merthyr1831
@merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
- Comment on What RSS feeds are you subscribed to? 23 hours ago:
selfh.st is popular
- Comment on Looking for a VPS. I don't know who to choose. 6 days ago:
God knows what they’d have flagged. I was trying to sign up to sendgrid’s free tier to test their SMTP server and got instabanned before I even got the verification email.
- Comment on Duck DNS's nameserver isn't working 6 days ago:
idk about others but at least with freedns you get 25 subdomains for free and obviously risk clashing names under the same shared domain.
- Comment on Duck DNS's nameserver isn't working 1 week ago:
freedns is good too but I ended up buying my own domain the other day for like 4 quid and now all my services get a much nicer name and unlimited DNS records
- Comment on Any nice playbook or tutorial to host a static website from home? 1 week ago:
smart!
- Comment on Any nice playbook or tutorial to host a static website from home? 1 week ago:
You can do the same on github too. It’s pretty seamless in my experience and I dont mind people seeing the source code for my blog
- Comment on Rant! 100GB Log file in Nextcloud. 1 week ago:
It’s too late for me now coz I didnt do my research and ive already migrated over, but good god ever loving fuck was the AIO container the hardest of all my services to set up.
Firstly, it throws a fit if you don’t set up the filesystem specifically for php and the postgres db as if it were bare metal. Idk how or why every other container I use can deal with UID 568 but Nextcloud demands www-data and netdata users.
When that’s done, you realise it won’t run background tasks because it expects cron to be set up. You have to set a cronjob that enters the container to run the cron, all to avoid the “recommended” approach of using a second nextcloud instance just to run background tasks.
And finally, and maybe this is just a fault of TrueNAS’ setup wizard but, I still had to enter the container shell to set up a bunch of basic settings like phone region. come on.
Straight up worse than installing it bare metal
- Submitted 1 week ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Raspberry Pi4 continuous selfhosted server operations 2 weeks ago:
I’ve kept a raspberry pi 4b that’s given a mild OC to 1900Mhz in my boiler cupboard for a year and all its needed to keep it below 50 is:
- a tiny metal heatsink
- a 5w usb fan blowing already-warm air sorta towards it
- Comment on Docker Hub limiting unauthenticated users to 10 pulls per hour 2 weeks ago:
I’m quite new to docker for NAS stuff - how many pulls would the average person do? like, i don’t think i even have 10 containers 🤨
- Comment on Email provider for home server alerts 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have much issue with email as a technology. It does what it needs to do, and does it well. The client side software is what hasn’t budged in years - Search barely works, files and attachments are cumbersome, and spam is still rampant.
It would be much cheaper and easier if users weren’t centralised under a few big providers that prefer to bar any and all access to said users if you’re self hosting, making it almost mandatory to use a private service.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 47 comments
- Comment on Advice / sanity check for torrenting & media server 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s pretty much seamless. You just spin them up bare metal or docker (both are fine honestly) and follow any old tutorial for setup.
If using docker, ensure you mount the qbittorrent’s download folder to
/config/Downloadswith a capital D or you’ll get a warning about paths being set up wrong.Also, I assume this isn’t really an issue for you unless you mess with the downloads after the fact, but *arrs expect the torrented media inside a folder with the title of the media on it. It picks through torrent naming conventions fine, but when I migrated some movies yesterday I noticed it wouldnt pick up any video files that weren’t inside a directory.
- Comment on Advice / sanity check for torrenting & media server 2 weeks ago:
Small note, the *arr stack (at least when running in docker) will prefer you mount qbittorrent’s download folder to
/config/Downloads(case sensitive). otherwise it whines about paths in the health menu - Comment on What does the 3-2-1 rule look like for you? 2 weeks ago:
My current plan once new migration is completed:
Primary pool - 1x ZFS (couldn’t afford redundancy but no different to my RPI server). My goal is to get a few more drives and set up a RAIDZ1/2.
Weekly backup of critical data (eg. nextcloud) from primary pool to a secondary pool. Goal here is to get a mirror but will only be one drive for now.
Weekly upload of secondary pool to hetzner storage box via rsync.
Current server
1x backup to secondary drive (rpi) 1x backup to hetzner storage box via rsync
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 2 weeks ago:
People have really weird usernames sometimes
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 2 weeks ago:
True, but there are other benefits too. Bots can’t crawl through your likes for example. Maybe you want a feature on lemmy or mastodon or whatever with anonymous polling? Maybe you’re implementing anonymous polling into an app for a trade union that needs total anonymity even from admins? It’s not totally unusual!
IMO it makes sense to do this at a platform level just because there’s a unified implementation of obfuscation across all the fediverse for any platforms that want to use, rather than a bunch of unique solutions that would be duplicated effort.
- Comment on Help Reviewing My Server Setup? 2 weeks ago:
quicksync should let the i3 handle jellyfin just fine if you’re not going beyond 1080p for a couple of concurrent users. Especially if you configure the Nice values to prefer jellyfin over immich.
I’m not aware of the platform for the n300 because it might be worth the initial setup, and have some room to upgrade the CPU later if it causes trouble.
If OP is going for multiple systems, I’d definitely agree on making one of them a pure NAS and let a more upgradable system run the chunky stuff.
- Comment on why do transphobes mention pedophiles/compare them to pedophiles when most trans people (as do most people) hate pedophiles? 2 weeks ago:
most paedophiles are cis men. Cis women paedophiles absolutely dwarf paedophiles trans people even when accounting for population.
It turns out, people who violate others don’t need to go through years of doctor’s visits and dehumanizing bureaucracy to breach someone’s boundaries.
It’s just the same fascist projection repeated ad nauseum because it works. You immediately have to go on the defensive and tiptoe around the taboo subject of paedophilia instead of actually challenging their assumptions. Anything less gets you accused of accepting child abuse, which is just the first step repeated again. By the time you’ve even addressed the claims, anyone worth reaching out to has logged off and the fascists have inched closer to the levers of the state.
It never was about paedophilia, or rape, or abuse, or sports. It’s about exploiting emotions and appealing to a constructed idea of “common sense” that can tie you up in its endless tendrils so they can ignore you and dehumanise you more efficiently.
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 2 weeks ago:
I get this is obviously intended behaviour on part of actpub but I’d love for there to be a pseudo-anonymous voting system too. Maybe an option to hash user credentials when added to likes to ensure that they’re unique whilst obfuscating the original user.
- Comment on Homeserver advice: i9-14900KS vs. i9-10940X 2 weeks ago:
you can, but it’ll be the distilled versions that are significantly less impressive.
apxml.com/posts/gpu-requirements-deepseek-r1
Newer versions also introduce memory mapping so they’re technically only bound by your storage capacity (but they’re way slower in practice).
- Comment on Which reverse proxy do you use/recommend? 2 weeks ago:
my laziness does though! ill keep that service in mind though :)
- Comment on Which reverse proxy do you use/recommend? 2 weeks ago:
I spent far too much on my domain (£3.86 for the year) to change course now!
- Comment on Which reverse proxy do you use/recommend? 2 weeks ago:
i use nginx proxy manager but im barely getting by. Theres zero useful documentation for setting up custom paths so everyone uses subdomains. I ended up buying my own domain just so i didnt feel guilty spamming freedns lmao.
- Comment on Which reverse proxy do you use/recommend? 2 weeks ago:
Ive got a basic workflow for nginx proxy manager now so this isnt super useful but good god that’s exactly what i wish nginx was.
- Comment on Something like Sonarr but for Youtube? 2 weeks ago:
Docker is a bit of a pain to learn but it really helps once you start figuring things out!
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread 2 weeks ago:
Anyone know how to set up NPM on truenas scale? I’ve spent all day trying to get my SSL certs and it fails every damn time. Just says the donation is unknown or that it can’t find my npm install 😮💨
I’m using a freedns domain tho so maybe I’m gonna need to try buying a domain.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread 2 weeks ago:
IMO you should stick with a local device store only. If you’re worried about the state getting hold of the data, having any backups is gonna be a liability.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread 3 weeks ago:
still learning truenas. i think I’ve figured out nextcloud which is basically a nightmare whenever I’ve had to install it
- Comment on How do you keep up? 3 weeks ago:
ngl the newest truenas version is incomprehensible to me. Makes most of the videos on it obsolete, and the docs aren’t much better, all while trying to abstract docker compose in a way that makes it shit itself when you try to use anything not specifically developed to work with TNS’s storage layout.
It’ll probably improve with time but I clearly picked the worst time to pick it up.
I’ve decided either to return to dietpi.com or try prox mox and pray it’s more stable.