irmadlad
@irmadlad@lemmy.world
Incessant tinkerer since the 70’s. Staunch privacy advocate. SelfHoster. Musician of mediocre talent. soundcloud.com/hood-poet-608190196
- Comment on Self-hosting paradox: Windows for specifically MS word 1 day ago:
Could you manage a windows VM for Office?
- Comment on Self-hosting paradox: Windows for specifically MS word 1 day ago:
It simply doesn’t play nice in a manner I can rely on for professional collaboration when everyone else is using either native microsoft office or office on apple.
If you don’t mind unpacking that for my own edification, what exactly does it do or don’t do? Does it not decode the data properly/same?
- Comment on Self-hosting paradox: Windows for specifically MS word 1 day ago:
I have Windows in my environment, and I still just use LibreOffice. Now, I’m not into huge, complex excell spreadsheets, but LibreOffice ticks all my boxes. It has a Windows app, and comes as a flatpak, snap, appimage, there’s even a portable edition as well.
- Comment on what is good remote desktop software? 1 day ago:
Um…I would not classify myself as brilliant, but yea…it works.
- Comment on A Netadmin's NAS: Creating a maintenance-free NAS based on RouterOS, from a homelab holdout's perspective 1 day ago:
but keeping a petting zoo of penguins up to date
Ha! Funny that. As far as creating a maintenance free NAS, my NAS(s) usually remain in a state of benevolent neglect. There’s not much to do to them. They house backups, archives, and data at rest. Perhaps I’m doing it wrong.
- Comment on Supermicro iKVM BIOS keyboard input issue 1 day ago:
If you were a fly on the wall in my lab, you’d hear me cussing at myself all the time for pulling stupid boners and stuff.
- Comment on what is good remote desktop software? 1 day ago:
I guess another vote for RustDesk. I use it to administer several personal computers that my friends have. They are old heads like me, but unlike me, their tech savvy is lacking. So if they have an issue, I can pop in and help in any way I can. I was using Remote Desktop Assistant for a while, but kept hearing about RustDesk so I gave it a go.
- Comment on After Years of Waiting Jellyfin Finally Lands on Samsung Tizen TVs 1 day ago:
I tried Kodi years ago when I heard about some guy getting busted at a local flea market for selling Kodi rigged appliances. I didn’t download anything, but that UI was atrocious. After about 5 minutes of tinkering around, I just uninstalled it. Probably one of the worst UI’s I’ve encountered.
- Comment on What else should I selfhost? 1 day ago:
I kinda figured. Usually long standing comms/chans/subredits have ancient tomes that guide them. I actually find them both valuable resources.
- Comment on What else should I selfhost? 2 days ago:
Very good resource. Well written. I know nothing about him but does seem to have a great rapport with Lemmy SH.
- Comment on What else should I selfhost? 2 days ago:
All the things!
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I used to run a liscensed internet radio station in the pre-Napster era, using Shoutcast CDN servers provided by IM Radio Networks (now defunct). We featured Indie bands from MP3.com (now defunct). BandCamp, iirc, had just started it’s operation.
- Comment on Websurfx 1.24.36 release 2 days ago:
Hmmm looks interesting. I’ll have to deploy it next to Searxng and give it a comparative run.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up and how long? 2 days ago:
The OS lives on an SSD and I have two aux drives. One is HDD, but it is a samba share for Navidrome, so it’s not like it’s spinning constandly. Everything gets a 3,2,1 backup.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up and how long? 2 days ago:
Thankfully it’s DDR3
It’s one of the benefits of having older equipment. I use these guys for RAM purchases: www.memorystock.com
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up and how long? 2 days ago:
I had a post a while back about what I was doing to cut costs.
- TLP: Adjusts CPU frequency scaling, PCI‑e ASPM, SATA link power‑management
- Powertop: Used to profile power consumption and has a tune feature sudo powertop --auto-tune
- cpufrequtils: Used to manage the CPU governor directly
- logind.conf: Can be used to put the whole server to sleep when idle
After doing all of that, which does help out during operational hours, I decided to save 10-12 hours of consumption by just shutting it down. The old ‘turn the light out if you’re not in the room’ concept. Right now I am manually booting the server, and it doesn’t take that long to resume operations. However, why not employ some automation and magic packets to fire it back up in the morning.
- Comment on Digital picture frame from a monitor or TV? 2 days ago:
I built one a long time ago when the project first started. It hangs in my hallway. It’s actually a very useful project, and with tinkering, it can display a lot of pertinent data.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up and how long? 2 days ago:
I finally installed my wife
Man…technology has come a long way.
Nothing here to write home about. A couple of minor tweaks to the network, and blocking even more unnecessary traffic. I’ve been on a mission to reduce costs in consumables such as electricity. I have a cron that shuts everything down at a certain time in the evening, and am working on a WOL routine fired by a cron from my stand alone pfsense box, to the server, to crank it back up in the morning just before I get up. It seemed to be the lowest hanging fruit so I have it on priority. It just didn’t make sense to run the server for 10 - 12 hours on idle I don’t have any midnight mass downloads of Linux iso’s nor do I make services available to other users so, it seemed to be a good place to start. I guess, by purist’s standards, it’s not a server anymore but an intermittent service, but it seems to be working for me. Will check consumption totals at the end of the month.
Other than that, I haven’t added anything new to the lineup, and I am just enjoying the benefits.
- Comment on Finally installed my own Firewall 3 days ago:
Cool, cool. I was just throwing it out there if you hadn’t considered it. It’s quite a powerful package.
- Comment on Finally installed my own Firewall 3 days ago:
A muffin fan with 4 stand offs would to the trick. Must be this particular model that gets hot.
- Comment on Self hosted live streaming 3 days ago:
private live streaming to friends and family
‘friends and family’ you say… /s LOL
- Comment on Finally installed my own Firewall 3 days ago:
It wouldn’t be a bad idea. Right at this moment my temps are as such:
- dev.cpu.0.temperature: 103 °F
- dev.cpu.1.temperature: 103 °F
- dev.cpu.2.temperature: 105 °F
- dev.cpu.3.temperature: 109 °F
- hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 81 °F
IIRC, the case temp is like 194 freedom units. I’ve never really seen it get much higher than it is now.
- Comment on Finally installed my own Firewall 3 days ago:
I have crowdsec running on opnsense to block attacks
Crowdsec is a pretty good package. It does blocking, but is geared more to being an IDS. Opnsense supports Suricata which is a more aggressive, and all encompassing IDS/IPS. I don’t think opnsense supports it’s cousin Snort.
- Comment on Installing **self-hostable** services on a cloud server isn't self-hosting ??? 3 days ago:
meh…I wouldn’t get too crunk about it. If you’re here for any length of time, you’re bound to have a few mod deleted posts.
- Comment on Finally installed my own Firewall 3 days ago:
OP, you may want to look into ntopng. I think opnsense has a ntopng plugin. I find it very useful for traffic analysis.
- Comment on Finally installed my own Firewall 3 days ago:
I’ve had pretty good fortune with www.memorystock.com
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026) 3 days ago:
Ok. Yeah, if I’m going to create all my tentacle porn with AI, it should do so while I’m still in the mood. /s LOL
- Comment on Finally installed my own Firewall 3 days ago:
A hardware firewall generally indicates a standalone appliance that is dedicated to being a firewall. Not to be confused with a software firewall as you would see with UFW, or Windows Defender. Modern routers do possess some of the same tenets of a hardware firewall, but a dedicated hardware firewall usually gives a broader range of defenses such as IDS/IPS, filtering, etc.
I have a dedicated hardware firewall in the form of pFsense. The ‘black box’ in OP’s picture is the hardware firewall.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026) 4 days ago:
I mean, I can run a few of the private AI stacks, but it is excruciatingly slow as to make it not worth the time. I would want something pretty responsive.
- Comment on How many containers are you all running? 4 days ago:
Exactly!