StrawberryPigtails
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- Comment on Do you participate in this hobby without a formal IT education or a career in a 1 month ago:
The only formal training I had was 20 years ago in high school when I took a pair of A+ and Networking certification electives. At the time I wanted to get into Systems Administration as a career, but no one was hiring when I graduated. Went into trucking instead.
20 years on though, I don’t really consider selfhosting a hobby, but rather the most cost effective way to achieve whatever I’m trying to accomplish for my family or myself. SAAS and subscriptions have kinda gotten out of hand, so I’ve “voted with my wallet” and just done them myself.
Mostly. I pay for email. That was a pain in the ass.
Do I still enjoy it, sure. But that’s has become secondary as my objectives have shifted over the years.
- Comment on 3D printing services? 1 month ago:
There are quite a few in the US. Two off the top of my head are Slant3d and PCBWay. With all of them though, you may have to do some final post processing depending on what you are printing. 3d printing services just print the item, they don’t do much beyond that.
- Comment on What brand of filament do you trust that is not sunlu (no navy blue) 2 months ago:
Before my last printer died 5 years ago, I was getting good results with Hatchbox filament. Not sure about their current state, but they were the most reliable I had found at that time. Looks like they currently have one I would call navy blue.
My new printer is supposed to arrive today, so I’ll be going through the filament evaluation grind again soon.
- Comment on Privacy respecting registrars 2 months ago:
I’m using NameCheap. I don’t recall them ever asking me to provide ID. They do have an api (didn’t know that till now) though I’m tired enough at the moment that I can’t make much sense of their documentation.
- Comment on what's the simple way to map services to subdomains instead of specifying the port number? 2 months ago:
Not sure if it’s the simplest way, but this is how I did it. I set up a reverse proxy service in a vm using caddy and then used pihole (also in a vm) to set up a local DNS record pointing to the reverse proxy. The systems need to be set up to use the pihole server as their DNS resolver.
How it works is you type audiobookshelf.local.lan in the address bar and it queries pihole which says it at 192.168.1.100 or whatever. The Caddy web server at that address then passes the request on to the service at 192.168.1.60:8080.
Setup is a bit tedious but it has worked for me.
- Comment on My setup (so far) 2 months ago:
Looks good.
Only thing I would caution on is all of that USB storage. USB isn’t exactly known for it reliability when used long term for storage devices. Given the current market, however, It will do. When you can afford to, I would move the server into a tower with the storage on SATA.
- Comment on What are your self–hosted alternatives for inter device communication? 3 months ago:
Most of the time I use Nextcloud. If I can’t wait for the file to sync I’ll use either email or a jump drive depending on which devices I’m moving data between. I
If I remember that I can, I’ll occasionally use bluetooth to send from my phone to one of my computers.