phanto
@phanto@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Self-hosting paradox: Windows for specifically MS word 6 days ago:
I have a Windows 11 VM running in Proxmox. It works fine. I put a desktop with a Windows license in the cluster, passed the hardware ID into the VM, it didn’t work, so I hollered at an MS rep for a bit and they activated it for me. I don’t use it for much, but it works.
- Comment on Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch? 1 week ago:
My parents lived in a part of the world where they didn’t always have phones. Dad lived on a farm, mom lived in town. School together, Church together. After school, Dad would go “help around the house” at mom’s. Or vice versa. Once they got old enough, one or the other would go to the city in the family car for shopping, and bring the other with. Go see a movie, grab a bite to eat together.
- Comment on Help getting started with self hosting Jellyfin via NAS? 2 weeks ago:
I have a really cheap old as the hills desktop with an ancient Quadro gpu in it connected via a decently expensive but also used 10gb Nic to my nas which is running Proxmox and a bunch of containers, but the two interesting ones are a tailscale exit node and Jellyfin. The Jellyfin gets the gpu via pass through, and I get 1080p on tap anywhere in my house with no fuss no muss, and I can use the tailscale app, connect, and act like I’m in my house from anywhere else, including other continents. Noticeable delay on play and pause on media if I’m on the other side of the planet, but that’s it for limitations.
- Comment on Anybody have anything nice they'd like to share? 3 weeks ago:
I do IT for a company that actually makes the world better! (And I live in the Texas of Canada, so…)
- Comment on Anybody have anything nice they'd like to share? 3 weeks ago:
I finally have an awesome job!
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 4 weeks ago:
No, it’s end-user panic. “That report me and Bob were working on? It’s gone! Emergency! Panic!”
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 4 weeks ago:
sigh I know. It’s my boss that implemented the policy… But it was after she audited password ages and a dictionary and found that CompanyName123 was universal and for years at a stretch.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 4 weeks ago:
Admin here! OneDrive synced home folders at work. Everyone ignores saving because ‘autosave’. Once a week at least, some staff member spends hours on something after the mandatory 90-day password change, never signed back in to OneDrive, and gets to kiss all that work goodbye. Also, once a quarter at least, someone was working on a document shared to the by an employee who just quit, so we have to frantically ‘unfire’ someone’s account so the suddenly missing document can be retrieved.
- Comment on Choosing to not to help your friends dying child doesn't make you an asshole 4 weeks ago:
Hmm… I blocked this asshat, but his posts are still showing up…
- Comment on What should I do with 2 old machines (Mac Mini and HP Pavilion g7)? 1 month ago:
I have an old as eff laptop hiding behind my TV, and I use Unified Remote to make my phone act like a wireless mouse and keyboard for it.
Also, Proxmox is basically the answer to “I hate big tech and have a lot of time to kill. How do I deal?” Make one computer into 30 mini servers.
- Comment on iPhone case with e-ink display lets users read books and comics without screen glare 2 months ago:
I already have an e-ink second screen that sits on the back of an iPhone… 4? 5? It’s collecting dust in a drawer, but I swear this is a recycle of an old project. It’s already been done!
Also, I have an old Yotaphone.
- Comment on Solutions for remote access? 2 months ago:
I run substreamer and tailscale to access my home navidrome. Works like a charm.
- Comment on Finding a private self hosted Google Photos alternative that doesn’t profit from my photos 2 months ago:
I have a docker compose immich that I somehow managed to kill fourteen minutes after convincing my wife to switch to it.
- Comment on Tutorial series for self hosting beginners? 2 months ago:
I’m a bit farther along, but it’s all been trial and error (and error, and error…) So, commenting because I would also like some of this info. My DNS is a disaster! Still using IPs to access my VMs, mostly.
- Comment on Wearing a helmet and a hat while biking 2 months ago:
Get one of those kid’s seats for the bike, get a large stuffed… Tiger? Yeah, Tiger. Put the hat on the Tiger, strap the Tiger into the kid’s seat. Nobody will mock the Tiger for not wearing a helmet.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I have an original framework. I swapped the RAM and SSD in seconds. The add-on ports make changing functions trivial. I swap my HDMI to a wired Ethernet port on the regular, and the expansion cards actually work through a dock, too. I really like it. It does throw the odd “USB port has malfunctioned” error from time to time, but it’s quite rare.
- Comment on I'm unsure what to self-host 2 months ago:
Back when I first started with NextCloud, it was pretty unresponsive on the web front end for my ebook collection, which was a ton of small files. It’s gotten a whole lot better in the last year or so. Now, I don’t worry about it. This is also with a very badly set up copy. I’m sure that a proper install would work much better, too.
- Comment on I'm unsure what to self-host 2 months ago:
I have a couple of friends with nextcloud, and I have nextcloud too. Low tech ish? But we just host our files on Nextcloud and then copy backups to the other machines every now and then.
My NC uses about 6gb of RAM, and it is really badly optimized, since it’s been running forever and isn’t a container, or even a server deploy. (It’s a snap running in desktop Ubuntu since 2016.)
Anyone could do better, I just can’t be bothered.
My buddy has his running on 1.5GB of RAM in a container.
I also host a bunch of other stuff. Navidrome and freshrss get the most use, other than Nextcloud. Immich, searx-ng, jellyfin, guacamole.
- Comment on "fridging" is honestly the only good motivation to become a superhero or good person 4 months ago:
I’m interpreting this as trolling. No way is someone who isn’t trying to start shit going to put something like this out in the world, unless there is something seriously skewed in their worldview. Dude, if this is how you have fun, get bent. If you mean this, get help.
- Comment on Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms? 5 months ago:
Lemmy IS the sub-community! I suspect that you and I would have at least a few disagreements then! Hah!
- Comment on Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms? 5 months ago:
I liked the variety and sheer volume of content on the other one, but I have had a lot less of those horrible interactions on Lemmy. I kind of like it being small town.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I’m not frugal, just a cheapskate. I have an i5 NUC that I got for 225$ Canadian, so like 16$ USD… (I exaggerate.) I got an old 1080p projector from an Electronics Recycling in town for 125$ CAD, and a receiver at an auction. No remote and the HDMI in was busted, 40$. So I used a USB sound card with optical out. (Another 40$.) Speakers from goodwill. The wall I project to is already white. I have an Ikea Kallax with the receiver and the projector right behind my couch. Speaker wire is scrap cat5 cable from work. The subwoofer has an annoying buzz at the moment, but it was 20$ from Goodwill, so… Otherwise, it’s big, bright, loud. I cobbled it together over a few months, but it’s a great setup and very cheap.
- Comment on Proxmox 9 released 5 months ago:
I just did three nodes this evening from 8.4.1 to 9, no issues other than a bit of farting around with my sources.list files.
Not noticing anything significant, but I haven’t tried the mobile interface yet.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Not stupid at all. I think I read that Disney has something like that for charging communications equipment at the parks. (I could be remembering wrong, I am internet brain-addled.) You know the crazies would hate it, though. Smart money says that there’s an entirely port-free iPhone in the next five years.
- Comment on Scientists Find 2 Existing Drugs Can Reverse Alzheimer's Brain Damage in Mice 6 months ago:
Uhh… 42!
- Comment on I have some questions about selfhosting 8 months ago:
- You are going to find people who have done both. A lot of NAS devices run kind of low powered CPUs so separating it out into two devices can get you more compute power than a single device. For example, an old as the hills file bay may cost next to nothing, and then using your “last” desktop will get you a lot more storage and compute than a 1500$ modern NAS, but it’ll take up more space, cost more in electricity to run, and make more fan noise. This is the route I went. A modern NAS should be able to run what you listed though.
- TrueNAS scale is all about storage, but it lets you also run containers. Proxmox is all about virtualization, but you can then run a storage solution inside a VM or container. It’s not the kind of thing you’re going to get a right answer for because either way can work. Both are well-documented, capable solutions. I have tried both at times, but I had a lot more experience with Proxmox by the time I deployed TrueNAS, so I stuck with Proxmox and use a TrueNAS box (bare metal) for backups. It really is a matter of preference.
- If you have a MiniPC and NAS as separate devices, you will want to set up a network share, so you can seed on the MiniPC the copy that’s on the NAS. My seeding, Jellyfin, Plex, etc, all happen in a virtual hard drive mounted in a separate container from the services. Each of the services "see that drive as a network share despite being hosted on the same physical hardware.
- Comment on First Home Server 9 months ago:
I have a Tiny connected to a startech dual USB drive dock. The drives get warm, but not deadly hot. Moving big files is a bit slow, but for streaming on Plex and Jellyfin it works fine.
- Comment on I don't get the love for Nextcloud - alternative for just files? 9 months ago:
I didn’t know anything about docker when I set up my NC years ago, so I ran it as a snap on bare metal. Man, it’s gotten so much better! It used to really suck. Like, simple file transfers just didn’t work half the time, so I’d be retrying the same thing over and over… A few years ago, I literally migrated it from bare metal to a VM, but kept the exact same install. I have so much crap on it now, I think I’ll never bother switching it out to docker, just because of the inconvenience. I know the snap version can just run using a local hostname, you just have to set it in trusted domains setting. Might be the same in the docker image?
- Comment on Syncing podcasts / rss over nextcloud 9 months ago:
I use Gpoddersync to keep my phone and tablet in sync, but I have one podcast that keeps glitching out and redownloading over and over. Not sure why.
- Comment on AI Social Media. 9 months ago:
That article had 891 “partners”. Holy hell.