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- Comment on Follow the rules! 1 day ago:
As a former sysadmin, this is correct.
- Comment on A Netadmin's NAS: Creating a maintenance-free NAS based on RouterOS, from a homelab holdout's perspective 4 days ago:
Hey. I realise my comment may have come off as rude and made me sound like an asshole. It was not my intention to be disrespectful, apologies for that. The reason I posted that is because I read your post (thanks for taking the time to write and share it) and it left me a bit puzzled. I respect wanting something stable, familiar and that requires minimal maintenance, but you seemed to imply this is not possible with a more “traditional” NAS setup. Many of the points you raised about wanting an applliance-like experience are equally achievable on most Linux distros, with no license fees, and with a lot more flexibility, should you need it in the future (although I understand you don’t need or want it).
Take Debian for example (a.k.a. the world’s most boring distro, in a good sense). With the knowledge you demonstrated about the underlying services involved (BTRFS, Wireguard, etc), it would have taken you no more time to configure the same set of services on a minimal Debian install, it would also run rock-solid for many years, and updates would be entirely at your discretion (as they are with RouterOS). Plus, your pockets would be 50 EUR heavier. But for me, personally, by far the biggest avantage of going with Linux for a data storage solution like this is the possiblity of using ZFS.
Also, have this Debian meme:
- Comment on A Netadmin's NAS: Creating a maintenance-free NAS based on RouterOS, from a homelab holdout's perspective 5 days ago:
“I do not want to play sysadmin in my spare time.”
* proceeds to do a bunch of sysadminy things, but on a proprietary OS *
Huh…
- Comment on How many containers are you all running? 1 week ago:
59 according to
docker info. - Comment on can you? 2 weeks ago:
It’s only a matter of textures, since the taste is the same throughout.
- Comment on Finding a new registrar/name server for .at 3 weeks ago:
I don’t have a registrar to recommend, but for the nameservers (which would already solve your problem) I had a good experience in the past with Hurricane Electric (dns.he.net). AFAIK the only requirement from your list it doesn’t satisfy is being European (not 100% sure about MFA and scoped tokens).
- Comment on Do you have any games on your phone? 3 weeks ago:
Gacha games be damned, but Project SEKAI (aka “Colorful Stage” in these bands) is a pretty good rhythm game (for a mobile game).
- Comment on Butter 3 weeks ago:
+1. If you think about it, it’s kinda creepy. You have all the friendly little googly things looking at you, and then 3 tall faceless entities standing next to them.
- Comment on Coming in hot 4 weeks ago:
Also, whoever did the price tags is a coward.
- Comment on Coming in hot 4 weeks ago:
Exactly. I took this photo the other day exactly for this reason (but forgot to post it anywhere).Photo of a supermarket shelf with packets of “Cock Flavour Soup” mix, next to “Chicken Flavour Soup” mix, by the same brand.
- Comment on Where are you running your wireguard endpoint? 5 weeks ago:
This is the way.
- Comment on uhhh 1 month ago:
OKAMI 2
- Comment on how did anyone let this person on a computer 1 month ago:
Deer-ectly under the skin of their prey.
- Comment on It was completely lost on me, at first. 1 month ago:
I’m at a loss for words here…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Hello there, fellow Rob Words enjoyer.
- Comment on These AI-generated portraits look insanely realistic 2 months ago:
- It’s a post
- Contains shit
Community name checks out, have a nice day.
- Comment on Don't you hate it when you delve too greedily and too deep, and the toilet paper tears? 2 months ago:
Oh Japan, how I miss you…
- Comment on POV: 2 months ago:
Fun fact: if you extended your nerves as a single line around the earth, you would die.
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 3 months ago:
Damn, that’s scary indeed! First of all, congratulations on your resolve to take control of your data. You have a long journey ahead of you, but don’t be discouraged, take one step at a time and don’t be afraid to ask for help.
As for where to start, I think you’ve already figured it out yourself: invest some time in learning the basics of networking. You don’t need to become an enterprise-level networking wizard, just learn the basics: learn what an IP address is, what a network mask is (sometimes also referred to as “prefix length”), what DNS is and does, how to change these settings on your home network and why you’d want to change them. Try stuff, break it, fix it, repeat. Also, if you’re not familiar with or already using it, it might be a good opportunity to pick up Linux. If you’re coming from Windows, a beginner friendly distribution like Linux Mint will do nicely. Try installing it on an old computer to see what it’s like, poke at it until you’re comfortable, then maybe make it your main operating system. Knowing Linux basics (command-line shenanigans in particular) will give you a big edge when you decide to start hosting your own services.
- Comment on An apple a day, ... Ah well, fuck it. 3 months ago:
CAMI or FEPA? (tiny difference, I know).
- Comment on Mid Career Marine Biology 3 months ago:
Pull an “Albanian virus”:
“Hi, I am an Albanian assassin but because of poor technology in my country unfortunately I am not able to assassinate you. Please be so kind to assassinate yourself and then forward me the proof. Many thanks for your cooperation! Best regards,Albanian assassin”
- Comment on Portal and Portal 2 are 80% off 3 months ago:
I bet it’s hard to overstate your satisfaction.
- Comment on Self-hosted alarm system? 3 months ago:
I have Alarmo setup in HA with a bunch of ZigBee sensors and it’s brilliant. I haven’t used it with cameras, but considering Frigate exposes motion sensors, I think this should work fine.
- Comment on Those who don't use dashboards, how are you managing your services? 4 months ago:
Uptime Kuma monitoring anything I care about and notifying me via Matrix, or notifying me via email if it’s Matrix that’s down.
- Comment on Remember, kids! 4 months ago:
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 4 months ago:
Stop stop, he’s already de- oh wait.
- Comment on Any suggestions for a link UNshortener? 4 months ago:
I understand this is not exactly what you’re asking for, but if you have access to a terminal, you can “unshorten” a link with:
curl --head -L https://example.com/short | grep: location - Comment on Etsy Curse 4 months ago:
The witch in question:The character Lynette from the series Strike Witches, taking aim with a sniper rifle.
