Re-organizing the #Homelab and currently stuck on #HardThingNo2, naming things. My #aspie brain thinks it'd make most practical sense to name things by function, e.g. workstation01, firewall01, cluster01node01, etc. (which adds the question of how many leading zeroes), would like to name things with geeky references e.g. FUCKUP, Ozma, 7of9, etc. (which runs into issues as soon as you try for a coherent theme of enough components...), and is worried that from a security perspective something memorable yet unrelated to its function might be wise, e.g. blue charybdis, amber cyclops, periwinkle gorgon (But then I'm not running a spy agency here... as far as you know :-P).
Project activity, software launches, updates, a spotlight on #sup3rS3cretMes5age - a one-time, self-destructing messaging service, and more in this week's self-hosted recap!
I've now collected 4 of the 5 stones needed to complete the #smarthome protocol infinity gauntlet after deploying an #ESPHome device (#ratgdo) for the first time last night.
Once completed, I'll be able to decrease my home's electricity usage by 50% at the snap of my fingers.
Does anyone have a line on a mid-tier ARM processor?
Seems like the landscape is missing that middle ground. You either get the low end state of the art RK3588 which is decent but not in the same league as say a Core i5/i7. Or you get the big bois like the Ampere or the soon to be release Qualcomm X Elite which is trying to play at the top.
Where's my 10-12 core 4Ghz proc on an mATX board with a few extra PCIe lanes to play with in the $300-$500 range?
Just dropped a new episode of The Self-Host Cast featuring a casual conversation with Ivan, the developer of the #vehicle maintenance tracking application #LubeLogger.
Would love some feedback on ways to improve or suggestions for future episode topics!
to the young graphic designers/artists that do home print media. My word of advice... DONT USE THE BAKED IN PRINT OVER NET FEATURE.
Get a cheap thin client from a thrift or e-cycler, dump windows 7 or linux on it and set up print server.
It will save you a billion years of troubleshooting and wanting to throw your expensive printer out the window.
Wishing you the best. ~An artist who hasnt had a printer issue since 2016! #graphicdesign#art#artist#IT#tech#homelab#dev#linux
I've got an idea. Let's form an IoT company. One that makes really great, high quality, well designed products. You know, ones that don't drop out every time you look at them wrong. We offer them cheap, burning through some VC money.
We will certainly fail. But for one glorious moment, people will know good IoT. And the next time somebody tries to sell them crap, they get beaten to a pulp with their shitty products.
And perhaps then, we will actually get good IoT stuff.
Got word from my landlord that the #PowerUsage is a bit high, so I just bought a #WattMeter to place here in my office to see what the usage of the #server and such is, and if it's high then I'm going to look into making a new #homelab with lower wattage computers.
Coming from #Iceland where the electricity is so cheap it messes a bit with a person's mind and behaviour.
How are folks doing #dns or #servicediscovery for their #homelab? I have a small but useful #django app running on my LAN, and I’m tired of remembering the IP address of the raspberry pi that’s running it.
So if you are looking for a #Python network diagnostic utility (command line), something you can run on a laptop when doing common troubleshooting for misbehaving networks, what are some features you'd like to have?
Thus far I'm thinking
IP
link speed
neighbor data via LLDP (to know what port a given outlet is plugged into)
Well fuck me I changed credit cards a few months ago and forgot to update my Wasabi account for my S3 buckets to backup my NAS. So they suspended the account so I had to make a whole new one, and now just restarted my NAS backup on the Synology box. Well this is probably going to take about a week for the first backup as it’s a couple terabytes.
Zijn er mensen geïnteresseerd om te helpen bij het hosten van onze fediverse instances?
Zoals je wellicht weet, host ik o.a. mastodon.world, lemmy.world en nog een dozijn ad=ndere fediverse instances. Ik zou het wel leuk vinden als iemand met dezelfde interesse voor self-hosting en Fediverse, zou willen helpen met uitbreiden, onderhouden en brainstormen over deze platformen. (Ik heb al wel veel hulp op instance niveau)
It's so nice to have a parts bin deep enough (and infrastructure developed enough) to just build the things I want to build.
I put some grass seed down but didn't have a sprinkler, so I bought a sprinkler, and then I decided I wanted to hook it up to #HomeAssistant
All I needed to buy was a cheapie in-ground solenoid sprinkler valve, NPT to GHT thread adapters, and a 24VAC transformer. Dug a Z-Wave relay out of the parts bin and wired it up.
#Today at the #homelab I had to use an undocumented method to default the nvram on my old dell laser printer to reset a self signed default cert to get printing services back.
Ugh, why are these things so dumb? If you have a self signed cert that's expired and you KNOW it's expired the default action isn't to force the user to go on and delete all the certs (only way to get the self signed setup option back) and make them reset it.
As my old NUC was showing its age, and didn't suffice for my #homelab needs anymore, I decided to build a new one. And because I prefer running all my #selfhosted in containers, but abhor fucking around with #docker and docker-compose, it's a single-node #k8s cluster, using #k3s, just like my old server. One big difference is that the new server has a decent amount of drives for storage. I decided to set up #zfs to manage that, and zfs is all it's cracked up to be.