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- Comment on PSA to Home Assistant users 9 hours ago:
Not really, they are testing your passwords against have I been pawnd. I agree that transparency should apply here, and also an upfront question to skip.
But it’s not “unsafe” or a privacy breach per se. No password has actually been “sent” anywhere only a partial hash that is useless for accessing your home assistant.
- Comment on Is anyone self-hosting their own AI? 11 hours ago:
Yes i do.
I esperiment a lot, but my stable setup is Qwen 3.8 27B Q6_K on my home server. Hardware is Ryzen 9 5950x with 64gb ddr4 and two old but effective NVIDIA RTX A4000 for a total of 32gb VRAM.
Qwen 3.8 is the best model I can run in terms of output quality. It can perform all tasks pretty well and it’s reasonably fast at 500ts prefill and 30/40ts processing. There are much faster models but honestly not as good.
I can also run gemma4 all on CPU, with no GPU at all.
The key point is having both GPU on pci-e CPU, not on chip set bridge, so I am using a PCI riser 8x8x to share the 16x slot between the two GPUs. Inference speed is unaffected, but prefill benefits immensely.
Software side, use llama.cpp on Linux, you get the best performance possible at the expense of a bit more complexity compared to other engines.
From a power consumption perspective, I tined down my CPU governor and maximum frequency, and also the GPUs maximum watts. At ide the system is around 80w. At peak, it’s about 280w with the limiters, and inference speed doesn’t suffer too much. Without limiters I can easily reach 650w.
- Comment on Can you please tell me all about your DIY router? 1 day ago:
I bought it new, but of course you can repurpose old hardware!
- Comment on Can you please tell me all about your DIY router? 2 days ago:
I bought a firewall appliance based on an Intel CPU, with 4x 2.5gbps Ethernet ports, 8gb ram. Installed opnSense on it and been super happy even since!
A bit pricey the hardware, but it’s been totally rock solid for almost two years now.
- Comment on Self-hosted Radio 1 week ago:
What do you mean?
Who chooses the tracks?
Anyway yes, set a muted dj who never speak.
And create playlists and only play those. This will bypass any AI usage.
- Comment on Self-hosted Radio 1 week ago:
Subwave. A bit on the AI side… But it’s brilliant and really works great.
Only problem, you want to keep that private ad it’s most probably illegal anywhere to broadcast publicly without a license. Even on the internet
- Comment on Personal radio station 2 weeks ago:
Try subwave. You can have AI djs choose music from your navidrone library based on shows you create by defining prompts, moods and styles.
Pretty neat…
Fast developing and pretty solid already.
- Comment on Observability Stack? 2 weeks ago:
Things usually break on updates unless your disk fills up or worse some hardware fails…
So it’s pretty easy to fix: never upgrade automatically.
I always upgrade manually and check immediately what I have upgraded. Works fine so far.
And I was only partially joking… Yeah if a service stays broken for a long time, just uninstall it, it was useless.
- Comment on Observability Stack? 3 weeks ago:
Observawhat? My services just exist, if they fail and nobody complains… Well, they get removed. If the fail and somebody complains… The get restarted…
Pretty efficient but simple approach.
- Comment on Looking to move from Caddy 3 weeks ago:
I believe that it’s impossible to avoid ai generated or ai committed or ai designed or ai helped code. Or will very soon be.
Better to learn to cope with it.
- Comment on Finally have the stream from my HikVision, now the challenge of Frigate 4 weeks ago:
Working on it… Good suggestion.
- Comment on How "secure" is your setup? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t selfhost secure, is this a new service? I selfhost securo instead, great tool!
Am I missing something here?
- Comment on Finally have the stream from my HikVision, now the challenge of Frigate 4 weeks ago:
That sucks… Maybe a good update to LazyNVR would let grab the RTSP stream…
- Comment on Finally have the stream from my HikVision, now the challenge of Frigate 4 weeks ago:
Good! I was probably doing something wrong, but in any case seems more logical to leverage the cameras internal detection.
- Comment on Finally have the stream from my HikVision, now the challenge of Frigate 4 weeks ago:
Feels like nextcloud…
- Comment on Finally have the stream from my HikVision, now the challenge of Frigate 4 weeks ago:
Have you read the readme? There is literally a text config file to fill with the camera info (url of image).
Feel free to open a ticket on codeberg or DM/PM me for any additional detail.
Indeed documentation could be better…
- Comment on Finally have the stream from my HikVision, now the challenge of Frigate 5 weeks ago:
In my experience frigate is quite CPU intensive. I have 10 cameras and my old I7-8700 would die trying to have frigate process them all.
I opted for a different approach with LazyNVR (codeberg.org/LazyNVR/lazynvr-sources) leveraging the capability of the camera to perform motion detection and video recording directly. This offloaded my CPU and now I can record all 10 cameras on a OPi3.
- Comment on Bluefin Server — Cloud-native home infrastructure from Project Bluefin 5 weeks ago:
There are rules and whoever post, must add the ai tags. But more than that, I find low effort posts like this one do not contribute to the community and are frankly human slop.
At least take the time to write a few lines on what this is and why we should bother click the link.
That will go long way toward a useful post.
- Comment on Replacing Cloudflare Tunnel with a Selfhosted Towonel Tunnel 1 month ago:
You missed my point?
why can’t you just use a wireguard connection between your device and the server, or network?
- Comment on Replacing Cloudflare Tunnel with a Selfhosted Towonel Tunnel 1 month ago:
I don’t get the need for those tunnels.
Wouldn’t a simple wireguard setup be enough un less you are behind CG-NAT?
Wireguard it’s there, free, open source, doesn’t rely on any external server or company…
What does these “tunnels” actually add?
- Comment on [AIP] WebPrint a self-hosted webUI for your printer 1 month ago:
Opened a ticket on your forgejo… Cannot pull the image… I don’t / can’t build it at the moment , so looking to try the pre built image
- Comment on [AIP] WebPrint a self-hosted webUI for your printer 1 month ago:
It’s like cats. Projects choose their maintainers…
- Comment on [AIP] WebPrint a self-hosted webUI for your printer 1 month ago:
This will never be exposed to net… I understand the risks, but at least fits a need I have, and nothing else come close.
Don’t worry, it’s ok.
- Comment on [AIP] WebPrint a self-hosted webUI for your printer 1 month ago:
That’s cool… Next week I will try it for sure …
Yeah ai slop? Welcome if it’s the one and only viable solution …
Hoping some maintenance will be there tough :)
- Comment on Selfhosting a printer (and scanner) server with UI 1 month ago:
This won’t work for Android windows and such devices. And it’s a pain to setup, won’t work 100% and some scanners are ven worse .
Scanservejs is the final solution for all platforms.
- Comment on Selfhosting a printer (and scanner) server with UI 1 month ago:
Op want to upload a file to a web GUI and print it from there, not share printers with other computer/ devices.
Also, scanservejs is the the sane web GUI to actually do the same with scanner.
For scanning it make sense as there are no shared scanning solutions across platforms. For printing, it’s of little use as other pointed out you can print to cups from anything basically.
But o get the need for a web printing page, as uploading a file and hit print button is a zero setup, and while simple even remote cups printing is not 0% extra setup, you have at the very least to select a printer or hit “share as” and select a print service (android). YMMV
- Comment on What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server. 1 month ago:
48 disks seems a nightmare in power consumption, failure rate, and overall cabling management…
What was the total capacity?
- Comment on What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server. 1 month ago:
I use e self made wood cabinet in the attic where also the PV inverter is located. I used Velcro to strip on the wall (brick wall) stuff like switch firewall etc, only to find those collapsed on the server itself every time. No matter which glue or adhesive i used.
At the end, a strong unbranded Chinese double sided tape was better and still strong after all big western brand failed over time.
Maybe a mix of heat and uneven surface was the culprit, who knows.
- Comment on A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power 1 month ago:
Uptime for home users is useless. More important is recovery, reboot and resume (the 3’Rs)
You server should reboot automatically, storage should restore itself from unsafe shutdown and your services should resume operations like nothing happened.
This means test your reboot, ensure stuff doesn’t break, and so on.
Failing storage after an hard reboot is the hardest.
For network, i have two ISP connections and a an auto switch script Incase one goes down. But honestly it’s overkill and not needed for 99% of home hosters.
Buying some kind of UPS like a battery powered power strip is also nice but keep in mind that require maintenance to replace batteries once every few years (long enough to forget) and so be useless. The ups shall only last enough to perform a controlled server shutdown using NUTS.
- Comment on Selfhosting a printer (and scanner) server with UI 1 month ago:
No cups does not print from web UI, it’s only for management. Cups is used to install a d manage the printer, all your computers can then print over the network using cups, but they still need to configure the (remote cups) printer locally.