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- Comment on What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear? 1 day ago:
Oh hell yeah, I didn’t know about the raidz extension. That’s amazing!
It’s in the latest TrueNAS versions. www.truenas.com/blog/electric-eel-openzfs-23/
- Comment on What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear? 1 day ago:
Can’t say anything on unify, but what’s wrong with ZFS in the homelab, especially if you know it already? I use ZFS on my Proxmox hosts and my TrueNAS.
- Comment on Am I doing this (networking) safely? 2 days ago:
Networking looks fine, but check fail2ban as the other commenter mentioned, it goes to the npm.
Make sure to keep all internet facing applications up to date and use strong passwords.
- Comment on Is H9me Assistant recommended? 2 days ago:
Home Assistant has a great integration, ZHA, which “drives” the Zigbee device. So having the Zigbee dongle on the machine HA runs on is very common. In my case it’s a raspberry with a RaspBee dongle but every MINI PC will do. Recommended devices: www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha#recommende…
The other common setup is using Zigbee2MQTT which allows different devices that communicate over LAN. it’s been the go to recommendation as it has some compatibility improvements for devices that don’t properly follow the Zigbee standard. ZHA is keeping up though and is natively supported by home assistant. I’m using ZHA and check for compatibility before buying devices.
You can theoretically switch later, but you’ll have to reconnect all devices which can be a hassle.
- Comment on Looking for FOSS server monitoring UI 2 days ago:
Not sure how that’s related to docker. It’s the prometheus setup which can be run natively just fine. Still needs an agent that actually retrieves info from the OS.
Certainly there’s “single executable” tools as well. I just don’t know them.
- Comment on Looking for FOSS server monitoring UI 2 days ago:
Yes. Prometheus isn’t standalone though, it requires agents on all target machines. The go-to is node exporter. It’s really flexible though and there’s agents for lots of different tools, you can monitor everything with it, but the initial setup isn’t suuper easy.
- Comment on Is H9me Assistant recommended? 2 days ago:
Both! Connecting Iot devices to your LAN is a security risk, since they sometimes carry malware. Many DDOS these days are performed by smart bulbs or the like. May even sniff in your network. Of course you can firewall them, but why bother with wifi at all then? Zigbee is pretty reliable and works even if your router goes down (you probably can’t access Home Assistant Web interface anymore, but zigbee light switches etc will still trigger zigbee bulbs, zigbee thermeters will still report their sensor values etc).
I’m a Zigbee user so I use that in the examples but I’m sure the other options are fine as well.
- Comment on Is H9me Assistant recommended? 2 days ago:
If you aren’t locked in yet, I’d recommend against WiFi devices. Check Zigbee or similar. It won’t clutter your LAN and is independent. You usually need some kind of central station for that but it’s worth it imho.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (6 February 2026) 3 days ago:
roasts his takes
- Comment on 💞 FairScan > Syncthing > Paperlees-ngx 3 days ago:
I’m using CamScanner, but I have to share every doc to paperless. Should have a look at an automatic ingest as well…
- Comment on How to fix this crack in the shower wall? 4 days ago:
Depends on where you get them I guess. I got additional tiles at some home improvement store 5+ years later.
- Comment on Spotify launches offline lyrics, translations, and lyric previews 5 days ago:
Did you mean Bandcamp?
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up and how long? 1 week ago:
Cool! Note that the nameservers for your domain don’t have to be from your registrar. I use Hetzner for DNS despite having my domains elsewhere. And I use a similar thing as you, a cronjob that compares my public IP to the DNS records and adjusts them via Hetzner API when necessary.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up and how long? 1 week ago:
Sounds good! Are you on SSD or HDD?
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up and how long? 1 week ago:
If you want to go all in, get some plug that measures the energy! Also let’s you directly see the effects of turning stuff on/off. My last server went up 3W when I started using the second network interface! Let drives go to sleep, play with C-States, etc
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up and how long? 1 week ago:
Blergh, how did you pinpoint it?
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up and how long? 1 week ago:
Yeah that would be a bit convoluted :D
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up and how long? 1 week ago:
The point of the opnsense is that I can tinker with it without risking our home wifi. It needs to stay up for my wife, for our mqtt devices/home assistant etc.
I don’t introduce points of failure to our home network which is the critical part. If something in the opnsense misbehaves, it only impacts my lab stuff. The FritzBox + Pihole combination has proven pretty stable over years, even though I’m considering getting a second Pihole device for high availability.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up and how long? 1 week ago:
Ouchy!
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up and how long? 1 week ago:
I’ve had pihole years before the opnsense, but also opnsense is not the main router but just sits in front of my homelab. The wifi etc is a FritzBox, which also acts as WAN for opnsense.
That way, everything still in the house still works if my homelab/opnsense is down. Pihole is on a pi in the FritzBox LAN.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up and how long? 1 week ago:
So I have my vms behind an opnsense with DHCP, the opnsense also creates local DNS records like vm1.opnsense. The pihole has conditional forwarding for .opnsense to the firewall, so I can resolve the domain everywhere in LAN.
I had CNAME records in the pihole for my actual domain (e.g. lemmy.nocturnal.garden) pointing to vm1.opnsense so I take a shortcut from inside the LAN, avoiding going “outside” via the public IP.
Mint/resolved resolves the .opnsense domains when I directly look them up, but for a reason I didn’t fully understand, it does not work with a CNAME entry pointing to that. So I have up on the CNAME approach and created A records for each service, directly pointing to the VM’s IP.
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- Comment on Why is Pixelfed an extra network and not just a Mastodon client? 1 week ago:
Because each Fediverse software has it’s own things and they aren’t necessarily compatible. Off the top of my head, pixelfed allows more images per post and has stories. You can’t do that on Mastodon, even with a special client.
- Comment on Do you backup your docker images? 1 week ago:
No. They are cached on the hosts, thats enough for me.
- Comment on I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy new perspective on librarianship 2 weeks ago:
Well, at least it hasn’t been autoclosed I guess 😅
- Comment on I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy new perspective on librarianship 2 weeks ago:
This shouldn’t be the case. While books appear to be present on each library (=instance), reviews etc federate between them! They refer to each other.
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- Comment on Self-Host Weekly #155: One Hundred Million 2 weeks ago:
Same, been looking for something like that
- Comment on r/Silksong joins lemmy! (And a new lemmy instance) 2 weeks ago:
Not much into gaming, but very cool to see. Good luck with that and welcome!