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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2024 Self-Host User Survey Results⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “What is your favorite self-hosted application?” had what looks to be about 15 matrix responses.

  Would potentially be interesting to see Matrix/XMPP/etc prevalence in future surveys, maybe replacing ‘what activitypub apps’ with a more generic ‘what federated apps do you self-host’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I still self host my servers (and what I've recently learned)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think shared hosting there is more meant to refer to the older “upload your files in webmin and we’ll shove them in /cgi-bin/ with everybody else’s”-style hosting where multiple users sites are running on a single instance of a webserver versus a VPS giving you a VM with SSH access?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are cars with AWD worth it compared to FWD.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Possibly not relevant to your use case, but one point that I haven’t seen mentioned yet is that for many SUVs that are available in both FWD and AWD, the tow rating will be significantly higher for the AWD version (like 5000lbs vs 3500lbs for FWD in the case of the Toyota Highlander and Honda Pilot)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s news to me considering the EPA-rated fuel economy of vehicles with both hybrid and pure ICE drivetrains is universally higher for the hybrid versions.

  An ICE vehicle needs a much larger engine than is truly necessary due to the inefficiencies and limitations of mechanical transmissions, whereas a hybrid can have a much smaller, more efficient engine.

  A hybrid can potentially act like a ‘perfect’ transmission, capable of taking in power from an engine running at its single most efficient RPM and, with the aid of battery storage, produce any combination of speed and torque that has an average power less than the output of the ICE.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In search of software for managing like a helpdesk but in a lite format⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner and I use a git repository on our self-hosted gitea instance for household management.

  Issue tracker and kanban boards for task management, wiki for documentation, and some infrastructure components are version controlled in the repo itself. You could almost certainly get away with just the issue tracker.

  Home Assistant (also self-hosted) provides the ability to easily and automatically create issues based on schedules and sensor data, like creating a git issue when when weather conditions tomorrow may necessitate checking this afternoon that nothing gets left out in the rain.

  Matrix (also self-hosted) lets Gitea and Home Assistant bully us into remembering to do things we might have forgotten. (Send a second notification if the washer finished 15 minutes ago, but the dryer never started)

  It’s been fantastic being able to create git issues for honey-dos as well as having the automations for creating issues for recurring tasks. “Hey we need to take X to the vet for Y sometime next week” “Oh yeah, can you go ahead and put in a ticket?” And vice versa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux distro for selfhosting server⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Still a few Ubuntu Server stragglers here and there, but it works quite well as long as you keep your base config fairly lean and push the complexity into the containers.

  Documentation tends to be either good or nonexistent depending on what you’re doing, so for anything beyond standard configuration but it can usually be pieced together from ArchWiki and the systemd docs.

  All in all, powerful and repeatable (and a lot less tedious than Ansible, etc), but perhaps not super beginner-friendly once you start getting into the weeds. Ubuntu Server is just better documented and supported if you need something super quick and easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I decided that I will update the nextcloud (windows) desktop client once or twice a decade⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NextCloud main use is file synchronization Is it? Interesting. I don’t think I’ve ever even considered using it for that purpose.

  I mostly use it as an easily web-accessible interface for a variety of unified productivity and organization software (file upload/download, office suite, notes, calendar, etc), with easy ability to do stuff like create a password-protected shared folders of pictures/documents I can easily share with friends and family who don’t have accounts so they can upload/download/organize/edit files with me and each other from a browser without having to install additional software on client devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I decided that I will update the nextcloud (windows) desktop client once or twice a decade⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which I’m not sure I get the popular mentioning of since it seems to serve a very different purpose than NextCloud does, like not even similar niches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a good multirole server setup for a racked server?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would strongly suggest not using 900GB 10kRPM drives (and especially not 10 of them) in [current year] when brand-new 8TB hard drives cost $120, and 14+TB recertified drives aren’t much more than that. The power costs of 7 more drives than you need for the capacity definitely add up over several years of runtime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for peoplecs experiences with Systemd-less distros for a home server⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop using a rolling release distro for something that you actually rely on day-to-day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for peoplecs experiences with Systemd-less distros for a home server⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, rolling release on a server sounds horrifying. You couldn’t pay me enough to live that nightmare.

  There’s a reason “enterprise” server distros exist. Install LTS release once every 2, 4, or 5 years depending on taste, login to update as you remember the machine is even running an OS, and just generally forget the machine exists for several years at a time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's talk about free/FOSS routing platforms for the homelab⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OpenWRT, because it has a nice interface, runs on half a toaster, and I’ve yet to find something that I need it do that it couldn’t do but OPNSense could.

  I did try PFSense many years back and it just seemed overly complicated and generally flaky. I had trouble setting it up as tinc vpn client despite that being a trivial task in OpenWRT, so I switched back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted twitter alternative, not mastodon if possible⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mastodon is a hellavalot easier to self-host then Lemmy, so if you got Lemmy running reliably then Mastodon would be a breeze.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BitLocker encryption broken in less than 43 seconds with sub-$10 Raspberry Pi Pico — key can be sniffed when using an external TPM⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What exactly is the point of full disk encryption if the system auto-unlocks on boot?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I use my RPi4⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  SBCs like the RPi are kind of awkwardly in-between a microcontroller like an Arduino or ESP32 that you can actually trust with handling GPIO and data logging, and a real Linux system that can actually do meaningful computational work.

  Pretty much the only task I’ve found them reliably appropriate for is running OctoPrint, really really light computer vision tasks for robotics, or hooking up an RTL-SDR to use as a police/HAM scanner. Outside of those, it’s so much easier to use either a cheaper and more reliable MCU or a much more powerful old laptop or desktop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Authy authenticator apps for desktop are being discontinued in August 2024 (Apple Silicon not included)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plugging pass/Password Store/Android Password Store for anyone wanting a good wrapper around git+pgp for desktop/Android using a YubiKey or similar hardware security key.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I use Restic, Borg, or Kopia for container backups?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not actually used it. I started off doing local backups, B2 was an add-on way later down the road.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I use Restic, Borg, or Kopia for container backups?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I only do automated copy to B2 from the local archive, no automated sync, which as far as I understand should be non-destructive with versioning enabled.

  If I need to prune, etc. I run will manually sync and then immediately restic check --read-data from a fast VPS to verify B2 version afterwards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I use Restic, Borg, or Kopia for container backups?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An external hard drive is a lot faster than my internet connection and helps fulfill 3-2-1 requirements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I use Restic, Borg, or Kopia for container backups?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use restic with a local external drive that is then synced to backblaze b2 via rclone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite note-taking application?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also really liked Google Keep. Carnet was at one point a decent drop-in replacement on Android+Nextcloud, but it got progressively bitrotted over time and now I just use Nextcloud Notes until I find something better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who back into parking spots: Why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet in the same posts they insult people who don’t have the same opinion as them.

  I’m betting it’s the use of the phrase “objectively easier” when that is incorrect by argument of geometry. The “objectively” riles people up.

  There is a reason why forklifts have rear-wheel steering (and therefore behave much like an automobile driving in reverse): having the point of rotation towards the direction of motion allows for much more precise maneuvering, much like you would need to do in a larger vehicle trying to fit into a tight parking space.