Let’s do another round of this. What’s going on on your servers, any cool things? How’d the recent CVE flood tangent you and did it change how you see/do stuff?
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I recently set up my code forge (forgejo) in my home lab (yes a local only remote) and now got my first project in! I turned my OpenWRT backup in a IaC repo with now secrete rendering, a image builder pipeline, a deploy workflow guarded with my security key, nightly drift check etc
Everything behind a VPN now, Wireguard is my single point of failure…
Got a static IP routed in from https://getrealip.net/ so I can go back to hosting my own servers at home again properly without needing to hack up everything to route through Cloudflare with Tailscale. CGNAT is really messing up the internet. The service even supports reverse DNS, yay.
I’m considering trying to host my own mail (receive and internal send only, at least at first), as I have a friend who’s hosting all the useful services and mail’s the only one left.
Also experimenting with (rootless) podman, I’m finding the permission mapping a bit confusing tbh.
I have electric baseboard heaters so i like to heat my home with my server in the winter. I dont use it enough in the summer to warrant the power draw, but i’m looking forward to doing so this winter.
I’m hoping the AI bubble pops soon… i’d really like to pick up a decent accelerator card for AI for my desktop. My current server doesn’t have the PCIe slots left (all filled with U.2 drives on PCIe adapters or HBAs) so it would need to go in my desktop… i thought 64GB was a lot when i built this 3 years ago but now i’m wishing I put 128GB in it…
My server has 238GB though (ordered a 256GB kit and one stick was dead. Caught that on the 4th test cycle with memtest86+ pro which I 100% paid for.) Since I use it for not only ZFS but also all of my random containers and game server VMs.
Finally got around to self hosting Fluxer (Discord alternative) because they’ve implemented an easy to use setup.
Now I’m trying to optimise the setup for my needs as a backup space if my friends decide to stop using Discord and it’ll be a frictionless changeover.
On a side note; it’s the most containers for a single hosted service that I have. I can’t check the exact number right now but it’s over 10 containers!
My automatic weekly backup ran for the first time last night. Everything worked nicely.
Same I switched from rsync to borg for my QNAP NAS since my offsite rsync host didn’t support file ACLs, and it’s finally working for the most part. Just need to figure out how to trigger zfs snapshots and backup from there in the docker container that has Borg and Borg UI in it instead of directly backing up from the mounted share which sometimes things like DB files are changing constantly. But at least the backup is running and most shares don’t have files changing all that often like the DB server’s share. It’s a big step in moving some stuff from VPSs to local servers and setting up some of the more private stuff and stuff that needs too much storage to host remotely like Jellyfin and Immich.
I practiced restoring my offsite backup this week. Good experience.
Then I printed and laminated the instructions and stored in two locations.
Just curious. How long does lamination last? I assume light hurts paper.
I dunno. Longer than bare paper, I hope.
I’m always super excited for this kind of stuff :D
If it’s automated, why only run it weekly?
Some backup methods – like VM backups on a basic Proxmox VE – only support full backups, so they put a lot of stress on the system and take a lot of space. Even if the performance hit or service disruption during the backup is manageable, a homelabber has finite disk space for backups, so there’s a tradeoff between RPO (most recent backup) and retention (oldest backup). Keeping 2 weeks of backups is cheap for weekly, expensive daily.
Ideally, everything would be backed up incrementally at fairly short intervals (short RPO, long retention), and restorable very quickly (short RTO). Getting there is a journey and weekly automatic backups is a great step.
But maybe losing a week of data is fine in their case. There are parts of my lab that would even be fine with monthly backups…
(that’s correct, I just wanted to add that Proxmox Backup Server supports incremental backups)
Ah that makes sense, thanks!
Nothing really cool per se, but I installed Radicale on my local network as I am slowly moving away from my cloud providers.
Once I find some hardware to host Immich, I’ll be fully self supporting on all my tech.
Yeah, working some radicale related stuff on my end. Roommate decided tasks.org was the most useful to-do list app/implementation for keeping track of house chores. Gotta say, hate that radicale has basically no front end, but boy has it been crazy easy on the plug and play side.
But yeah, looking to take an old tablet and set it up as a kiosk for showing the days chore list. Might be the beginnings of me trying my hand at building a full fledged smart speaker (X to doubt tho).
Radicale and immich replaced my nextcloud instance and I never looked back. I have both updating through apt like everything else and it’s amazing how little maintenance it requires.
I’m into this as a regular thing!
Pinned, I think a lot of us really enjoy seeing what others have been doing to take back and make improvements to our own setup.
Glad you like it! I tried to go for a 2-3 week cycle as I realized every week is a bit too often (less comments). I also tried to do it alternating with the community on slrpnk but they’re currently down. I often forget to do these anyways :D
Anyone can make these, of course. I always enjoy doing them and talking about stuff I enjoy.
Procrastination. Want to move may lab off my pi onto my mini PC.
I have done the backup off the pi, just need to restore it but motivation doesn’t line up when the family is out of the house.
I bought some hardware last winter… still sitting in boxes. I do have adhd though
Part of it is I want to shuffle around some stuff, like switch my mobo out on my main pc and use its mobo in the new server
I have proxmox installed on the mini PC with a Debian VM ready to go, just the step of moving everything is the problem.
Ha, that’s my plan as well
I recently got around to setting up OIDC for my internal apps using Pocket ID.
Sonarr v5 adds OIDC support, currently only in beta
Jellyfin SSO plugin
Nextcloud with the Nextcloud OIDC app
Mealie, Paperless, and Immich natively support OIDC
Calibre-Web I migrated to AutoCaliWeb, which supports generic OIDC
Sadly Navidrome doesn’t natively support OIDC and forward auth is a bit jank due to the subsonic API
How does the Jellyfin SSO plugin work for you? I’ve set it up with LDAP at the moment so that tv clients and such can still login normally
Seems to work fine. I can still use Quick Connect for apps that don’t support alternative auth.
After the recent plex player debacle I’m once again trying to come up with a way for me and my diaspora to share media using Jellyfin, but without relying on Tailscale. We have several media libraries, and some of the library hosters are not too tech savvy, so coming up with a solution to replace the ease-of-use of plex hasn’t been easy.
Maybe try netbird?
What’s wrong with tailscale?
Hey, I did the same. It’s not as bad as it seems. Get yourself a domain name from cloudflare and use it. I got mine for $10 a year. Then just installed cloudflare on my Debian server and all that (I’m sure you know the rest) then made users on my admin jellyfin dashboard and started sending people their usernames and passwords. The only difference for them is now they would need to enter the server URL on the first page of whatever they use then username and password. Good thing these jellyfin clients have the page of entering the server URL in your face with their “connect to server” button. Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks for the details. I don’t think that covers my main problem though: letting other people who are not tech savvy share their libraries with me.
A user story would be: “I want to enter a search and find the result across all my friends’ shared libraries.”
Careful with using CF Tunnels for streaming content. It’s against their ToS to use the free tier for streaming content, so they can technically turn it off whenever they want from my understanding.
From what I understand, if you turn off caching you aren’t violating their TOS. I’ve been doing this for about 2 years now and have yet to have anything happen. Multiple friends use my Jellyfin server daily.
Against whose TOS? Jellyfin’s? I’ve never heard of that. Do explain why please.
Edit: I re-read your comment a couple of times (English is my second language), then searched some stuff. I didn’t even know cloudflare did that. I’ve been using them for over 2 years with no issues. I guess I don’t stress their servers enough? lol. If they stop me, I’ll just move to another company. I won’t even bother asking them or anything.
Against cloudflares ToS
Thank you. I realized that after reading the comment a couple of times. Yeah, they can screw off. If they stop me, I’ll just move my stuff somewhere else.
Decided to get back into podcasts recently, but baked-in ads and sponsor reads make standard listening unbearable.
I spent the weekend spinning up MinusPod, an open-source tool that detects ad reads and strips them using ffmpeg. It uses Whisper for local transcription, then feeds the transcript to an LLM to identify exact timestamps for sponsor segments and commercial breaks before slicing them out. I routed the text processing through Gemini Flash, which runs about $0.07 per episode. Clean, ad-free audio feeds with zero manual editing.
This reminds me of a project idea I’ve had.
Auto-muting a TV using an HDMI splitter and an SBC running some sort of algorithm that detects if there’s an ad on the TV.
iSponsorBlockTV?
Isn’t that only for YouTube?
But yes, something similar to that.
Not quite server related, but in the middle of a workday this week, I decided I was done with Windows on my home PC. Installed Zorin OS and things have been going really well. Any issues I’ve had have been really minor and mostly revolve around me being picky about theming.
I haven’t found a native mp3 tagger that makes sense to me yet, so I just installed Mp3tag. I’m open to suggestions on that front.
On the server side, it’s mostly just keeping on. A friend has me considering Home Assistant, I just don’t know if the value is there for me. I need to do some housekeeping today and update and clean up unused containers.
I have opinions about music tagging! I’m picky; I don’t trust any amount of automation to find the exact right release with the right album art I want, so I use GUIs instead of a CLI -
MusicBrainz has Picard, and that’s pretty slick. Also includes a handy renaming tool for keeping files organized. Quod Libet is also worth a look. I’m not as familiar with its feature set, but it’ll run on a toaster.
One day I might try to tackle Beets. Heard lots of good about that as an auto-tagging solution, so maybe check that out, too.
Yeah, same. Earlier this year I thought “Hey, people seem to love auto tagging with MB, Picard, Beets. I should try it.”
But that was short lived. I don’t want release information outside of artists, titles, albums, year. I just have no need for it. I know how to get what I want from mp3tag.
I am looking at using Beets to keep things clean, maybe find missing artwork, and fetch lyrics. But the vital information I’ll keep reviewing.
I haven’t ever gotten comfortable with how Picard works, but I’ll check out QL. Thanks!
I am trying to find affordable 2x16Gb ram modules that are just right to run on my asrock J5040 and push my proxmox to more possibilities.
Because my needs for ram are increasing since its not just about have the services availble anymore. I plan to add gitlab and k3s and with the rest of my services the 16GB ram are pretty tight.
Good luck! I’ve been watching auctions for some weeks on ebay when I needed 2x32GB SODIMM some months ago and eventually got a pair for 230€. Fucking expensive but cheaper than most other offers I found.
This is a realy good price nowadays. Even more when it was DDR5. I only need DDR4 but atm its round about 80€ for one. Makes 160€… Fir this old stuff. And it even feels like a good price. Pretty sad somehow xD
