nimmo

nimmo , 1 month ago

I’ve got my instance of matrix working with voice calls. It’s not built in, but it’s just another service in my compose file alongside the bridges I use to have my unified chat app.

I’m using coturn and it just works when doing voice and video calls with federated users.

I think I’ve seen people using jitsi as well, so it seems there are many options available

nimmo , 2 months ago

The original was EA, this re-release is Aspyr, so as bad as EA are I’m not convinced that they’re to blame here.

nimmo , 2 months ago

Ah, thanks for correcting me there. I knew that EA were involved at some level and I didn’t think to research that part of the post I was replying to, so I stand corrected, but I think the main point I was making is still valid, that the team that initially developed the game weren’t behind this re-release.

nimmo , 3 months ago

On the uptime monitoring I’ve been quite happy with uptime kuma, but… If you put it on the same host that’s down… Well, that’s not going to work :p (I nearly made that mistake)

nimmo , 3 months ago

Oh, I’m fine with my setup, I have a couple of external servers that can monitor all my web accessible stuff with kuma and then I’ve got another local one to monitor my non-web accessible stuff.

Thanks for those tips though, definitely useful to consider other options

nimmo , 3 months ago

Thanks for that additional insight into this channel. This completely changes the way that I will now look at this content.

nimmo , 3 months ago

Haha, that’s fair. I was being sincere.

I’d initially scrolled past thinking “I played this whilst I was still at Uni, why is anyone talking about it now?”

Now that I know this person’s focus is intentionally looking at older games I’m willing to go and give it a watch.

nimmo , 3 months ago

I’ve just recently started using tdarr to convert all of my media to x265on 14/02 and so far I’ve saved 4.02 TB of what was 28.12TB media collection. (The number isn’t a true reflection though because new episodes and shows have been added to that library since I started)

I’m letting tdarr manage the conversion process and once up and running meant that my NAS, desktop, my NUC and a mini pc are all plodding through and converting when I’m not using them for other things.

If you are worried about the disk space being taken and have some CPU time you can devote to the conversion process then I’d suggest it’s worth looking into tdarr.

nimmo , 3 months ago

Ah, fair point. I don’t use torrents, my media comes from usenet, so that doesn’t need to factor into my thinking.

My (overly?) Complex setup does allow me to resort to torrents as a last resort, but that happens on another machine outside my home network and gets synchronised into my home via a one-way syncthing share, so even on the rare occasion I have to resort to torrents I can leave it on that server seeding for a few weeks or months.

nimmo , 3 months ago

I’m going to choose not to answer that for two reasons…

1. I don’t know the answer
2. solar panels and batteries are great.

But yes I’m in a position where I was more willing to pay for the power than I was to buy additional storage space as I’m hitting the top of what I can do without significant expense.

nimmo , 3 months ago

Could Snipe it work for you? docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-snipe-it/

It looks like an asset management tool. The description copied and pasted from above reads:Snipe-it makes asset management easy. It was built by people solving real-world IT and asset management problems, and a solid UX has always been a top priority. Straightforward design and bulk actions mean getting things done faster

nimmo , 3 months ago

That sounds like a rather unpleasant experience indeed! I’ve never looked into it in more detail than scrolling through the lsio containers they offer, so thanks for that insight and saving me a headache in case I get around to a similar project I’ve also been meaning to embark upon

nimmo , 4 months ago

I pay my $10 license and a personal organisation license for bitwarden because I like their platform but after yet another irrecoverable loss of data (partly my fault for not sufficiently backing it up) I’ve moved over to vaultwarden for my family’s password management.

I don’t think I’ll stop supporting bitwarden even if I’m not using their platform directly though as I do like the service I’ve had from them for something like 4 or 5 years now.

nimmo , 4 months ago

One time I ran out of disk space due to it having created since 200gb log files (not sure why that happened) then another time I think I broke something whilst moving from I’ve got to another. I can’t remember what else happened to break my instances but it was always big enough there I couldn’t restore it to working it after hours if work, so if just export the vaults from everyone’s machine, nuke it, start again and try to learn how I broke it so I didn’t do it again.

I believe I was the problem for most of them except the massive log files one, but still, it was probably my fault as the things usually are. (Guess whose wife has them well trained at accepting the blame 😋)

nimmo , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I don’t have easy access to my torrent client at the moment, how much disk space are we talking about here? Tens of GB, hundreds, multiple TB?

Edit: ooft, that’s a hefty chunk of space indeed, the first one I looked at was 400gb, the second was >4tb. Sadly I can’t contribute that kind of space on my torrent box.

nimmo , 5 months ago

I was going to say that the big downside to that would be a lack of any kind of version control, but I guess if you need that you can always use git and just commit changes there and (optionally) push them to a repository somewhere.

nimmo , 5 months ago

I think it’s a relatively recent thing. As the documentation for each of the *arts has a relatively recent minimum version number I think.

Here’s where I went when looking for whisparr, but just replace that with the arr you’re wanting to use and it’ll give you decent steps for getting your database created and migrated into it: wiki.servarr.com/whisparr/postgres-setup

nimmo , 5 months ago

I chose to take down my production instance of lemmyz do a cp -r of it, update the docker compose file to specify the new version numbers for Lemmy and lemmy-ui plus change the port that the stack exposes and do a docker-compose pull && docker-compose up -d on that stack to check to see if it could all work. Thankfully it did, so I updated the production compose file and tada! I’m on 19.0 safely

nimmo , 7 months ago

Answer the call 2016!

I’ll believe it when I see it.

nimmo , 8 months ago

I’ve been using planka and have been quite happy with my experiences for the last couple of months.

nimmo , 8 months ago

Ooo, I’ll add that to one of my planka boards for “things to look at later” thanks for sharing

nimmo , 8 months ago

I’ve not tried this myself, but how about mounting the volume using sshfs?

simplytim.io/mounting-a-sftp-ssh-share-as-a-volum…

This is of course assuming that you’ve got ssh access to the VPS.

I’m currently mounting volumes using cifs and NFS, but I don’t think I’d be too keen on exposing those to the internet at large.

nimmo , 9 months ago

That’s interesting, because I was finding guides for traefik and caddy but not nginx (specifically swag in my case)

The issue I was having, in case it helps you, is that I was trying to expose 8448 on my synapse container which doesn’t have SSL instead of on my SWAG container and then redirect to my synapse one.

nimmo , 10 months ago

I started looking at co-working space a few months ago and I took a package where I could get 50 hours a month in it for £100+VAT. When I was in there there were usually a handful of people working away and although I didn’t end up really striking up a conversation with anyone just having other people around was good for me as it meant that the only voices I heard whilst working weren’t just the ones on our video conferencing software or in my head.

I have stopped using it now though because of a temporary change to my working hours meaning that I can’t take use my 50 hours in a month (not even half of them in the lastlnth I was doing it) but once that ends I’ll be kicking off that subscription again. If you want to know more about the company I used let me know as I believe they have offices throughout the country.

nimmo , 10 months ago

It depends on how long your work day is as to whether or not you’ve got that 2 hours spare I guess.

I was using www.wizuworkspace.com and one thing I haven’t mentioned was that they also offered a pay as you go thing where you pay £20+VAT per day.

nimmo , 10 months ago

An alternative to torrenting though is Usenet. It takes a bit of setting up but there are some nice advantages. No worrying about needing to seed back and you’re not going to need to worry about a VPN or your ISP forwarding on threatening letters. Sure it costs money, but I think I pay about £45 per year and I don’t regret that one little bit.

nimmo , 10 months ago

I personally use gitea but there is also a community version of gitlab that has way more power than I need.

Gitea can import a repo from GitHub but I don’t know whether it can also push updates out as one never tried to do that.

I picked gitea as I didn’t need all of the extra power of gitlab and they were the first two options I found. I don’t deploy it using portainer but all of my stacks are set up as git repos in portainer and using the webhook feature it’ll auto pull and redeploy whenever I push to it

nimmo , 10 months ago

Now that’s not something I’d have expected. I’ve never encountered anything like that in the nearly 15-20 years I’ve been using TL.

nimmo , 10 months ago

Just took a look at my profile, registered on 27 June 2006. So it’s in my 15-20 year window that I mentioned

nimmo , 10 months ago

I’ve just gotten my own instance of Lemmy running here and think I’m getting the hang of how to subscribe and link up to other instances. This is also a teaser to see if my first comment actually works!

nimmo , 10 months ago

Thanks for confirming before I could bruise back to Lemmy world, find this post and confirm for myself.

nimmo , 10 months ago

One method that many people use to hide their IP address of their host is to use Cloudflare for DNS, that way you don’t directly expose your IP address to the wider internet. A nice bonus to Clouldflare is that it’s free too! Just get yourself a domain, get Cloudflare set up to provide DNS for it and you’re golden.