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- Comment on Silent Storage Solutions for Homelab? 4 days ago:
Ah yeah - always a good idea to verify support on the motherboard. I think AMD mbs are usually better on the bifurcation front than Intel ones.
The Startech card I linked is backwards compatible with PCIe 3.0 M.2 NVMe cards, they mention that they’ve tested with Samsung 970 EVO for example, so you can still fill it up with older, cooler M.2 cards even if it supports PCIe 4.0. - Comment on Silent Storage Solutions for Homelab? 4 days ago:
An M.2 PCIe card can make most old computers into a good SSD NAS.
www.startech.com/en-eu/hdd/quad-m2-pcie-card-b
Image - Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 5 days ago:
I mean they have added a chatbot to their website and I’m sure they have replaced overseas first line support in many products with chatbots as well to encourage their customers to give up on getting support (and ensure that the customers that prevails and get sent to a human coworker are sufficiently pissed off).
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 5 days ago:
“They ruthlessly cut costs, R&D, and employee benefits and then replace existing employees with overseas contractors. Innovation and growth take a back seat to sheer profitability.”
This is the operating manual that explains why IgniteTech’s much-publicized AI purge feels more like a familiar private-equity play.
[…]
IgniteTech is owned by ESW. For anyone who’s watched the ESW orbit, that vagueness is not accidental. ESW’s playbook, summarized in a long explanatory dossier that has circulated inside the industry, is blunt: buy distressed software, strip costs, move work to an hourly contractor model through a unit like Crossover (which has been described in Forbes as a “global software sweatshop”), and squeeze recurring revenue out of an existing customer base rather than invest in new products. - Comment on [Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server 6 days ago:
Sounds like you should look at N3 and N4 then. :)
- Comment on What are good option for self hosting home security camera? 1 week ago:
If you haven’t bought cameras yet then you can always check for one that works with thingino Open-source Firmware for Ingenic SoC IP Cameras
- Comment on [Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server 2 weeks ago:
If your N100 mini server has an ITX motherboard with several SATA ports then changing the case to something like a Jonsbo N2 might be a solution that works better than USB.
- Comment on NAS decision paralysis 2 weeks ago:
Depends on the operating system of the NAS, but generally the NAS will want to format the drive. Even if you can somehow get it running without a disk format you’re generally in an unsupported configuration.
- Comment on NAS decision paralysis 2 weeks ago:
A big point of a NAS in my mind is to run some sort of redundancy, which means you will want to setup a RAID on the drives in the NAS, and that in turn means that my recommendation wouldn’t be to chuck existing drives into the NAS solution but to setup the NAS drives and then copy your data to it.
Dedicated NAS hardware storage is usually accessed over SMB, NFS or SFTP and most software has support for one of those protocols.
Some services can have hiccups when running against networked storage, f.e. Jellyfin might lose library metadata if the Jellyfin service’s library scan is started and the networked storage is unavailable. - Comment on With New Year's a couple days away what selfhoted party games do people have going? 2 weeks ago:
We’ve done our first crypt this playthrough then we got busy building rest stops and roads, farming and all that. Good job getting to the mistlands!
- Comment on With New Year's a couple days away what selfhoted party games do people have going? 2 weeks ago:
First time meeting a monster can be a bit scary, especially the sea serpent on a stormy ocean, but you get used to them and soon enough they start to look like moving resource piñatas.
Practice blocking and dodging and prioritize having a good shield and good food buffs and most things work themselves out.
- Comment on With New Year's a couple days away what selfhoted party games do people have going? 2 weeks ago:
The wife and I has returned to Valheim on a selfhosted dedicated server during the holidays, not sure if an adventuring party is the party you were thinking about. I’ve been /dancing on the ship as she steers it over the ocean though.
Most of the “party” games I have require no self hosting, it’s just split/shared screen co-op on the TV, Gang Beasts is a favourite and depending on what friends are over Genital Jousting can also be booted up for some laughs.
- Comment on OpenVPN hosting practices [Question] 2 weeks ago:
If you’re in a situation where you can replace your router with a pfsense or opnsense as per that guide I would definitely go for it. I’ve setup some pfsense devices with openvpn servers and it’s been one of the smoother installs imo and they make the self-signed client certificate part really easy to get right.
- Comment on OpenVPN hosting practices [Question] 2 weeks ago:
I must be lucky with my ISPs then, no trouble using 443/tcp for me.
To my knowledge Wireguard runs over UDP. - Comment on OpenVPN hosting practices [Question] 2 weeks ago:
I have no idea what the FUTO guide is but I would make sure to setup the openvpn server so that you connect with user+password+client certificate.
That and being able to set it up to use 443/tcp are the primary benefits to openvpn compared to wireguard in my mind. - Comment on AI Data Center Gold Rush Driven by Thousands of Newcomers | Big Tech’s dominance of AI infrastructure is shrinking as a host of other players pile into the arena — with global economic consequences 3 weeks ago:
Meanwhile I’m hoping for the technology to get more efficient and require less compute to achieve worthwhile results.
I’d rather have a small specialised local language model that knows everything about a small field, f.e. vegetarian cooking recipes or maintenance and repair of <specific car model>, but nothing about anything else.
I’m just not comfortable with giving all my data to a generalised large language model running on someone else’s computer. - Comment on Portainer on Debian or Proxmox? 5 weeks ago:
I hope you find out that it’s a not very necessary service that is the culprit, so that you can simply skip it. :)
- Comment on Portainer on Debian or Proxmox? 5 weeks ago:
Is it your cpu or your ram that hits the roof? Is it the host OS/Portainer or the services you run on it?
Here’s how to check container usage in Portainer: docs.portainer.io/user/docker/containers/stats - Comment on What is in your pockets? 1 month ago:
Now I want an explanation of wildlife rescue and the stuff in the image.
- Comment on Microsoft “Improved” Notepad. I Un-Improved It. - Dave's Garage 1 month ago:
Ah, I always associate my .txts with notepad++ - notepad.exe is only started from Win+R as a temporary clipboard.
- Comment on Microsoft “Improved” Notepad. I Un-Improved It. - Dave's Garage 1 month ago:
Have they removed the option to disable the alias and bring back the old notepad.exe?
Image - Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 1 month ago:
I definitely understand your view and personally don’t see a way to disrupt the market either. I just hope someone else finds a way.
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 1 month ago:
Ah - there’s your problem. VC companies simply don’t do that.
They most certainly do and then either cash in by selling to the next more risk adverse VC or sells it at a loss if they believe the company failed to disrupt the market.
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 1 month ago:
When is the next VC driven company that focuses more on growth than profit coming? I feel Netflix and all the other streaming services are ripe to be overtaken in the same way Netflix overtook tv channel packaging.
- Comment on AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles 1 month ago:
Yeah, my morning brain was trying to say that when it is used as a tool by someone that can validate the output and act upon it then it’s often good. When it is used by someone who can’t, or won’t, validate the output and simply uses it as the finished product then it usually isn’t any good.
Regarding your friend learning to use the terminal I’d still recommend validating the output before using it. If it’s asking genAI about flags for ls then sure no big deal, but if a genAI ends up switching around sda and sdb in your dd command resulting in a wiped drive you only got yourself to blame for not checking the manual.
- Comment on AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles 1 month ago:
I find that an extremely simplified way of finding out whether the use of an LLM is good or not is whether the output from it is used as a finished product or not. Here the human uses it to identify possible errors and then verify the LLM output before acting and the use of AI isn’t mentioned at all for the corrections.
The only danger I see is that errors the LLM didn’t find will continue to go undiscovered, but they probably would be undiscovered without the use of the LLM too.
- Comment on Server and infrastructure building for me, a dummy 1 month ago:
Honestly I’d like to say that docker is pre-built legos. Instead of putting it all together yourself you get it all built and ready to go.
- Comment on Server and infrastructure building for me, a dummy 1 month ago:
Yeah, email at home sucks. Even if you wanna selfhost you wanna do it with a static ip and an rdns pointer to the email server and good luck getting that at home.
- Comment on Server and infrastructure building for me, a dummy 1 month ago:
If you go for openwrt instead of librecmc the amount of guides and docs will skyrocket.
Compatible hardware for openwrt is found here:
toh.openwrt.org/?view=normal
A tip is to sort on the 5.0GHz table so all the devices that support ac and ax (newer wifi standards) are shown first.
They have a lot of good guides here:
openwrt.org/docs/guide-quick-start/startRegarding home server you would want to decide on the host operating system first. Examples are proxmox (hypervisor, controlled mainly through a web ui), a standard linux server with kvm/qemu and docker, openmediavault (NAS operating system) or Windows 11 with HyperV (please don’t).
First thing after that is to figure out of to make and restore backups of the system. Knowing that you can restore everything to how it was last night makes tinkering a lot less frustrating. Proxmox has builtin backup systems, with linux I like BORG Backup.
Regarding services you will want to read up on dockers and find a docker management system you like. I run portainer, others swear by dockge and yet some prefer the command line.
Regarding video streaming; If you don’t a lifetime license for Plex I would go for Jellyfin. Plex free is continuing to lose, not gain, functions as of now.
Immich is popular for photo storage.
Regarding game servers I think pterodactyl.io is popular to make it simpler but you can probably find a plain docker image to host minecraft. If you wanna mod mc I know Pterodactyl makes it simpler to add mods on the server.
- Comment on I dunno 1 month ago:
Technically we go for 2. Powers & Roots, I just didn’t want to break the PEMDAS when comparing. :)
