What’s happening on your servers? Any interesting news things you tried?
I didn’t do anyone other than updating Mastodon (native deployment) lately due to a lack of time. Reading so much about Immich caused me to consider trying it in parallel to Nextcloud but I’m not sure if I want to have everything twice.
Not quite homelab, but I’m about to install Linux Mint on my mom’s laptop and that had me thinking about creating an off-site backup in her place again since she has a fiber connection. I’m still not sure about the potential design though, but currently my only backup is in the same rack as the live stuff.
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Set up Zipline to share bigger files with my friends.
I’ve been deploying Gitea (or Forgejo, still can’t decide), but I’ve fallen into the Ansible rabbit hole and can’t get out. Also learned Terraform in the last week and I’m still on the fence about using it in my homelab. It’s nice for the cloud but I don’t think it’s as useful on-prem.
Working on getting bazarr to work with Plex, turns out it still requires radarr/sonarr even if I don’t sail the seven seas. Guess I’ll be learning the entire stack tonight :)
I got tailscale cert to work but I feel kind of bad about learning tailscale instead of headscale
I was going to read into these. What benefits do you see in headscale?
Mainly that they can’t enshittify because they’re already open. Tailscale is great right now, and free, but who knows in 5 years
Installed qbittorrent and downloaded a few seasons of Linux isos onto a vps. Discovered accessing those files over SSH to be too slow to play them without buffering so installed filebrowser to get them via http which worked well.
It’s been a long long time since I used bittorrent and wow it works so much better these days.
CLOUDFLARE IS NO MORE FOR MY NETWORK
Soon I’ll drop Cloudflare for my public services too
What are you moving to?
Hooray!
Updated several Syncthing Server and one of them that comes as Yunohost Package got an new ID.
So that little thingy flooded all my other Syncthing Servers with Sharing requests… Its pretty anoying and surely its that one that serves the outside Backup…
Currently working on a networking problem. I have multiple Proton VPN connections on my Mikrotik router. Main reason being for fail over in case one endpoint reaches capacity, goes unresponsive, etc.
It’s a bit tricky since Proton issues the same peer and gateway IP for each connection. Haven’t quite got it working the way I want it to yet.
Love the post haha! Nothing much here things run rather stable and with low maintance right now.
I’m super glad I arrived this state and don’t have to do anything mostly. Just when I want to change stuff :)
I mean I still do from time to time. Breaking changes require some attention and migrations. But overall its good and not a load of daily maintance.
I’ve been making another attempt to replace Docker with Podman. The issue is I can’t connect to my server through a web browser. I think it’s a firewall issue.
Networking and networking troubleshooting is a bit confusing for me and that’s the least favourite part about self hosting for me. Turns out I actually enjoy writing scripts more and the challenge of writing POSIX scripts especially.
If I can figure it out, I’ll probably write a guide for setting up Podman and Caddy on Alpine Linux since there isn’t a lot of recent information out there from what I found in my searches so far.
I have been looking for something new.
Last week was moving Immich up to the new release I was on an old version, which meant migrating to an intermediate version to allow a database rebuild. It worked well.
I was bored this week so just ran some wattage testing.
- 15w at idle (800MHz)
- 20w active (3.4GHz)
- 30w peak at boot
What kind of hardware is it running on?
It’s an Intel i5-7700 cpu in a Gigabyte Z270N mobo. Those were chosen as a form factor fit for the Monsterlabo fanless case. (Only a select set of boards, and in this case 1151 brackets, fit the case)
I’ve set up Kavita for my e-books. Nice UI, looks promising, and I’ve added some books. I haven’t really used it yet, because half of this was just an excuse to try podman (instead of docker). I wanted to set it up to run as unprivileged user, without the docker daemon running as root. That wasn’t too hard, but it was definitely a few extra steps.
But something about Kavita didn’t sit well with me. Maybe I don’t self-host enough stuff to know what’s normal, but there is a donate button, which I don’t mind, but its tooltip says: “You can remove this button by subscribing to Kavita+.”
I’m donating to a few software projects already, and I have developed a substantial amount of free software myself. There is nothing wrong with asking for money. But what I cannot stand is when software running on my own device is intentionally acting against my interests. And this tooltip was very clear about not letting me do something that I might want to do.
So I checked the source code for more. I found another anti-pattern: telemetry is opt-out instead of opt-in. But that seems to be it, I didn’t find anything worse than that. So… fair I guess, if the author wants it that way. It’s still free software. It looks like I could delete all the Kavita+ stuff myself and re-build. Which I’m going to do if I keep using it. But this is now an extra step that prevents me from just using it, because I need to feel in control of what I run. Kind of self-inflicted, I guess…
I’ve been running Kavita for a year and a half +, and honestly cannot tell where the donate button is, other than going into the settings and clicking the “kavita+” selection. Maybe I’m oblivious. Can you share what you’re seeing? As well with the telemetry option?
This looks cool, but I really wouldn’t like having the donate button right in front of me
I’ve learned a hard lesson this week. Jellyfin server OS partition run out of free space and corrupted the database. Nothing to do but reinstall. I guess this week I’ll be reviewing backups! 🤣🤣🤣
I don’t like the sound of that. Sounds like bad programming? Who’s at fault? Jellyfin or the database implementation? Why would a nospace error corrupt everything. Sounds absolutely volatile. 😱
I finally got my ISP to enable bridge mode on my modem.
I also learned that I didn’t lose port forwarding and related services because I had been moved behind CGNAT or transitioned to IPv6 – they simply no longer offer port forwarding to residential customers. Ruminate on the implications of that statement so I’m not the only one with blood pressure in the high hundreds.
Port forwarding is done at the router/firewall, so if ports can’t be transferred its a cgnat thing they are doing. Like a Non CGNAT IP on the internet can be sent a packet on any port.
No, I got it from the horse’s mouth: my WAN address was publicly routable all along, the ISP just disabled those NAT-related features remotely.
the implication of that is weird to me. I’m not saying that the horse is wrong, but thats such a non-standard solution. That’s implementing a CGNAT restriction without the benefits of CGNAT. They would need to only allow internal to external connections unless the connection was already established. How does standard communication still function if it was that way, I know that would break protocols like basic UDP, since that uses a fire and forget without internal prompting.
It’s perfectly reasonable from the perspective of corporate scum: take away a standard feature, then sell it back as an extra. As far as I know, the modem still had UPnP for applications that rely on it.
Oh shit, that’s terrible.
I’ve had immich but went to homegalley instead. Mostly because I want to keep MY directory structure in case I’m abandoning the choosen platform. Have not regretted my choice (so far … 8 months)
I’ve been using Immich, but with my photos as external media. That lets me keep my directory structure too, but with the Immich features 🙂
You can adjust the directory structure in immich using templates
I’ve not been able to make it work reliably with photos backed up using immich on my android phone, is if working for you? I read somewhere storage templates are not very robust/reliable.
Seems to be working fine for me but i don’t do anything complex, just folders by year and month
