lka1988
@lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Help with home server plan 3 days ago:
Debian for sure. It’s the Toyota 4Runner of the operating system world - older but proven tech that just chugs right along. Major updates, while slow but regular, bring a lot of improvements - most of which are under the hood.
- Comment on Gadgetbridge data dashboard 4 days ago:
Oh cool! Just gonna add that real quick… falls down rabbit hole again
- Comment on Mini pc for home server? 1 week ago:
The shelf is fine. But I am definitely considering reinforcement.
- Comment on Mini pc for home server? 1 week ago:
Oh for sure. I’ve got a handful of SFFs and mini PCs making up my little “homelab”.
(Yes, that’s the furnace. No, it’s not hot there. Ever. I’ve checked on it many, many times.)
I’ve also got another pair of Optiplex 9020s, an Optiplex 3040, and my old trusty HP Elite 8100 SFF w/8300 SFF mobo, i7-3770/32GB, and modded BIOS that supports booting from NVMe (via it.s M.2 PCIe card). Those are sitting in the closet just taking up space at the moment.
- Comment on Mini pc for home server? 1 week ago:
A 35W i7-7700T mini PC from 2017 will absolutely spank a modern N150 in single and multi–threaded applications, and uses very little extra power to do so.
Mini PC is the way to go.
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 1 week ago:
OMV has dark mode.
- Comment on Home maintenance tracker? 2 weeks ago:
Until you lose that piece of paper in the thousands of other pieces of paper that were supposed to help you with this.
- Comment on Home maintenance tracker? 2 weeks ago:
Apologies for the reddit link, but this is the dev explaining it:
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 3 weeks ago:
Syncthing is incredible. I use it on my devices, and everything is also backed up to my NAS.
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 3 weeks ago:
This, so much. I remember when Louis told everyone about it, people (mostly Reddit) were so nitpicky over every minor detail.
- Comment on Non-Win-11 PCs to keep my eyes out for to convert into a NAS? 3 weeks ago:
How fast/reliable/cheap are USB drive enclosures?
For a NAS? Not very. Mine drops out periodically. That’s part of why I’m building another machine to house everything. The USB enclosure will not see “production” use after that.
- Comment on Non-Win-11 PCs to keep my eyes out for to convert into a NAS? 3 weeks ago:
Something to remember: NAS is just an acronym for Network Attached Storage. A NAS is not a specific product.
You can run NAS software on pretty much anything. My current NAS is a Mac Mini 2014 with a 4-bay USB drive enclosure. I’m in the process of building a more reliable NAS out of an old HP ProLiant ML110 G2 case - which is fully ATX compatible, strangely enough - with modern(ish) guts. It’s got 10 drive bays, too.
- Comment on Upcoming Win10 EOL Options to buy old Office PCs 3 weeks ago:
If anyone has thoughts on OS change as well please comment.
Linux.
- Comment on What's the real danger of opening ports? 4 weeks ago:
The only ports I have open are 80 and 443, and 80 just redirects to 443.
I also have a BeamMP server that has to have a port open because that’s just how it works, but that VM sits on its own DMZ’d VLAN and is only open when I’m actively playing the game.
- Comment on How can I optimize my jellyfin, specifically transcoding and the CPU usage involved? I'm running it off a mini pc so resources are everything 4 weeks ago:
Mini PCs have more than enough resources to handle what you’re doing. Almost my entire home lab runs on 7th/8th gen mini PCs, which includes Plex and Jellyfin (working on migrating everything over to JF). Plex only ever threw a fit playing 4k stuff when my wifi started getting crowded with wifi cameras and zigbee devices. I fiddled with the channels, removed one of my 2.4 SSIDs entirely, and now everything is happy again.
- Comment on Those who don't use dashboards, how are you managing your services? 4 weeks ago:
It was often the automated things that I completely forgot about. I have ADHD, so if it’s not accessible in a reasonable way where I don’t have to always google specific commands to find basic info on my own machine, then it gets lost in the memory hole. I know that a service is running, but forget what it is.
- Comment on Those who don't use dashboards, how are you managing your services? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know how you guys function without some sort of visual. I will forget everything I’m running if it’s not on a dashboard of some sort. That’s not a maybe - it’s guaranteed. Because it’s happened before.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
LSI is a common brand as well.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Why would I pay for Unraid when I already have a smooth-running Proxmox cluster and a NAS?
- Comment on Do bots/scrapers check uncommon ports? 4 weeks ago:
I have one for beammp opened, but that machine is also DMZ’d. Other than that, it’s just 443 to my reverse proxy.
- Comment on New home server, NixOS vs Proxmox vs Arch 4 weeks ago:
Debian gang! I almost exclusively use Debian distros on any of my PCs/VMs/LXCs.
I’ve been a proud Debian stan since my dad introduced it to me back in the early 2000s. He used to be a QA engineer at Novell, so we had various OSes on the home computer, including Windows and multiple Linux distros (not at the same time - old Compaq Deskpro 2000). He brought home a Dell Latitude once, loaded with a basic Debian install and no GUI. Since I had a little experience with Linux already (some command line from watching my dad install OSes), he just showed me certain important commands (including
rm -rf /- intentionally causing a computer to melt down the first time was pretty entertaining) and how to switch between virtual consoles. I just kinda figured it out on my own from there.Debian just appealed to me over all the other distros I had used up to that point. I’m guessing because it was easy to work with (still is), and so highly-documented (it was always one of the first results on Google).
Not sure what for me in that tangent… Thank you coming to my TED talk.
- Comment on New home server, NixOS vs Proxmox vs Arch 4 weeks ago:
half of what I’m doing is either individual LXC containers or I find myself SSH’ing into the Docker VM.
I think you might be misunderstanding the purpose of Proxmox. It’s a hypervisor. Think of a hypervisor as a digital version of a server rack - a server rack that can be managed from the confort of your couch.
For what it’s worth - I SSH into my Docker VMs all the time. I also run LXCs. And VMs for other purposes (beammp, Minecraft, etc). Proxmox isn’t meant to manage Docker itself.
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 4 weeks ago:
Mine is in the utility room, which is in the basement. There’s no way in or out of the basement except for the stairway from the living room on the main floor.
That room is where all of the CAT5 and coax cables from each room terminate (demarcation point?), and where the furnace and water heater live.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 5 weeks ago:
Fair point. I’m 12 years into my own self-hosting journey, I guess it’s easy to forget that haha.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 5 weeks ago:
I would give docker compose a try instead. I found Proxmox to be too much, when a simple yaml file (that can be checked into a repo) can do the job.
Proxmox and Docker serve two completely different purposes.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 5 weeks ago:
Honest response - respect.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 5 weeks ago:
I run my NAS and Home Assistant on bare metal.
- NAS: OMV on a Mac mini with a separate drive case
- Home Assistant: HAOS on a Lenovo M710q, since 1) it has a USB zigbee adapter and 2) HAOS on bare metal is more flexible
Both of those are much easier to manage on bare metal. Everything else runs virtualized on my Proxmox cluster, whether it’s Docker stacks on a dedicated VM, an application that I want to run separately in an LXC, or something heavier in its own VM.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I mean, the one Wyze Cam v3 I have with it seems to have been working well over the last 36 hours.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Wifi cameras don’t run exclusively on battery. Most run on 5V from a USB wall wart.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Wyze flashed with Thingino firmware. Give that a shot.
