I agree. (Digital artist here) I hate the Ai hype machine madness but also understand trying to find ways to make it ethical and useful to eliminate tedium. As it should be for in the first place.

In the tech sphere, they likely have to play along to stay relevant since everybody’s all hyped about it.

How’s this local LLM of yours? Does it tend to be more accurate than Recognize? It’s integrated into Nextcloud?

Recognizing objects and people in pictures locally is one of the best uses I think. …and maybe if it can stop auto-tagging random EDM songs as “country” or “rap” when they sound nothing like, I’d be excited about that!😂

Sounds like Syncthing for syncing and something like…is it… croc or Wormhole…? To drop files and send things.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding haha.

Yeah, anything that involves a bunch of complicated relationship interaction between PHP scripts I just don’t mess with too much.

Right now I’m hosting it through Docker on top of OpenMediaVault which is hosted on Proxmox.

If an update absolutely borks NextCloud and for some reason its BorgBackup function doesn’t work, I can at least hope to count on the ProxMox snapshot of the whole volume!

And besides that, I don’t actually store anything essential in NextCloud’s volume itself. It’s all an external mount that I could browse with any file explorer, so worst case, I’d just lose a lot of convenience. :p

Wow, thanks for the heads up! I use Nextcloud AIO and backups take VERY long. I need to check about those logs!

Don’t know if I’m just lucky or what, but it’s been working really well for me and takes good care of itself for the most part. I’m a little shocked seeing so many complaints in this thread because elsewhere on the Internet that’s the go-to method.

I’m a bit biased as I started with Jellyfin, but the Roku Jellyfin app works flawlessly on the family TV.

I’d advise at least becoming mildly familiar with how you’d go about it, since corpos suddenly rug-pulling existing users and forcing subscriptions is pretty common, basically expected, behavior of American business now.

That way you have an “out” and your service can have minimal downtime. :)

On the other hand, you might just find you like how sleek and functional Jellyfin is. I can only see wins for you here. :p

Hehe I think you might have been replying to a different thread. :)

It might be some way, however not easily. My mega-corpo ISP blocks incoming connections on common hosting ports, because they want to keep the network safe sell expensive home-business plans. Lol

I’m also very amateur at this as I go along, and I’m not sure I’m ready to deal with the fallout of missing some security step and getting my server botted or ransomwared lol.

I haven’t done the hardware stuff with setting up my own router/firewall box either, for instance.

So Tailscale works really well for me by seemingly magically bypassing a lot of that nonsense and giving me less to worry about. They allow 3 users for free, but have a relatively inexpensive family plan for like 6 users as well, if that becomes necessary.

I mainly just need to tell them not to try and use my server as an exit node if they’re across the country 😂.

But yeah definitely, I’m using this as a way to test the waters for running service alternatives as the web we knew collapses around us lol. I’m not ready to be running something people really rely on yet, though. :)

Thanks! This is very helpful! I really appreciate it! :D

I have a family member across the country that wants to break from Google and really isn’t the type to self-host themselves, and I connect to my self hosted NextCloud solely through TailScale.

NextCloud permissions seem easy enough, but I’m researching how to add them to my Tailnet safely to avoid potential compromise of my network if something happens to their system.

Presuming this involves ACLs, which look intimidating, but I’m doing some research on that.

I don’t have any backups.

Horror story, stranger. Oh no!

If this is stuff that you can’t afford to lose like family pictures, music library, or 90’s memes or something, I’ve had decent luck with iDrive for my offsite backups. 4TB relatively cheap, works with Linux (using some Perl scripts they made), and you can define your own encryption keys so not even they can see your stuff.

It reliably backs up my NAS.

They’ve usually got a crazy cheap deal to start with on their homepage or if you look around, for the first year. So maybe that could be helpful until you get some other storage. :)

(I think we pay $100 a year now for 4TB)

That’s definitely one of those things I found bizarre and awful yet…entirely unsurprising. I can see how selling that data probably sounds like such a lucrative edge to marketing companies.

how did we as society come to accept this?

By not establishing ethical lines high-voltage containment fences on the advertising industry quickly enough, and letting them convince us “this is just how business works”, when their entire existence is about finding the scummiest ways to hack free will for profit.

This may sound dumb or be helpful so I’ll toss it in just in case:

Depending on when they’re built, a lot of houses’ RJ-11 phone jacks are actually using CAT-5E. If you’re lucky, they’re individual runs and not daisy-chained!

The way they set up the runs here is weird though, they’re cat-5E but we have no fancy junction box. It all runs to some hatch on the side of the house presumably for telecom/satellite TV installers. So you might have secret ethernet cable behind your landline jacks, even if there’s no tidy junction box! :)

It was cool finding out there’s already capable infrastructure in the walls, but you gotta replace the wall jacks with RJ-45 using a tone tool to label which one goes where, and then the next trick is figuring out an affordable switch that can handle a garage that could get to 100ºF + in summer…

But anyway, worth checking before you start getting too deeply sunk into other solutions. :)

It depends on the notes, for me:

I’ve had an oddly long-running obsession with Tiddlywiki!

It has a bit of a learning curve, but it’s VERY flexible. My favorite part being that by default it’s just a single, portable, HTML file. No special app required besides a browser, no accounts, and you can just sync it like any other file. (Syncthing, Nextcloud, and friends)

There’s also an app called Tiddloid for Android to make managing and saving a little easier, but they open in any browser.

I have a Tiddlywiki that I use like one might use Obsidian, where I just stash stuff I’ll want to remember and maybe link between similar ideas.

And then I’m currently trying to use it to make a solution to sketch out my Savage Worlds RPG campaigns. It gets a little tricky but you can make templates, script buttons, and that kind of thing. If you’re already comfortable with web stuff you’ll probably catch on WAY better than I have.

You can also host it as a website, or on your server or whatever, to use it like any other wiki. There’s also plugins to use Markdown instead of “wikitext.”

There’s also an excellent guide to learning it at https://groktiddlywiki.com/read/ . It’s basically an online workbook using Tiddlywiki itself!

The community is also super helpful. I do wish it had a little more out of the box, but something about a customizable, portable, digital “notebook” that doesn’t require an account or hopefully-supported-in-5-years application is SUPER appealing to me. It’s quite underrated.

Also just for fun I wanted to share my favorite example someone’s been working on for quite some time now, a heavily customized D&D wiki

https://intrinsical.github.io/wiki/index.html

Tiddlywiki can be a bit dense and the documentation is slowly improving, but there’s so much potential!

Hey I wanted my RGB sticks okay?! Jk hahaha.

You’re right! I think…I don’t have a swap partition on this machine. I think I was gonna set up a swap file but that was a bit more involved post-install than I wanted to delve into at the time…

…but I did get ZRAM working, and that’s pretty amazing! It feels like getting more RAM for free haha.

It wasn’t the most absolutely necessary upgrade in the world, but I feel like it gives me more room to get away with dumb things and course correct in things like Blender, and might come in handy down the line since I don’t see myself upgrading much for a while.

I just now upgraded to 64GB of DDR4 from eBay. But that’s because my Blender projects were getting really big and I’d crashed a few times. Linux is awesome but is really scary how it just hard-freezed or mercilessly thrashes when low on memory. 😬

…That and I finally get glorious RGB RAM lighting up my case. :D weee!

For gaming? I haven’t seen that much RAM be usedul yet. And in Blender… likely because I have a crazy amount of undo levels enabled and have Firefox open…a few tabs…maybe more than a few tabs…maybe a lot of tabs…

Hey sorry for the delayed reply! That’s a VERY good question, since things got a little different since they moved away from Portainer I remember a bit of friction switching over, but geeze it was a while ago…

I did find this link though:

https://wiki.omv-extras.org/doku.php?id=omv7%3Adocker_in_omv

That might be similar (and possibly better organized!) than the guides I was working with when that OMV subsystem was still a bit new. I hope that might help! 🙂

That’s so cool! Nice work! I feel a certain kinship with anyone who also got tons of 3D printing XP by building, rebuilding, researching, modding, head-scratching, laughing, crying, screaming at an A8 lol.

This here is mostly fire prevention: Basically an updated stock motherboard, better PSU, an aftermarket MOSFET board for safety, thicker gauge wires with ferrule crimps for all the power cables, the bed is now attached directly to the thicker wires by way of crimp connectors.

The printing surface is upgraded to carefully cut and polished picture frame float glass. 😂

Added that sweet fan duct mod, a little Noctua 15mm (because it softened and jammed otherwise LOL), and printed that purple bracket at the library because the plastic decided to literally crumble away.

Also the adjustable Z-stop was nice but the PLA softened so it’s a bit unpredictable, and the right motor will gently slip until it’s engaged so the gantry needs to be leveled every time…I also can’t guarantee that the Z rods are straight anymore because it requires such a Goldilocks level of tension I probably overdid it lol.

Oh yeah, I had to replace the main power cable because the one provided just…had a break in it.

It still works for small jobs though! And it printed all those parts for itself, so that’s kinda the RepRap dream right there right??

Lol I feel like an amazing machine is in here somewhere if I bothered to research custom boards and stuff. The stock bearings are also terrible. But if I can bother someday I’ll stick Klipper on it maybe.

It was a crazy, stressful journey…but I learned a ton of electronics stuff, and how to use a multimeter, and engineering stuff! XD

My Ender3V2’s felt like such a crazy luxury by comparison. 😂

Man this picture is such a vibe lol. Love it. :D

That’s so weird at first look on this picture I was like: “What’s O…P…D? 🤔” LOL

Simple, elegant, rock solid. Very nice. :) Love your decals too!