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    Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source

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    To put this into perspective for you, if your NAS sits at idle for 90% of the time (probably true) and an older CPU is 50w (kinda high, but maybe) and a newer CPU is 15w, over an entire year it will save you around 305.76 kWh. Average price per kWh in the USA is 12.89¢. So over a year a new CPU can reasonably save you around $39.41. So it's not nothing, but it's nothing crazy, but lower idle wattage = lower temp = components last longer, which is the real savings. If an older CPU is only gonna last you 5 years, when a new might last 10, you're going to save almost $400 in energy and generally a CPU today is going to be cheaper than a CPU in 10 years (probably). So it makes sense to spend an extra $200 on a newer CPU and still net a $200 savings over 10 years vs the older CPU.
  • australiansimon@lemmy.worldA

    Here is a scraper I made for downloading my kids daycare photos from the Storypark app

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    Devil's advocate:

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    Suggestion request: Self-hosted app for shared directories like google drive

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    I’ve used WebDAV with Nephele: https://hub.docker.com/r/sciactive/nephele It works with multiple users and has built in browser support. Owlfiles on mobile makes it easy to import all your photos to it.
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    Vaultwarden selfhosting, or bitwarden service?

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    I keep seeing people mentioning Syncthing with KeePass... I use both, but not together, between 3-4 different devices. I have a central Syncthing server to which all devices sync everything, but my KeePass database (keyfile & password protected is stored on Google Drive, in a G Suite Workspace account that I pay for. The keyfile is stored individually on each device that needs it, with a printed out copy (with instructions!) as a backup. Would my keypass database survive Syncthing the way I have it setup?
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    I want to build a Mini ITX PC for my home server, where do I start?

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    This all day. USB3 has plenty of bandwidth to keep those spinners busy, and a cheap pc can be bought for under $200 that would handle all the services op described, plus more. I bought an n150 with 12gb RAM, dual 2.5gb nic, built in nvme and USB 3.2. it uses like 15w of power, is basically silent, and with a 5 bay HDD attached I've got enough storage for whatever. Building a home lab server from components is only a good idea if you have some really specific use case not covered by cheap imports...
  • scheep@lemmy.worldS

    Need help self-hosting Radicale!

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  • scheep@lemmy.worldS

    What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge?

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    I am very much a Windows user and my journey went like this: Raspberry Pi with OMV -> SSH on OMV -> Mostly Terminal on OMV -> Docker + Portainer to deploy containers -> Transition to docker-compose -> Setup my own VM with Debian completely in the CLI (excluding the first setup of the VM) I use Linux (primarily Debian because of Raspberry as I don't like what I hear about Ubuntu) primarily for VMs and servers and Windows as the client OS
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    What is Docker?

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    Docker enables you to create instances of an operating system running within a “container” which doesn’t access the host computer unless it is explicitly requested. This is done using a Dockerfile, which is a file that describes in detail all of the settings and parameters for said instance of the operating system. This might be packages to install ahead of time, or commands to create users, compile code, execute code, and more. This instance of an operating system, usually a “server,” is great because you can throw the server away at any time and rebuild it with practically zero effort. It will be just like new. There are many reasons to want to do that; who doesn’t love a fresh install with the bare necessities? On the surface (and the rabbit hole is deep!), Docker enables you to create an easily repeated formula for building a server so that you don’t get emotionally attached to a server.
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    [Solved] Looking for ... inventory management, I guess?

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    Beelink ME mini is a NAS with an Intel N200 processor and support for up to 6 SSDs

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    Solderer ram is slightly more power efficient. And this is probably a laptop board. That said, 12gb is slightly too low for my liking. Though an N200 CPU does not have much headroom to upgrade for anyway.
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    Can I self host a VPN that sneakies through the China firewall?

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    Unfortunately it's still trial and error. Check out e.g Ovpn, Astrill, Mullvad though. You can always email and ask different providers as well. Though it's best it you set it up before visiting China. A HK sim through Airalo or similar also works.
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    Syncing podcasts / rss over nextcloud

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    Linux Prepper podcast - Interview on Recognize for Nextcloud Photos, ML, AI, Selfhosting

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    strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showS
    I tried Rcognize on my Nextcloud install, but appearently I have too few photos fot it to matter. It never started any clustering. Not even from the CLI commands. Had it running for about 6 months, then uninstalled it again as I was getting no real use from it.
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    🗂️ ChartDB – Open-Source Database Diagrams | Self-Hosted Alternative to dbdiagram.io & DrawSQL

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    Deterministic DDL Export - Replaced AI-based export with native SQL generation
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    How and where should I keep backups of system configurations?

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    Ansible's not all that bad. The alternatives are far more complicated. Jeff geerling has a bunch of videos on ansible 101.
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    Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects.

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    The problem is that no other country has done anything of the sort. I'm sure the Swiss, the Dutch, the French, the other german-speaking countries and especially the Nordics have enough money to give a few million here and there to FOSS. But they didn't, because their leaders are just as corrupt and vile. Everybody is acting as if America is the ultimate villain: the fact of the matter is, give any of those European leaders power over America and sooner or later they would turn out exactly the same. It is in their nature. And I say this having lived in Europe for a while. The German fund staying is pure luck since the hawks at EU are stupid. They'll come after it once they're done with Chat control.
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    How to harden against SSH brute-forcing?

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    You could limit the firewall to IP range(s) of your domestic (and other places of interest like work) connection. This way they won't come even close to even logging in. And then you could do the other hardening on top.
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    Less HTTPS = easier government & advertiser data collection

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    But if you try to load a local resource as localhost in Firefox... [image: e914e28b-85e5-4f16-9a68-eac9b83ccc3e.gif] For the sake of completeness: Firefox contains a security patch which restricts the kinds of files that pages can load (and methods of loading) when you open them from a file:// URL. This change was made to prevent exfiltration of valuable data within reach of a local page, as demonstrated in an available exploit. More info: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS/Errors/CORSRequestNotHttp about:config security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy change to false
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    Basic networking/subnetting question.

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    You don't have to apologize for being a noob, we were all once noobs (& we still are to some extent)