Selfhosting Sunday! What's up?
It's been a while! Let us know what you're currently working on, what exploded, what cool stuff you found, or just brag that everything is running fine unattended.
I haven't been doing a lot, renovate auto upgrades for patches and sometimes minor updates work great so far. I got involved in my union to spin up a mastodon server soon, so there's a new project, but I already run mastodon so it shouldn't be much of a deal, I just need to get comfortable with the infrastructure. I also set up ntfy but only sent some test notifications and didn't configure any app yet - planned for Element Chat.
[Meta] I'm not sure how to apply the new tags. In the recent versions of this thread, people sometimes posted about their ollama setup or the like, but I'm not mentioning AI in the post body (except this meta thingy) and it shouldn't be much of the discussion, but it's an open post. Maybe curbstickle can chime in to let me know if I should apply one of them.
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https://lemmy.world/post/49663813
My old post from my old account.
Since then, I've been moving my PC (not server) from arch to nix, and discovered that I was relying on fundamentally broken DNS resolution behaviour on netbird.
Fixed that and also changed my Caddy config to use FQDNs as well.
Apart from that, added Gollum as a wiki server, and the experience has been perfectly amazing!
Still waiting to get my own mini-PC and use that, current shitbox is a desktop in my college.
I found the best thing to deal with a device that won't work...
I'm trying to get the 3.5" adafruit touchscreen working and it's being stubborn....
So... I went outside and split a large pile of logs.
Problem still not fixed, but I feel a hellofalot better
I have so many irons in the fire I can never quit...
Right now I am tinkering with a local only HomeAssistant AI voice assistant. I have an Ubuntu VM running docker on my TrueNAS which has an ARC A310. The reason I'm running a VM is because I'm using A Dual Edge TPU module for FrigateNVR while using the ARC A310 for video decoding. Ollama is running Qwen2.5 3B. I'm also running Wyoming Whisper and open-webui for the voice AI. I'm using a ESP32-S3 AI Smart Speaker Dev Board for voice control.
I found a project on GitHub that looked really good but was designed to always pull files and so I forked that to create a local only version and setup a small docker container for the audio files. Still working on modifications of the repository but the setup is working OK but I'm trying to work out the bugs.
I'm also working on a Halloween project. I have a plastic pumpkin with a big red arcade button for a nose, LED's for eyes, a speaker, some car horns, proximity sensors, and a temper.... I call it my Doom Pumpkin. It will go outside a week before Halloween and complain about people touching it's buttons or lack there of during the day and stay quiet at night. On Halloween it will keep going till later and when someone presses the button it will randomly honk horns in different ways. When someone steps in front it will say funny things to get them to press the button. If they walk behind it will warn them something bad might happen (like saying it farts fireballs.) It's all setup in ESPHome and will be controlled by HomeAssistant and NodeRed. There is also a theft prevention mode built in that will cause it to just spazz out and blow the horns.
I've still gotta pull another 500 feet or so of ethernet then get those and some others dropped into the server closet and shift some stuff around so it feeds into the rack. I've also got to pull my current camera lines from my POE injector and run them into my POE switch.
This is all on top of building and installing racking for solar, getting the solar installed, pulling a wall in a couple inches at the top where it pulled away during an earthquake before we bought the place, and fixing a bunch of other stuff.
I built a dashboard themed around my dog. It uses the Home Assistant API to get various stats from the house. I'm pleased with it!
There's not nearly enough dog metrics on that dashboard
I'd add "time to next meal" but she seems to know that already down to the minute!
Care to share any more details? Looks very aesthetically pleasing. I think I should make one themed around my cat.
It's a PHP container On the front end I'm using Bootstrap and theming it with Catppuccin. The data for the home energy charts are populated from the Home Assistant API. They're drawn with chart.js. The server stats are pulled from PHP shell_exec commands, and drawn with Bootstrap progress bars. The temperature card also takes data from the Home Assistant API, which also has an endpoint for local weather data. This doesn't update as often as I'd like. But it compares the outdoor temperature with the reported temperature of my thermostat, and then the messages below that are determined by a comparison of those values. I'm also using HTMX to load each card, and each tab of the energy card separately so that I don't have no wait on all requests for the dashboard to load. Not that it's slow - the home assistant API is surprisingly efficient at loading a great deal of logs. When you click my dogs face, she says WOOF WOOF WOOF in a modal to offer me a search with searxng.
Fiddling around with Renovate Bot on my Forgejo instance. It's not working perfectly yet, but it's getting there.
Also I began using LubeLogger to track my car expenses and fuel efficiency. Works beautifully.
Renovate is awesome. Combined with Komodo you get a proper gitops style container management.
Finally moved everything to the basement.
Spent years with everything in the office with me. Used to run some pretty old and noisy devices too lol. I always wanted to move everything somewhere else to cut down on noise but that means cables to run and total disassembly. Finally bit the bullet and moved it all last Saturday. The office has never been so peaceful
I set up oauth for my sites
Did you find any resources or tutorials that were particularly helpful? Anything you'd recommend?
How was the experience? And worth the pain?
Can only speak for myself. I went with PocketID for oidc. The learning curve was a little steeper than most other homelab services i try, but its 111% worth the setup and time. Logging into services now happens automatically. And if you're distributing services to friends and family then oidc is a lot more seamless than 10 different accounts on 10 different services.
I went with PocketID because it looked the simplest out of the bunch. Authentik does provide more customization but afaik this is more needed for enterprise graded stuff.
All in all, very happy with it, not going back to traditional logins any time soon.
Woah, thanks for the tip.
I just tried pocketid and it's actually not that complicated. Nice.
It was a pretty huge learning curve but it was great learning to troubleshoot stuff i also set up oauth2-proxy and that was also a bit of learning curve but worth it in the end
I completed a 300 mile move yesterday, and my homelab was one of the least stressful parts thanks to my pre-emptive downsizing from a half rack to just a Synology + Intel nuc. I also pre-emptively switched from forwarded ports to a reverse proxy because I didn't want to be thinking about what isp I would end up with. Even further, I linked the nas and nuc directly with Ethernet so that I wouldn't need to rely on static IPs or router-assisted local hostnames, mdns, avahi, whatever because I wanted to be able to transplant my lab onto any network just in case of emergency - thankfully I haven't had to test that out but it's nice knowing my lab should work on any network where both boxes can reach the internet / my reverse proxy. I was thinking worst case if we ended up in some apartment complex with some crappy provided setup that had broken local discovery then it would be 1 less thing to worry about.
got a busted Lenovo Ideapad 520ISK out of a dumpster, missing screen but otherwise perfectly functional. the thing has i5-7200u, 8 GB, two SATA ports inside and this prompted me to look up converting the thing into a server, specifically figuring out how to run 3.5" drives off it; I'm very anti-friendly towards using USB solutions for such a task.
searching was arduous, both web and yotube, and except one lonely forum post (remember those?) didn't find anyone attempting let alone succeeding in running it thus. the 2.5" and 3.5" connectors are identical (there are micro SATA to SATA adapters for the DVD port) but the drives will need 12 V that the 2.5" ports ain't got.
what I've concluded is that all that's needed is a M/F SATA extension cable which I have trouble sourcing locally; the power will come from a separate ATX PSU for the time being, although I'm sure I can pull 12 V from somewhere on the board.
don't got no 3d printing nor fabricating options, so it'll likely look super-janky, but that's not a huge concern for me now. I'll do a write-up if I succeed.
I just set up an orange pi as an off-site restic backup!
I use restic for backups in my homelab onsite to my NAS. I've been doing this for about a year but I don't have off-site backups. I've set up the orange pi with just a small HDD and set up wireguard on it so I can still access the pi when it is outside my network.
Then I added a
restic copycommand to copy my repo from my NAS to the remote, and it's working!Now I'll leave it in my house for about a month or two to test that it's still working, then take it to a family member's house!
I have been on vacation and not a single alert has come through. I count that as a win.
Not working on anything particular, but I'm going on a road trip on Tuesday to this regional airport that is giving away two racks perfect for my use case. Deep enough for my larger machines, sound proofed and 42U tall.
Finally my hardware can have a proper rack instead of being in a stack/pile in this harrypotteresque locker under my stairs.
Giving away? As in free? Luckyyy
Free except from the drive to get there. But the drive is a lot cheaper than those racks would cost.
Sound proofed... wow... does that also mean heat can't escape?
Vent fans at the top and the bottom. But it can be next to my work desk without the hardware getting annoying.
Ah.. nice
Not to brag but everything's working fine, clean as a whistle. Upgraded forgejo to the latest version. I'm still helping maintain the awesome-selfhosted list, and get inspiration from selfh.st a lot (big shoutout!) Hope to make sure some postgres dbs are up to date at some point, all of my dockhand instances that i set up have been a big help :)
spent some time last week adding metadata to my mp3 music obtained with yt-dlp. used musicbrainz Picard.
I'm actually really surprised how comprehensive that database is, and how easy it was to manually tag the tracks that didn't get picked up automatically.
[AIT] I know this isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I’m excited about Deepseek V4 flash. It’s (for me) the perfect size and architecture to self-host an LLM.
My box (and brain) are chugging through a queue:
Figure out why my swap is going crazy, and how to ban processes from it [Done].
Figure out why Code OSS is unhappy [Partially Done].
Make an ik_llama.cpp iMatrix for Deepseek V4 [Done].
Figure out why quantization isn’t working [Done].
Make a test IQ2_KL/MXFP4_R8 quant to see how it does squeezed onto my box [in progress].
Test. Tune. Inevitably troubleshoot the dozen other things that go wrong. Figure out how much spare RAM that leaves me.
Make a higher quality IQ3_KT quantization. This will take all night on my CPU.
KLD test both of them vs the full precision, to quantify quantization loss. Likely an overnight task, too.
Try merging the new model release with the base model, 50/50, for a less “deep fried” model. imatrix, quant, test.
The goal is to host it on a single RTX 3090, Ryzen 7000 with 128GB RAM, for anyone curious. Though I may try smaller models too, like Laguna S1.
What are the advantages of Deepseek V4 flash?
It’s just under 300B, trained at FP4; absolutely the perfect size for servers with 128GB-192GB CPU RAM to spare.
Its fast. I’m getting 17 tokens/sec on a single RTX 3090 GPU, all experts offloaded to RAM; for a 300B model this smart, that’s crazy fast.
Its attention mechanism is cutting edge, good for long context without too much processing time.
The benchmarks for coding/agenic usage are absolutely bonkers, within margin of error of frontier models or Deepseek Pro in some cases: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
…Though I don’t put much stock in benchmarks. And I haven’t tested it enough to tell you if it lives up to that hype for specific use cases.
Deepseek also publishes its base model. That means I can “unfry” the model with a merge if I have to.
I am afraid of the the model being “overfit” to coding and agenic stuff.
For reference, my previous favorite model was Xiaomi MiMo V2.5 310B. It benched well, but it also feels “smart” outside of benchmarks, like in knowledge of trivia without tool usage/internet access or comprehension of weird questions.
Sweet.
I finally got my immich docker running again. I lost all my meta data in the process but oh well, it works again.
what happened to make it stop running?
I think my Postgres docker became unsupported. I think Immich needs Postgres with vector to run and mine did not have vector. I tried to save my data but blew it up in the process. Nothing of great value was lost and I keep all my images elsewhere in my nas for just this reason. I do kinda wish Immich could just look at a directory rather than keeping its own file structure.
immich supports external libraries, but i’m not sure if you get all the functionalities when using them. i just got started with immich so i’m still learning the ropes. currently debating whether i want to migrate my photo archive to immich or just leave it as an external library.
Oh rad. I did not know.
I just published the weekly report for OpenAltFinder: #31
Added 19 new alternatives, and all projects in the CMS gained a total of 26,373 stars! The top gainer was Pi, with 2,302 new stars.
The best thing I did was probably set up Obsidian Live Sync after hearing about it in selfh.st weekly. Compared to the Syncthing setup I had before it is so much quicker, much easier to catch sync errors, and won't drain my damn phone battery as much! The more things I can move away from Syncthing the better so I will probably be looking at Immich for my photos soon as well.
On the management side, I've had my Docker stacks split across Dockhand and Komodo ever since a poorly executed move away from Dockge a few months ago. I finally thought about it and had the time to decide to give up on them both. I like some of the concepts of compose in a git repo and the fancier interfaces, but I just realised it was all over the top for what I need. I missed being able to simply SSH into a damn machine and
docker compose up -din an emergency. Compared to the constant deploy errors of Dockhand and the potential of scrounging application databases for in-DB compose data or attempting to deploy stacks from forgejo when forgejo itself is a stack deployed via git... going back to basic files is a blessing. Lesson learned!What that culminated in is all my stacks are now in Sencho (which clearly uses a lot of AI code sadly), but it was that or Dockge and I knew Dockge lacked a few things I wanted. The nice thing about Sencho (and Dockge) is that I don't need either of them because they are based around file-on-disk simple operation. I can cut it out of my setup entirely at any moment and not shed a tear. So much peace of mind leaving Dockhand. Now I just need to find a builder image or write a script to replace Komodo's build feature because I don't want to keep using it.
I don't know Sencho, but at least with Komodo, you can still go to the repo and use docker compose commands.
Tired. Tired, tired.
A little minor struggle with Immich. It happens sometimes that I cannot upload MOV files. Not all, just some. I've tended to circumvent its making big refusals by switching between my reverse proxied address and my local IP address for it but that didn't work today, and since these are videos of my baby, I'm a little frustrated. I don't really have the time to dig into that though.
I wonder whether it's possible to split tunnel traffic bound for the app from web traffic so I can serve it to my family members without exposing it to the web. Right now I don't trust its security—the authors even state you really shouldn't—so I have it behind a Cloudflare Zero Trust MFA prompt. But I get comments sometimes from family that it feels like a hoop to jump through since the longest CF will let them stay authorized is 30 days. Not a real 'today' thing, but just a general thing. It's the app I use the most besides Jellyfin, both to free myself from Microsoft, Google and Apple's monthly subscriptions, but also, to share privately my baby photos with the family so I can protect the kid's privacy and all that. I wish it was smoother for my end users but I've done what I can for now.
I tried migrating to new hardware recently because I wanted to virtualize most everything. I thought there was sense in being able to get snapshots in proxmox for rollback and ease of backup purposes. It ended up that only about half my servers made it over, and Immich and Jellyfin didn't make the cut because they need a Quadro T400 that lives in the original machine. Chatbot led me to think passing that GPU through virtualization was going to be a major complicating factor.
I've got a backup NAS off-site at my parent's house ~20 miles away but it has been offline since I changed ISPs because my silly ass hard-coded my public IP address into WireGuard's config (it auto-launches WG on boot) rather than a DNS address that gets dynamic DNS updating and resolves to whatever my home IP is. I should get to make it out to fix that on Thursday, finally. I went to all this trouble to buy and set up a backup NAS and it has been totally without backups for probably two months now.
Back to the subject of Cloudflare, I know they have a laundry list of security things I need to look at and I want to take those things seriously. With the new baby, and with how demoralized I have felt from work, and with of course all the normal obligations of life, I haven't ever had the time or felt like dealing with it, but I have a degree in cybersecurity and I want to take my home network / home lab security seriously. For protecting myself of course, but also because I think it'll be a big growing opportunity technically; maybe some stuff I learn can end up on the résumé. I desperately need to get out of my current role and anything that would help the résumé would be good. But there never seems to be time. Or if there is time there is no will.
I had a Cisco 2960x in my basement that I never did much with because I was suspicious it was drawing a lot of power (likely coincidence but it seemed like the electric bill went up every month I tried plugging it in), and it didn't seem to have enough memory to run without constantly causing me issues. I wanted to learn Cisco switches with it since I don't get enough hands-on time at work but it just didn't seem to work out. I was going to sell it on Facebook but never made time to do that either, so today I just put it back in the rack to have one less thing on the floor. Ironically, now we've upgraded to 3Gbps Internet and none of my home network stuff supports it. If I'd thought about that I would have likely let the ISP install their own mesh APs but I had put so much money and time into my own setup, I thought, surely I don't need them putting their hardware in my home. Well, here we are, and neither my little baby switch, nor my Cisco switch, nor even my OPNsense router support 3Gbps and there's no money to upgrade any of it 🥲
That's about all I can think of for today. Check in next Sunday, and I bet the update would be precisely the same :p
What's up? Not Grafana. I did
docker compose pullon the stack (without version pinning) then recreated the containers, and now it's fucked. Or maybe it's not because the logs are fine but it only serves the web app but 404s on any connection to the Grafana backend.Now I need to do some investigation into any recent changes to try to work out what's going wrong.
Finally think I got everything installed on my Raspberry Pi 4 that I want there, thankfully.
I've been trying to document my journey with selfhosting this time better than previous attempts, as far as writing down what worked and didn't work. It's coupled with me trying to write little explanation guides for my partner about what service does what, and how to use them. They're really excited to actually use them, but I want to get the guides done first, which has been a challenge.
Kinda surprised Grimmory is taking up so much RAM but if it becomes an issue I'll put it on my other, beefier server. It was the last service I was struggling with, because every time I would upload a book, something would go wrong. An example being that one time I uploaded a book and it went into every single folder after, then deleting one copy deleted all the copies.
Admittedly, I'm not terribly well experienced so it was probably an issue on my end. Still learning!
Speaking of, my next project to tackle is overhauling my more powerful server and what it's running. Since I use a split setup where I store media on my NAS, I've had difficulties with databases hating that aspect. Now that I know a bit more than I did when I started, and I have nowhere else to ask (thank you for having this community, by the way, it seems a lot more newbie friendly than some others) I was wondering if I could map the database of a service to be on the server itself, while having the media mapped to my NAS? From my research, I think this is possible, but I'm not 100% sure.
Hope everyone else's experiences are going well!
Check out BookOrbit if you find Grimmory too hefty in the RAM reqs. It uses very little RAM for me. I think it also has import from Grimmory as well.
As for the database Q, if you’re using docker/Podman it’ll be very easy to point the database folder (if included in the image, like Jellyfin does) to your local filesystem and the media to your NAS. Same idea if the container uses a Postgres container, just spread across two containers in that case.
First, thank you much for suggesting BookOrbit! I actually just installed it because I was having a lot of issues with Grimmory making dupes of books in every folder and couldn't figure out why it was doing it. Haven't had any issues with BookOrbit and I really like that it's got achievements. Plus, the less RAM usage is nice.
I'm using docker and docker compose files! Thank you for answering, the last time I took a crack at selfhosting, I really felt lost and screwed a lot up, so I wasn't sure if that was even possible.
The docker compose file is great, clear once you get used to all its little sections. For volumes I only use what they call “bind mounts” which are where you have a folder on your system connected to the folder in the container. As opposed to the “docker volumes” which are internal to docker.
And with those it’s super easy to just be like in the volume subsection:
- /path/to/local/drive:/container/database:rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,Z- /path/to/network/drive:/container/media:rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,ZThe
:rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,Zat the end is a great extra security thing that never causes problems. rw means read-write, you can switch it to ro for read-only if you’ve got something you want the container to only read from but not be able to modify. I use that for jellyfin’s media since I don’t want it doing anything but reading it. The noexec means don't let executables be run from the folder, never should happen so it just prevents a sick hack from being put in the folder and run. I forget what the others do but they’ve never been a bother. And Z means only one process can access the volume, you can switch it to lower case z to let multiple processes access the volume - and I’m not sure it does anything without SELinux going which I think only fedora does by default right now.Enjoy the info dump!
Thank you again! I actually really appreciate the infodump and it was well explained. I've made notes on this in my selfhosting documentation so I can reference it later! I didn't even know the difference between "docker volumes" and "bind mounts" really.
Infrastructure as code. My lab has been working stable for a while now, so it's time to mess things up again. I want everything in code. The POC with the ansible proxmox collection is already working, but it will surely take some time. In particular since I want to implement some improvements like VLANs, proper user management and such
I have found that a combo of Terraform and ansible cover almost everything, if that's of any use.
Mealie, recipe manager and Social to Mealie. Scrapes recipes from instagram reels, tiktok, youtube shorts.
Bar Assistant, bar and cocktail management. You can add your ingredients and it shows what can you make, you can share a menu to your friends, its cool
I'm really enjoying mealie. I just wish there was an easier way to input nutritional information
I thought I'd take a shortcut and use AI to help me setup an arch thing I'm working on. Jokes on me, took two days and in the end the thing was so fucked its irrecoverable. What a waste of a weekend.
We're on the first Sunday of the month, mdadm raid array be scrubbing... With Debian 13 came a crazy complex systemd scheduling for that, I liked the awkward cron job better. It's now using some kind of random delay before start, and cut in chunks of 6 hours or so over multiple days Edit: typos
[AIT] Well, let's see.....nothing really new on the server. Still waiting for something interesting besides *.arr. I did provision a new tower with the following specs:
This, obviously, will be an local AI machine
Nice. Did you have to sell a house to afford the parts?
LOL Not quite, however, I am choking on the 5090 but as I understand, that's the better option, and 32 GB seems to be the sweetspot for AI. I actually picked up the tower and original RAM for less than $500 USD.
First of all, I mean zero offense with any purchase decision. A 5090 is very good.
…But if I were paying that kind of money, I’d probably get a 4090 and a new motherboard/CPU instead. Maybe a used DRR4 threadripper system.
Hybrid (CPU + GPU) inference is where it’s at these days. It opens up a whole world of huge MoE models, whereas on an 5090 you are stuck with Qwen 27B.
Having a fast CPU, with lots of RAM channels, with full PCIe bandwidth is much more important for that than having a 5090, where a 3090 or 4090 will get the job done.
Even if pure speed is your primary concern, you can tune a sparse 120B model (like Laguna) to run almost as fast as Qwen 27B on a 5090, and get at-least-good results.
It’s more finicky and involved, though. For sure.
Running an LLM on a 5090 is a task. Hybrid CPU + GPU inference is a hobby.
Why you do this to me? LOL Injecting your options. But seriously thank you for the advice. I'm really green in the AI arena. So I'm trying to feel my way around, trying not to spend money on equipment I'll regret later.
Be aware that you pay a significant performance penalty for going over occulink.
The hit modest for fully offloaded dense models (like Qwen 27B), but dramatic for hybrid inference of big MoEs.
Even my old 3090 got a noticeable performance gain going from a PCIe 3.0 x16 riser to a PCIe 4.0 one.
And that's why it's tentative. The reason I'm leaning towards the dock is that, while the 5090 will fit, physically in the case, I am worried about heat dissipation. Even now, when I fire up a moderate model and run it through some paces, I can see the temps rising fairly quickly. So, if I'm going to drop that kind of cabbage on a 5090, the one thing I don't want to do is watch it turn into a shrink-i-dink.
Duct it!
I have a 400W 3090 with zero case fans.
Its always cool, because I bought like $10 of weather stripping to "seal" its intakes against the edge of an SFF case. So it's always sucking in ambient air:
You can also severely undervolt a 5090 to like 250-300W, with very little performance impact. Honestly its stock speeds are kind of crazy.
...But again, you aren't gaining much over a 4090. A 4090 + DDR4 threadripper would be way faster than a 5090 + occulink, for many reasons. And TR CPUs are pretty reasonably priced compared to GPUs these days.
But even if you do go 5090, I'd highly recommend finding some way to shove it in the case and duct some air into its intakes. Its going to be way faster on a PCIe slot.
You could even get a riser and mount it somewhere else in the case, theoretically.
Shit I deleted my post. Yes I have been enjoying some greenery so you just have to hear me out. I have an old countertop ice maker that stripped it's gears. The refrigeration loop is fine. Pretty wild how small it is. I was wondering.....what if I provisioned some brackets on which to mount a muffin fan of unknown CFM, to blow across the coils thru several sheets of mesh of varying gauges to collect moisture drained off to an unknown location, and duct that indirectly into the computer, like a miniature Liebert server room cooling unit. I worry about the moisture tho. Constructing a desiccant wheel seems improbable. I could reheat the cool air upstream or mix warmer air in with the stream to so the outlet air doesn’t stay at a very low dew point and “rewet” downstream components. Perhaps with a small filament heat coil. HMMmmmmm
Unfortunately condensation is, indeed, an intractable issue there.
Sometimes people put a heat pump in water cooling loops, where condensation along the pipe can be mitigated with insulation, but even that’s a little risky with a 5090 these days.
Enjoy your lovely greenery!
Building a new server, pinping up the specs to run more serious llm in parallel with all my services.
Waiting for the CPU (an amd Ryzen 9 5950X) that delayed in delivery, and building wooden crate/case to hold everything together with proper ventilation .
Ooo care to share pics of the case design? I've been interested in building one for awhile now
I have no design, but will surely make a post with a few pictures down the road, thank you for the interest!
It's an open box approach, kind of a structure of wood around a metal motherboard plate, with place for disks and cable management, will keep taking pictures along the way and definitely make a post in a few days!
Everything I have currently is pretty much working and maintaining itself. My logs are quiet and predictable. It's been nice.
I do have two things to do. One is it switch from
iptablestonftablesbecausepodmanis depreciating support for iptables. I absolutely hate working with firewalls, the syntax is always awful. For some reasonufwisn't working with nftables like I hoped so now I'm working up the energy to learn nftables itself.The other thing to do is to update Alpine Linux to the latest release version. I'm trying to figure out how to properly update the cache of installed packages on my main computer. After that I should be able to run my upgrade script and things should take care of itself. I hope. With Alpine I usually wait a month or two after the initial release of a new version, things always seem to break if I update immediately and I don't want to trouble shoot too many things.
Other than that, I've gone back to making functional scripts again. Currently I am working on a new backup script that handles logging and automated rotation of backup snapshots. It'll be POSIX portable and easy to integrate with
crontab. It's essentially the culmination of all my POSIX shell scripting knowledge. I just have to figure out one last and huge hurdle and I'll be happy with the script.After a lot of trial and error, I managed to get rsgain working with Lidarr on my raspberry pi. I might actually be fully satisfied with my music piracy/streaming setup now (until I find the next silly addition :3 ).
Over the last few weeks I've been making the horrifying leap from PHP5 to PHP8. I knew it was going to be a lot of work to upgrade all my various scripts and web pages but I'm nearing the end, just have some random CLI scripts still failing that I have to work through.
I've been making a big push this year to get all my servers caught up to supported operating system levels. Debian will truly run forever even when it really shouldn't. I was happy to finally get my mail servers modernized last month. The old code I had relied on for managing spam scanning and such had been abandoned but I finally discovered rspamd which replaced everything plus does so much more. The first couple weeks saw an awful lot of server emails being marked as spam while I trained the new system, seems to be settling in nicely now though, and I created some new spam-trap mailboxes and sprinkled the addresses around several web pages. Nice to see their activity picking up again.
I scored an old HP Microserver Gen10 from work with 4 4tb wd reds. Spent the weekend putting in an extra SSD for the OS and testing the drives. So far so good. Now I just need to figure out what I'm going to do woth it....
Discovered you can self host Joplin and I can't wait to set it up in the next days.
Also I tried some alternatives to ActualBudget, because I didn't need to many functionalities. Long story short, I went back to it cause none offers a neat interface and multiple accounts at the same time.
Joplin self hosting seemed like a pain and it works perfectly well synchronising via WebDAV. I'd be interested in hearing how you get on.
I've been using Actual Budget for a couple of years and only recently started getting into slightly more functions than basic expenses recording. It's really good to be able to have it do more as needed.
I started playing around with RedHat Cockpit as a potential podman-based replacement to my disorganized docker server. Only got a jellyfin instance running on at the moment, sharing the same network disk as my "production" jellyfin server.
So far, I am not impressed. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to preserve settings when I want to update the image, which is one of the main reasons I want to migrate. I'd like to have a weekly cron job that checks for new
latestimages, and updates them automatically, ideally without me having to intervene, but that doesn't seem like something cockpit can do. If I want to update a container image through the GUI, it seems like I have to recreate it from scratch.Not much for me atm, though in a day or two I'm (finally) fixing a major problem with my VM storage array - I'm replacing the crappy Crucial BX500's in my VM storage mirror with a couple refurbished 2TB Intel D3-S4510 SSDs I got from Server Part Deals. I'm very excited for this saga to be over, since I've been fighting horrible VM performance for over a year, and it was bad enough to where simply pushing changes to git repos or syncing a modest amount of data to my Nextcloud would hang the VMs for a few minutes!
Otherwise I'm just looking at maybe replacing my Puppet infra with SaltStack, and getting some new Packer images built for FreeBSD 15.1 and Almalinux 10 :)
Slowly uploading my media collection from a slowly dying TrūNAS box up to B2… slowly 😬
Setup an XMPP server for family and friends to use. While I really like it, I can't seem to get Jitsi to play nice for group calls with the Openfire server. Atleast 1 on 1 calls seem to work fine with Dino and Conversations anyway.
I installed cameras in my condo recently, and I need to buy and install a larger HDD for capture storage. I ordered a 6TB WD Purple off Amazon, only to have it arrive used (it was absolutely not marked used or refurbished.) So I returned it, naturally. I think that the safest bet is just to order it directly from one of their vendors.
Also, I need to tinker with my postgres install on my Unraid server a bit. Right now a couple other services I host on Unraid use it, but moving forward I need it available to other devices on the LAN.
You might try ordering from ebay. I find a lot of vendors sell there, and at least you know you're actually getting the product from the person you ordered from, rather than a box randomly stuffed with "similar" products from all sellers.
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