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I know for many of us every day is selfhosting day, but I liked the alliteration. Or do you have fixed dates for maintenance and tinkering?

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.

This post is proudly sent from my very own Lemmy instance that runs at my homeserver since about ten days. So far, it's been a very nice endeavor.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Spring break so nothing this weekend. I need to figure out backups and then common passwords/logins for my family.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

After just about a month of hosting some things on a Raspberry Pi 4, I think it's about time to work on repurposing this mini PC that hasn't been doing much the last few years and keep growing my services.

To that end, can anyone point me to a good, thorough guide to getting going with Sonarr? I installed it, but then realized I needed to add a client and Prowlarr and I feel like I just started in the middle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Search for trash guides and servarr. Both have websites that are detailed in how to set up all of the arrs apps in what ever fashion you want. I think both have Discord servers too.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Had the intention of making a hidden TOR website version for all my websites but I'm sick

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

This week I realised my Mastodon instance was severely out of date because I was using nix flakes and didn't autoupdate but now that's been fixed 😄

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I use Mend Renovate to keep up with the latest and greatest container images in my private repo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Finally setup Synology surveillance station and got my local cameras all hooked in with motion events. Very swish.

Attempted and failed to set up some sort of fail2ban between my Cloudflared container and my website I host at home.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I also finally set up Lemmy on my home lab, as well as moving Authelia from Docker to bare metal.

Other than that, I’ve been struggling to find any other self-hosted apps that would actually be useful to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've been hosting Emby forever (and the requisite software to acquire content 😉).

Recently I added Nextcloud to facilitate cutting several Google products out of my life. Combined with a few FOSS apps, it's currently doing the job of Drive (storage) and Keep (notes), and I'm planning to move my contacts and calendar this week.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm doing that as well (mostly done except some tinkering and optimizations). It's my third time setting up nextcloud, but this time it's for real.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

a Plex server.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Total noob to Docker (desktop for windows) and I'm just trying to figure out how (and where) to add a config to my Navidrome image or change lines on the image itself, to point it to my music library and create admin login credentials (ಥ﹏ಥ) If I can accomplish that then I eventually want to try Immich or NextCloud afterward.

I want to switch to Linux but I'm not sure where to start! I want to

  • play current-gen games (graphically speaking) on steam, as well as
  • lots of retro games with Launchbox/RetroArch
  • do 3D modeling in blender, and
  • produce music in a free DAW.

I don't know if any of those factors impose restrictions due to software/hardware differences (or if that even makes a difference), but I want to move over everything I can into a linux environment

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Added extra disks to TrueNAS, got Seafile up and running in a Proxmox VM. Now I'm about to start fiddling with SAS to 4x Sata to get the front drive bays working. Keepin' busy!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'm integrating my Mac mini (running Asahi Linux) into my server setup. It's slow going as I also have to move some data around so I can repurpose some hard drives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I wrote myself a new python script for a palworld server I run. Wanted to figure out a generic way to track active connections without running something in front of the daemon. That's easy to do for TCP, but since UDP has no concept of an established connection, the regular tools wouldn't work. Realized I could use conntrack to get the linux firewalls connection tracking data, which works outside of tcp/udp concepts and maintains its own active connection state based on timeouts, which is what I was gonna do anyways. Now I can issue SIGSTOP/SIGCONT to keep buildings from degrading on the server when nobody's online to deal with it, along with saving the cpu resources of an empty game server. Rather niche project, but I figured I'd publish it anyways. https://github.com/sugoidogo/pausepal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Looking to install Immich, BitDefender Password Manager and YouTube downloader on the NAS this week.

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