What's up, selfhosters? - The Sunday thread
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I’m running the Immich Flatpak specifically for this reason. It’s always one version out of date but always self updates without issues
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You mean as a client or a server?
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I like iOS shortcuts. This week, I created an iOS shortcut to scan my Plex library. Now this may seem weird since there is an option to scan a library from the official Plex iOS app and there are also options to scan the library automatically or periodically. For various reasons (excuses), I didn't like that the official app only lets you scan one library at a time and I have automatic/periodic scans turned off to avoid drive access, so I created the shortcut to scan from my phone any time I felt like I wanted to trigger it.
- Create a new iOS shortcut
- Add the "Get contents of URL" action
- Get your X-Plex-Token (see instructions on official website)
- Set the URL in your action to:
http://{ip_address}:{port}/library/sections/all/refresh?X-Plex-Token={plex_token}
Dealing with a Ds-lite connection for a fiber optic provider in latest opnsense.
It is excruciating how difficult is to run it reliable
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I mean every other week. I wasn't aware of the other interpretation, but I think in combination with "The Sunday thread" it's unambiguous?
I have never heard fortnightly, but then I'm not a native speaker. Is that commonly used?
I think in combination with "The Sunday thread" it's unambiguous?
Perhaps, though I guess it could also be that there is "The Sunday thread" and "The Wednesday thread".
As for whether fortnightly is common or not, I think it is, but the other commenter suggests that only the Brits use the term. Fairly certain I've heard that from an Aussie friend though, could be that US Americans don't use the term.
Perhaps semimonthly is the most unambiguous term? That's what Mariam-Webster seems to suggest.
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I think in combination with "The Sunday thread" it's unambiguous?
Perhaps, though I guess it could also be that there is "The Sunday thread" and "The Wednesday thread".
As for whether fortnightly is common or not, I think it is, but the other commenter suggests that only the Brits use the term. Fairly certain I've heard that from an Aussie friend though, could be that US Americans don't use the term.
Perhaps semimonthly is the most unambiguous term? That's what Mariam-Webster seems to suggest.
Semi monthly sounds like "monthly, or not" to me. Not sure about the alternatives I've seen so far
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Semi monthly sounds like "monthly, or not" to me. Not sure about the alternatives I've seen so far
True, didn't think it that way. I don't know what would be best, English is such a wierd language.
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You save some money by buying recertified drives from Serverpartdeals.
Yea that is what I have been doing. Although it seems the smaller sizes are not a great deal anymore and I am hesitant to buy anything larger due to the long rebuild times
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ITT: lots of busted pihole v6 updates
Finally got started with Grafana, Prometheus and Meshtastic.
I wonder why so many people had issues with the v6 pihole update.
I pulled the new docker container and it ran overtop the previous version just fine. The only issue I had was I had the admin password set to empty via an env variable and that variable name changed. Took like 10 min to find and fix. The rest migrated perfectly.
Now I'm just waiting on orbital-sync to add v6 support, but that's just around the corner and not that critical.
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Almost forgot before going to bed but I feel bi-weekly is a good rhythm for this.
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
Currently doing a full backup of 37TB to tape. Which I would normally do once per quarter but I got a smart error on one of my drive that I'll have to replace but before shutting down and removing the drive I want to have a full backup
I might even get warranty on the drive at least I got the last time this happened drive has lower then 200 days of runtime. We'll see -
If you want to have domains assigned to local IP addresses, you can also use Pihole as a local DNS! It's a very nice tool for adblocking on network level anyways, can only recommend it.
Awesome thank you, this is what I ended up setting up today. It's a bit of an awkward solution for now, I would very much like to use it for its ad blocking functionality but I'm unsure if I want to make it my only DNS provider while I'm still migrating services over to the mini PC and messing with the server config. I had set up Pihole years ago and my wife ran into problems using some apps on her phone so I think I'd need to be more proactive about making sure that's working this time around too.
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Awesome thank you, this is what I ended up setting up today. It's a bit of an awkward solution for now, I would very much like to use it for its ad blocking functionality but I'm unsure if I want to make it my only DNS provider while I'm still migrating services over to the mini PC and messing with the server config. I had set up Pihole years ago and my wife ran into problems using some apps on her phone so I think I'd need to be more proactive about making sure that's working this time around too.
I get that, I plan to add another pihole ad some point so I can enter 2 nameservers at my router. There are solutions to sync all config between the piholes.
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Currently doing a full backup of 37TB to tape. Which I would normally do once per quarter but I got a smart error on one of my drive that I'll have to replace but before shutting down and removing the drive I want to have a full backup
I might even get warranty on the drive at least I got the last time this happened drive has lower then 200 days of runtime. We'll seeWhat hardware are you using to read/write tape, and what does that cost you?
I've got around 30tb that I need to shift off of a Drobo at some point so I can repurpose the drives into a proper RAID setup that isn't a closed source black-box from a dead company (that was a poor choice, 6 years ago
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What hardware are you using to read/write tape, and what does that cost you?
I've got around 30tb that I need to shift off of a Drobo at some point so I can repurpose the drives into a proper RAID setup that isn't a closed source black-box from a dead company (that was a poor choice, 6 years ago
). Keeping an eye out for solutions for when I get around to fixing that mess.That's why I initially got them to reorganize my raid setup and have them as backups in case I need them.
So I'm using lto4 which is 800gb per tape (current standard is lto9 16TB per tape)
And it really depends on how cheap you can get the drive for me I got a tape drive for like 200€ and bought bunch of tapes ~50 for 6€ per tape if you can get a LTO5 drive for a similar price you would only need half the amount of tapes. So all in for me it was 500€ but you can definitely buy less tapes if you don't need that many all at once. For your 30tb that would be 228€ in tapes.It was great fun researching the topic and comparing different eBay listings for hours
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That's why I initially got them to reorganize my raid setup and have them as backups in case I need them.
So I'm using lto4 which is 800gb per tape (current standard is lto9 16TB per tape)
And it really depends on how cheap you can get the drive for me I got a tape drive for like 200€ and bought bunch of tapes ~50 for 6€ per tape if you can get a LTO5 drive for a similar price you would only need half the amount of tapes. So all in for me it was 500€ but you can definitely buy less tapes if you don't need that many all at once. For your 30tb that would be 228€ in tapes.It was great fun researching the topic and comparing different eBay listings for hours
Interesting; I'll definitely have to keep that in mind. Much cheaper than getting basically a whole new set of hdds at almost $30/tb (new nas-grade drives, not referbs).
Thanks!
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I mean every other week. I wasn't aware of the other interpretation, but I think in combination with "The Sunday thread" it's unambiguous?
I have never heard fortnightly, but then I'm not a native speaker. Is that commonly used?
I have always heard bi-weekly be every other week, and semi-weekly be twice a week
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flatpak
You mean as a client or a server?
I misremembered; I run “Immich Distribution” which is a snap and I run it on a Debian server.
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I wonder why so many people had issues with the v6 pihole update.
I pulled the new docker container and it ran overtop the previous version just fine. The only issue I had was I had the admin password set to empty via an env variable and that variable name changed. Took like 10 min to find and fix. The rest migrated perfectly.
Now I'm just waiting on orbital-sync to add v6 support, but that's just around the corner and not that critical.
I had a pair of v5 with unbound setup, and ran the pihole -up and it went down lol. Dunno what happened, but i reinstalled and it’s all good.
I only run the basic block list, so I am thinking more and more to setup docker on my main server and move my pihole, pyvpn and grafana there and free up my raspi.
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I had a pair of v5 with unbound setup, and ran the pihole -up and it went down lol. Dunno what happened, but i reinstalled and it’s all good.
I only run the basic block list, so I am thinking more and more to setup docker on my main server and move my pihole, pyvpn and grafana there and free up my raspi.
Hmm, I wonder if the failed updates are only direct installs vs docker.
I run two piholes, a primary on a rpi 3b running pios, and a secondary on my main server. Both are installed via docker and both updated without issue (besides the password thing).
I like having the primary DNS on a separate machine; it's kind of important and I like to mess with the main server a lot...
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Hmm, I wonder if the failed updates are only direct installs vs docker.
I run two piholes, a primary on a rpi 3b running pios, and a secondary on my main server. Both are installed via docker and both updated without issue (besides the password thing).
I like having the primary DNS on a separate machine; it's kind of important and I like to mess with the main server a lot...
I also like to mess around so more and more docker seems like at least an ok idea if not a good idea.
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I also like to mess around so more and more docker seems like at least an ok idea if not a good idea.
I definitely recommend it, particularly using docker compose. It's made it incredibly easy to add, remove, and modify software installs; keeping everything independent and isolated from each other.
This also makes backups and rolling back updates to individual projects much easier when you do run into problems.
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I definitely recommend it, particularly using docker compose. It's made it incredibly easy to add, remove, and modify software installs; keeping everything independent and isolated from each other.
This also makes backups and rolling back updates to individual projects much easier when you do run into problems.
I appreciate the motivation. Thanks!
