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- Comment on Powdertoy: FOSS falling sand 50 minutes ago:
It doesn’t, really. Completely different type of game.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 10 hours ago:
It grew from a nice Owncloud fork into a do-it-all groupware solution by adding on more and more things without really improving the basis. Each version the performance gets a little worse, syncing gets stuck more often, etc.
Opencloud looks or at least looked good as it started out as an Owncloud Infinite Scale fork, but if course they’re adding on more and more groupware stuff without improving the core first. Maybe we’re doomed to witness the same circle with each solution, who knows.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 10 hours ago:
Currently working on moving the more family-relevant services to OIDC-based login via Pocket ID passkeys so I can put my parents on them.
Also, still on the lookout for a good Nextcloud replacement. Even Opencloud displays the first signs of feature creep.
- Comment on Do crew have cabins below decks on short-distance ferries? 1 day ago:
Short-haul is usually shift-based, work your time and go home.
- Comment on Hardware raccomandation for new selfhoster 2 days ago:
Nothing besides a mirror makes sense with only 2 storage bays. The overhead would only increase for absolutely no gain.
- Comment on Hardware raccomandation for new selfhoster 2 days ago:
Your only choice would be a mirror, as you only have two bays. RAIDZ2 needs at least 4 drives to be useful.
Have you checked that you can actually run a different OS on the UGREEN NAS?
Considering the services you want to run on the machine you’ll want all the RAM you can get.
Also, the CPU is already weak by today’s standard, especially with “heavier” workloads like Immich machine learning.
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 4 days ago:
self-hosting
and people who want it to work with minimal friction.
We’re talking (potentially) highly sensitive contents here for the most part. Yes, selfhosting has become easier than ever, but at the same time more people who basically lack the experience and/or patience to actually understand what they’re doing want to start selfhosting. And that simply doesn’t end well in an alarmingly high number of cases.
Yeah sure, of course there are tools that can make life easier. But have a look at the “big” self-hosting packages. A lot of them will need at least some manual configuration. Then there’s the “exposing a host to the open net” aspect, which can (and usually will) introduce a whole different level of attack surfaces.
So combine that with the ever-growing number of self-hosters, and of course you will notice more advice like that.
- Comment on Backups of Backups 1 week ago:
Nextcloud (later Opencloud) and Immich as primary data sources, backup to:
- server itself, on mirrored drives
- NAS
- 2 external drives periodically (1-2x per week)
- off site cloud data storage
This worked and works well for me.
- Comment on 'Secret' geothermal energy under Cardiff could heat every home 1 week ago:
If someone sees a blue police box, run.
- Comment on How does ISP or in general Torrenting tracking works? 1 week ago:
Your ISP will know which sites you visited, even when they cannot specifically say what you downloaded.
Just assume everything you do online is logged at some point.
- Comment on Unraid hardware upgrades (couple quick questions) 2 weeks ago:
Especially older models from the second hand market can get tricky, as getting supported drives will be harder each year. Also, you cannot simply put 18TB drives in there and expect them to work. Also also, a lot of them require SAS drives.
- Comment on Unraid hardware upgrades (couple quick questions) 2 weeks ago:
The 1070 is probably a waste of power.
IF you’re going the secondhand enterprise gear route, check which drives you can actually use in them. The Dell will likely only take a dozen or so drive models, sometimes locked down to Dell-flashed firmwares. And those can be expensive.
- Comment on Server notifications on fedi 2 weeks ago:
You know how many server apps will ask for an email address?
Heck even immich asked for an email address! WTF! Ask me for my mastodon or my Lemmy address!
Most people have one or more email addresses (the OG federated messaging system) and email notifications pretty much “just work”. Compared to email usage, Fediverse users are a rounding error.
- Comment on Are bots on lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
You bet there are.
- Comment on Immich Frame crashes chromium after extended period of time? 2 weeks ago:
Ah, apparently I misread, I thought Immich was running on the same Pi.
You could try another browser, but you’ll still have to check other possible sources. RAM usage, system log, etc.
- Comment on Immich Frame crashes chromium after extended period of time? 2 weeks ago:
randomly the pi will just be on the home screen instead of full screen chromium.
Sounds a bit like the system running out of RAM and killing off Chromium.
- system specs?
- OS?
- do you monitor your system continually?
- does Immich itself show any signs of failure? Because reconnect on browser reopen sounds like it keeps working. OR it restarts automatically, but that shouldn’t kill Chromium.
- Comment on ADVICE: Running out of storage 3 weeks ago:
Do you have room for a HDD? Power budget, monetary budget, SATA ports?
The good thing is that a mechanical HDD is still loads faster than needed for serving media, unless you’re hitting massive user numbers, so there’s usually no need to put media on expensive SSDs.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That’s not the reason. There are a lot of people driving in Tokyo anyway.
- Comment on Immich 2.1 Released with Better Slideshow Shuffle, New Notifications 4 weeks ago:
Which isn’t a great idea with all the breaking changes. I’d assume it gets better after v2, but still.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It would be wasted time. Block and move on.
- Comment on Non-Win-11 PCs to keep my eyes out for to convert into a NAS? 5 weeks ago:
While any machine that provides storage through the network can be a NAS, you’ll probably want at least some level of extendability. Your biggest problem with OEM machines (think Dell, HP, Lenovo) will be s lack of SATA ports, in combination with not enough power outlets and not enough space to put the actual disks in the case.
That’s the reason I usually build my own machines for those purposes, and depending on what’s needed you don’t even need high-end parts, at least for a “NAS-only NAS”. My NAS works on a 2 core/ 4 thread Intel i3, which will be enough for the foreseeable future. But it also only provides storage, all the rest (self hosting my services) happens on another machine.
TrueNAS works well for me as a NAS OS. AS far as I’ve seen it also provides direct container support or virtual machines. It you want an all-in-one machine, that might be worth looking into.
- Comment on Do boycotts work? 5 weeks ago:
Boycotts in general do work, absolutely. But it has to be a near-complete boycott, e.g. 90+% participation. Just a few will never work.
- Comment on My first jellyfin setup 5 weeks ago:
H.264 for DVD content is perfectly fine. H.265 will save a little storage, but that’s basically it.
If you need to go outside your network it will suddenly be a lot more effort. I’d suggest a Wireguard tunnel, but in theory you could also open up the server to the internet. But you better know what you’re doing in that case.
- Comment on My first jellyfin setup 5 weeks ago:
Transcoding is taking an already encoded file, e.g. in H.265 and “re-encoding” it to something else, e.g. to H.264.
This is usually done for clients that cannot natively play back the originally encoded files, or for reasons like bandwidth restrictions, subtitles, etc.
In theory you can get around that by originally encoding your DVDs to a format which all of your devices can play natively. Nowadays, on most modern devices you should be good with H.265. Best way would be simply to try: encode, copy over, play.
H.264 is supported by basically every not ancient device.
Remote streaming inside the same network is as easy as pointing the Android app to the server and logging in.
- Comment on How to manage docker compose apps? 1 month ago:
Check out Dockge
- Comment on New home server, NixOS vs Proxmox vs Arch 1 month ago:
Cut out the middleman and go Debian on bare metal?
- Comment on Should 21-23-year-olds be allowed to date older people? 1 month ago:
…they are?
- Comment on Do bots/scrapers check uncommon ports? 1 month ago:
There is no hiding in that sense. Bots will scan all IPs on all ports over time.
Will it be less on nonstandard ports? Likely. Will it matter? Not really, the attack vectors would be exactly the same.
Secure your systems and running on default or nonstandard ports won’t be an issue.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Are you high?
- Comment on Docker dashboards: choice overload 2 months ago:
I use a combination of Dockge, diun with notify and Beszel for managing update notifications, stacks and container usage.
It will certainly not fit all of your requirements, but it’s a not too complicated setup which gets me the most important infos.