Almost forgot before going to bed but I feel bi-weekly is a good rhythm for this.

Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.

  • voklen@programming.devEnglish
    5·
    12 hours ago

    I’m currently looking to connect an NVMe SSD to a Pi 4 I have in a differences location to finally have proper 3-2-1 backups. I’m trying to find a NVMe to USB adapter that will work though.

  • RagingHungryPanda@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    13 hours ago

    I just got cactus comments working on my writefreely blog. Cactus comments needs matrix, so I got matrix with element set up. It was an incredibly frustrating journey of learning, but it turns out the final bit wasn’t too complicated. I’m running on TruNas, which I hear you shouldn’t do, but it’s too late haha.

    I also got the whatsapp bridge set up, but it doesn’t look like matrix supports disappearing messages, so I left some rooms it created b/c one of the larger groups easily took up a gig of storage before disappearing messages was turned on.

    Anyway, writefreely has federated cactus comments that you can currently only sign in with a matrix account lol. I can try and change that later. I host the photos with picsur.

    I think that I need to collect my notes and memories and put it into a blog post, but I don’t really want to turn my blog (if I even keep up with it) into a blog about how to self host a blog.

    In hindsight, I don’t think the comments were worth it, but whatever.

  • baduhai@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    5·
    16 hours ago

    I feel bi-weekly is a good rhythm for this.

    What does biweekly mean to you? Twice a week, or once every two weeks? If it’s the latter, I prefer to use fortnightly, since it’s not ambiguous.

    • tofuwabohu@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      I mean every other week. I wasn’t aware of the other interpretation, but I think in combination with “The Sunday thread” it’s unambiguous?

      I have never heard fortnightly, but then I’m not a native speaker. Is that commonly used?

      • baduhai@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        11 hours ago

        I think in combination with “The Sunday thread” it’s unambiguous?

        Perhaps, though I guess it could also be that there is “The Sunday thread” and “The Wednesday thread”.

        As for whether fortnightly is common or not, I think it is, but the other commenter suggests that only the Brits use the term. Fairly certain I’ve heard that from an Aussie friend though, could be that US Americans don’t use the term.

        Perhaps semimonthly is the most unambiguous term? That’s what Mariam-Webster seems to suggest.

        • tofuwabohu@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
          1·
          10 hours ago

          Semi monthly sounds like “monthly, or not” to me. Not sure about the alternatives I’ve seen so far

          • baduhai@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            10 hours ago

            True, didn’t think it that way. I don’t know what would be best, English is such a wierd language.

      • Zeoic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        I have always heard bi-weekly be every other week, and semi-weekly be twice a week

  • Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    18 hours ago

    Realised my jellyfin lxc had a maxed out bootdisk yesterday, haven’t been using it for a while. Luckily I have decent backups setup so I was able to restore a backup from late January when it wasn’t filled yet. A quick library rescan and everything was up and running again.

  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.todayEnglish
    41·
    19 hours ago

    My pihole exploded yesterday, all my fault. A couple of years ago, I created a script called via cron to update pihole’s services every other week. This was great, until now when it updated to v6 at 4am. To make matters worse, I neglected to automate raspian updates, meaning it was very out of date, and was no longer compatible with pihole-FTL (thinking back, I thought I automated it too, but I guess not).

    I took an image after creating a pihole “teleporter” backup, and began formatting. In my lack of caffeine and focus, I missed that my teleporter file was corrupt after I had successfully wiped the SD card. Thankfully I had that image as I was able to mount it and retrieve my blocklists via sqlite, otherwise I would have had to start from scratch.

    One good thing that came out of it (for my taste, anyway) was that I swapped the OS on the pi to fedora. No more debian around here!

    Tomorrow, I plan on setting up some backup automation for my pi, as it’s the only machine missing backups at this point.

      • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        17 hours ago

        It’s mostly personal preference, but I have grown to hate apt in general. I used it for over a decade and constantly got in dependency hell. I’ve yet to have anything like that happen on Fedora, especially Silverblue and CoreOS.

      • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.todayEnglish
        31·
        17 hours ago

        I don’t mean to sound hostile, that’s probably my past demons coming out. Like I said in my last comment, it’s really apt that I hate. It would constantly break or put me into dependency hell and I haven’t had to deal with that (yet) with Fedora.

        I haven’t put my finger on it, but Fedora, for whatever reason, also just feels faster.

  • ItTakesTwo@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    19 hours ago

    I’m in the process of doing an initial restic sync of my primary storage to B2 as offsite backup and while I’m at it finally got around having a look at resticprofiles to simplify my restic backups on all my systems. Highly recommend it as it reduced my mental overhead of doing regular backups quite a bit!

    • walden@sub.wetshaving.socialEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      I’m the one who files the most bug reports on github under a different name. Our instance runs on Lemmy Schedule, so thanks!

    • tofuwabohu@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      I didn’t know that, cool! Though I should probably talk to the mods before setting up such a thing.

  • harsh3466@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    I’ve been working on some bash scripts to help manage my media files. I’ve been slowly working on learning more bash and I’m pretty pleased with my progress. After I finish this bash book I’m reading (can’t remember the title atm), I think I’m gonna jump into awk.

    • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      Bash is a really great shell, but consider trying out a functional shell scripting language like Elvish (which is also a shell). Syntatically it’s pretty similar and not hard to pickup, but it’s stupid powerful. A cool example is updating different servers via ssh in parallel using a servers.json file;

      [
  {"name": "server.com", "user": "root", "identity": "~/.ssh/private_key0", "cmd": "apt update; apt upgrade -y"},
  {"name": "serverb.com", "user": "root", "identity": "~/.ssh/private_key1", "cmd": "pacman -Syu"},
  {"name": "serverc.com", "user": "root", "identity": "~/.ssh/private_key2", "cmd": "apk update; apk upgrade"}
]

      and a little elvish magic;

      var hosts = (from-json < servers.json)
peach {|h|
  ssh $h[user]@$h[name] -i $h[identity] $h[cmd] > ssh-$h[name].log
} $hosts

      Just run the script and boom, done. You can even swap out peach which is parallel each for each if you want to do each command procedurally–but I really love using peach, especially with file operations over many different files. Linux is fast, but peach is fuckin’ crazy fast. Especially for deleting files (fd -e conf -t file | peach {|x| rm $x }, or one thing that I do is extract internal subs (so they play on my chromecast) in my Jellyfin server, using elvish makes it really fast;

      fd -e mkv | peach {|x| ffmpeg -i $x -map 0:s:0 $x.srt }

      Find all *.mkv files, pass the filenames through ffmpeg (using peach) and extract the first subtitle as filename.mkv.srt. Takes only about a few seconds to do thousands and thousands of video files. I highly recommend it for home-labbers.

      Pretty dumb example, but peach is like 6x faster;

      ❯ time { range 0 1000 | each {|x| touch $x.txt }}
5.2591751s
❯ time { range 0 1000 | peach {|x| touch $x.txt }}
776.2411ms
  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    I’m setting up Seafile and trying to swap everything from docker to podman. The longer term goal is that once everything is on podman, I’ll get a new NVME drive and install MicroOS so I can retire my old SATA SSD (I’ve had it for 10 years or so, across 3 PCs).

    I’m also considering setting up Forgejo and getting a worker to build my Rust projects.

  • SwizzleStick@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    A third, and hopefully final attempt at getting an iredmail setup going. SPF, DKIM & DMARC all checking out fine. It’s actually working this time. Need to get the ISP to change our PTR record though, last bit of the puzzle.

    Also picked up a used negate device, so we now have pfsense fronting everything. That’s allowed me to move the original router to a better location and put it in AP mode.

    Emby media server moved off a Synology and into a proxmox container. Finally, we can stream high def with the hardware acceleration we weren’t getting before.

  • Anomaly@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    Got Prometheus and Grafana setup with https on my Talos Linux cluster. Tried to use cert-manager with a DNS01 Challenge with Let’s Encrypt but was using a local TLD and found out it won’t issue it. So I had to switch to a local issuer. Was using metallb to gain a routable ip, I used the nginx-ingress controller for Prometheus and Grafana. Next time I can tinker I’ll place the rest of my services behind it.

    • tofuwabohu@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      2·
      21 hours ago

      I hadn’t heard of Talos Linux, sounds cool! We are using haproxy as ingress controller with stepca for local certificates at work.

  • tofuwabohu@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    Personally I’m mostly involved with my homelab migration so there’s not too much on the selfhosting page except os updates. I set up meshmini earlier to access my thin clients via vPro/AMT but I need to configure the clients before being able to actually using meshmini. Once I’m done with that I’ll finally be able to set up Lemmy and Pine pods.

    My selfhosted stuff currently works fine without me doing much which feels good and lets me focus on hardware stuff currently.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    I spent half a dozen hours this weekend trying to get Proxmox running on a 2nd hand laptop, but I can’t get it to run without sounding like a jet engine. The machine did fine when I ran Mint and used it as a laptop - but even after blacklisting the dGPU and forcing all the CPU cores to powersaving, I’m still making heat like crazy.

    Plan B is to put Mint back on it and install podman and see if fan noise is a problem then. But I’d rather have podman running in an unprivileged LXC.