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- Comment on Recommendations for an all-SSD home server? 8 hours ago:
NAS only, or storage and workload?
- Comment on Interoperability between self-hosted services 23 hours ago:
APIs. Or the ends are achieved by sharing data between apps in common data storage. But I prefer to be a tourist in my infrastructure, I no longer hand-bomb changes to systems.
My design pattern is essentially to integrate more and more of the container creation into config. Right now I’m using ansible and it’s nice. More automation means troubleshooting has fewer variables.
I had issues yesterday with a package upgrade across several containers, and it ended up being two config changes. I cycle the apps and done. That’s it.
- Comment on How to Run Custom Linux Images on Oracle Free Tier 1 day ago:
I’m not scrutinizing it much.
Same. I just run a Minecraft server for my kid and his friends and a static HTML blog, so I’m ok with it.
I’m fairly sure it’s a background migration task, and I have a feeling it depends on your region.
- Comment on How to Run Custom Linux Images on Oracle Free Tier 1 day ago:
I haven’t had my instances deleted, but they do some kind of maintenance blip everyday that my monitoring sees as 3 seconds of downtime, so maybe keep that that in mind.
- Comment on Question about Syncoid / ZFS replication 1 day ago:
Not enough info, but it sounds almost like you’re creating the snapshots locally and sending those over instead of snapshotting to the destination directly.
Sanoid and syncoid are Jim Salter’s creation. Check out his blog at mercenarysysadmin.com for some examples of sanoid and syncoid. Klara systems also has a number of deep dives into those utilities.
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 1 day ago:
Love the enthusiasm, but let’s stop casting this as an end-user-only problem. The real issue is, once again, large corporations using and taking advantage of oss while putting ZERO money or work back into oss. It’s victim blaming with extra steps, and us blaming each other is exactly what the real culprits want.
If it makes us feel better that we can pay on a regulsr basis for these things, great. But massive oss projects can thrive on a few of us donating.
- Comment on Self hosted DNS 2 days ago:
Those are not authoritative responses, though. You can only add CNAME and A records to pihole, because it’s built on dnsmasq and not on bind/unbound.
You can’t add SOA records to pihole. Or zone transfers, or any actual DNS server functions, really. Pihole is just a forwarder.
- Comment on Minisforum MS-02 Ultra Announced 2 days ago:
You should check out the nas compares review of the pre-release, it’s insanely expensive and he questions who exactly is the target audience.
Beyond that, he reviews the specs quite nicely (as usual).
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 3 days ago:
Frigate is popular.
I used to use ZoneMinder, it worked well, but you must be very familiar with onvif, primary/secondary channels, and key frames for it to work well.
I only switched to frigate because of the person/animal detection. It’s ok, but it does need some polish in a few areas like event retention, and it could stand some more approachable documentation.
- Comment on Headscale vs Netbird vs Pangolin - How do you like selfhosting them? 3 days ago:
Pangolin is a reverse proxy implementation, so it doesn’t really acheive the same thing as VPN software.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 3 days ago:
Kodak said “we don’t believe digital photography will take over” and iRobot is like “we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas”
- Comment on Sigh 4 days ago:
I didn’t know Jellyfin could search torrents. Do you mean radarr/sonarr?
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 4 days ago:
When I ran Nextcloud, it broke every other update. Mostly because NC didn’t seem to care that anyone had a 7-year-old install being migrated along.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 4 days ago:
I wish someone would jailbreak the Google home and Chromecast devicea so we don’t have to throw them away in a year when Google abandons them.
- Comment on Hardware raccomandation for new selfhoster 6 days ago:
Portability is not really an aspect one needs to consider when it comes to a NAS
Hard disagree, and it is one of the best things about ZFS. You can plunk a ZFS pool on another system and be almost certain it will import. Systems die. Having been through several data-loss incidents, I find it is much preferable to be able to pull 1 disk than have to drag out 2 or three to transplant a ZFS pool.
Regarding the scrubs, I was trying to indicate that ZFS is more than just a raid manager, there are advantages to ZFS on even a single disk.
for a home NAS, the goal is maximising data storage capacity without a major hit on performance
If that were entirely true, striping would be the most popular ZFS pool arrangement, since you get performance and max storage.
- Comment on Hardware raccomandation for new selfhoster 6 days ago:
A dual disk setup for ZFS (or any other kind of RAID) is super wasteful.
Based on what? I’ve been running ZFS since it was Solaris-only and raidz1/raidz2 are OK, but they come with complexity and performance penalties, and they’re somewhat less portable than a mirror. There are many advantages to simple mirrors: first-response reads, block correction, scrubs, etc.
- Comment on Create a retention period for online backup storage 1 week ago:
Scripting it isn’t that tricky.
I’m old and use rsync, with mtime and not(!) operands and I’m able to keep 7 daily, 4 weekly, and 4 monthly backups. Runs every day, the rest of the backups are pruned in this rolling window.
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 1 week ago:
Gate-keeping is a strong word… It also implies that people on the other side of the gate learned something to get there.
20 years ago we were doing what we could manually, and learning the hard way. The tools have improved and by now do most of the heavy lifting for us. And better tools will come along to make things even easier/better. That’s just the way it works.
Compare self-hosting to doing your own mechanic work on a vehicle: there are a lot of tasks that most ppl would benefit from learning the diy way to do it, but there are dangers to car repair that will never go away, like proper car support with jacks, securing wheels correctly, etc.
It would be neglectful for the community to say nothing and send ppl off to get pwned.
- Comment on Air Tag Alternative 1 week ago:
My range to the next node is 7 miles.
Lucky you. I’ve got max about 900m (about half mile) by putting a node up on the mountain near me, and that was intermittent and message transmissions were delayed between 5 and 10 min.
Like I said, great if it works. Not a whole lot of good use cases, and op’s is not a good use case.
- Comment on Air Tag Alternative 1 week ago:
AirTags work because there is a huge network of apple devices registering BT beacons. Meshtastic isn’t really viable unless there are other nodes around on the same channel, as you mentioned.
I have tried to use two LilyGo t-echos to GPS track my dog. Range is really poor in the mountains, so I basically couldn’t see the collared device unless it was within 100 to 150m away, which isn’t really helpful.
In a bigger urban area, more nodes didn’t help unless I was on the default channel, so same problem again, this timeline extra emf pollution.
Meshtastic is a great idea, but use cases are really limited.
- Comment on Technitium DNS v14 is released with support for clustering 1 week ago:
I moved from pihole to technitium roughly two years ago. I was tired of pihole not doing “adult” DNS things, like zone transfers. Technitium is a real DNS server, pihole is just a resolver. You can create actual soa and srv records with technitium.
- Comment on Technitium DNS v14 is released with support for clustering 1 week ago:
It already could sync zones, I’ve been doing primary -> secondary zone transfers for at least two years.
It didn’t sync lists and other configs, though. That’s new.
- Comment on Announcing IncusOS 1 week ago:
Well, I have run the homeassistant core docker, calibre web automated, and a bunch more.
One just needs to add the docker https path to its repository and the rest is just translating the options to the way incus starts these. (Sorry, I can’t exactly remember what incus uses to run these containers.)
Anyway, I can dig up some helpful documentation if you’re rally interested.
I moved to incus from proxmox nearly 18 months ago and I haven’t looked back.
- Comment on Announcing IncusOS 1 week ago:
Yes, sorry. I meant incus, not incus os.
- Comment on Announcing IncusOS 1 week ago:
IncusOS supports OCI containers, which means it can run most docker containers natively. And LXC, and vms via QEMU/KVM.
- Comment on Tempus v4.1.3 android subsonic client release 1 week ago:
Oh, OK! Brilliant, I will check on this and report back.
Tempus is great, good job.
- Comment on Tempus v4.1.3 android subsonic client release 1 week ago:
Very nice.
I’m afraid to ask, but I can’t seem to figure out how to add an http stream to the radio section… Is this feature active?
- Comment on Can a Smart TV piggy back the internet of a HDMI device? 2 weeks ago:
Don’t trust the TV, put short or suricata on that in passive bridge mode. Heck, even TCP-dump should see some activity when you turn on the TV.
- Comment on Safebox: Open-source framework for managing self-hosted apps (Beta) 2 weeks ago:
Go look at the code in github. It’s one person, and it’s just bash scripts.
- Comment on I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against. 2 weeks ago:
Also I don’t think Proxmox cares about storage either,
Proxmox forces you to add a “storage area”, which is fine, except you must use their mount path of /mnt/pve/ and you must add NFS tuning switches via pve or they don’t work.
Proxmox is great, I used it for 8 years. But it is also opinionated and doesn’t like non-standard configs.