downhomechunk
@downhomechunk@midwest.social
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- Comment on What is the current state of Matrix? 1 week ago:
I’ve been wanting to get matrix up for my family and friends to chat with my 6 year old on her tablet. I found nextcloud talk to do all the things I wanted with none of the hassle. My daughter is a ridiculous texter.
- Comment on how to start with self-hosting? 2 weeks ago:
Your approach works too. Something like CasaOS answers OP’s question directly. I was thinking about how I started on this journey. I wanted to play with enterprise level tools at home on repurposed e-waste. So I started with proxmox. But I also came to the table with a couple decades of Linux experience under my belt.
Those scripts make it so easy. You can paste a command, accept defaults, watch some text scroll by and finish with instructions on how to access the tool you just installed.
My homelab is low power as well. I’m currently running zero VMs. Everything is done with LXCs. You can run a pi hole on 512 MB RAM.
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 2 weeks ago:
My wife and I go through hot & cold spells. I think we have similar drives, but our timing doesn’t always match up. I’m more of a “harness the power of the morning wood” sort of fellow. She’s more of a “I want it right now but he’s still at work” sort of gal. We both talk a big game, but work, childcare and adulting conspire against us.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 weeks ago:
I used to be an a friend’s planning exchange for sharing Disney plus. But he booted me after I kept putting weird shit on his family calendar.
“Wash that thing on your back that’s hard to reach and puts out a putrid smell.”
“Soak feet in melted butter.”
I’ve been a premium member since then. I’ve been watching the battle with ad blockers from the sidelines.
Who is winning that battle? This will inform my next move.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 37 comments
- Comment on how to start with self-hosting? 2 weeks ago:
Step 1: Install proxmox
Step 2: run the post install script here, disable anything enterprise, test or related to high availability.
Step 3: check out the other scripts on the link. I suggest starting with a pi hole and experimenting from there.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, the sort of individualism you speak of only applies to opting out of vaccines and praying to jeebus in the classroom.
- Comment on Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras 2 weeks ago:
I’m a regular ass taxpayer trying to feed my family. I do what I can to protect privacy. I use a VPN, self host whatever I can, shit like that. I can’t stop driving to work so I can avoid cameras.
- Comment on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service after 34 years 4 weeks ago:
Did you forget to convert back to USD and the number is just higher?
- Comment on Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps 2 months ago:
You can sandbox play store apps right?
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 2 months ago:
Lemmy does a good enough job of bringing content to me. But I appreciate your perspective. It’s definitely something to keep in mind as we get closer to the AI apocalypse.
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 2 months ago:
I’m the same! I just don’t keep track of where all the useless knowledge in my head comes from.
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 2 months ago:
This is so foreign to me. I never bookmark anything ever. I leave a few tabs open until I complete that task, read that article or decide I don’t care anymore.
- Comment on Anyone else notice the moment the election was over the swell of spam calls have almost vanished? 4 months ago:
No. I’m about to change my number because I get so many spam calls and texts.
- Comment on The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky 4 months ago:
I took fell into the 7 million sites blocked trap!
- Comment on The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky 4 months ago:
Take an old PC or laptop out of the box-o-crap, install Ubuntu server, give it a fixed IP address, install pi hole with the one line command from their website, tell your regular PC that the laptop IP is your DNS server.
This is the easiest way to play around before rolling out to your whole network.
- Comment on The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky 4 months ago:
I haven’t installed it direct on my router. I used to have it running in a container on my little proxmox server (aka old PC repurposed). I really liked the interface.
Then I was practically gifted a really nice Asus router. I flashed merlin-wrt to it and read some guide on how to install a different ad blocker. It’s really good whatever it is. I haven’t had to touch it in months, and I never see an ad.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] Death of affordable computing | Tariffs impact and investigation 4 months ago:
You and me both
- Comment on ZimaBoard 2 is a single-board server with Intel N150, dual SATA interfaces, and two 2.5 GbE LAN ports - Liliputing 4 months ago:
I’ve been waiting a few weeks for my zima blade 7700 to ship. They’ve been out of stock.
- Comment on How to harden against SSH brute-forcing? 5 months ago:
I’d get myself banned this way. I forget the -p flag at least once per week.
- Comment on Risks of self-hosting a public-facing forum? 5 months ago:
I’ve had good luck with these guys: cloudfanatic.net/pricing/
I think they would fall in the less resources category. But they offer unlimited data transfer, and you can use any distro you want. I run slackware btw.
- Comment on - Buy Once Software 5 months ago:
This is the best advice. Heed it!
- Comment on Gmail alternative: good idea to use personal domain+hosting? 6 months ago:
Same, except I bought the domain through namecheap
- Comment on Real-Debrid Traffic Falls 16% in 3 Months, Anti-Piracy Action Painful But Non-Fatal * TorrentFreak 6 months ago:
I’ll probably finally get around to standing up an arr stack. RD is just too easy.
- Comment on Real-Debrid Traffic Falls 16% in 3 Months, Anti-Piracy Action Painful But Non-Fatal * TorrentFreak 6 months ago:
I was worried when I saw the news, but it’s had next to no impact on me. I think I only found 1 or 2 streams removed, but the 720p versions were still up.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 7 months ago:
Honestly, the service is worth it for me. I need the easiest process possible for my luddite wife and kindergartener’s Amazon fire tablet. I put my mom on the account too.
But for everything else, yarrrrr.
- Comment on As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market 7 months ago:
Disc failure is the verbatim I remember, but I’m glad they’re still around. My 2008 car has a 6 disc CD changer, and I have a few retro PCs which rely on CDs too. Yes, I know I can get adapters for CF cards and the like, but doing things the old way is the whole point.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 7 months ago:
I am hooked on the music.
- Comment on Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub 8 months ago:
Chicagon here. Indiana is 100% the south.
- Comment on What are some self hosted services that you think are essential? 9 months ago:
I use unbound with pi-hole inside an Ubuntu lxc container. No additional device needed.