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Got frigate set up, more mature than I expected!

I’ve learned it really depends on the device. It’s completely a mixed bag, and that’s why I can’t trust it. Half the time it lasts over a decade, the other half less than a year.

For example, I got their “Enterprise” Switch 8 PoE with 2 SFP+ ports. I plugged it in in my garage, where it was 50 degrees (F) at the time, and it overheated. I googled it, apparently the SFP ports simply overheat. Turns out while it has a fan, it doesn’t turn on and simply overheats because they “Didn’t want a noisy fan on someone’s desk”. Which… uh, doesn’t matter if it doesn’t work. Their enterprise term means nothing.

That being said, my rackmount switches have been solid, oldest one is 10 years old. However that unknown makes it hard to justify purchasing new equipment.

I never even thought about Aqara, I have a lot of their things already. Do I need an NVR or something with that?

Really?? Is that all? Best I can think is that the transformer doesn’t really protect the device at all, I’m guessing there was a surge at some point

How do you use Reolink? I’ve heard other people mention it, meaning do you need an NVR, or HomeAssistant, does it work in Unifi, curious how you use it

Yeah, and everyone’s opinion of low effort is different. Idk, if all we see is pictures of a homelab or dashboard that’s boring, but at the same time I love seeing things people have worked super hard on and are proud of! Previous mods were pretty eager with that trmove button for that.

Ah my mistake, you’re the developer! Stand by my comments but wish you luck. I was looking to see if anyone had set it up and what their opinions were. I have a stack at home and could stand one up, deciding on it still now. I prefer fedi everything, but there are celebrities/professionals that only use insta and stuck with it.

How is it?

Things like this have to be constantly maintained for that reason, look also at yt-dlp. For that, I’ll give it a month, see how they’re doing then before setting up a personal interest. Worried they’ll abandon it

Nah it’s okay, unless you want to for history and reference. Link

Ironically I had so much help in finding the info before it was removed that all I did was eyeroll at it’s removal. Will be looking forward to the update!

Bringing in both your threads, I agree. With only a handful of active communities, saying “this isn’t the right one” without pointing to an active community where it is a good one seems… destructive. Personally, if no hardware remains a rule, then it seems natural to then start a sister community which is hardware focused and Rule 3’s text then would recommend that community right in the rule itself. May not be such a bad idea now that I’m typing it.

As a mod myself on much smaller communities, that’s my view too. Even if there is something I personally dislike, it’s not my community, if it’s getting upvotes then obviously people are enjoying it. If I get reports I look into it, but it has to be a pretty blatent violation for me to step in. Why would I want to hurt engagement? There’s so few of us already here.

Thank you! Looking forward to hearing from you!

My only request/suggestion, is Rule 3. Rule 3 I think has been used way too often to justify removing posts seemingly arbitrarily. A blanket “No hardware” rule is restrictive when homelab and selfhosted are a venn diagram that are very close together. For example, you can’t talk about Unraid without also talking about what drive types you use. Or a post I’m thinking about posting, “What doorbell cameras do you prefer with HomeAssistant? and What NVR should I use?”. All selfhosted, all homelab, all interconnected… but I am afraid of posting it because of the iron fist.

Yeah I think this is a tool worth having for mods. Maybe going through deleted posys and seeing who are repeat offenders.

To me, that isn’t building a community, that’s extracting from one. It’s no better than AI scraping. You got your answer and then keep it for yourself.

Hell I would buy physical copies from retail stores if they still let me, but they’ve decided that they don’t want to anymore. The GoG. Then Steam after that.

I don’t get it

Being skeptical is fine, being accusatory with no proof is a jerk move.

Is this putting America first? It really seems like it’s only putting the oil industry first…

Honestly the amd 6000 and 7000 ones are pretty legit

They can kick and scream as much as they want. Oil is proving to not be viable unless it is subsidized or forced by governments. Green energy is here to stay whether they like it or not, and even moreso, it doesn’t need subsidies. It was nice when it had them, but even without its still the better option.

Mass Effect is the best/worst when it comes to this. It’s such a good game, and you join up and befriend your squad, you go through so many things to get to the ending, and then it’s over. You put down the headphones, you get up, and stand alone in your kitchen for 20 minutes, realizing that it is over.

Exactly this. People here mass downvote but I personally find AI to be extremely useful… To do things I already know how to do but don’t have the time for. I don’t trust it to do things I can’t spot the errors in

I also bought Plex lifetime pass also for $100 and I am getting ads like this.

Feel free to go read the multiple writeups from the maintainers that go over each one, we don’t need to copy them all here into the comments for you.

Except they’re spamming to users that they need this subscription even when they host locally or already have a membership.

I paid too, but consider that you basically paid $5 per year for 10 years and I’d say that good. You don’t need to feel guilty if you decide to leave, you got your money’s worth.

(And I mean, I have a sneaky suspicion they’re coming for the lifetime users sooner or later)

It was a pain to get up and running, but now that it is i actually prefer it. OSS aside there are things I like, like editions/versions are all kind of merged, more customization of the appearance, more performant. I’m pretty happy. Granted it was months of reorganizing my media for it.

Yes, but they’re still sending emails to people even when it doesn’t apply. I had a Plex pass and still all of my users received emails and freaked out. They’re trying to trick people into thinking they need to pay, that’s the asshole move here.

I did synapse about a year ago but kind of wish I had done conduit, it seems so much simpler. That being said, all of the bridges and add-ons assume you’re running synapse