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@atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible? 2 days ago:
Ah - I get that. You have my sympathies.
A personal project like that would be a great way to train/get experience then. But do realize that it becomes a lot more complicated once you have people other than yourself relying on your application. Suddenly up-time becomes a lot very important and up-time is hard. End-users, even friendly ones, get very frustrated when you say “try now please” a lot. They’ll just stop using it.
- Comment on How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible? 3 days ago:
HIPAA (not hippa) is not even remotely applicable.
Cheap and easy are in opposition here. Which matters more? There are symptom and medication apps already that would be easy and available right now. And you don’t need to do tech support for family.
- Comment on Help Reviewing My Server Setup? 2 weeks ago:
Let’s be honest - in this community NAS means “my do-everything server that may have a RAID and probably also shares storage”.
- Comment on What does the 3-2-1 rule look like for you? 2 weeks ago:
All my systems are backed up with “rsnapshot” to a file server. File server is backed up to backblaze with duplicacy.
- Comment on How often do you run backups on your system? 2 weeks ago:
I have a cron job set to run on Monday and Friday nights, is this too frequent?
Only you can answer that - what is your risk tolerance for data loss?
- Comment on Homeserver advice: i9-14900KS vs. i9-10940X 2 weeks ago:
You’re not going to run deepseek r1 without GPUs (plural).
- Comment on Help Reviewing My Server Setup? 2 weeks ago:
I’m also considering UnRaid instead of Proxmox for a NAS OS.
NAS just has no meaning anymore?
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 4 weeks ago:
Ah - I gotcha. That’s some terrible luck with drives.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 4 weeks ago:
This is why I do my first-level of backups with
rsnapshot. It backs up to the plain filesystem using rsync and uses hard-links to de-dup between backups. No special filesystem, no encryption, restore is just an ‘rsync’ away. - Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 4 weeks ago:
“Wankpanzer” is the one I’ve been going with.
- Comment on What is your self-hosting setup for home thermostat? 4 weeks ago:
Is it? I guess I don’t know the difference… I installed mine myself but my system is also dead simple - only 2 wires. My first thermostat was just a bi-metallic strip. 😀
- Comment on What is your self-hosting setup for home thermostat? 4 weeks ago:
I believe so, my system is baseboard so I didn’t use a fan. There is a fan control option on the device. The instructions say it can do auto, on, of, circ.
digitalassets.resideo.com/…/33-00181EFS.pdf
More details here:
- Comment on What is your self-hosting setup for home thermostat? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve got a couple Honeywell T6 z-wave thermostats that work great and didn’t cost a lot. I control them through home assistant with some custom code to set them on a schedule, but they can also still be operated manually if needed.
- Comment on What is your self-hosting setup for home thermostat? 4 weeks ago:
I’d highly recommend not doing that. A smart thermostat is much easier and going to be a lot more reliable. And it won’t stop working if your server goes down.
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 2 months ago:
I haven’t looked much but I’m assuming there is an IPFS integration?
- Comment on Should i selfhost? 2 months ago:
syncthing
syncthing. is not. backups. Look into proper backups or be willing to lose data.
- Comment on Should i selfhost? 2 months ago:
i feel uncomfortable with entrusting my data to them, as i am constantly worried i will break something and corrupt the data
Backups. If you’re not willing to setup and test proper backups then no - you should not self-host.
- Comment on How to convince my uni / dept. to switch to Mastodon? 3 months ago:
Install is the easy part. Nobody ever thinks about maintenance.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 3 months ago:
I had the same thought - an entire 8U rack to hold a single raspberry pi with an external drive?
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 4 months ago:
If someone’s feelings are hurt by a silly url, it’s me that should grow up?
Yes. It’s you who should realize that other people’s perspectives, thoughts, opinions, etc. matter. It’s something one typically learns as they grow into adulthood.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 4 months ago:
“when you grow up” is what people say when their skin starts to grow over the mask they wear.
#7thgradedeep
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 4 months ago:
When you grow up you’ll realize that sometimes you need to consider the attitudes and feelings of others rather than just “fuck 'em”.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 4 months ago:
I’m sympathetic… I’m not sure I’d be willing to share a sh.itjust.works link to my company #general slack channel.
Though that is far from the biggest problem Lemmy has for adoption. Many communities are simply flooded with 15yr old tankies.
- Comment on Store (and access) old emails 4 months ago:
Why would you want a mail specific stack of hosting, storage, indexing and frontends? If it’s all plain text anyway so the regular storage solutions for files come a long way.
Because email has metadata. From, to, sent date, subject, etc. Plus attachments that may be binary.
- Comment on Store (and access) old emails 4 months ago:
Pdf? You converted plain text to something designed to preserve formatting? But why?
You could use maildir and find things with “grep” or any mail client like Thunderbird.
- Comment on static website generator 5 months ago:
I like jbake. Create templates, pages are either html or markdown. Pretty easy to use.
- Comment on Would you buy "self-hosted in a box" hardware? 5 months ago:
I don’t think the networking part is part that needs solving. Modern AP/routers are pretty easy to configure and setup securely. Dunno - I’m definitely not in the target audience for what you’re doing though.
- Comment on How can I keep my forwarded port secure? 5 months ago:
In what way do you think this article supports anything about the claim that “ssh can be broken into fairly easily”. It’s at best an argument for not using passwords with SSH, and at least for using very good passwords.
- Comment on Would you buy "self-hosted in a box" hardware? 5 months ago:
Which problem(s) are you trying to solve? The networking issue of firewalls and port forwarding? The admin tasks of installing and configuring applications? The task nobody does of maintaining software and keeping it up-to-date?
- Comment on Would you buy "self-hosted in a box" hardware? 5 months ago:
nixos scripts
What’s a nixos script?