Tolookah
@Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Crazy 5 days ago:
Call the doctor!
- Comment on Suggestions for Community Organizing 6 days ago:
Having gone through it, a matrix server is not newbie friendly yet.
- Comment on Christmas Animals 1 week ago:
I’m part of the problem. I have a penguin inflatable in my lawn. (I also have a dragon and a dinosaur, also not known for Christmas)
- Comment on Selfhosting with a seven year old 1 week ago:
Honestly? It was a pain, I used several different guides and they were all out of date in different ways. Unfortunately, it looks like external users are having connectivity problems, that I’ll try to solve next week when I have time.
- Comment on Selfhosting with a seven year old 1 week ago:
My kid is 9, and it’s all Minecraft and I just installed a non federated synapse server so they can text family without having to deal with parental controls. At that age, I figure it’s more about having fun, and if they learn typing skills on the way, big win
- Comment on DIY Unfinished Resurrection Project (DURP) challenge thru 1st Day of Spring. Selfhosters Encouraged! 2 weeks ago:
Oidc, and it’ll end up opening up to more family around the holidays, as authentik is also my matrix user provider (shut out of the real world because I wanted my 9 year old to be able to text and video call family). Mealie was a piece of cake compared to the whole synapse environment
- Comment on DIY Unfinished Resurrection Project (DURP) challenge thru 1st Day of Spring. Selfhosters Encouraged! 2 weeks ago:
Thanks! I finally linked mealie with authentik. It was a 10 minute task, if that, but this post pushed me over
- Comment on Fun/interesting things to self host? 2 weeks ago:
I’m running github.com/awinterstein/habitica/ and have built the android app locally to get access. I really need to update and build it again eventually.
It’s not seamless, but it functions for the family.
- Comment on Fun/interesting things to self host? 2 weeks ago:
Examples of the type of service I’m looking at: a media server, photos app (to replace Google Photos), game servers, recipe management, home automation… What other things do you know about that are fun/interesting/useful?
I use:
- Immich for photo hosting
- Jellyfin and navidrome for media (video and audio)
- Calibre and calibre-web for ebooks
- Minecraft server
- Mealie for recipes.
- Home assistant for automation
- Habitica for habit forming
- And I have fpp for my Christmas lights (the application is xlights, fpp is the server that runs the scripts)
All of these I like.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 3 weeks ago:
What’s this about right after waking up? (I may have struck this from memory)
- Comment on Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN. 3 weeks ago:
Can you set the BIOS to wake up at a certain time? Many have that option.
- Comment on Selfhosted alternatives to Discord with screensharing? 3 weeks ago:
Ugh, I just got matrix with video working and it took way too long.
- Comment on is the peak life in 2026 is marrying a AI Girlfriend and having a AI friends? why no one wants to be social? 3 weeks ago:
Find people who are into things you’re into, the conversation will flow. Even some very introverted people will talk your ears off if you find the right topic, they are just less likely to tell you what that topic is.
- Comment on !@$& Homelab Networking 4 weeks ago:
When I set it up, I did not know better.
Now? Inertia. Nginx already does it for other things, I haven’t bothered to move home assistant over because home assistant works ( all but one days in a cycle)
- Comment on !@$& Homelab Networking 4 weeks ago:
I understand.
I learned again for the nth time that home assistant doesnt like refreshing my cert, and I can’t go to the site to refresh the cert unless it has a valid cert…
Maybe I’ll fix it tomorrow. It’s valid again now.
- Comment on Caption this. 4 weeks ago:
That’s how they hear the art
- Comment on Interoperability between self-hosted services 5 weeks ago:
My process typically goes: ooh, shiny new service!
If it has a docker compose, I’ll read up a little more on it, then set it up.
At that point, I’ll cry a bit in having to change my nginx config, because it’s new and unsupported, figure out what’s actually needed, then realize I didn’t set it up with authentik or even check if it was supported.
Usually I’ll dig around and someone got something close, so I’ll set it up that way, and if it works, great! If not, dig through the documents.Any further interoperability is luck based.
(I’m currently trying to get element-call working before I open it to my family, the whole matrix stack is leaving me scarred )
- Comment on Why does this diagram on how CMOS switching show the ground voltage rising? 5 weeks ago:
If you’re measuring ground at the supply, you’ll have a voltage drop on both the supply line and the return line. It’s much less on a PCB, but if you are switching fast enough with large big voltages, even the inductive load of vias to ground can ruin your day.
- Comment on Looking for a selfhostable chat service that people on phone and computers can log onto 5 weeks ago:
I started trying to set it up last week, I can’t seem to figure out why authentik and it will not play. It either tries authentik and gets a 404 or ignores it and doesn’t find the user. (Nginx is also involved). It’s the least user friendly thing I’ve tried to self host so far
- Comment on Hardware raccomandation for new selfhoster 1 month ago:
No complaints, but I’m just 2-3 users, so I’ve not really pushed it hard.
- Comment on Hardware raccomandation for new selfhoster 1 month ago:
Ram is full. I wouldn’t say performance is great, but it’s good enough that no one complains.
- Comment on Hardware raccomandation for new selfhoster 1 month ago:
I’ve got the arr stack, nextcloud and immich, with 16gb ram and I’m pretty sure I shouldn’t add anything else.
- Comment on Hardware raccomandation for new selfhoster 1 month ago:
I’ve got a 4-bay ugreen nas with truenas on it, works great. (The non plus model)
- Comment on I'm unsure what to self-host 1 month ago:
I started with a Minecraft server, once the PC was in the basement…
- Comment on 1 month ago:
They probably have several checkpoints to scan every hour or half hour, I’ve seen places with RFID checkpoints that security has to tap on a regular basis. The idea is that security has to not spend the whole night at the desk.
Now they are likely looking for people breaking in, not a small octopus breaking out, so it might not get noticed.
- Comment on How do you organize your components library? 1 month ago:
I keep the digikey labels. (Or other stores) Usually in the shipping baggies.
- Comment on How do you organize your components library? 1 month ago:
My component list is small, generic things go in a tackle box, like they use for fishing. And things that are project specific stay in a small box for that project. It’s not perfect, but it works well enough.
- Comment on Using the LM311 comparator, as a faster replacement for LM741 in project 1 month ago:
Looking at the datasheet for the lm311, the output is a transistor (I think it’s shown on your schematic), the reason you need a pull-up on it is because it has no bias or power. That will let it pull the voltage down. If you’re noting that it doesn’t rise fast enough, try making that 100k smaller, give it some more strength.
. The 741 on the other hand has a pair of transistors on the output stage, attached to +v and -v so it can push and pull the output
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The trip though will get you a cpap potentially, and those after helpful if you do have apnea.
If you have apnea and you see a doctor, you’ll sleep better with the CPAP, give it a week or two though.
- Comment on Using the LM311 comparator, as a faster replacement for LM741 in project 1 month ago:
What’s your schematic with the lm311 ? Input impedances, output impedance, voltages, etc