phanto
@phanto@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Decentralized Search Engine 6 days ago:
I’ve run yacy and searxng, and I find yacy flaky. I get really random search results, often not useful at all. I like Searxng though, although once in a while I have to hit refresh to get my result. Probably a simple fix, I’ve just never bothered to go down the rabbit hole.
- Comment on Help me selfhosted, I'm in over my head! 1 week ago:
I tried to start with OpenStack. Oof. Yup. Proxmox.
There are a lot of good guides. I run almost everything on proxmox these days, even virtualized my Windows, and (after a lot of messing around) got my GPU passed through for when I game.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 week ago:
So, I tried that a long time ago, and it didn’t work. Tried it again today, same deal. Then, I tried a third time and actually hit the “Save” button this time… Yeah, I think Jellyfin was never the problem.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had both for a while now, but I find that subtitle playback is a bit spotty in Jellyfin. Is that fixed, or have I missed a setting somewhere? The other thing is that my libraries are alphabetical in Jellyfin, so “Anime” comes before “Kaiju”, and I truly can’t stand the idea that Godzilla gets sent to the back of the bus. Is there a way to customize the order of libraries?
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 2 weeks ago:
I ask myself that on a regular basis.
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 2 weeks ago:
I volunteer at the public library. Almost all the people who come in are phones only, and totally lost on a PC. They come in to fill out gov’t PDFs that won’t open on their phones and to print stuff out. My classmates, in the IT program (!) have a lot of trouble navigating on their laptops, and only a couple of us have desktops at all.
- Comment on Would you consider me a “dry texter”? 2 weeks ago:
I used to be a dry texter, but now I intersperse gifs of waterfalls, oceans, lakes or rivers every three or four messages. It took effort, but nobody accuses me of being dry anymore! (Also, I moisturize in the winter.)
- Comment on First home server advice 2 weeks ago:
I run each of them separately in containers!
- Comment on First home server advice 2 weeks ago:
I really like running proxmox and then containers for my apps, proxmox being basically Debian already.
- Comment on Home - YaCy - P2P search engine 2 weeks ago:
I tried a couple of years ago, but it kept crashing after a day or two. Not sure if I set it up wrong or something? Currently running searx-ng, which I quite like.
- Comment on Questions about the Boox Palma/Boox Palma 2 3 weeks ago:
I have a boox Poke 3, again, not quite the same. My workaround for the settings thing: install Lawn chair app. It’s an alternative launcher, and for some reason, it lets me access all the normal android settings. I have modified my DNS settings on it, and connected to VPN that way. Might work on the Palma.
- Comment on Anyone want my 12 year old old Ubuntu install DVD before I toss it out? No? Your loss. 4 weeks ago:
That’s it, I’m going to go find my Mandrake Floppies…
- Comment on What do people (as in, IRL) actually think of the [alleged] perpetrator involved in the NYC shooting? 2 months ago:
I’m coming off of two years (and change) of daily, debilitating pain. I’m just now starting to get used to moving around on the regular again, and trying to get back into a shape that isn’t “round.” As a consequence of this, I also don’t have a job. During those two years, I spent more than seven months collecting doctor’s reports and paperwork to get coverage for the medications prescribed… In Canada! The stuff that was covered here would have absolutely bankrupted me in the US. (Yes, I got declined.)
No comment.
- Comment on What kind of person am I if I decide to stay in a job, even if my supervisors work against me? 4 months 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? 6 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? 6 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 7 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? 8 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? 8 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. 10 months ago:
A schooner is a sailboat!
- Comment on Have an old NUC... 11 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? 11 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? 11 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. 11 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. 11 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 11 months ago:
Thanks for this! Looking forward to trying it out!
- Comment on Starting from zero 1 year 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 $200 in 2024 1 year ago:
Looks at my Mode one Retro ii Tiny? Check! All day battery? Check! 200$? 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? 1 year 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? 1 year ago:
Yup! Definitely.