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submitted 6 months ago by zerodawn@leaf.dance to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

I'm duplicating my server hardware and moving the second set off site. I want to keep the data live since the whole system will be load balanced with my on site system. I've contemplated tools like syncthing to make a 1 to 1 copy of the data to NAS B but i know there has to be a better way. What have you used successfully?

[-] zerodawn@leaf.dance 49 points 8 months ago

I'll apologise now for the tiktok link, i know how much this place hates tiktok but here is a woman who did a deep dive and found evidence that the company actually changed their logo and tried to scrub the existence of the Cornucopia from the internet to distance themselves from Bad PR.

https://www.tiktok.com/@dimelifting/video/7311071477732838687

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submitted 8 months ago by zerodawn@leaf.dance to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

For a time it was Fennic for addon support but now that Firefox mobile has addons are there better alternatives? Those of you on android, what's your go to?

[-] zerodawn@leaf.dance 6 points 8 months ago

Can't forget midnight mass

[-] zerodawn@leaf.dance 8 points 10 months ago

To play off what others are saying i think a mini pc and a stand alone nas may be the better route for you. It may seem counter intuitive to break it out into two devices but doing so will allow room for growth. If you buy a creeper bare bones mini pc and put more of your budget towards a nas and storage you could expand the mini pc without messing with your nas. You could keep the pi in the mix for a backup if your main pc is down or offload some services to it to balance performance.

[-] zerodawn@leaf.dance 10 points 10 months ago

As a self taught self-hosting enthusiast i wouldn't recommend ansible to a beginner. I know that sounds backwards as absible makes everything easy and does all the work for you but that's also part of the problem. It would be like jumping behind the wheel of a self driving car without knowing how to drive at all. When (not if) something goes wrong it could go wrong hard and you'd lose the whole instance.

It's better to start with some other self hosted projects that interest you to get a feel for the process and software like docker then work your way up to bigger things like lemmy. I consider myself fairly versed in the process and lemmy still gave me some issues to set up and my pixelfed instance still won't federate despite my best efforts. I'm pretty sure i know the issue, i just need to get around to fixing it.

Last thought, the raspberry pi is a pretty impressive little pc for it's size and price point but you might find yourself quickly burning through resources depending on the number of active users you have and how heavily you use it.

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submitted 1 year ago by zerodawn@leaf.dance to c/movies@lemmy.world

Are there any other good modem movies that have black and white counterparts? The only other one i can think of is The Day The Earth Stood Still and the remake of that isn't even that good.

This question comes about as my really enjoying The Thing, finding out it had an earlier version, and then finding i enjoyed that version more and for different reasons. I'd love to branch out and watch more monochrome movies with modem ties.

[-] zerodawn@leaf.dance 10 points 1 year ago

As someone else said, selfhosting is the only real way to overcome this problem. When it's all on your hardware it matters a lot less if the messaged at are decrypted server side or not. Everyone has a different threat level and at some point you have to put trust in some companies but if beeper makes you uncomfortable then buy a cheap second hand mini pc and learn to self host the service.

[-] zerodawn@leaf.dance 6 points 1 year ago

The arrs would be your best bet to reduce your input. If i'm not mistaken you can run them all through docker including a version of qbittorrentb that's bound to a vpn and the only way it access the internet is through that vpn. Or you could split tunnel your vpn and bind your qbittorrent to it and bipass your jellyfin instance.

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submitted 1 year ago by zerodawn@leaf.dance to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I'll start off by saying everyone's economic situations are just as varied as their threat models and how people make decisions on which services can be specific to themself and not one that can apply to anyone else. The services one chooses to use for free or to pay for may be based more on what they can afford vs what's the best broad reaching plan.

That being said i'd like to see what others think about the proton suit of services. I've been eyeing it as an option for a paid service for a while but am hesitant to put all my eggs in one basket. I'm interested in a vpn, mullvad seems to be the other popular choice. I'm also interested in email address anonymizing service like anonaddy. At $5 for mullvad, $3 for anonaddy, and $3 for base proton email it comes out to a dollar more than protons premium tier which gets cheaper if you pay for 1 or 2 years at a time.

As said above would the biggest reason not to use proton for all of these separate services be not putting all your eggs in one basket?

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I'm looking for a YR-DLP GUI for just music, or a good way to access music in general. I had a lidarr-on-steroids instance running but it kept disconnecting from deezer and i'd love to get that back up and running but it looks like it's not supported any more. Yt-dlp looks like a decent enough plan B, but i'm open to other discussion

[-] zerodawn@leaf.dance 9 points 1 year ago

Accidentally read the second book thinking it was a stand alone. The story still held up so i made it half the book before i realized my mistake

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I'm looking into self hosted and open source nvr options and frigate looks like the right fit for me. I'm curious what hardware others are running it on and how many cameras they have. How many people are running it in home assistsnt?

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I'm looking for a google calendar replacement that isn't nextcloud, has a descent mobile app with widgets, and authentication built in. I've seen plenty of recommendations via search but i'd like to hear what you personally use and what you like about it.

[-] zerodawn@leaf.dance 14 points 1 year ago

Not OP, i've heard nothing but good things about cloudflare tunnels but for me they have two major drawbacks. The first is you can't use them for a self hosted media server such as jellyfin as it violates their terms of service. The second is you have to trust them with all your traffic. Now i have no reason to think they would do anything nefarious but i'm at the point in my threat model journey that the less i trust in any corporations hands the better. Just my two cents.

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I'd like to host a game night for friends and family where we play games like jackbox. I'd like to self host the service and give anyone a url and possibly a user name/password combination to access it. I'd like audio and video support as well as the ability to screen share and have a text chat option. I know there are a couple of services that do some of these things but does anyone know of an option that part offers all of this?

[-] zerodawn@leaf.dance 6 points 1 year ago

The description is similar but i don't remember there being space combat, there may have been but it would have been later in the game. What i'm thinking of was ground based units

[-] zerodawn@leaf.dance 5 points 1 year ago

It does sound very similar but you are correct, too new of a game to be the one i'm trying to remember

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Some time between 2000-2004, i think, i bought a pc game where the plot is aliens have attacked earth and left the planet in ruins, we took one of their ships and reverse engineered it and are setting out after them for revenge. The gameplay was rts resource management that felt similar to command on conquer. The unique aspect was the world maps were full 360 spheres that you couldn't see all at once and had to rotate. You could ship resources between conquered planets but it took time and the enemy could try and retake a world after you left.

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