How’s your stuff doing? Unplanned interruptions or achieving uptime records?
I’m currently sailing rather smooth. Most of my stuff is migrated to Komodo, there will stay some exceptions and I only have to migrate Lemmy itself I think. Of course that’s when I found a potential replacement but I’ll let it sit for a while before touching it again. Enjoying the occasional Merge Request notification from the Renovate Bot and knowing my stuff is mostly up to date.
I’m thinking about setting up some kind of Wiki for my other niche hobby (Netrunner LCG) lore as there’s a fandom one that most people avoid touching and updating but since I likely won’t have time to start writing some articles on my own as a kickoff I’m hesitant. Also not sure which wiki I’d choose as well.
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Trying to smoothly orchestrate prowlarr, radarr, jellyfin, and transmission (via Proton vpn), using a big beautiful docker compose file. It’s been working OK but not without roadbumbs and tough learnings. Keep messing up directory permissions one way or another.
Next step is setting up fail2ban on my public facing jellyfin to control things a little better. Everything is hosted at home, and I don’t want to use cloud flare tunnels, are streaming video is technically not allowed in them.
If you have more good tips on securing a home server, let me know!
Also, this is all running on an ancient 2012 mac mini running Ubuntu. Slow as molasses and sometimes the fans make a noise. I should start looking into back-up solutions, at least for the configs.
I recently installed Beszel and really like it but I would prefer not to have to login every time I want to check my systems. Is there any easy alternative?
Idk Beszel, but generally you could check if you can increase the session expiration time in the config or put it behind some SSO like authentik
I would prefer not to have to login every time
I use NetData, with the v3 ‘switch’ on the url. Example: https://netdata.mycoolserver.com/v3. The v3 lets you skip the login process and head right to monitoring observables. Some people may have concerns about NetData, however it covers just about every metric I think one would need, all in one package.
Chose yesterday late evening as the time to migrate my containers from docker to podman (still rootful). By luck most things work again, except wireguard/qbittorrent
What made you want to switch from docker to podman?
Aiming to go daemonless and then rootless for as many containers as possible to minimize attack surface
Nice. I’m aiming to go from bare metal to rootless podman managed via quadlets. Networking seems like the difficult part.
Just installed Owncast, so townsfolk can ride my G-scale Polar Express via an onboard livestream, as part of a revamped lighting and projection mapping festive season show.
While I was at it I also added Kokoro for TTS.
Thought I would spice up Jellyfin for the festive season, so am trying out the Jellyfin Enhanced and Home Sections plugins.
I have been experimenting with a btrfs raid array and am getting some new hard drives in the mail today, hoping it goes smoothly and they work 😬 All part of a larger goal of migrating my synology NAS to a purpose built machine.
Also got my first contribution and donation on my OIDC SSO project, which is really exciting!
Ey! congrats for the donation. I hope your personal project succeeds!
Trying to host stable diffusion to generate some art for my D&D campaign.
I recommend ComfyUI. It makes running everything trivial, and is very easy to learn, use, and extend.
I also recommend supporting artists directly and learning to draw.
Thanks. I support artists when I can for art I intend to share at the table. The AI is just for me to easily reference characters.
There are a lot of opensource virtual tabletop gaming platforms that really look nice. I used to be heavy into D&D back in the day.
Anything as good as Foundry?
Well, Foundry is a standard, can’t deny that. LOL You might want to compare that to Caldron VTT
A recent t480 purchase may replace my second workstation tower, which I think is about to become my most powerful server in the cluster…
So nothing new hosting-wise, but that tower I can shove the spare 12tb and 4tb drives I have and net myself another 30ish TB’s of usable storage, more once I replace the 12TBs in one of my NAS boxes with 18tb or more.
Speaking of which - where the hell do I track prices these days? diskprices.com seems to be a mess of inaccurate pricing and shucks.top can no longer track even half of what they used to. What a mess.
PCPartPicker is your best bet (hint: sort by price/gb), but they don’t really track shucking prices
Honestly with what Seagate has been doing with their externals, shucking is probably best avoided at this point.
That said, yeah, seems like and its not a perfect option either, seems like I’ll have to use multiple sources and just keep an eye out with a daily check or something.
I recently switched my phone from Android to GrapheneOS and now rely even more on my selfhosted services. Immich is such a great project. Still gotta figure out my music collection though, since switching from YT Music to Jellyfin. Most of it is sorted by date of purchase, because that worked best with my DJ workflow. Now I gotta bring it over to a folder structure that works for jellyfin. It seems like the answer is musicbrainz Picard, but I gotta figure out how to configure it.
Also been thinking about some AI ideas I’d like to try, but I have zero intention getting involved with openai, meta, google or whoever the fuck. So self hosting it is. But on what hardware? Option 1 seems to be to get some professional server board, CPU, ram and start with one RTX3090 and go from there with the option to hook up more GPUs. But a setup like that sounds like it would cost some serious money in electricity. Option 2 seems to be a Rzyen AI Max+ 395, configured with a fuckton of ram, available to the whole apu and as suchs usable for memory hungry models. This seems to be much much more power efficient. But its all integrated and I couldn’t swap out components or upgrade in the future. Leaning towara option 2 atm, but maybe I’ll just wait a bit longer and see what else comes up in the coming months.
Nice… I use ytdl-sub for downloading music, highly recommend it. You can write tag metadata but if you want embedded stuff I’d recommend trying beets. Running both as a user whose primary group matches Jellyfin is a must if you want stuff saved next to the video files… The dev is also very active.
I just installed Ollama and use gemma3 for now. I wanted to use dolphin-mixtral but holy crap it wants more RAM than my entire setup
I wanted to use dolphin-mixtral but holy crap it wants more RAM than my entire setup
This is basically what I’ve found with self hosted AI. I just don’t have the equipment for it. Would love to be able to host a selfcontained LLM, but alas, as you say, it eats up resources. FEED ME MAURICE!
I ended up using navidrome for my music to take advantage of the subsonic API, which has been phenomenal 🙂
I’ve just finished ripping about 1300 CDs. I used Jellyfin for a bit since I already had it set up for my video library, but I wasn’t happy with the Android options and it was pretty basic.
Navidrome is a fucking TREAT. Paired with Symfonium, I’m finally enjoying my personal music collection regularly again.
As for tagging, OP, while I get why people like Picard, it doesn’t always work with how I like to do things. I put everything into a music folder on my desktop, use Mp3Tag to retrieve metadata, edit what I need, and make sure the artwork is decent and sized where I want it. Then I use the tag > filename to organize and move them to my NAS.
Navidrome
I’ve found Navidrome to be quite capable of handling large music collections. I was worried in the beginning. It sips resources. When I fire it up and listen remotely, I watch the CPU and RAM. It barely moves the needle. Very happy with it.
Man, I just set up navidrome and it instantly seems so much better and easier to maintain. Thank you so much for your input :)
Working on automating tasks so I don’t have to block out hours of time a week managing everything. Just got watchtower running and going to see how it does before trying out some other automations.
Just got watchtower running and going to see how it does before trying out some other automations.
If you find that watchtower (original) screws up the updates frequently there is a watchtower fork that runs so much smoother. I don’t have any issues with it at all. The original watchtower app hasn’t had an update in 2 years, so it might be something to keep in mind.
I’m actually using this one which seems to be more actively maintained than the one you linked.
Bookmarked! Thanks for that. Learning all kinds of stuff today.
In fact you must use the fork. The old one no longer works with recent Docker, due to API versioning. I found that out last night when I brought up my compose stack and traefik wouldn’t start, because it too needed an update.
no longer works with recent Docker, due to API versioning
I had that issue with Portainer recently. I had to drop back to the previous docker version, and held it until Portainer works through the snag. I didn’t think about original watchtower being affected. I just got tired of having to fix broken updates, and went looking for something better. When original watchtower worked tho, it worked well.
Switching my main PC to nixos from fedora atomic sway. The sway config tripped me up last time, this time I’ll succeed! (I hope)
Late to the party But I’ve been thinking about upgrading my proxmox and finally taking care of my backups in a more responsible manner. Just thinking about it, not actually doing anything yet :)
Trying to run a fediverse server on a decade-old Wi-Fi router and encountering some
unexpected issues. Making progress, though.Sounds cool, which software are you using?
Hell yeah!
Everything here is smooth sailing. I have been trying to track down a bothersome Suricata entry.
202.136.163.11 PROTOCOL-ICMP destination unreachable port unreachable packet detected 202.136.163.11 PROTOCOL-ICMP destination unreachable port unreachable packet detected 202.136.163.11 PROTOCOL-ICMP destination unreachable port unreachable packet detected 202.136.163.11 PROTOCOL-ICMP destination unreachable port unreachable packet detectedad nauseum. There are three individual ips. One from Singapore, one from China and one from Romania. They are being blocked, so that’s good. Thing is, these are from realitvly ‘clean’ sources:
120.132.37.195 was not found in our database202.136.163.11 was found in our database! This IP was reported 5 times. Confidence of Abuse is 0%:On the server side, I have nothing calling out to these ip. That’s what was really bugging me. Nothing server side, just these three bothersome ip hammering Suricata. Generally, I would dismiss as benign and part of normal UDP behavior. However, it’s the constant hammering that makes me suspicious. Could be high volume port scanning. However, it could also be known attack campaigns like UDP amplification attempts.
Other than that, I might find something to get into today.
Finally got around to dns-01 and acme containers today. Hooray LE signed wildcard lab cert.
I installed Jellyfin on my server and threw kodi on a minipc I dug out of dumpster pile at work. Works pretty well, but my server needs more RAM and the minipc needs either a wireless keyboard or a USB-HID remote controller to finalize the setup. Also ran some wiring in the house and added two network sockets to a room where the whole kodi-tv-gamingpc-whatever-pile is going to live.
On the server RAM I found some on ebay, but if anyone is interested on 64G DDR4 ECC DIMMs I have a few. I thought they were supported on my server motherboard when I took them out from a old server at work but it supports only up to 32G ECC dimms.
Hi! I installed LibreELEC in a RPi4, and connected to the hdmi of my TV I can control it with the atV remote, I don’t know if it will usefull…
I’d rather have a physical remote which acts as a keyboard so it’ll support waking the system up from suspend. Plus I prefer a dedicated device for that instead of a phone as I’m not a only user for the thing. There’s plenty of those around, only problem is to find one that works reliably and local stores don’t seem to have a lot of options so I might need to dig one up on ebay even if it’s a bit of a PITA to order from China to EU today with customs.
I’m pretty sure they’re referring to hdmi-cec, nothing to do with a phone.
I didn’t know raspberry supports that. Searching for ‘atv remote’ just brings up androind apps, so maybe I misunderstood. Neat thing, but the hardware I have doesn’t support it and seems like usb-cec adapters are more expensive than usb-hid remotes.
