I had my VPS go down due to a PSU issue. Os there any legal recourse for getting my 0.14% of the monthly cost back?
Depends on your contact but most hosters have service agreements where a few days of downtime over the year are covered
I'm running Nextcloud and PaperlessNXG on my servers. Over the last few months I tested out my remote management. Now that I'm back home, I've been making a few adjustments based on my learnings. Firstly, Wireguard is slower than a turtle, while Tailscale has been a little bit faster. I'm guessing this is due to my upload speed and switching to fiber may fix this.
I'd also like to add TubeArchivist back in since there's some great videos that I don't trust Google to preserve given the direction things are going.
The folks on the "privacy" Lemmy gave me some good tips on app replacements and after making a big spreadsheet with all my apps, their licenses, etc., I cut down my remaining proprietary apps by at least 50% and I only have a few proprietary essentials that still depend on Google Play. I've been meaning to do this for a long time and I almost have a path towards completely removing all Google, Amazon, and Microsoft products from my life.
Next, I'd like to set up Wander to eventually get rid of Garmin/Strava but I haven't been able to figure it out and I'm still locked in to some degree because of my hardware (Garmin watch). The Ring doorbell has to be the next thing to go, but I'm exhausted and haven't had the motivation to start a new project until the dust settles from the last one.
I'm iterating again on my lab setup and moving a few apps that I expose externally to their own VM so I can lock that sucker down even further. Right now I have a few different servers with podman/docker containers grouped by application type. e.g. critical apps: foregjo, nextcloud, vaultwarden. My arr stack. Media consumption. Knowledge & tracking apps, and general apps.
I eventually intend to throw the external apps into a DMZ VM but my network isn't setup to do that right now, so instead I'm getting them set up on their own host and will lock down the firewall to only allow it to communicate with my reverse proxy and nothing else.
It's been fun reworking my Ansible playbooks to do all my server provisioning (still need to figure out Terraform) along with running app installs and updates automatically at the press a button. Working with firewall rules via Ansible was a bit of a headache at first but now I'm in a really good spot.
I'm also testing out linkwarden and hoarder to finally replace what I lost with Omnivore a while ago.
Attempting to get my lemmy instance going properly. Got it running on digital ocean but they don't allow outgoing email and reccomend a third party service. I decided to try out Hetzner and am getting errors saying that docker compose isn't installed when running the ansible script.
I've been using OVH without issues. How big is your drive space though? Lemmy uses quite a bit. Federation can take some time too.
still learning truenas. i think I've figured out nextcloud which is basically a nightmare whenever I've had to install it
Scripting enlarging 2400 10x10 png files to 512x512 Stable Diffusion generated images that look like high resolution cityscapes in the style of Salvador Dali. I can't get the API to spit out a single image.
Crazy enough, I have everything going that I want to on my server!
As far as my server goes, I have everything I need. Maybe setting up something for sharing files over the web if needed. I used nextcloud for that before it killed itself completely and I realized I never really needed it.
Next is working on my smart home because we had to fully strip the house to renovate. KNX first, zwave for things that KNX doesn't have or are crazy expensive, ESPHome for everything that the other two can't accomplish. Minimal 2.4GHz interference and don't have to rely as much as possible on flaky wireless in a brick house.
Anyone know how to set up NPM on truenas scale? I've spent all day trying to get my SSL certs and it fails every damn time. Just says the donation is unknown or that it can't find my npm install 😮💨
I'm using a freedns domain tho so maybe I'm gonna need to try buying a domain.
We finally got our music server set up after a lot of finagling with wireguard. It's really cool; we have slsk-dl set up to batch download our playlists from Soulseek, which we can then play in Jellyfin. Next I'm gonna set up Nextcloud for backing up photos, projects, the whole shebang.
I'm eternally sitting here putting off migrating my homelab from docker to rootless podman due to some rather janky patterns I use. It might be super smooth or it might not so instead I just wait in endless decision paralysis
I spun up a new Plex server with a decent GPU - and decided to try offloading Home Assistant's Preview Voice Assistant TTS/STT to it. That's all working as of yesterday, including an Ollama LLM for processing.
Last on my list is figuring out how to get Home Assistant to help me find my phone.
Got any links for howtos on this?
Sure! I mostly followed this random youtuber's video for getting Wyoming protocols offloaded (Whisper/Piper), but he didn't get Ollama to use his GPU: https://youtu.be/XvbVePuP7NY.
For getting the Nvidia/Docker passthrough, I used this guide: https://www.bittenbypython.com/en/posts/install_ollama_openwebui_ubuntu_nvidia/.
It's working fairly great at this point!
I have a family member across the country that wants to break from Google and really isn't the type to self-host themselves, and I connect to my self hosted NextCloud solely through TailScale.
NextCloud permissions seem easy enough, but I'm researching how to add them to my Tailnet safely to avoid potential compromise of my network if something happens to their system.
Presuming this involves ACLs, which look intimidating, but I'm doing some research on that.
Considering moving my stuff into a VirtualBox VM or two rather than running directly on my PC. Then at some point in the future when I have the hardware for it I can fairly easily move it to proxmox. Also means installing a clean OS on my main PC is a quicker task as it would just be install virtual box, load up the VMs and a lot of stuff would already be done.
Currently trying to figure out how to create and maintain an internal CA in order to enable pod to pod TLS communication, while using letsencrypt for my public ingresses.
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