MangoPenguin

@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Thoughts on the Zen Browser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s in beta, so large changes are to be expected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backups: Am I doing this right?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah there are plenty of advantages of a full system backup, like not having to worry that you’re backing up all the specific directories needed.

  Personally I do both, I have a full system backup to local storage, and then to Backblaze B2 using Restic I backup only the really important stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backups: Am I doing this right?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Then I started reading about backing up databases, and it seems you can’t just back up the data directory (or file in the case of SQLite) and call it good. You need to dump them first and backup the dumps.

  You can just back up the data directory, that works fine for selfhosted stuff generally because we don’t have tons of users writing to the database constantly.

  If you back up /var/lib/docker/volumes, your docker-compose files for each service, and any other bind mount directories you use, then restoring is as easy as pulling all the data back to the new system and running docker compose up -d on each service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Reverse Proxy for Cloudflare⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cloudflare is a proxy, so if you use cloudflare tunnels you don’t need anything on your end unless you want to do split-horizon DNS for local access.

  But otherwise, nginx, caddy, traefik, npm, etc… all work fine with Cloudflare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨which softwares can I self host without public IP?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically everything. Self hosting doesn’t rely on public access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Issues with Immich⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Check the logs for the containers and see what the issue is first. Then go from there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Experience with refurbished and recertified HDDs?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  100% reliable so far, I’ve bought about 10 of them I think.

  The main thing is buy from a local shop or online place like serverpartdeals.com and not Amazon or other online marketplaces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office support in Windows 10 ends in October too - what that really means⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Libreoffice with the ribbon interface looks about the same to me.

  OnlyOffice is basically an electron browser app IIRC which is why the performance is so poor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That won’t migrate watch history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you try any of the sync extensions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker in LXC vs VM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ease of use mostly, one click to restore everything including the OS is nice. Can also easily move them to other hosts for HA or maintenance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker in LXC vs VM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you handle backups? Install restic or whatever in every container and set it up? What about updates for the OS and docker images, watchtower on them I imagine?

  It sounds like a ton of admin overhead for no real benefit to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker in LXC vs VM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A couple posts down explains it, docker completely steamrolls networking when you install it. …proxmox.com/…/running-docker-on-the-proxmox-host…

  The other reason is if it’s on the host you can’t back it up using proxmox backup server with the rest of the VMs/CTs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker in LXC vs VM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Regardless of VM or LXC, I would only install docker once. There’s generally no need to create multiple docker VMs/LXCs on the same host.

  Backups are the same with VM or LXC on Proxmox.

  The main advantages of LXC that I can think of:

  • Slightly less resource overhead, but not much (debian minimal or alpine VM is pretty lightweight already).
  • Ability to pass-through directories from the host.
  • Ability to change CPU cores or RAM while it’s running.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker in LXC vs VM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dockers ‘take-over-system’ style of network management will interfere with proxmox networking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you run backups on your system?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Longest interval is every 24 hours. With some more frequent like every 6 hours or so, like the ones for my game servers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do people use for a shelf-stable backup⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  USB hard drive? If we’re talking about a cold backup that’s easy to access a USB drive is reliable and easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep up?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah pinning is great, you’ll still need watchtower for auto updates too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep up?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Komodo is a full management setup, similar to Portainer, Dockge, etc… It works reasonably well.

  Watchtower doesn’t require any labeling unless you want to exclude a container.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for personal cloud storage alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe Karadav with the Nextcloud clients/apps.

  Not sure if that will support selective sync, I don’t see anything saying specifically no on the repo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WiFi Roaming Between Different Routers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah give it a try, I use -75dBm as my setting. Currently only on the 5ghz band, but you can try on all of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep up?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I run proxmox on the host with docker in a VM for 90% of my stuff, OS updates I do like every 6 months maybe, I’ve done 1 major version upgrade on proxmox with no issues at all.

  The docker containers auto-update via Komodo, and nothing really ever breaks anymore other than the occasional container error that needs a simple fix.

  Everything important is backed up nightly using both proxmox backup server, and to backblaze B2 with restic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WiFi Roaming Between Different Routers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found that a lot of clients just don’t roam well, they hang on to even unusable weak signals.

  On my Unifi setup I’ve ended up turning on minimum RSSI on the APs so they force kick off any devices with a signal that is too low.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Battlefield Labs | Battlefield Studios⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure having a rate limit on signups means anything for what kind of users they’re looking for. The site was actually down last night probably from the sheer amount of traffic hitting it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give permission. Don't give permission. They know where you are anyway⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Using firefox in strict mode with ublock origin, cookie auto-delete, and a VPN to change your IP should stop location tracking and cross-site tracking. Sites will still know you’ve visited them and what pages you’ve been to for that session but that is impossible to stop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give permission. Don't give permission. They know where you are anyway⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True, it’s storing the IP address that is the issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switching out UPS batteries⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not easily or cheaply, because of the voltage mismatch. Using a buck / boost converter setup tuned specifically for the UPS might work but would be pricey and probably not that reliable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switching out UPS batteries⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah gotcha, that’s the regulated 12V output with USB PD mode, and not the voltage of the battery inside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switching out UPS batteries⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  3s would be 11.1v and 4s is 14.8v, so I’m not sure where you got 12v from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nextcloud behind Cloudflare zero trust⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  DNS-01 challenge with letsencrypt. Or use cloudflare tunnel and don’t use https internally.