Lifebandit666
@Lifebandit666@feddit.uk
- Comment on Pros and cons of Proxmox in a home lab? 1 day ago:
It’s the same reason I like running things in Docker; you can just wake up and read about something while enjoying your morning shit, then switch the computer on and try and boot it before that thing you’re meant to be doing. If you can’t do it you can just delete it and try again later.
I started Self Hosting with Proxmox 4 months ago and so far my only real snafu has been mapping drives directly to Proxmox with Fstab. If you’re gonna do it, add “nofail” FFS.
I pass my drives through to my NAS VM to handle rather than Proxmox because it’s easier to fix my NAS if it fucks up using Proxmox, than to try and fix a none-booting Proxmox.
Anyway now I’m at a point of stability and dim sat thinking about redoing it bare bones, but I love tinkering so I’m sure this is just the plateau before I discover something new to play with, so I’m keeping Proxmox
- Comment on Can the SATA-to-USB adapter affect the result of the bad sectors scan? 1 day ago:
I’ve had a usb to sata running to a 2.5" add that acts as the main storage and boot for my pi4b, and it’s been in use for 4 years with zero issues so far.
I’ve now got 3HDDs attached to my Proxmox machine for NAS storage via usb ATM. It’s been running since Feb. It’s had it’s issues but those were more my fault for not understanding the flake factor (since my experience with the sdd) I had one drive forget what I named it, so my whole Proxmox died.
But that was remedied by passing the USB straight through to OMV.
Just saying, I’ve not really had the same experience as you with them, they seem fine if you have an idea what may fuck up.
- Comment on Funkwhale + Portainer? 2 days ago:
I’m currently in the market for a music server myself.
I want it all, I want something that will fire music at my Google home links, and also some raspberry pis with speakers, and also serve to my phone in the house and away from it.
I have Logitech Media Server running ATM and for a long time, but it is, and always has been a bit hot and miss.
I have a music file system in OMV which I can access on my LAN. This is the source of music for LMS. But I also have Plex pointed at it
This allows me to play the same music from any TV or phone with Plex on it. Plex even have an app called Plex Amp. I use Symfonic though, I liked it enough to buy it.
These apps give me the option to cast my audio to the Google Homes minis I have, I need something for my Pis.
Another advantage I recently found of adding my music library to Plex is I downloaded a program called MediaMonkey to stick music on my old iPod that I have in the car. It picked my Plex library up straight away, although to its credit, it also found my original music Share, it just didn’t advertise the fact.
I use Plex myself but there’s Emby and Jellyfin to look into too.
- Comment on Looks like something straight from Warhammer 40K 4 days ago:
Yeah that’s what the dude said when he was showing us around, blew my preteen brain.
I recently watched an episode of Hamiltons Pharmacopoeia where this lady was talking about her experience living with the guy that made all the LSD for the south of Britain back in the day. She fell in love with a pigeon.
Anyway this dude was well into trepanning, thought it was a way to increase the brain capacity and expand the mind.
She ended up trepanning herself on film and releasing the footage, yeah they watched it on the episode.
She was a bit of an oddball but swears by it.
- Comment on Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked? 4 days ago:
I’ve self hosted home assistant for a few years, external access through Cloud flare now because it’s been so stablez but previously used DuckDNS which was a bit shit if I’m honest.
I got into self hosting proper earlier this year, I wanted to make something that I could sail the 7 seas with.
I use Tailscale for everything.
The only open port on my router is for Plex because I’m a socialist and like to share my work with my friends.
Just keep it all local and use it at home. If you wanna take some of your media outside with you, download it onto your phone before you leave
- Comment on Ironing 5 days ago:
Sometimes I iron. Someone mentioned school uniform and yes.
But mainly I look at say a t-shirt and go “Meh” shrug and throw it on. Bang a leather jacket on and nobody knows it’s wrinkled and they fall out.
Now we’re having our 1 week of summer in the UK I’m having to iron my t-shirts because it’s too hot for my jacket, but it’s only a week.
- Comment on Looks like something straight from Warhammer 40K 5 days ago:
I went to a crypt in Britain as a kid, can’t remember where tf it was, but I still remember it because it was super interesting.
It’s where I learned about Trepanning and how they did it back in olden times to “let the bad spirits out” and it actually worked because it reduced swelling around the brain by giving the blood a way out.
- Comment on How would you decorate this room? 1 month ago:
What was that noise from upstairs? Probably a murderer!
Is the noise it would make
- Comment on Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox 1 month ago:
If you want to move to Proxmox then I say give it a go.
Maybe just keep what you have running and set up another machine to have a play. If you like it, then stick it on your main machine and work out how to replace everything, could be a fun project for you.
I use Proxmox and have Open Media Vault as my NAS. I use SMB/CIFS to share the drives and have a share that Proxmox can use for daily backups, as well as having backups on the main SSD every week. I need to off-site backups but I haven’t researched that yet.
I have a Debian VM that runs Docker and have everything running on that except OMV and Home Assistant. I have another Debian VM that I spin up to try things out.
RAM-wise I’m hitting about 12gb so if you have something with 16 lying around you can easily try out most of what you have running already, and if you don’t have anything to run it on you’re talking under £100 for a mini PC.
Give it a go, I’m sure you can come up with something to run on a mini pc anyway
- Comment on Need recommandations for a home server 1 month ago:
Hahaha it’s that guy again. I want an Amazon server for a fiver please!
- Comment on Done, what's next? 1 month ago:
Look at fucking Rockefeller!
- Comment on Another Gluetun appreciation post 1 month ago:
Honestly I just think it’s my general ability. I couldn’t get the Docker Compose file to work in Portainer. But in all seriousness I don’t think I need NC, I was just interested in what it offers.
- Comment on m3u (iptv) client which is not Jellyfin? 1 month ago:
Plex. Emby.
- Comment on Risk your life with this one easy trick! 1 month ago:
In all seriousness it was only a few weeks ago that I heard about a teacher in Bangladesh that did actually shoot one of his students in the leg. He apparently always brought a loaded gun into class with him in his bag.
- Comment on What should I run and why? 1 month ago:
Yeah I don’t see why not. It should be as easy as SSH in to the half top, install Docker and have it run the Portainer client then just bang Portainer on your daily driver and start throwing docker compose files at it.
- Comment on Another Gluetun appreciation post 1 month ago:
It’s all your fault!
- Comment on What should I run and why? 1 month ago:
I was actively avoiding Docker too after I tried (and succeeded) getting Home Assistant running in Docker many years ago.
It seemed like a confusing mess when I did it back then and the resulting Home Assistant container ran like a dream for many years until it didn’t and I had no clue how to get it working again.
I ended up just throwing Home Assistant OS on the Pi I was amusing and it was very very simple to set up.
Anyway that was then. This is now.
I bought a mini pc in February and installed Proxmox on it.
Initially I just wanted Home Assistant, Plex and some kind of way of populating Plex with media.
I just ran VMs with bare bones programs installed in Windows. Problem is this took a lot of RAM and was flakey.
Cut to now, where I have a Home Assistant VM, a Linux VM and an OMV VM for my NAS.
The Linux VM has a bunch of Docker containers running that do everything my Windows bare bones VM did, but better.
I can access the containers via Portainer and update them with a button press. I cannot access the VM GUI because I passed through my GPU which knackered the console in Proxmox, and that is absolutely fine, if I need to do anything in the VM I have SSH.
My Linux VM uses less RAM than my Home Assistant VM, which is amazing considering what is running on it.
Docker is where it’s at! Takes a little learning but with Portainer installed it’s all in one GUI instead of SSH in to create text files and folders.
Yesterday I wanted to give Immich a try. So I found a tutorial on YouTube, went into his notes and found his GitHub and in there, his Docker Compose file.
I LITERALLY JUST COPIED IT AND PASTED IT INTO PORTAINER AND PRESSED GO AND HAD IMMICH RUNNING IN MINUTES.
Now the caveat here is that I’ve had a few months of playing with Docker now. I’ve tried to get Immich running a couple times and failed in the past few months. But I watched this guy paste his code in and press go, then start talking about how it works, so I was pretty confident he had taken the time to have a working compose file.
Wall of text to say get acquainted with Portainer and try installing and playing with some stuff. Bear in mind that it probably won’t work to start with and don’t rely on it until you’ve proven it out, but tinker with it until it’s working. Eventually you’ll get a feeling for it and it will become simple to you.
- Comment on Another Gluetun appreciation post 1 month ago:
Good to hear. I guess the advantage is this way my containers rely upon Gluetun to work, so if it stops working, the whole stack stops working.
- Comment on Another Gluetun appreciation post 1 month ago:
Nice thanks for this, maybe useful when I finally get out of this carpark lol
- Comment on Another Gluetun appreciation post 1 month ago:
Thanks for that, yeah it’s kinda integral to an appreciation post, what is it exactly.
So what Gluetun has done has replaced all the messing around with VPNs for me. Rather than having a specific VM for VPN tasks running using Mullvads app, I can now run the VPN stuff in my VM that was previously just for clearnet things at the same time as those things, without the additional app.
I’ve just deleted the app and containers in the VPN VM and am repurposing it for trying out new things in Docker. Current project is Nextcloud AIO, which I’m failing at for now.
- Comment on Another Gluetun appreciation post 1 month ago:
I use RDT for Lidarr too. I’ve had qbt set up in the past and may even do it again but for now it’s fine for everything I need.
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- Comment on App Idea: Location History 1 month ago:
I took have set up and run Owntracks in the past and found it lacking. I can’t remember why, but I do remember thinking it was a bit shit
- Comment on [Question] Alternative to NFS for Proxmox Backup Server 1 month ago:
I use CIFS aka SMB in my setup. I have OMV running multiple shares, one of which is a backup folder for Proxmox to use. I pass this through to Proxmox by adding a CIFS share to storage in data center.
- Comment on How do you guys use Tailscale (or other VPN) with containers 1 month ago:
I too am playing with Tailscale at the moment. What’s working for me (although I believe you’re well past this) is just running an exit node into my network. I have Adguard and NPM forwarding and reverse proxying and as long as I don’t use .local it seems that the nameserver works on Tailscale too, although I do get some errors in my testing at work yesterday
- Comment on Good file servers for Proxmox 1 month ago:
I don’t understand all the words you’re using but:
Having had Proxmox sort out my drives and having had failures and Proxmox refuse to start if the drive isn’t present (it was present but forgot it’s label so it wasn’t there for Proxmox) I recommend just passing through the drives to your NAS and having it handle the drives.
That way if they fail then your NAS fails but Proxmox boots.
Also if you’re mounting them directly use the “nofail” option so it doesn’t kill your Proxmox if you don’t just have the NAS handle it.
- Comment on Would this flow work with Immich & Syncthing to copy images and auto upload and delete? 1 month ago:
Could Rsync help? In OMV I can Rsync shares and it will check the folder I’m syncing to and just upload new files.
So you could Syncthing to the server folder then Rsync that folder to your Immich at xam every day, then just manually delete things from your Syncthing folder occasionally.
- Comment on Post your Servernames! 1 month ago:
I have a pi4b called pi4b, a server called Server, an OMV server called OMV and an ARR server called… Arr
- Comment on Finally got my server to work properly. (Routing with custom local domain instead of ports) 2 months ago:
Hello again.
I’ve gone through your steps outlined in this post now for LAN. I’ve made my own network name .crypt and added *.crypt to Adguard and pointed it at the IP address of Nginx.
I’ve then gone and mapped my local services in Nginx. So radarr.crypt sonarr.crypt plex.crypt etc and mapped them to ports.
Now what I enjoyed was that I had to map Adguard to forward to Nginx, but in Nginx I can use the IP address of anything on my network, not just on the host.
So it’s map Adguard in DNS rewrites to Nginx IP, then map the IP:ports in Proxy Hosts in Nginx.
Now when I use my Tailscale exit node (that I have from Home Assistant) I can use those addresses outside the house.
I have noticed it only works for the .crypt domains, and not .local despite being set up as well. I guess because .local is a special address it is harder to map to Tailscale.
Anyway, it’s working for me after following what you’ve done, I just did less in Tailscale because of the exit node
- Comment on Glance - "A minimal dashboard that puts all the information you care about in one place" 2 months ago:
He’s playing my Helldivers mate, I just worked out how to share my library. I’ve just managed to unlock the Patriot Exosuit but can’t play with it because he’s always on it now…