooold Lenovo Tiny PC running Mint. The Mint box does all my smarts. Pihole, ad-block, all that jazz. It never occurred to me that it might have connected to some open wifi out there, but none of my neighbors have guest wifi or anything, so hopefully I’m good. It’s definitely not on my wifi, anyways.
- Comment on I need to know if Im understanding this guide correctly before I dive into rebuilding my server. 8 months ago:
I have Jellyfin working on it as it’s own VM in Proxmox. It has a long delay before a stream starts, but playback is fine. No complaints. It accesses my media as a mount off of a different PC over Samba.
- Comment on I need to know if Im understanding this guide correctly before I dive into rebuilding my server. 8 months ago:
Yup! Exactly right. Weirdly, I just did this exact guide. I already had the Proxmox and a template of Ubuntu, but the rest, yup! I am running a pinhole Docker, and a SearxNG, and they both work great, on OAF hardware. I meant to write EoL, but OAF works.
- Comment on Hardware Acceleration in Linux in Proxmox 8 months ago:
Thanks for this! Looking forward to trying it out!
- Comment on Starting from zero 8 months ago:
My first step was Nextcloud as a snap on a Xubuntu desktop. Very old hardware but a big hard drive.
That was eight years ago. I’ll let you know if it fails anytime soon.
I have a bunch of other stuff now, but that was the start, and I still use it all the time!
- Comment on Affordable Android Excellence: Best Smartphones Under $200 in 2024 8 months ago:
Looks at my Mode one Retro ii Tiny? Check! All day battery? Check! 200$? Check! Do I get called “flip phone” now? Big check!
- Comment on If you were to suddenly come into possession of 12+ enterprise-grade SAS hard drives, how would you go about incorporating them into your homelab? 9 months ago:
Me too! Are you me? Oh no, I’ve finally lost it… I’m talking to myself.
- Comment on If you were to suddenly come into possession of 12+ enterprise-grade SAS hard drives, how would you go about incorporating them into your homelab? 9 months ago:
Yup! Definitely.
- Comment on If you were to suddenly come into possession of 12+ enterprise-grade SAS hard drives, how would you go about incorporating them into your homelab? 9 months ago:
Wait… New answer! I’d give them to the first guy who replied to me on Lemmy! He would be very appreciative.
- Comment on If you were to suddenly come into possession of 12+ enterprise-grade SAS hard drives, how would you go about incorporating them into your homelab? 9 months ago:
I would haunt eBay for an old file bay, such as an HP Proliant or a NetApp, then get an HBA card, and hope there is a spot in my house that isn’t going to be bothered by the noise. There’s a seller called theartofserver on eBay that repurposes old enterprise grade stuff for self hosting use, and I got a card that connected a NetApp file bay to my old 4th gen gaming rig, and that’s where all my files live now. I’ve lost a few drives over the years, but no files.
- Comment on I'm never lonely cuz i got these little guys with me :) 9 months ago:
I got a sudden spike in floaters… Fun fact: Retinal repair is a lot like spot welding… If you’re spot welding the back of your eye with a laser!
- Comment on I broke nextcloud and i cant fix it 10 months ago:
Did you remove the snap with purge?
Like, sudo snap remove --purge nextcloud? Because the purge will (should) erase stopped passwords and stuff.
I have a snap Nextcloud that I’ve managed to keep alive for seven years now… I’ve had a few issues, but it’s been pretty good overall.
One day I’ll put up a Docker and move everything over… One day.
- Comment on Planning on setting up Proxmox and moving most services there. Some questions 10 months ago:
Do two NICs. I have a bigger setup, and it’s all running on one LAN, and it is starting to run into problems. Changing to a two network setup from the outset probably would have saved me a lot of grief.
- Comment on Are any self-cleaning cat litter boxes any good, or worth the money? 11 months ago:
I have not, and I will check! If that’s all it is… It’s been finicky for years!
- Comment on Are any self-cleaning cat litter boxes any good, or worth the money? 11 months ago:
My friends bought me a litter robot, too. I have mixed feelings. I seem to have to reset and fiddle with the thing too often, but when it works, it’s really good for keeping the smell down. My guys use it more often than the other two old school boxes, so I guess two paws up from them?
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Just a guess: model rocket?
- Comment on Why and when should I use LVM? 11 months ago:
LVM is a bit more complicated than just using a normal partition, but it does add a lot of functionality. If you need to make an LVM volume bigger, you can just add another disk to the volume. You can also do RAID like stuff with it. Live resizing of volumes is doable too.
I think some LVM stuff can be done in Disks, but I generally just use the command line. Smarter people, are there graphical LVM utilities I don’t know about?
- Comment on New to home networking - Need some security advice! 1 year ago:
I don’t know if this is a good analogy, but this is how it was explained to me: I want to send things to people, so I give anyone who asks a key. I keep a bunch of lockboxes that can be opened by that key. When I send them stuff, I lock it up in that box. They know it’s from me if the key works.
I also have a bunch of free boxes in a pile, anyone can grab one, but only I have the key to those. They want to send me stuff? Only I can get into it.
- Comment on 1 year ago:
I set it up a long time ago, so I don’t honestly remember. I followed some guide, and did a few domain redirects to point at stuff on my home network and to shut Zuck out of my life, but I didn’t do anything crazy. So, I doubt it, but I don’t know.
- Comment on 1 year ago:
I have a mini PC that is always on that runs my NTP and DNS, and it’s upstream DNS is quad nine out of Switzerland. (9.9.9.9). I tend toward the same usage patterns daily, and about a third of my requests never leave my home DNS to get resolved.
- Comment on Are there any prince movies for kids? 1 year ago:
I was going to make this exact joke, so thank you! Also, I have “Trust” from Batman 1989 in my head now.