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thirdBreakfast ,

I have a very similar setup. Jellyfin in Docker on a Debian VM (2 cores, 8GB RAM), and all the media on the NAS. The CIFS/SMB from the NAS is mounted in fstab. I keep all the metadata locally for speed - ie not on the NAS. I don’t like the extra layer of running Docker, but it works like a charm whereas I had a few hassles running Jellyfin natively in the VM. I do have a special ‘media’ user with the name and password in the mount command which only has permissions for the media.

Can’t comment on the arrs suite since I get all my linux distros on those disks attached to the front of magazines.

thirdBreakfast ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/03cfdffa-969b-4dae-b7da-8c31b1e2c9a1.jpeg

thirdBreakfast ,

I started on a similar journey (escaping from Evernote rather than Nextcloud), and ended up on Silverbullet run at home and accessed over Tailscale. It is a bit of a different approach and has a small upfront learning time. I love having all my notes as reasonably plain markdown, so if I ever want to change my solution, my data’s in an easily movable format - for example changing to Obsidian would not involve any import/export.

thirdBreakfast ,

Thanks for going back and updating with your solution - I’m gonna check that out.

good alternatives to raspberry pi which are cheap and efficient?

Hello , dear lemmy users , I am starting to really like self-host because they are really fast and mostly i use open source stuff (like lemmy /photon etc) which were sometimes slow but after self hosting it now on the pc i am on using , i really like it...

thirdBreakfast ,

I’m seconding this. The Pi-supply-dry is getting better, but for similar money to a Pi4 you can get an ex-corporate 1L mini PC (I like the HP G1 800’s in a nice case, with engineered cooling, real storage, and easy memory upgrades.

thirdBreakfast ,

According to the readout on my UPS, about 10W idle

thirdBreakfast ,

Love KeePass, I use it to store all my passwords including to SyncThing, then I keep my KeePass file in my SyncThing instance so I can recover from a disaster. Definitely nothing could go wrong with that ;-)

Raspberry Pi 1 B projects?

I have an old Pi hanging around doing nothing. When I originally got it it had the latest Pi OS with desktop loaded and ran like garbage, not surprisingly. So I messed with it headless for a bit, then found RISCOS as an option in Pi imager utility and that is just a neat OS. Fun to play around with for sure. But now I’m...

thirdBreakfast ,

I was wishing I had one just recently. I’m not smart enough to get my ancient APC UPS to interface to Debian with the USB cable, so I need a device I can ping that’s plugged into the mains (ie not through the UPC) so I can run a script that shuts the server down when the Pi stops responding to the pings.

So that’s all it’d need to do - respond to pings when it’s powered on. I’ve ordered a B+ for exactly this job.

thirdBreakfast ,

ESP8266

Thanks - I sort of had that Idea and looked at the ESP32 with an Ethernet port, but it was looking complex to flash because of no UART etc. Looks like the ESP8266 would need an add on for Ethernet? Plus I might still be out of my depth figuring out how to flash it?

I also considered an Ethernet hat for the Uno since I have a couple of them floating around somewhere, but in the end the B+ was cheaper. Those little boards would probably be better for power consumption as well though

thirdBreakfast ,

No. That looks very promising. Thanks, I’ll check it out!

thirdBreakfast ,

rj50

Yes

thirdBreakfast ,

Aww. Thanks. I’ve got the cable, I just need to invest some time into a couple of suggestions from here.

Getting in a pickle over hardware

I’m moderately tech savvy, a little experience with most OS and comfortable with hardware. I’ve got some basic things working in Docker. I want to start self hosting my photo backup, Bitwarden, Jellyfish, Sonarr and Radarr, Pi hole, Home Assistant and replace Dropbox. But the more I dive into the hardware and setup the more...

thirdBreakfast ,

I have a 4 bay Synology and an HP G2 800 i7-6700, plus a POE switch, couple of cameras, omada WAP. The software load is mostly Jellyfin and Syncthing plus a BOINC LXC that pegs one core. Power consumption generally sits at around 55-65W (my APC UPS has a power readout) from memory the idle was pretty low - I think 24W although that might have been the previous 2 bay NAS.

I think your plan of a NUC and a NAS (I’d stick to 2 bay) is a good compromise for low power and easy of setup/management. I have my NAS configured to keep the rust spinning - I’m sure I’d save a bit of power by letting it spin down, but the delay when I starting some media in Jellyfin was annoying, and I suspect the disks will live longer moving anyway.

thirdBreakfast ,

Me too. I’ve been carrying it around in my head as “the time we listened to scientists, and almost everyone worked together on some short term pain for worldwide long term gain”. I was even hoping we might do something like that again.

thirdBreakfast ,

Sounds like it would be easier to run your VM on the laptop, leave the SSD in the 5070, and move each service over to the laptop one at a time. Then nuke and repave the 5070 with the upgraded drive, and then move the services back.

Ansible is great, but I’d leave learning that as a separate project in the future. Convert to docker compose as part of this process if you’re not already doing that.

thirdBreakfast ,

I’m not clear on how your tailscale names are attached to the services. Do you mean you’ve got a different Tailscale magic DNS for each docker container with a sidecar?

I’m not a Tailscale expert, all my services are in VM’s or LXC’s so they get their own Tailscale name that moves with them. Perhaps Tailscale allows you to add extra names for the same host or something?

thirdBreakfast ,

So their names would come across with them. In what I’m proposing, you wouldn’t worry about attaching the drive. Just copy the data for one service over, then start it’s container on the laptop. Once that’s all working fine, do the rest one at a time till they’re all on the laptop. Then wipe your Dell and start from scratch.

thirdBreakfast ,

This is a genuinely fresh and intriguing idea, but you’ve sort of answered your own question (as have most of the commenters) by noting it would immediately be abused. So I think you are going to have to be the one deciding how your compute cycles and bandwidth are being used.

BOINC/World Community Grid is the obvious choice since they are set up for exactly this use case. There’s also things like Sheepit - a render farm. Maybe you could run a Tor node .

Magnetism only feels like magic, because we don't have biological sensors for it

Think about it. Isn’t light+eyes and ears+sound just the same in terms of their “influence at a distance”? We don’t feel that as abnormal or magic - simply because we’ve sensors for them and are used to it. But physically speaking light and magnetism are based on electromagnetic forces.

thirdBreakfast ,

Would be handy for attaching your name badge, or if you need to put those little hard drive screws somewhere so you don’t lose them.

thirdBreakfast ,

I’d had a bit of Linux server experience, but no desktop Linux. I tried Pop!_OS on an old macbook and everything just worked. I could figure out what was going on without any drama.

thirdBreakfast ,

The Raspberry Pi’s are little low cost computers you can use for things, with good support, conventional OS’s that work and lots of searchable information and experiences. To varying degrees, the other boards are more like development boards - good for fiddling with if getting things going is your hobby.

thirdBreakfast ,

One 3B+ runs my network services - things I need to stay up if I restart the production server. Another one has a specialist role - IP gateway into the ham radio AllstarLink network - connected to a 70cm radio with a modified USB sound dongle.

thirdBreakfast ,

lol - great question. I was very excited at the start and did things like talk to a guy in Spain with 5W and a long bit of wire out in the bush, talked to people 400 km away by pointing a handheld antenna directly at a satellite as it passed overhead, received images directly from the amateur station on the ISS, met a heap of smart old guys who were doing interesting things with radio - designing antennas, setting up repeater networks etc. I went in a couple of competitions (in ham radio this is usually about how many contacts you can make over a time period). But ultimately, it turns out I like interesting technical problems, learning things, and buying stuff I don’t need off the internet - more than chatting to people I don’t know. So now I’m more into Linux and self-hosting which scratches a lot of those same itches.

I still have a short range radio in the car and a couple of handheld radios. With these I can key into that Raspberry Pi, have the audio travel over the internet and pop out anywhere in the world there’s another AllStar point and go over the air to radios there, but I’ve sold all my HF gear (that allows you to talk direct to anywhere without infrastructure).

It is an interesting, and quite diverse hobby, and there’s a lot of cheap Chinese radios, and a bottom tier license in most countries that’s easy to obtain (for example without learning Morse code). I’d recommend it to people interested in tech stuff. It’s a hobby that might not exist in 50 years - a lot of the radio spectrum allocated to ham radio in the old days was considered worthless, but now governments regard that as a valuable public asset that can be sold to telecommunication companies. Also there’s growing interference from digital gadgets and wireless devices that requires innovative solutions to overcome.

thirdBreakfast ,

I’ll check it out, I can probably buy some stuff and add it to my half finished projects pile :-D

This concept makes sense but I always assumed ham radio was just about audio. That’s pretty cool

Digital modes is one of the big growth areas in the hobby, along with the revolution of SDR

thirdBreakfast ,

A mate did that bit - CM108 I think.

proxmox: Do you use a headless Linux OS as a VM or one with a GUI?

Hi. Since yesterday i selfhosted all my stuff with a raspberry pi and two odroids. Everything works ok, but after i read about a few apps that are not supported by the arm-architecture of the SBCs and about the advantages of the backup-solution in proxmox, i bought a little server (6500T/8GB/250GB) to try proxmox....

thirdBreakfast ,

I run one VM which some small docker containers go on, but whenever I’m trying something out it’s always in a Debian or Ubuntu VM - things just usually work easier. If it turns out to be a service I’m serious about running, then I’ll sometimes spend the time to set it up in it’s own LXC. Even a single Docker container.

I much prefer each service in it’s own VM or LXC - for that same reason. Easier backups, easier to move to other nodes, easier to see the resources being used.

@moddy with that processor and your 8GB you have plenty of room to play with multiple VM’s. Headless Ubuntu is probably the best place to start just because of the volume of results you get when googling issues. Enjoy.

thirdBreakfast ,

It’s a bit like docker, in that it’s a sort of isolated system, but you use it more like a virtual machine (VM). It’s lighter than a VM because it uses the host kernel so you can run lots of them with out consuming too many resources.

In the Proxmox web interface, up in the top right corner there’s a “Create CT” button. If you click through all that (once again I am recommending Ubuntu) you’ll have your first LXC container up in a couple of minutes - the quick creating is another advantage over VM’s. One of the joys of your excellent choice of Proxmox as a base is that you can easily experiment with such things.

thirdBreakfast ,

For anyone without the inclination to wade through 47 pages, here’s what they say about HTMX, which they’ve classified as “Assess” rather than “Trial” or “Adopt”

htmx is a small, neat HTML UI library that recently became popular seemingly out of nowhere. During our Radar discussion, we found its predecessor intercooler.js existed ten years ago. Unlike other increasingly complex pre-compiled JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks, htmx encourages the direct use of HTML attributes to access operations such as AJAX, CSS transitions, WebSockets and Server- Sent Events. There’s nothing technically sophisticated about htmx, but its popularity recalls the simplicity of hypertext in the early days of the web. The project’s website also features some insightful (and amusing) essays on hypermedia and web development, which suggests the team behind htmx have thought carefully about its purpose and philosophy.

Way for non-technical users to upload to my server with resumability

Is there an app I can self-host that will let users upload stuff to my server? I need something where I can send a link to someone, and they can upload files & folders to my server (it doesn’t matter much to me where, as long as I can transfer them out to wherever I need later)....

thirdBreakfast ,

When I’ve had need of collecting files from someone, I’ve normally thrown up a FileBrowser instance. Pretty sure it’s not resume-able though.

thirdBreakfast ,

This was the route I went with when I started, and I’ve never had cause to regret it. For people near the start of their self-hosting journey, it’s the no-hassle, reliable choice.

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...

thirdBreakfast ,

I went this route - Synology NAS and a couple of HP Mini G2 800s running Proxmox for my compute loads. And I would recommend that arrangement for someone just getting started in self-hosting. Get going quickly and safely and put your effort into the cool stuff.

That said, I’ve drunk the ZFS kool-aid and have learned enough along the way to consider moving to TrueNAS or similar on some sort of low power setup in the future. I’m in no hurry.

Wisest Upgrade from Raspberry Pi (artemis.camp)

I am several months into the self-hosting journey and I feel I have outgrown my Pi 4 B 8GB. I'm only running around 3 dozen containerized services and it seems to struggle to keep up. But I'm not sure of the best bang for my buck. I'd like good, long-term performance, but I don't really have a grand lying around for a Lenovo...

thirdBreakfast ,

And look better.

Certbot is great. Let's Encrypt is great. (lemmy.world)

I’ve been downloading SSL certificates from my domain provider, using cat to join them together to make the fullchain.pem, uploading them to the server, and myself adding a 90 day calendar reminder. Every time I did this I’d think I should find out about this Certbot thing....

thirdBreakfast OP ,

Good point. Although they are also hosting my DNS, so they can take the site over anytime they want anyway?

thirdBreakfast OP ,

Thanks, I do, and I’ve added a couple from the suggestions here. Caddy and Traefik are both on my list of things to investigate now.

thirdBreakfast OP ,

Good on you. For anyone else inspired, you can support Certbot here, and Let’s Encrypt here.

I promise I don’t work for them - I was just struck by how phenomenally handy they are.

thirdBreakfast OP ,

Thanks - I hadn’t considered the traffic decryption.

thirdBreakfast OP ,

My use case is for domains hosted on a VPS rather than my home server-hosted stuff. None of that is exposed to the internet except via Tailnet. I’ve got a domain saved up for that but haven’t figured it out how to do it since the CA can’t access my server to verify it. I have the feeling the answer is going to be ten more commenters telling me to check out Caddy.

thirdBreakfast ,

I forget about draw.io, then search for something like this, find draw.io, and then find my old drawings.

thirdBreakfast ,

+1 for Pop. I’ve just done this. I had to run updates plugged into the cat 6 to get wireless, apart from that, everything just worked.

thirdBreakfast OP ,

Oh man! Zoho was what I was looking at - I just couldn’t see that in the feature list. Thanks.

thirdBreakfast OP ,

Great suggestion, thanks. For anyone reading through, it looks like it will just forward all the emails for a domain to a single email address, for free. That’s definitely what I want for one of my domains. But the other one I’ve used some addresses for family, so that will have to go through a provider.

thirdBreakfast OP ,

Good idea, and that was my first plan too - but it turns out .au domains (that have lots of rules) are limited to a small number of registries - not including the popular US ones.

thirdBreakfast OP ,

Thank for the diagram. That looks like a comprehensive solution for my issue - and includes sending on one account, which I used to do before google started flagging them all as suspicious.

thirdBreakfast OP ,

Yep, I can live with no sending, so a forwarding only solution works. I didn’t know about the SMTP relays, but a couple of people have mentioned them. I guess I’d try without that first - it might be luck if my ip/hosting service has low trust with gmail.

thirdBreakfast OP ,

Ah yes! That’s exactly what I had & need. Thank you.

Also - lol. I assumed this was a screenshot of your domain, and I was like, hang on…

thirdBreakfast ,

I’ve been around - did COBOL at uni. DOne a lot of commercial work in Delphi and C++. I loved the few months of Swift I tried, but started on webdev 6 months ago. I felt really unsafe in JS, and was looking forward to moving onto Typescript. But, as time’s gone on, I’ve found JS just seems to work how I think it’s going to. I haven’t run into problems with types at all. I assumed I’d end up on a complied language for server side, but the Node ecosystem’s so mature it’s just been efficient to stay in JS land.

If I was going to teach kids to code, this is where I’d start. Low friction to get going, and powerful enough to run most of the world. Bountiful resources to learn and get support.

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