MangoPenguin
@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
He/Him | Bi Furry Boy
- Comment on ‘Scan your face’ laws for the web are having unexpected consequences 3 days ago:
Yeah that is bizarre, maybe malware or a malicious browser addon?
- Comment on how to start with self-hosting? 3 days ago:
Install Debian as a server with no GUI, install docker on it and start playing around.
You can use Komodo or Portainer if you want a webUI to manage containers easily.
If you put any important data on it, set up backups first, follow the 3-2-1 rule by having at least 2 backups in place.
The problem with stuff like yunohost is when it breaks you have no idea how to fix it, because it hides everything in the background.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 5 days ago:
They haven’t locked themselves to Google hardware by choice, it’s the only hardware with the security features they need so far.
Remember graphenes goal is a very secure OS, not just a more private degoogled one, for that there’s /e/os and other options that support more hardware.
- Comment on Tesla FSD turns off more U.S. consumers than it attracts, survey finds 5 days ago:
Or the lie that it’s full self driving in general.
- Comment on I'm "use NFS forfilesharing old." what's the current optimal solution for shared drives if I have like 3 linux machines in the house? 5 days ago:
Sounds like NFS might still be the way to go for you.
For backups personally I use Restic and connect over SFTP via SSH, since that’s just built in and doesn’t need any configuration.
For more traditional file sharing I use WebDAV with SFTPGo, since I need windows and android compatibility too, and webdav is pretty easy to setup and use.
And I also use Syncthing for keeping some directories in sync between devices.
- Comment on Second set of eyes - DNS Nameservers 6 days ago:
Not with Bluehost.
- Comment on Second set of eyes - DNS Nameservers 6 days ago:
Only if you enable their proxy on a DNS record, or use their tunnel feature. Otherwise it’s just DNS with no access to your traffic.
- Comment on Second set of eyes - DNS Nameservers 6 days ago:
Cloudflare is fine for DNS hosting and the control panel is well made and easy to use compared to a lot of other services, they have no access to your traffic or anything unless you specifically use their proxy features.
Add the domain to cloudflare, change the nameservers in Bluehost, and you should be all set to use Letsencrypt via the API.
You could also transfer the domain to Cloudflare.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 6 days ago:
Downside is ties to Russia and performance is really bad, as I understand it’s an Electron web app, not a native application. It also won’t save to network shares properly and will lose your file if you do.
- Comment on What external services do you use for your selfhosting setup? 1 week ago:
Basically just the bare minimum
- Backblaze B2
- DNS for my public domain name
- Uptime monitoring for my website
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
www.libreoffice.org if you want microsoft to stop messing with your office apps.
- Comment on Where is Immich going to be in 1 year? What's your prediction? 1 week ago:
You can still use Syncthing to pull photos back to the phone, Immich just stores them in organized directories as normal files.
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 1 week ago:
Their ‘verified’ app store already has tons of fake malware apps being distributed on it, maybe they should clean up their act first.
- Comment on Lowering power consumption on Opteron 1 week ago:
Well definitely faster than 1 Opteron at least: cpubenchmark.net/…/AMD-Opteron-6272-vs-Intel-i5-7…
Single thread is massively better, but if that’s useful or not depends on the kinds of applications you’re running.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 1 week ago:
I wonder how the co2 from drying/making bricks compares
- Comment on Lowering power consumption on Opteron 1 week ago:
Newer CPUs can also just be better optimized and have more faster cache and that sort of thing, so might be faster at running a process even if they’re the same on paper.
- Comment on Lowering power consumption on Opteron 1 week ago:
Those old server CPUs and motherboards just draw a ton of power, I’m not sure there’s much more you can do.
It might be best to change hardware if you need lower power draw, a $50 PC off ebay with an i5-7500 should be faster and a only uses about 15W idle.
- Comment on Lowering power consumption on Opteron 1 week ago:
That N200 is likely on par or faster than dual Opteron 6272 CPUs, since they are so old.
- Comment on Milliamp-hours per hour 1 week ago:
Yup, this is just saying 510mA in a weird way
- Comment on Am I corrupting my data? 1 week ago:
Essentially a container shares the kernel of the host, so uses less resources to run.
VMs are useful when you need more isolation or a different kernel (or need to add kernel modules).
For most purposes containers are the easy option.
I guess I could have a Container with a bind mount to a dataset that I want to be able to share over NFS or SMB, and handle that from whatever OS I put in the Container, right?
Yep!
But, I could also have a VM do that, and though it wouldn’t be able to share the data with other VMs, it can do it over NFS, can’t it?
Also yes, just a more complex setup with more performance penalty due to using NFS to share data into the VM.
- Comment on Am I corrupting my data? 1 week ago:
You wouldn’t want to write to the same file at the same time, but otherwise it works fine.
- Comment on Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally ) 1 week ago:
That’s almost worse, Asus also makes a lot of garbage.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 1 week ago:
Is this 100% an OS issue, or a hardware issue just being made apparent by the OS doing something weird?
- Comment on Am I corrupting my data? 2 weeks ago:
Migration should be as simple as importing the existing ZFS stuff into the Proxmox OS.
If I understand correctly, you can specify directories that live on the Proxmox Host, and they appear inside the VM, right?
- Comment on Am I corrupting my data? 2 weeks ago:
Proxmox supports ZFS natively with management in the WebUI. So you could get rid of TrueNAS entirely and not need to deal with HBA pass-through or anything.
You also wouldn’t need NFS or have to deal with shares, as the data is available directly to Proxmox Containers via bind mounts.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 weeks ago:
Satellites need to orbit at some distance above the planet though, so the round trip will always be fairly long even for ones with a pretty close orbit.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 weeks ago:
Fiber also has far better performance that satellite can never match.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 2 weeks ago:
I don’t bother testing using live boot anymore, often hardware will work on the live image but not work after it’s installed.
- Comment on Help diagnosing server freeze issue 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I think you found it, my server had the same symptoms and a bad RAM stick was the cause.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up to date, selfhosters? 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t say that, I said almost! Generally disk IO is where VMs fall short on performance vs a container.