I've been playing it loosey goosey with backups on my #HomeLab lately. Durnik, my original Portainer workhorse, gets all the love and has very specific backup routines per application hosted.
My new ProxMox powerhouse, Belgarath, is going the lazy admin route - I just backup the the entire server as an image daily. Thinking it's time to revisit and setup similar per VM / app backups.
Do you know when you have hung on to a mobile phone for too long? When you get a quote to sell it and the phone is worth $2 USD. Sleep well Pixel2. I'll find something for you to do in the #homelab.
@fink@pasci_lei a) Ich lese bei OP einen ironischen Unterton. b) Eine Person, die genug versteht, um sich eine SearXNG-Instanz zu suchen, bzw. versteht warum man das tun koennte, die hat, vermute ich stark, auch genug Hintergrundwissen, um sich auch durch eine passende Anleitung zu arbeiten. Dass das keine Loesung fuer das Gros ist, ist, finde ich, offensichtlich.
Yesterday i replaced a SSD in one of my home servers. The amount of dust was terrible. A very thin and consistent layer of dust in all the insides. What tips can you share to attenuate dust inside our boxes? #homelab#homeserver
@Prozak In my experience, unless you run them in a mostly-dust-free environment (ie no carpet, don't have pets, run them indoors, good filtration and air conditioning) you're basically doomed to have dust sooner or later.
I just run my shit in the garage and make peace with the fact that taking it offline for service is a 2x a year ordeal. 😭
@fwaggle@Prozak Honestly if all you’re getting is a thin consistent layer, you’re doing great!
All you can do is filter more which just means the dust inside will be finer.
I’ve literally been attacked by roaming gangs of dust bunnies from servers.
I have no justification for this largess. I just wanted one or two spares to mess with because I have five in production and sometimes I need to FA to FO. I could have spent $40 on one machine but I chose to spend $160 on 16 machines.
I haven't tested any yet but they all look to be in good physical shape and all appear to have their (incredibly rare) wifi cards. If they all work I can plausibly part out half the wifi cards for what I paid for the lot.
For quite a while now, I have relied on terminal into my Windows Subsystem for Linux on my main workstation, as my daily driver. While it works all right for most cases, there are certain compatibility issues that requires a "... in WSL" search term for documentations/issues.
Close to a month now I have been using a #Ubuntu#terminal only VM on my #homelab#Proxmox cluster. For ones who can roll this out, this seems the best approach.
@AngryAnt@elan The reason I have not switched to Linux DE is mainly due to certain Microsoft productivity apps required for consulting work I do for corporate/enterprises.
I just need to figure out a workflow where I can switch Windows to a secondary workstation/VM and then I would switch to Linux DE.
Upgraded the homelab’s 10gb switch to the UniFi EnterpriseXG. Not only do I have more 10gb ports now, I also have far fewer SFP+ modules in use, and the switches are all matchy matchy.
Also, I swear the whole rig has less latency now. I can’t prove it, but it sure feels snappier.
@chad That reminds me of a trip to our data centre. They were doing a rack refresh and had a lot of old racks. My boss went straight to the manager and said, can I take one home, it will be ideal for my garage.
Dropped some updates to selfh.st/apps this morning - tiles now have visible/clickable tags, URL properties have been added for sharing custom views with others, and I've added a ton of new project icons.
I'm completely open to feedback on future improvements, but probably won't consider adding any more details to the tiles to prevent them from becoming too cluttered.
@shollyethan
This website solved an issue I had. A good alternative to Typeform. Because we all know 21 EUR/month * 12 months (252 EUR) for a subscription is absolute horseshit.