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- Comment on Any self hosted robotic lawn mowers? 4 days ago:
And you need a robotic lawn mower? Use cattle as lawn mowers … Free fertilizer too
- Comment on Any self hosted robotic lawn mowers? 5 days ago:
That’s not a lawn. It’s a field you can grow crops on. You need John’s Deers…
- Comment on Any self hosted robotic lawn mowers? 5 days ago:
Not really, apart from some software algorithms I guess. Totally different stuff, they use a perimetrali wire with radio signal to detect borders and can work up and down slopes and have much more advanced security measures since we’ll your pet tail might be in the way. Also more security as those might be snatched by thieves walking long side your lawn … And they are built to live under rain. Hail and scorching sun.
- Comment on Any self hosted robotic lawn mowers? 5 days ago:
Mine is 600sqm (squared meters) and my robot clear it just fine
- Comment on Any self hosted robotic lawn mowers? 5 days ago:
I have own, it’s been running for like 5 years now and I have never mowed my lawn manually more than one per year.
Overall it’s not zero work and maintenance, you still need to do stuff. But like 1/10th of how much time and effort it took before
- Comment on Immich vs Ente ? 1 week ago:
Running immich since 2 years, never had a single breaking issue or instability of any kind.
There is really no reason not to choose immich unless you prefer something that’s only in ente.
- Comment on How secure is my local backup drive with ssfhs? 1 week ago:
It is as secure as it can be.
Are you planning to connect to the server from internet? Are you planning to expose services to the internet?
- Comment on Selfhosted & AI - Part 2: The Results 1 week ago:
Not at all …
You are free to do as you please, and I fully respect that.
I was also a no AI coder, but somehow changed my mind slowly as I learned how to use PROPERLY the tool, which can be quite useful.
Learning how to use it has been fun too, so I suggest you give it a try if you haven’t done so yet.
The first risk is abusing it. The second risk is trusting it. And there are many more risks, but AI is a knife and not a pistol: there are good uses for it, but you must be careful and use it properly all the time.
- Comment on Selfhosted & AI - Part 2: The Results 1 week ago:
Disclosure is needed, I agree.
Let’s say it feels complex, and the tags will not avoid the discussion in the comments anyway … but it’s a start so good for it
- Comment on Selfhosted & AI - Part 2: The Results 1 week ago:
Woah …
This is overly complex.
As a dev that sometimes published something, and I don’t vibe code butnl who doesn’t use AI nowadays? That is way too much complex. And zero projects today don’t use AI in any forms blnot even to search or bugfix …
- Comment on Recommended mini pc for a homelab? 2 weeks ago:
Go for a n100 or even one with an Atom CPU. Get as much ram as you can afford…
- Comment on How my AI Agent views and maintains "our" homelab 2 weeks ago:
I use AI, i don’t hate it at all. It’s a tool. And as such needs to be used properly and not abused. Like a knife or a camera or a drone.
I am looking at agents with interest and i believe it’s still early to try them myself, but any early adopters and experiments I find interest in …
- Comment on How my AI Agent views and maintains "our" homelab 2 weeks ago:
I Hope you done get down voted to oblivion. I found the read interesting.
While I still don’t see advantage in using agents for these tasks, because I have fun doing them myself, I have great interest to see where all this leads.
- Comment on Tips on speeding up remote connection to personal server? 2 weeks ago:
No, really, wireguard encryption overhead is negligible unless you have a really old CPU (like a Pentium100 or something).
Whatever slows down your N100 is not wireguard per se, probably some tailscale overhead going trough their servers.
I have a fairly dated rented server, with an Atom D510, 2 cores, which is 10 years old, and accessing it over wireguard or not, I can still max out the network bandwidth without any visible CPU overhead.
- Comment on Tips on speeding up remote connection to personal server? 2 weeks ago:
The maximum internet speed you get is the speed of the slowest link in between your house, your ISP, any other network in the middle, and the ISP you are using to connect your remote device to the internet itself
On top of that, put tailscale. Assuming packets go directly between home and your remote device, then tailscale should not impact. But if the packets do go trough a tailscale server, like you have no public IP address at home, or CG-NAT, then that will be the bottleneck most probably.
Tailscale on itself isn’t a measurable overhead.
In general, for home network speed, consider your home UPLOAD speed (as that will the seen as “download” speed from outside) not the download speed, which is often many times faster.
- Comment on Does anybody know what's going on with Calibre Web Automated? 3 weeks ago:
There is an active fork which job is to accept public patches before they are accepted in cwa. The fork acknowledge that cwa development speed is not that fast, privilege on stability.
I switched on the fork happily
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (19 June 2026) 3 weeks ago:
hosting it since long time… Amazing! Great to be able to play directly in browser. My kid loves it…
- Comment on Is there room for Windows selfhosters? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a myth.
Yes it takes longer, but specialy on headless server updates are pretty fast
Big boys like LibreOffice Firefox have also pre built binaries if you so prefer as well …
I use Gentoo since amd k6-400 MHz times so today build times feel like no wait at all
- Comment on Is there room for Windows selfhosters? 4 weeks ago:
Lowering the entry barrier is a good thing… Self hosting need critical mass to support and use all the nice things we like to selfhost
More so, from the point of view of nig tech independence, for those who care, again lowering the barrier is very important
So welcome to docker and stuff, I use docker for half my stuff or more, it’s just so much more convenient.
But never stop trying to understand and don’t be a passive docker-puller whenever possible :)
- Comment on Is there room for Windows selfhosters? 4 weeks ago:
Now, let me be polemical here …
(And this is to be read with a pinch of /s)
Selfhosting on windows and understanding what you do is so much better than selfhost on CasaOS/ZimaOS/FancyWebGui/Synology and just spin up containers randomly without even understand what a container is and how it does work at all …
Now roast me :)
- Comment on Is there room for Windows selfhosters? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think that Linux is in the title or description of this community!
You pick your own poison …
Mine is Gentoo Linux all the way, yours is Windows. Find two more selfhosters and they will criticize both of us! We are kind of the two extreme of the spectrum…
Welcome!
- Comment on Radicale: Can someone please offer any guidance on usage and security. Om abit lost 4 weeks ago:
Thank you! I recently updated from Dokuwiki to Leaf wiki. Best decision ever. Not because Dokuwiki was bad, but I am truly fed up with php dependency.
- Comment on Radicale: Can someone please offer any guidance on usage and security. Om abit lost 4 weeks ago:
Yes, there aren’t many options that is not idea but it works fine
- Comment on Radicale: Can someone please offer any guidance on usage and security. Om abit lost 4 weeks ago:
You forget about that UI. Only used to create users. Then use. Cardiac/cal app like Dav5X on Android or similar to connect and do all the stuff like create, import etc
See my wiki at wiki.gardiol.org/7-services/radicale
It also shows how to install infCloud to get an actual web GUI to use calendars from your server
- Comment on Doorbell Camera / NVR (post Unifi) 4 weeks ago:
Try LazyNVR for reolink cameras, it’s very lightweight and a different take than frigate codeberg.org/LazyNVR/lazynvr-sources
- Comment on Where is the love for conduit? Everybody is preferring continuwuity or tuwunel? 4 weeks ago:
To my knowledge conduit is basically dead in the water. Very little updates if any.
When I chooses my matrix server, o went with the predecessor of Continuwuity and then migrated to Continuwuity and have been happy ever since…
Tuwunnel don’t know, I didn’t really appreciated the corporate backing somehow and lack of perceived transparency.
Is conduit actually still in business at all?
- Comment on Email ownership, I give up. 4 weeks ago:
Yes … That is what pissed me…
But half day of cussing and swearing helped
- Comment on Why I moved my Plex library to Jellyfin after 14 years 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t that the plesk added value?
- Comment on Why I moved my Plex library to Jellyfin after 14 years 5 weeks ago:
Agree. I went directly with Jellyfin because I joined late the party, but never regret it.
So can’t comment on Plex, because I never used it. But I see the news and see the enshittified path it’s going on with Plex
I understand that they need revenue, specially if they actually provide the bandwidth to let you access your media from outside home. I also understand why people is mad, but I guess convenience come with a price, of you don’t want to pay for it, there are alternatives I don’t see anything bad in switching to jellyfin.
- Comment on Email ownership, I give up. 5 weeks ago:
I fully understand your point, but the mailcow as open relay seems strange. Anyway, it’s a risk/cost tradeoff right? Everybody should do it’s own assessment and experimentation. But after the initial setup, it’s zero maintenance. The only maintenance i do is keep the stack regularly updated, and it broke twice in 20+ years (dovecot new config format, WTF…)