lka1988
@lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Non-Win-11 PCs to keep my eyes out for to convert into a NAS? 12 hours 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? 12 hours 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 2 days ago:
If anyone has thoughts on OS change as well please comment.
Linux.
- Comment on What's the real danger of opening ports? 5 days 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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] 1 week ago:
LSI is a common brand as well.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 2 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? 2 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 2 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 2 weeks ago:
Wifi cameras don’t run exclusively on battery. Most run on 5V from a USB wall wart.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Wyze flashed with Thingino firmware. Give that a shot.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Look into Wyze cameras and Thingino firmware. I just found out about the latter, went ahead and bought a Wyze Cam v3 and flashed it with Thingino. Works well in HA. Haven’t started on Frigate yet, but that’s in the works now, too.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Wyze Cam v3 or Wyze Floodlight Cam v1 (both rated IP65) running open-source Thingino firmware. These can be used by pretty much any NVR software running on a cheap off-lease office PC (Dell Optiplex or similar).
- Comment on How to download Google Takeout zips? 2 weeks ago:
I opened my gmail account in 2004…
I have a lot of emails 😂
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 2 weeks ago:
User data is typically private on business plans, at least if you stick to the core services. Plenty of companies use O365, GSuite, or whatever to facilitate this kind of thing and I’m sure they would be pitching a huge fit if their user data was being collected.
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 2 weeks ago:
I have a G Suite account. It’s like $10/mo for my use case. Not a fan of google, either, but being on the business side of it helps me learn more.
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 2 weeks ago:
It’s to save your data. The VPS provider has redundancies in place for the hardware, but unless you’re paying specifically for data backups, they aren’t going to bend over for that.
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 2 weeks ago:
If you ever want to get scared straight as it were? Take a teacher out for drinks (and you better pay for them!). You’ll hear LOTS of horror stories and get even a glimpse into the kind of hell they have to put up with.
My mom was a 6th grade teacher for 20 years. She always said that the worst part of the job was not the kids, but dealing with parents.
She recently pivoted to admin work. I don’t blame her one bit.
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 3 weeks ago:
Having been involved with many youth groups as a kid, including BSA, a not-insignificant amount of the leaders were - for lack of better word - idiots.
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 3 weeks ago:
The “old laptop” method is only feasible when it’s a personal service. You don’t want people (non-techie adults in leadership positions, especially) expecting AWS/MS/Google level of availability only for them to find out that a busted laptop (using “average people” terms) is the only thing that’s keeping their data in place. It’s not a good solution for a non-familial organization.
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t, unless you’ve been specifically asked by the organization to do so and given the proper authorization, legal counseling, etc, etc. Don’t go looking for solutions to problems that don’t exist in organizations where you have no say in leadership.
Your heart is in the right place, but I’m with @NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip here.