MangoPenguin
@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
He/Him | Bi Furry Boy
- Comment on safe? 1 week ago:
It supports those, but voltages other than 5V will only happen when an appropriate handshake happens. Just a USB-A cable to bare wires has no handshake and will be 5V.
- Comment on safe? 1 week ago:
USB-A will be 5V though.
- Comment on safe? 1 week ago:
It seems to be working, but the phone is expecting a 4.2V or 4.35V max input and USB is 5V. Maybe that power bank has a lot of voltage drop or a poorly regulated output so the voltage is lower.
- Comment on Should i selfhost? 4 weeks ago:
substantial administrative overhead for keeping a virtualization system running just for home assistant.
I’m not sure what you mean? HA OS in a VM doesn’t have any administrative overhead.
- Comment on Should i selfhost? 4 weeks ago:
Oh I know it’s just more of a pain, there’s very little overhead from a VM running Linux so it’s well worth doing that IMO.
- Comment on Many smaller drivers or fewer larger drives? 4 weeks ago:
Larger drives, because less power consumption.
Also less overall failures to deal with, if you have 10 drives vs 2 drives the chance of failure is higher.
Especially with 12TB drives being under $100 now for refurbs.
- Comment on Should i selfhost? 4 weeks ago:
Doesn’t that require manual setup of the addons if you don’t run HA OS?
- Comment on Should i selfhost? 4 weeks ago:
The general rule is the 3-2-1 rule, so 3 copies of your data, 2 different storage types, and 1 of them offsite.
Make sure you run backups at least daily too for your data, and keep a month or so worth of incremental snapshots.
Restic + Backblaze B2 is great for an offsite backup.
- Comment on JetKVM's Source Code is now public! ✨ 4 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s great for that kind of thing!
Enterprise servers often have it built in, but for everything else this is priced really well.
- Comment on Beginner asking for advice on self hosting a lemmy instance 4 weeks ago:
You can use nginx just fine, probably need to skip the automatic deployment though.
- Comment on JetKVM's Source Code is now public! ✨ 4 weeks ago:
KVM also allows access if the machine isn’t booted up, so like mounting remote recovery images, re-installing an OS, and changing BIOS settings and that kind of thing.
- Comment on Matrix coturn issues 2 months ago:
Throw the whole thing into a YAML linter: www.yamllint.com and see what it says. Likely a spacing/indent format error or something like that.
- Comment on Matrix coturn issues 2 months ago:
Make sure cloudflare proxy is disabled on that DNS record.
- Comment on Microsoft is launching a $349 desktop PC that only runs Windows 11 by streaming it from the cloud 2 months ago:
Why is it so expensive? You can buy a fully functioning laptop with a local windows install for way less.
Even the new mac mini is $599 and that’s a full on computer with really good performance.
- Comment on Is there any truth to this? 2 months ago:
There’s definitely some of that in there too haha
- Comment on Is there any truth to this? 2 months ago:
Haven’t seen a single bit of toxic stuff yet, my feed is all cute art and photography stuff.
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 2 months ago:
Sure, but the cost of batteries is at the point where even with replacements every 10-15 years you’ll spend less than you would buying power from the grid.
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 2 months ago:
All of them, plus storage batteries are under much less abuse and are different chemistry that lasts a lot longer.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 2 months ago:
It’s wild just how slow most thumb drives benchmark even with recent models, the Samsung Bar at 36MB/s is just ridiculous, that’s 30 minutes of waiting to fill it up entirely!
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 2 months ago:
Yes I’m waiting until it’s ready for the average user before I recommend it to anyone.
- Comment on Arc Browser - Changing focus when the main product isn't even finished? 2 months ago:
If you want that style of UI use Zen browser, it’s based on Firefox and doesn’t require an account to use it.
Arc is just another crappy browser based on Chrome.
- Comment on Healthiest way to charge Lithium Ion 2 months ago:
The healthiest is to enable the option to only charge to 80% (or near there, depending on the phone you have).
Otherwise slower charging is better, if the wireless charging doesn’t make the phone hotter than say 30C or so I wouldn’t worry about using it. 45C is the limit for charging Li-ion safely, but it’s better to be cooler.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 2 months ago:
FolderSync is a good alternative, more battery friendly too!
- Comment on Looking to move on from Unraid, need suggestions. 3 months ago:
I don’t use it on Android.
Photos are handled by Immich, and a general backup is done by the FolderSync app on a daily schedule over WebDAV to my server.
- Comment on Looking to move on from Unraid, need suggestions. 3 months ago:
Proxmox is good as a host OS, you’ll up a VM for docker and run your stuff in that.
It has a built in backup system to image your VMs and Containers, you can combine it with Proxmox Backup Server either in a VM or on another system for incremental backups and deduplication.
As far as Nextcloud goes I’m not surprised you had issues, their setup is weird and non-standard and very unstable in my experience. I switched to Syncthing long ago and it’s so much better.
- Comment on Looking to move on from Unraid, need suggestions. 3 months ago:
Sometimes you need a VM. They’re not overkill, just useful for different things.
Examples; Running Windows, Running OSX, Passing through hardware to use isolated from the host (PCIe devices, USB, etc), Linux guests where you need a full kernel and permissions (for example to run Docker without issues caused by being nested inside a container).
VMs don’t really have much more overhead than a container in most use cases too. For example a VM with debian installed uses about 30MB of RAM.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 3 months ago:
I’ve never been able to get this one to work, it will say it can’t detect speech even though I can hear it being played.
- Comment on PhotoPrism vs Apple Photos currently? 4 months ago:
Immich has been great, I’ve been running it for something like 1.5 years now I think.
- Comment on PhotoPrism vs Apple Photos currently? 4 months ago:
I love that they clearly say that. IMO they should keep that notice around even later on.
Far too many people spin up some solution for photos or files, either selfhosted or some paid service, and use it as their only storage. Then they’re surprised when data loss happens.
- Comment on This Android Malware Has Infected Over 11 Million Devices 4 months ago:
Doesn’t the play store have their “Play Protect” thing they’re always shoving in my face? Why didn’t that pick this up before 11 million people installed the app?