cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/40322414

Still in progress. Open to suggestions! Current idea is to offer a dark and light mode switch, plus get some fun icons. Want to introduce variations with visual glitches and such, for more of a cyberpunk aesthetic, that can be generated through a pipeline. This is an excuse to learn a lot of little, technical things.

Assuming the user will not be connecting over vpn, but is both remote and non-technical, how would you expose Jellyfin to them securely?

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/40125235

Picked up an ix500 scansnap and wondering about suggested workflows for going paperless. My intention is to scan a bunch of documents, but haven't delved deeply into how this will actually flow on the software level. I know I'll need to OCR the scanned documents, and my base setup is:

• Pi with SSD storage running compose version of Paperless-ngx to filesystem mounted folders.
  • Folders can also be accessed over Samba
• ix500 statically assigned over wifi as network scanner.
• A literal filing cabinet, for things I should keep physically.
• Ubuntu computer for browsing

I feel a bit overwhelmed, but am excited to get started. Will be scanning personal document, work docs, whatever else I need to digitize and recycle. All suggestions appreciated!

Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/40076349

My thought is to use 3 VPS I already have as a small cluster... 2gb, 2gb, and 8gb running Debian 13. Traffic to Pangolin (Traefik + Wireguard) on all three, to serve Castopod for podcasting, whose media is served from garage S3 across all nodes. Authentication from Authentik + LLDAP, with plan for adding additional services once the base setup is solid. Thoughts and suggestions appreciated!

  +---------------+
  |  Internet    |
  +---------------+
           |
           |
           v
  +---------------+
  |  Load Balancer  |
  |  (Pangolin)    |
  +---------------+
           |
           |
           v
  +---------------+---------------+
  |         VPS 1  |         VPS 2  |         VPS 3  |
  +---------------+---------------+---------------+
  |  Castopod    |  Castopod       |  Garage S3     |
  |  Authentik   |  LLDAP         |  Authentik     |
  | Garage S3   | Garage S3   |  LLDAP         |
  +---------------+---------------+---------------+

I have been setting up Zram, Swap, Swappiness and EasyOOM daemon on 16gb ram boxes, or lower. Someone asked me about 32gb of ram, or more, and I'm unsure. Wondering if others have experimented with this!

You can still fetch the actual lasercut case files if you want, haha, for Raspberry Pi 3.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/39090314

Full layout on my forum here. Basic idea is 3 thin clients that fit within:

• 1u space requirement
• Possibly adding 2.5gb nic to the pci-e low profile slots of each hp t740 for Ceph shared storage.
• Kubernetes and/or Proxmox experiments
  • Adding some sort of remote management via jetkvm or pikvm or similar.
  • Additional expansion no doubt needed for connecting to the three nodes.

+----------------------------------------------------------+
|                    CLUSTER TOTALS                        |
+----------------------+-----------------------------------+
| TOTAL CORES          | 12 physical / 24 threads          |
| TOTAL RAM            | 192 GB DDR4                       |
| TOTAL STORAGE        | 1.5 TB NVMe (local only)          |
| TOTAL NODES          | 3                                 |
| TOTAL NICs           | 3–7 (depending on 4-port NIC)     |
| GPU                  | None                              |
| KVM/IPMI             | None                              |
+----------------------------------------------------------+

All suggestions greatly appreciated! Never done this before, but hoping to save myself from the future hassle of having to drive to the data center... would much rather log in on Wireguard and address things by remotely rebooting, etc.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/37854087

Lemmy struggles with properly displaying the Castopod shownotes. I've filed a bug report here.

Relaying show notes here...

Why Offline & Local-First

• Rising Cost of Consumer Technology
• Cloudflare Outages - interest in local hosting
• Re-purposing older machines into functional use!

(00:11)

Offline Tooling, Local Tooling, Resilience Introduction

(00:50)

Sponsor Ameridroid

• LINUXPREPPER code

(01:14)

Domain Changes and thoughts after years on .network, xyz and org

(01:32)

Forum posts related to simple, resilient setups

• Show notes listed there as well

(02:21)

Do you have a device in a drawer that might be useful as-is?

(04:38)

KDE Connect - Thoughts after Three Years

(08:30)

Unbound, DNSMasq - Local DNS Caching, Recursive DNS and Resolvers

(09:30)

Quad9 - Global Public Recursive DNS for Public Benefit, alternative to Cloudflare and Google

(09:55)

Local DNS Resilience and Why It Matters

(12:15)

Connecting Multiple Services and What DNS Adblocking Actually Does with Pi-Hole, Adguard Home, etc.

(13:04)

Dividing IP Ranges for Custom DNS, Adblocking assignments

(13:55)

Adding Resilience, Privacy and Speed Most Routers Do Not Offer Natively

(15:20)

Challenges You Can Try at Home!

(15:59)

Wiki in early development as plain text. Learn more on the forum

(17:00)

Low Key Gear Exchange for LFNW. Details for forum users!

• Forum post for registered users

(17:36)

100 Selfhosted Services for Low End and 32-bit Hardware

(19:11)

HomeLab Episode to be released with Robin Monks. Unedited interview available on Premium

(19:29)

Nginx, Caddy - Reverse Proxy via DNS Challenge for Local HTTPS Testing

(20:00)

mDNS and Avahi for remote machines gifted to others without https

(22:35)

Become a Premium Subscriber to Support the Show

(23:36)

How resilient is your setup? Let me know! podcast@livingcartoon.org

(24:05)

Discord and bridged Matrix Chats for discussing the show! Please Share with Others!

(24:55)

LFNW Schedule, should be live shortly. April 24th - 26th

(25:11)

AI Scanned My Brainrot, Live only at LFNW, on 04/26 at 3pm!

(26:17)

Upcoming Episode on SeaGL, LFNW and Conferences!

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/37854087

Lemmy struggles with properly displaying the Castopod shownotes. I've filed a bug report here.

Relaying show notes here...

Why Offline & Local-First

• Rising Cost of Consumer Technology
• Cloudflare Outages - interest in local hosting
• Re-purposing older machines into functional use!

(00:11)

Offline Tooling, Local Tooling, Resilience Introduction

(00:50)

Sponsor Ameridroid

• LINUXPREPPER code

(01:14)

Domain Changes and thoughts after years on .network, xyz and org

(01:32)

Forum posts related to simple, resilient setups

• Show notes listed there as well

(02:21)

Do you have a device in a drawer that might be useful as-is?

(04:38)

KDE Connect - Thoughts after Three Years

(08:30)

Unbound, DNSMasq - Local DNS Caching, Recursive DNS and Resolvers

(09:30)

Quad9 - Global Public Recursive DNS for Public Benefit, alternative to Cloudflare and Google

(09:55)

Local DNS Resilience and Why It Matters

(12:15)

Connecting Multiple Services and What DNS Adblocking Actually Does with Pi-Hole, Adguard Home, etc.

(13:04)

Dividing IP Ranges for Custom DNS, Adblocking assignments

(13:55)

Adding Resilience, Privacy and Speed Most Routers Do Not Offer Natively

(15:20)

Challenges You Can Try at Home!

(15:59)

Wiki in early development as plain text. Learn more on the forum

(17:00)

Low Key Gear Exchange for LFNW. Details for forum users!

• Forum post for registered users

(17:36)

100 Selfhosted Services for Low End and 32-bit Hardware

(19:11)

HomeLab Episode to be released with Robin Monks. Unedited interview available on Premium

(19:29)

Nginx, Caddy - Reverse Proxy via DNS Challenge for Local HTTPS Testing

(20:00)

mDNS and Avahi for remote machines gifted to others without https

(22:35)

Become a Premium Subscriber to Support the Show

(23:36)

How resilient is your setup? Let me know! podcast@livingcartoon.org

(24:05)

Discord and bridged Matrix Chats for discussing the show! Please Share with Others!

(24:55)

LFNW Schedule, should be live shortly. April 24th - 26th

(25:11)

AI Scanned My Brainrot, Live only at LFNW, on 04/26 at 3pm!

(26:17)

Upcoming Episode on SeaGL, LFNW and Conferences!

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34942012

I find everyone using different services, so unsure how to best manage (and balance) concurrent access in Ubuntu/Debian to:

• Local network services
• Tailscale services from userA
• Tailscale services from userB
• Wireguard (OpenVPN also option) from userC
• Twingate from userD

Each user is wanting to share different services via VPN, and pressuring any to change their production setups to a different style of VPN is not going to happen.

• Management via software
• Possibly up a routing device along the lines of OpenWrt or OpnSense.
  • Could even distribute such devices between these friends.

Thanks for all thoughts!

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34432697

Show notes link, since Lemmy struggles with properly displaying posts from Castopod.