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- Comment on [AIP] WebPrint a self-hosted webUI for your printer 1 day 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 4 days 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 4 days 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. 4 days 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. 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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.
- Comment on Selfhosting a printer (and scanner) server with UI 4 days ago:
I use scanservejs since at least one year and can confirm it’s the best.
As for printing, I went down the same rabbit hole and had zero luck. Seems such a stupid thing yet nobody created such a service, except for a couple of commercial ones.
So yeah, if you find something …
By the way, probably creating a simple web interface that accepts uploads and pipe to lpr is pretty easy to do, but I didn’t got around to do it. Printing feels… Outdated. And printing from computer or android is so easy anyway that probably useless.
- Comment on Why is my home server using so much RAM for cache + buffer? 5 days ago:
Llama CPP can run models offloading with CPU (es MoE models), you have much more control over how you run your models, and overall it’s very much actively developed.
For starters and people without too much willingness to mess up with stuff, ollama is a great choice. Llama.cpp gives you that extra power and flexibility that is so much worth for people who like to tweak and do more.
My personal opinion, of course. But based on having used both and ditched ollama for llama.cpp, so I am also biased, keep in mind.
But I will hardly go back to ollama now :)
- Comment on Why is my home server using so much RAM for cache + buffer? 5 days ago:
Every use case is different and there is when you can customize it being Linux.
So good, sladapt your swappines and/or ditch swap completely or try zram, according to your needs. Standard use case works fine for most people tough.
- Comment on Why is my home server using so much RAM for cache + buffer? 5 days ago:
Here is my experience wiki.gardiol.org/7-services/llamacpp
No ads no monetization just a wiki I keep for my future reference.
Never been happier than moving to llamacpp from ollama.
- Comment on Why is my home server using so much RAM for cache + buffer? 6 days ago:
As a suggestion, ditch ollama and setup llama.cpp. it will work fine with openwebui and it’s much more efficient. (Unrelated to the ram/swap issue)
- Comment on Why is my home server using so much RAM for cache + buffer? 6 days ago:
You can enable zram and remove your on disk swap file if you prefer to spare the SSD write cycles…
- Comment on Why is my home server using so much RAM for cache + buffer? 6 days ago:
That is expected and a good thing.
Free ram is wasted ram, so every file touched by any service will be cached and cache will stay there until ram is needed. This means that over time cache and buffers will always grow, because any subsequent access to those will be faster. The moment more ram is needed by programs, those buffers and cache will be freed immediately.
This is also the reason why some swap will be used even if there is free ram. Some stuff and pages can be swapped out without impact on performance.
Look at it this way: free ram is a wasted opportunity to increase performance by caching some file from disk.
- Comment on Open CAD Studio 6 days ago:
Does this app run in a browser or on a server?
- Comment on Open CAD Studio 6 days ago:
How is this self hosted? Seems a desktop application
- Comment on I need a new hobby, I'm going to set up my own Lemmy instance. Am I an idiot? 1 week ago:
Cool man… I did the same last year, best decision ever.
Pretty easy too
- Comment on Birdnet-go: Self-hosted realtime soundscape analyser for birds, bats and other wildlife 1 week ago:
That’s true…
- Comment on Birdnet-go: Self-hosted realtime soundscape analyser for birds, bats and other wildlife 1 week ago:
I still like it and i have seen projects with much uglier logos made by humans. Nothing against humans or AI either.
- Comment on Birdnet-go: Self-hosted realtime soundscape analyser for birds, bats and other wildlife 1 week ago:
Xale, the logo is pretty l, on topic and quite cute. Is it made with AI? No idea. Does it really matter?
Give open source projects a break will you?
If you don’t like the logo just say so.
- Comment on [AIP] Fathom v0.11.0: now on Android and Android TV (experimental), plus many more updates! 1 week ago:
The Android release, Will you publish on play store? Otherwise from next month it will be dead in the water for most people.
- Comment on Should I bridge Whatsapp on Matrix? (Or alternatives to get on Whatsapp) 2 weeks ago:
I run a few bridged, with Continuwuity.
First of all, great choice. It works perfectly and it’s very light on resources. Totally different from Synapse, specially for few users (1 user in my case) instances.
The wa bridge works just fine, but I wouldn’t rely on in for critical messages. Actually in two years I never lost a message, but … Well … My wife would NOT like that I lose even one message from her in real time.
Here my experience wiki.gardiol.org/5-matrix-hosting (personal wiki, no ads, no monetization)
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 2 weeks ago:
Building a new server, pinping up the specs to run more serious llm in parallel with all my services.
Waiting for the CPU (an amd Ryzen 9 5950X) that delayed in delivery, and building wooden crate/case to hold everything together with proper ventilation .
- Comment on Finally happish with my all-in-one homelab (20+ services and way too much tinkering) 3 weeks ago:
Love the front sticker
- Comment on 🎉 Dreeve v5.0.0 released (formerly Statistics for Strava). No more Strava or any 3rd party dependencies. 4 weeks ago:
You should think about sleep data as well, because it’s an important metric for athletes as well, I always cross check my sleep data with my training performance (to find stupid excuses for the abysmal performances)
- Comment on 🎉 Dreeve v5.0.0 released (formerly Statistics for Strava). No more Strava or any 3rd party dependencies. 4 weeks ago:
Thank you, interesting piece of software … will have to seriously evaluate my workflow and act one day…
- Comment on 🎉 Dreeve v5.0.0 released (formerly Statistics for Strava). No more Strava or any 3rd party dependencies. 4 weeks ago:
Yes definitely add a way to import from Garmin, separate is good too.
- Comment on 🎉 Dreeve v5.0.0 released (formerly Statistics for Strava). No more Strava or any 3rd party dependencies. 4 weeks ago:
Love this… I am currently using endurain, two questions:
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automatic import from Garmin? That would be lovely
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differences with endurain for a single user?
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- Comment on Multiple CalDAV calendars synced to email aliases for a single email account? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t see the problem. Which caldav server are you using? Which caldav app? Android? PC?
It’s a bit vague.
- Comment on Any self hosted robotic lawn mowers? 1 month ago:
And you need a robotic lawn mower? Use cattle as lawn mowers … Free fertilizer too