Scrath
@Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on BECOME THE INTELLECTUAL BLADE 1 day ago:
Stop calling me out
- Comment on Laboratory note book for my new research group 1 month ago:
I guess that might work. I’ll have to try it on monday though it’s probably more effort this way compared to just doing it manually since the snippets I have to add currently are mostly single functions with less than 20 lines
- Comment on Laboratory note book for my new research group 1 month ago:
Unfortunately not because the word document is meant to be the “master” document. We aren’t even supposed to export PDF versions because in the future people may see the PDF in the folder and use that as a reference instead of the main word document even though the word doc was updated and the PDF wasn’t. Also I tried pandoc md conversion to docx in the past for another document and it didn’t go very well. The formatting of the headers was all over the place which made it impossible to generate the Table of Contents in word
- Comment on Looking for DLNA Renderer software 1 month ago:
I’m not very well informed on the specifics of the DLNA standard or how it is differentiated from UPnP so take what I say here with a grain of salt. My understanding is that there are 3 device types in DLNA
- A server which provides media
- A client which can pull media from the server
- A renderer which can play back media from the client
I’m not sure if the server is necessary stricly speaking or if my device is using the underlying UPnP stuff but I can use Macast, which is a DLNA renderer, on my desktop computer and then select it as a playback device in Symfonium on my android phone where it shows up as a UPnP device.
- Comment on Looking for DLNA Renderer software 1 month ago:
That might work. I’ll have to check it out. Thanks
- Comment on Looking for DLNA Renderer software 1 month ago:
I’ve used macast in the past on my desktop where it worked perfectly. Unfortunately I could not find a fitting docker image for it. There is this one but it has literally no information and only 70 image pulls. Then there is a dockerfile in the Macast github repo but considering I don’t see a docker image mentioned anywhere in the documentation so I guess that one is only for building the application. I believe Macast is a GUI application anyway so I’m not sure how good it would work on a headless server.
- Comment on Looking for DLNA Renderer software 1 month ago:
I was under the impression that minidlna is exclusively a DLNA server and not a renderer. Is that wrong?
- Comment on Laboratory note book for my new research group 1 month ago:
The code snippets are the worst part. God forbid I ever have to update them because I have to manually indent every line in them correctly
- Comment on Laboratory note book for my new research group 1 month ago:
Oh yes definitely. I currently have to write the technical documentation for a project I am working on in MS Word because that’s the format my supervisor wants (since everyone in the organisation already has word installed by default and knows how to use it at least somewhat). Probably a quarter of the time I spend writing is lost to fighting the formatting in word. I managed to have stuff happen that my coworkers have never seen word do before like taking the content of all my textfields (which I use for pasting code snippets) and having it duplicated inside each textfield…
I wished I could use LaTeX for it but I understand the argument that some people after me may have to work on the project who don’t know LaTeX.
- Submitted 1 month ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on Laboratory note book for my new research group 1 month ago:
I’m gonna upvote the git + plain markdown solution simply because it is a very basic solution that does not depend on a lot of specific software in case you want to switch in the future. I had a look at obsidian in the past but discarded that idea because it required a license for commercial use back then which it seems they either changed or I misread the terms at the time.
Still I am a fan of going as low-tech as possible with note formats so that I can easily hand down my notes to whoever comes after me and they won’t need a special program to open anything.
Quarto looks nice and would be something I would look into if I did more data heavy work. As it is I only write technical notes and documentation for software for which plain markdown is perfectly suitable.
- Comment on Any way to prevent letters being "crushed" on first layer 2 months ago:
I don’t think so. From my understanding that setting should only change how thick each individual line is though so in total the printer will make more lines
- Comment on Any way to prevent letters being "crushed" on first layer 2 months ago:
Maybe adjust the line thickness?
- Comment on How to reverse proxy? 2 months ago:
I’m not sure that’s possible on most routers but I’m very much not an expert in networking
- Comment on How to reverse proxy? 2 months ago:
I don’t think that’s how it works with my router. I read a bit about DNS failover and the consensus seemed to be that all DNS servers listed should return equal results since requests are spread round-robin between them (at least for mikrotik routers).
- Comment on How to reverse proxy? 2 months ago:
You are lucky I haven’t deleted my pi-hole VM yet ;D
In the Pi-Hole DNS settings I have the following configuration:
- Upstream DNS Servers => Quad9 (filtered, DNSSEC) both checkboxes for IPv4 checked
- Under Custom DNS servers I added a line with my routers IP
- Under Interface settings => Permit all origins. Note the warning written regarding this setting and check whether it applies for your setup!
- Under Advanced DNS settings I have enabled “Never forward non-FQDN A and AAAA queries” and “Never forward reverse lookups for private IP ranges”. Since according to the warning this would block local hostname resolution note the next setting.
- Under conditional forwarding I have added this line
true,192.168.1.0/24,192.168.1.1,fritz.box.fritz.boxwas my local DHCP domain name but has since been changed tolan.
The other settings in Pi-Hole were under the Local DNS Records menu where I added my domain name (let’s call it example.com) to the list of local DNS records and pointed it at the IP of the server running my reverse-proxy. Finally I added each subdomain I wanted to use to the List of local CNAME records and pointed it at the domain I just entered to the other list.
I can’t perfectly tell you what my router settings were unfortunately since I have recently moved and replaced my fritzbox with a mikrotik router. The main thing you have to do though is to go to the DHCP server settings of your router and set the pi-holes IP address as the DNS server. Note that in the case of the pi-hole being offline for any reason you will be unable to resolve any domains while in this network
It might be possible to do some sort of failover setup by running a second pi-hole with identical settings but I did not want my network connectivity depending on any device other than my router being on. Hence my move back to using my mikrotiks built-in DNS server which fortunately also supports adding lists for DNS adblocking.
- Comment on How to reverse proxy? 2 months ago:
I’m not the guy you replied to but personally I use a setup called split-horizon DNS.
- I have a DNS server running on a raspberry pi which I have set up as the DNS server for all devices in my local network (by setting it in the router).
- This DNS server has my domain name as an A record pointing to my reverse-proxy (Nginx Proxy Manager), e.g. example.com would resolve to 192.168.0.100.
- Any subdomain I want to use is set up as a CNAME record in my DNS server referring to the previously configured A record with my domain. (jellyfin.example.com => example.com)
- Now all requests to the registered domain and subdomain are routed to my reverse-proxy which I configured to forward them to the correct service depending on the given subdomain.
This is a little bit of a simplification. I also use a cloudflare tunnel to allow access to select subdomains and I have 2 reverse-proxies chained together since NPM can resolve services by their container name as long as they are in the same docker network.
Also probably important: My DNS server was a pi-hole (until today at least) and did not act as my DHCP server. This meant it had no idea of local device hostnames and therefore was configured to forward queries to local device names to my routers built-in DNS server.
- Comment on Simple NAS hardware for home use? 3 months ago:
I think I used a Pi 4B, either the 8 or 2 GiB model
- Comment on Simple NAS hardware for home use? 3 months ago:
Also in my experience the raspberry pi isn’t all that great for a NAS considering you are reliant on using USB hard drives and also need a separate powered USB hub for them
- Comment on Introducing Lab Rax: A 3D Printable & Modular 10" Rack System - The DIY Life 3 months ago:
What about NAS systems? I don’t recall seeing any for 10" before
- Comment on Setting up a private network in shared apartment 3 months ago:
Thanks for the setup tips, especially about the masquerade rule and safe mode.
I’m not too worries about the loss of speed since internet here in germany is on average slower than 250mbps and anything data intensive like access to my Mediaserver should be handled over Ethernet anyway. If it does become an issue I can always throw a second AP at it I guess?
- Comment on Setting up a private network in shared apartment 3 months ago:
I’m not sure how to find out whether it has two access points. Performancewise I believe the specific model I have selected should be fine.
- Comment on Setting up a private network in shared apartment 3 months ago:
Thanks. I wasn’t sure about the VLAN thing so that’s one of my main reasons for this post. I will probably buy a VLAN capable router anyway because I am pretty into home automation stuff and the ability to separate the IoT traffic and play around with networking a bit seems nice
- Comment on Setting up a private network in shared apartment 3 months ago:
I read about the issue regarding the halved connection speed somewhere but I don’t believe that will be an issue. Considering the average internet speeds here in germany are below 250mbps I don’t expect to saturate the WiFi connection even with half speed. Anything data intensive like accesses to my mediaserver will primarily be over ethernet.
- Comment on Setting up a private network in shared apartment 3 months ago:
I’ve heard about DMZ before but I never knew what it was. That will probably not be an option unfortunately. While I don’t know what router is currently used by the other residents I assume it will be either a FritzBox (which allow some configuration but are mostly idiot proof routers that are very popular here in germany) or a locked down router by the ISP. On neither case will I be able to configure a DMZ.
Regarding the WAN port, I was planning to use the stock RouterOS from MikroTik but I believe that the router can be configured this way already without OpenWRT.
- Comment on Setting up a private network in shared apartment 3 months ago:
Ah that makes sense. I thought I needed the VLAN to separate my network out from the rest.
I am a bit confused about your last paragraph though where you mention 2 APs. Do you mean my private AP and the AP used by the rest of the apartment or do you mean that I have to get 2 APs?
- Submitted 3 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 4 months ago:
One question in regards to your noise comment: What drives are you running? I have a synology with 2 toshiba mg08 16tb drives and those things are unbearably loud when reading or writing. A lot of that obviously comes down to the drives themselves but I also kind of blame the plastic chassis for probably resonating with the noise and not being better at soundproofing.
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 4 months ago:
My personal reasons for buying a synology were ease of use, reliability and power usage.
I had previously played around with TrueNAS in a VM using an external USB HDD Enclosure for storage and I just wanted something reliable. With TrueNAS I often ran into issues eith user permissions one way or another and the Synology software is incredibly easy to use and foolproof.
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 4 months ago:
Is that supposed to be a con? I don’t even use 4 bays currently and would be perfectly fine with a 4 rackmount NAS. 7 HDD bays sounds great to me