What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread
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I used mostly this, but had to customize it a bit I think to get things working right. NUT feels like a super finicky system, but in the end it does work. My biggest issue right now is that it only reports a new status update to Home Assistant every few minutes, so the actions don't really get a chance to trigger before the server shuts down. It also shuts down with the UPS at way too high of a percentage remaining, so I need to figure out how to make it wait just a little bit longer before the power down. It wants to power off like < 2 minutes after the power goes out...
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Set up pi-hole on my network and I’m realizing it clashes with my VPN on my desktop and private relay on my Apple devices lol. Progress everywhere else though?
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I'm trying to figure out why truenas scale refuses to auto start virtual machines... Other than that everything's smooth atm
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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 it was cool finding out there's already capable infrastructure in the walls, but you gotta replace the wall jacks with RJ-45 and then the next trick is figuring out a switch that can handle a garage that could get to 100ºF + in summer...
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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
lineshigh-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. -
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.
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)
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Now that I bought different hardware for the cosmos server and my Pi is free I should check out proxmox and unraid though just to compare
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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.
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Correct!
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Is exposing it to the internet not an option? Boarding more family members on could be cool.
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Interesting, I wasn't aware Talk has Text, always thought it's video only.
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It was built in the late 80s so I doubt it's cat5. But I also know the basement was finished later, so maybe I'll get lucky at least with those.
I just need to figure out where it's all going to see if I can reuse it.
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I expose mine for convenience, and I use multiple layers of security to reduce risk:
- Cloudflare protections at edge
- IP filtering at VPS
- connection from VPS to NAS is over Wireguard
- TLS handled in my network (so no snooping at VPS)
- all exposed services are in containers with minimal access
That cuts most of the issues.
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ACLs are not a bad as they look.
Get your nextcloud instance hooked into tailscale
You just need a sample file
Group for admins, add yourself
Tag owner for internal is admins
Tag owner for nextcloud is adminsAction accept, src admin, dst :
Action accept, src nextcloud, dst nextcloud *.
Then tag your nextcloud ts connection as nextcloud in the webadmin
Tag all your other clients admin in the webadmin
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I'm trying to figure out setting up TrueNAS scale and docker for the first time. Building a NAS and self hosting a few things from an old all in one mini PC.
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Cheers! Will have a look when I have time
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Yup. It does individual/group chat messages too.
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I really like the concept of Proxmox; however, it’s not for my use case. Mainly running a media server. As you have mentioned, I’m also sceptical about plug-and-play OS.
I just can’t make up my mind. -
While reviewing Cosmos yesterday, I stumbled upon another operating system called ZimaOS. It’s also pretty interesting.
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If you just want to install some apps directly on the server, I'd just go with Debian headless and set up docker, if you like with portainer or some similar GUI.
