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Such an abomination :-)

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Absence of Yaml is exactly biggest annoyance in modern HA. It just not configurable without million of clicks. Just try to apply same automation procedure to other set of devices. In text you just copy block, in GUI you have to redo everything from scratch.

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I bit a bullet and re-implement all automation on NoderRed leaving HA only dashboard. It is still not great, as Node Red is gui based. So may be Pythom + MQTT is best way for home automation.

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Heh, Jellyfin is above Plex. Nice. And it would be interesting to know how that survey conducted. Too many countries missing.

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Plus seed some torrents to cover network requirements.

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Pine64 have some RISC-V boards. Not sure how far are they with support.

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You got a service, I sure that if you place API calls manually it will work. For what are you asking refund, they done their part of deal.

Linux Workspace for Browser

Hello, im searching for a Workspace for a Webbrowser. I want to Connect to a GUI Like Interface where i can run Linux Software. I allready tried kasm. This was not bad but i want the full Desktop experience. Then i installed Guacamole under cloudron this was also OK but a bit slower. Would be cool if you could list me a few more...

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Just run old plain Xorg.

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Gitea is in same lightweight category.

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How does fiber termination looks like? If something like that www.markertek.com/productImage/…/932-153-1D2.JPG you can by extension cable.

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could you post a photo somehow?

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These IPs will be only resolved on nfsd restart. So you still need static IPs for nodes.

Should I go with a prebuilt or custom built NAS to get into self hosting?

Hey all, I’ve been doing a bunch of research on selfhosting the last few weeks as I’d love to lean on more open source projects for my daily productivity & entertainment. My main goal is to backup all my personal documents, photos, and videos (around 1tb so far over ~5 years, so not too demanding) and host a few services to...

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I was using QNAPs NASes for more than 10 years. It was a great product, not anymore. Feature bloat took its toll. It can do a lot but do it badly. So if you go for prebuild avoid QNAP. Build your own.

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It is just a imprecise bunch of JavaScript. There is no need to host it, you just need to get into your browser.

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I would add, Corral TPU is nearly essential. But do not forgot about video decoding acceleration. I’m running couple of 4k H.265 cameras without HW acceleration, and ffmpeg consumes good amount of CPU out of my Ryzen 3600. So pick hardware which can decode streams from your cameras.

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I use QNAPs for literary decades. I’m now in my 3d one. I love that they supports their devices for long time. But their software is getting more features, but quality IMHO is going down. I would now build NAS myself and not buy QNAP. Not having option with ECC RAM is also disappointing, but probably ok for home usage.

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Old saying. If you do not have 3 copies of you data, consider it lost already. Get another drive, in your setup type does not mater what size. And if there any important data on that drive, create a couple of backups in different places.

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zfs dkms on debian prompt to be non problematic for me. ZFS is standard storage back-end for our docker swarm hosts, and I have plenty of them. Same DKMS work fine on my desktops too.

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If your music come in form of files, use syncthing. Fast simple, cross platform.

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you do not need windows VM to game these days. Steam done fantastic work with proton, Majority of games are just works, some don’t but not like we have shortage of games these days. CAD is different story.

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Their prices are ridicules if you add cost of outbound traffic.

PHP and security

The recent post about what people are using for webmail got me thinking about a perhaps irrational policy I have with my own self-hosted software: I don’t install anything written in PHP, because I have this vague notion that PHP software is often insecure. I think I probably got this idea because years ago I saw all the...

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Language where use of uninitialized variable is warning ( not a core dump) should not be used. IT mostly in the past for modern PHP, but bad programmers habits remains. I have seen so horribly written PHP project, so i prefer to stay away.

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My opinion that language have changed, but people who use it are mostly same. Anyone who starting working in WebDev now will not use PHP, it is no longer a good tool. Like perl, it is still around, lots of software depends on it. But hardly any new stuff will be written on it. And it is programmers who define quality of the code, if you learn to code on language which promote bad practice it is really hard to change.

What got you into selfhosting and what was the first thing that you hosted?

For me, it was PhotoPrism. I used to be an idiot, and used Google Photos as my gallery. I knew that it was terrible for privacy but was too lazy to do anything about it. When Google limited storage for free accounts, I started looking for alternatives. Tried out a lot of stuff, but ended up settling on PhotoPrism....

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Heh, I did about same but on FreeBDS. Plus proxy server to share dialup connection around home.

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you need to be organised with beet. Import your music one album after an other. use “-t” to be sure that beet is guessing albums correctly. It is lot of work, but once it done it is smooth sailing.

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Call me crazy, but I’m using jellyfin + beet for backend. Native Jellyfin client on PC and Sympfonium on mobile. Works for me. But my library is small less than 50k tracks.

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You can use gitlab. Big and feature rich. or gitea - small neat and have all important features. With gitea add something like “woodpeaker” for CI

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Or just call a guy to do splicing. It is no longer elite job ( apt least in AU). They not charge more than electrician these days.

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Fail to see benefits of going BD. Just run some spare cores will be cheaper and more straightforward.

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Not realty helpful but SLAAC was working fine on pure Debian at least back to buster. Sorry, do not have that machine around anymore.

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Just add power cost to run it. Old thing become way more expensive if you add power cost over it life.

Email self-hosting

As the title reads, I really want to begin hosting my own email server again. I’m sick of the poor quality of the service providers out there. Damnit all I want/need is a reliable IMAP/SMTP provider. I spent 3 hours getting off of Hostinger and on to Zoho. I just hope Zoho won’t suck. It’s great for now but we’ll see....

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Do you own IPv4 address space as individual? I do not think it will happen in his era. Just pick ISP which provides internet services to businesses only (probably as colo), so you IP will not get listed as “residential” and start building up reputation. MX on cheap VPS is fine.

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What are you doing to get spam? Somehow simple RBL check + pipelining block most of it for me.

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run it at work. I would say it bit too heavy and too much for home usage.

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Yeh, It is big fault in ActivityPub design that IDs are linked to domain name. Should not be a case. Some UUID + public keys will make it way more flexible and resilient.

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