Chaser

@Chaser@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I run pihole without any problems as a docker container. I assume you want to ask how well it works to add custom records, because that’s what you usually do with a dns server.

  Adding single records with the web ui works just fine. However, adding wildcards isn’t possible. So you end up attaching a terminal to your container and adding dnsmasq configs yourself. This is a bit poor.

  On the other hand: How often do you need to add wildcards? I needed like 2 entries since I set up pihole a few years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Marketshare since 2010⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. But since when is iOS a desktop operating system?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I highly recommend journalctl-desktop-notification⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow! This sounds super handy! Thanks for sharing!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Air Tag Alternative⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My internet provider offers up to 4 sim cards per account. They cost once 10€, without a monthly fee. However they have only 300mb of high speed traffic. But this should be just fine for a tracker, no? Just have a look in your customer portal. Maybe you’ll find something there too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to start cheap, I can recommend you to use an old notebook. In my opinion it’s the perfect home server for beginners.

  • It’s cheap (most people have an unused laying around anyway)
  • If it’s old enough to still have a dvd drive, you can replace it with a second sata ssd. There are cheap frames for this available.
  • it has a battery, so it can shutdown if there is a power outage
  • It’s slim. You can just throw it on your closet and forget about it

  Most services don’t need much. So it’s just fine if your “server” is like 10 years old. My first notebook server had 2 cores and 4 GB ram and it run Proxmox with like 10 lxc containers just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you guys using to sort and name music?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m using MusicBrainz Picard. However there are some tricks to spare you some nerves:

  • you can set weights to release types in the settings. Singles and compilations should have a lesser weight than albums.
  • Don’t add too much music at once. Or you’ll get crazy selecting the correct releases. I usually go with one artist a time. Especially for older artists I just add one album a time. You can enable the file Browser in the view settings, than you can just drop them in one after the other.
  • in the right pane you can just drag and drop whole releases to merge them together.
  • Also noticable is the rename feature in the settings. It’s just awesome!
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a music thing that handles single tracks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a cool approach! Reminds me of the old Napster 🤓

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a music thing that handles single tracks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome! I just learned something today. Thanks for pointing it out so detailed!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a music thing that handles single tracks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yt-dlp can handle YouTube Music Links. Just tell it with -x --audio-format mp3, that you don’t want the Video, but an mp3 (opus can’t be tagged). I use it to obtail whole artists, then I tag them with MusicBrainz Picard. I’m sure there is a way to automate this. yt-dlp has also a Python library. However I haven’t used it for now.