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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plan for my first homeserver⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi, first congrats for going the way of homelabing.

  Like you first the hardware :

  The elitedesk are great lines of prebuilt PCs mainly for little home servers BUT I wouldn’t recommend to you to take the mini version as it’s very very tiny and therefore doesn’t have great modularity nor upgradeability.

  You don’t need to take massive servers or towers but the SFF versions of these or the normal version (starting to get big) are way better and will permit to you to have more space to tweak it and more generally have some place to put storage or else.

  But if you can’t allow yourself to have at least a tiny bit bigger that’s okay and you can stay with the mini version that’s not a dummy choice.

  For the storage depending on what you’re going to run in 5 years, 120GB could be not enough, adding the backups, you should consider buying at least 256 to 512GB of ssd (preferable for system (SATA or NVME whatsoever)). When it comes to raw and dummy storage, use hard drive, old schooled at first glance they are dirt cheap when getting them on discount. For storing only some videos, photos and music, 2TB usable is nice and making it mirrored (RAID 1) is nice too. But maybe (if one day comes the idea off having larger sizes) using RAID 5 could be nice as you could expend storage easily, you cannot really adapt RAID 1 to RAID 5 without manually doing backups and restoring them.

  So buy some hard disks, if you want, you can buy them used (around 15-20 bucks for 2TB good used hard drive). Or you can buy them refurbished or new as you wish. When it comes to network storage hard disks are the best as you basically can’t max out basic NVME drives with your network, basic ones are at around 3000MiB/s so that means 24,000Mib/s of bandwidth so you would need a 25G network (thing that I think you don’t have).

  And using more reasonable sized PCs are going to help you fitting all your drives, and maybe putting external NICs in there.

  Secondly the software.

  Using docker to easily selfhost is a great idea but I really don’t like portainer and mainly the way they manage docker container.

  So I would suggest you 2 things if you want to get a bit into tech simply deploy your docker containers with docker compose file, once into you’ll see that it’s very simple.

  But if you prefer a simpler approach while not giving up features, as you said you’re a father (congrats), I wouldn’t recommend to you YunoHost it’s a out-of-the-box platform to self host stuff very easily without pretty much technical knowledge.

  If the apps are just for you and your wife (pretty close people) using a VPN that give access people to your whole local network (for really close people) or setting up an overlay VPN like tailscale (and selfhost headscale or use netbird) would be nice and pretty straightforward.

  If you prefer to make it available online you can also reverse proxy services to make it open to the www from your IP, or use Cloud flare tunnels (don’t like the idea of having cloudflare snipping out all my traffic) or you can use a vps to do the kinda same thing as with cloudflare tunnels without having them on your shoulders.

  That’s it for me, hope I guided you, and feel free to ask questions if you wish. Great homelabing journey to you! :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s rare for laptop to come with hardware switches for microphones but some of them are built with camera switches

  Have seen a Dell Latitude 5400 (I think) with an hardware camera cover

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In our scenario we are thinking about someone trying to sneak on you. But a jack mic cut off is not removing the internal microphone just putting the source to a different one. So if this person has access to your PC he coule surely access other sensors than the cut off jack

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need help with SearXNG installation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you gonna check it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good idea for normal people that are not really knowing how and what to put on such a device

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need help with SearXNG installation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Said *without docker

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need help with SearXNG installation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically wants to setup SearXNG without using docker but wants to understand how apache serves it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need help with SearXNG installation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would like to understand it to customize it a bit and serve the service to a port instead of an URL for example

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need help with SearXNG installation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  edited the original post sorry

• Need help with SearXNG installation
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NUT server location⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thx

• NUT server location
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Guidelines For Europeans⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mistral --> pseudo-open-source Linux --> not relates to Europe (but amazing choice) Vivaldi --> only source available

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new 3B "fully open source" model from AMD⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What is the link with rocm?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new 3B "fully open source" model from AMD⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve shared this AI because it’s one of the best fully open source AI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new 3B "fully open source" model from AMD⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead of the traditional open models (like llama, qwen, gemma…) that are only open weight, this model says that it has :

  Fully open-source release of model weights, training hyperparameters, datasets, and code

  Making it different from other big tech “open” models. Tough it exists other “fully open” models like GPT neo, and more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new 3B "fully open source" model from AMD⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Following this page it should be enough based on the requirements of qwen2.5-3B qwen-ai.com/requirements/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new 3B "fully open source" model from AMD⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dont know if this test in a good representation of the two AI, but in this case it seems pretty promising, the only thing missing is a high parameters model

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new 3B "fully open source" model from AMD⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a improvement, if the model is properly trained with rocm it should be able to run on amd GPU easier

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new 3B "fully open source" model from AMD⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah you’re right :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new 3B "fully open source" model from AMD⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at the picture in my post.

  There was others open models but they were very below the “fake” open source models like Gemma or Llama, but Instella is almost to the same level, great improvement

• The new 3B "fully open source" model from AMDrocm.blogs.amd.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UPS problem... Again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ohh okay don’t worry for being too “aggressive”

  Thank you for saying out the risks for people like me who doesn’t know that much in electricity

  And thank you for your answers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UPS problem... Again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thx for the advice, gonna check the transistor

  And I think that my meter is capable of 240V but gonna inspect it with help of electricity guy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UPS problem... Again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gonna try it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UPS problem... Again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That does sound like some part of the controller electronics has been dieing for a while, and has now finally keeled over.

  Will try to check the transistor and else

  You wrote originally, that you tested what you could with desoldering anything. Measuring resistance in circuit always renders a murky result.

  Okay didn’t really known that, not so good in electricity sadly… :(

  The brown wire is likely what is known as phase or live. Blue will be neutral. But measuring resistance on the input only tells you how much current will flow in the present state of relays. What could help you come closer to an answer is following the first law of troubleshooting “thou shalt check voltages”. With a device that operates two live rails this will not be both easy and safe at the same time, so don’t rush it. I suggest you figure out what voltages to measure, then solder wires to the relevant nodes. Terminate the wires in a terminal block, where you’re protected from touching the screw. Assemble the device as best you can with all the wires coming out, and then power it on, get your voltages and deduce from that.

  Didn’t really understand, can you explain it a bit more? Sorry 😅 About your warning is it dangerous to measure a 230V current with my multimeter (with precautions, gloves mainly)

  My initial working theory would be that the transistor switching the fan is dead and I would be looking closely in that area. If that transistor has failed closed and is shorting the controller electronics VCC rail, that would explain a lot. Maybe I’d go so far as to test it without checking voltages (gasp!)

  Going to check that, but what are the VCC rails?

  About the batteries, I didn’t think they are fully charged with their 12.6V, and I should try to make them go around 12.8-12.9V, but is it possible that because they have gone to 5V they wouldn’t have enough “punch” now and wouldn’t be able to work properly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UPS problem... Again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Almost there is definitely a problem. It was working fine, but sometimes it would just not go to batteries and stuck in a fault with continuous beep. After that, I let it for 2 weeks, the batteries were 5V, but I tried to charge them and for now they went to 12.6V stable (as normal…), but even with that it does the problem described and does not works as before

  2. Answered in the 1.

  3. I’ve tested the resistors, all proper to their written value, and relays, proper resistance too (85 ohms for one (just on the brown power plant cable), and 260 for the others)

  Will try to find others batteries to try, but normally it charges batteries by lighting up the display properly + the fan does not start. And here the UPS is not connect to any AC power, only the batteries were plugged

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  😂 a crosspost from privacy cross posted from Europa

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UPS problem... Again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think there is any temperature sensor because the fan is simply turning on when on battery. Update the post with a picture of the pcb

• UPS problem... Again
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