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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.

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[–] Presi300@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm going through hell, trying to update from truenas scale 24.04 to 24.10

[–] tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's not working? I just set up TrueNAS for the first time, went with 25.04 and figured I could just update my way out of potential bugs, but the updater is broken :D

[–] Presi300@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Well, firstly I had this weird issue where the pools were giving me errors because some folder was missing, I fixed that but 24.10 has literally 0 compatibility with apps from 24.04 and it looks like I'm going to have to reset the whole pool in order to use their new apps ecosystem (because trying to install anything from 24.10 just errors out)... Which is extremely annoying as I have quite a lot of apps setup

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Just set up Lemmy! I wonder if this gets through

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm reading it so I'd say it works!

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hell yeah, you just sent the first notification to my instance :)

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's actually so cool and the more I think about it the more it's making me really want to host my own Lemmy instance. Can I ask what sort of hardware resources you're running it on?

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 3 points 5 days ago

Sure! It's a Lenovo m910q tiny. Mine has an i7-6700 and 32GB RAM but Lemmy runs in a VM with 4 cores and 8 GB RAM which should be plenty, it's not even using half that RAM. Disk Space seems to be the limiting factor after a while since it keeps copies of all remote threads and comments but that can be cleaned up too.

Found some threads online on resource usage beforehand like this: https://lemmy.ml/post/440678

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I upgraded immich without breaking everything. That's always reason to celebrate.

[–] Selfhoster1728@infosec.pub 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How exactly does stuff get broken? Never rly had a problem bumping up the version in docker. The only issue has been the playstore version taking longer to push updates sometimes for the mobile apps.

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[–] ZebraGoose@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

I feel you 😂

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[–] pos005@lemmy.pos005.com 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I finally moved from reddit to Lemmy. maybe a 3-4 hour set up time to get it all working lol.

[–] tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cool! Which installation method did you use?

[–] pos005@lemmy.pos005.com 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I did manual docker. I host some other things as well, so running it through nginx proxy manager that I already had set up.

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[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Finally moved all my lxc onto a lower-power Xeon D host, consumes 1/3 the electricity of my previous Dell R430, same essential performance.

[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago

I plan on setting up the *arr suite and getting rid of Netflix, Crunchyroll, Amazon Prime and Disney+

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You can use https://schedule.lemmings.world/ to automate the posts. Or, given the community we're in, you can selfhost it!

This week I've been doing some work on my GOG Downloader to finally back up all my GOG stuff when I buy new disks, that's pretty much it for my selfhost/homeserver stuff this week.

[–] tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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!

[–] dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 10 points 1 week ago

Finally got my lemmy instance fully updated.

Been improving my backup scripts in advance of adding backup to a server.

Updated servers and other services.

[–] Kng@feddit.rocks 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Had a hard drive fail my main zfs array. First time I have experienced a disk failure so it was a bit worrying. Thankfully I had added an additional drive to expand the array so I was able to quickly rebuild to that drive. Currently shopping for a replacement. From now on I think I will keep a cold spare just in case this happens again. I just wish hard drives would stop increasing in price.

[–] doodledup@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You save some money by buying recertified drives from Serverpartdeals.

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[–] FoD@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've had two failed harddrives in the last month. Not sure if bad batch or what. Thankfully the order these were on only were the two drives so may not see more. They are under warranty but it's still a pain!

Otherwise I'm enjoying Mealie lately for my recipes. Kinda nice having them all in one place but accessible by anyone in the house.

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[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just swapped VPS hosts from ssdnodes to MassiveGRID. Got a pretty sweet deal, so I'm pretty excited.

Got my services transferred over this week and it's been fun as hell. It's interesting because I was discussing Portainer with my buddy and he has Portainer on his local PC to connect to his remote instances and with hindsight it sounds obvious of course, but it's such a nice little setup. Just finished setting up my Jellyfin reverse proxy so I'm gonna watch a movie and chill.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I used Portainer for a while and still like it for checking out networking stuff, but try out Dockge! It's more open sourcey and basic, but makes updating easier.

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[–] WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Trying to get my hands dirty with LLM, Ollama and Web Scrapping.

I don't understand most of it , but hey, that's the fun. No complaints.

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.ee 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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
[–] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Since it's winter and I mostly don't want to leave my house, I busted out an unused Raspberry Pi 4b a couple weeks ago. Started with CasaOS and AdGuard. Have now added a few other services including Navidrome to serve up a lot of local-area music for myself and friends. Got a Cloudflare tunnel set up, then some authentication through CF as well. And finally secured a static IP from my ISP. This is the farthest along I've ever gotten with any of this and it's been going great. Nearly every hurdle I've encountered I've been able to work through.

Two things causing me grief today though:

  1. I also have Nextcloud hosted on a VPS and I cannot get to the point of running occ commands. First it wasn't found, then no php cli, then just errors. I gave up.

  2. I'm using Homer because it's just so simple, but the theming and CSS is driving me nuts. Sure, I can change colors, but will this little bar in the neon theme change from 4em to 100% for me? NOPE. Override fonts? Nosir. All good though.

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[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week 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.

[–] beerclue@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Pihole 6 broke my DNS (dnsmasq), and since I had a fw rule in opnsense to only use pihole's DNS, and deny public DNS access, it was an early rise for me :)

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[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, nobody other than Brits use fortnightly anymore.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

And Aussies. We use it here a LOT

[–] tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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?

[–] Zeoic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] FunkFactory@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I'm a new selfhoster and reached the limit on what my DS923+ can handle after setting up an Immich instance (on top of qbitorrent, radarr/sonarr, plex). So I picked up a mini PC this week and migrated the Immich stack over (pointing to an NFS mount for the NAS!) and now it's running super smooth 🙌 Now I'm hype to move over more services and eventually start separating out media services from mission-critical stuff like photos when I have another machine handy.

I wanted to set up local domain resolution for my devices in order to stop having to visit sites with the local 192.168.1.x IP, so I started following some guides to run dnsmasq on the mini PC (Ubuntu Server) and add entries to /etc/hosts. It was pretty easy to get working OK, but for whatever reason the DNS doesn't seem to be working on a fresh boot. My local workstation can't ping the custom DNS entries for my devices until I sudo systemctl restart dnsmasq on the mini PC, after which everything works fine, which leads me to believe it's some weird boot order problem? I'm trying not to screw with it too much before bed, but hopefully I can figure out what's going on this week.

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[–] TK420@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (6 children)

ITT: lots of busted pihole v6 updates

Finally got started with Grafana, Prometheus and Meshtastic.

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[–] voklen@programming.dev 5 points 1 week 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.

[–] node815@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Pushed Wireguard back onto my network. I've been a Tailscale user for a couple of years, but never really saw the need for it for me as I'm the only user of the service. :)

I will freely admit though, there's nothing wrong with the service and honestly is great if you are behind a CGNAT router or don't want to use Cloudflare for your tunneling.

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.

[–] tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week 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.

[–] papertowels@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I finally got link warden up and running, but I'm chasing down some failures on a few websites.

Also realized that me biting the bullet for unlimited bandwidth (screw you Comcast!) means I can run archive team warrior, so that's been going.

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[–] Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week 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.

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