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  • Nextcloud + OnlyOffice
  • *arr media management series (Lidarr, Sonarr, etc)
  • Gitea
  • Vaultwarden
  • PiHole
  • Jellyfin
  • Wiki-js
  • Lemmy
  • Prometheus/Grafana/Loki

Currently all containerised running on a debian VM on a Rockylinux Qemu/KVM hypervisor. Initially I was using rocky+podman but inevitably hit something I wanted to run that just straight up needed docker and was too much effort to try and get working. 🀷

Hardware is an circa 2012 gaming machine with a few ZFS raids for all of my Linux ISOs. It lives an extremely tortured existence and longs for the sweet release of death.

Toying with the idea of migrating it all to on-prem virtualised kubernetes cluster using helm charts to manage the stacks and using NFS mounts for persistent storage because I hate myself (and to upskill I guess)

What about you?

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago

Nothing πŸ˜€but I'm still enjoying the community

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Far quicker to share a screenshot of my dashboard

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
  • Categories
    • House
      • Home Assistant: front-end
      • Frigate: CCTVs and NVR
      • Node-RED: node.js automations
      • ESPhome: IoT devices
    • Homelab
      • Grafana: Monitoring data
      • Pi-hole (primary): Local DNS & ad blocking
      • Pi-hole (secondary): Local DNS & ad blocking
      • Portainer: Docker container management
      • Proxmox #1: PVE node: chewy
      • Proxmox Backup #1: PBS node: chewy
      • Proxmox #2: PVE node: hansolo
      • Proxmox Backup #1: PBS node: hansolo
      • Nginx Proxy Manager: Reverse proxy server
    • Media
      • nzbget: Usenet downloading
      • Deluge: Torrent downloading
      • Plex: Media server
      • Overseerr: Media library management
      • Tautulli: Plex reporting
      • Prowlarr: Indexer managerment
    • Data
      • Paperless-ngx: Document management
      • Photoprism: Photo library
      • Calibre: eBook library
      • Readarr: eBook management
      • Sync thing: File sync
      • Joplin Server: Notebook sync
    • Homelab Devices
      • Firewall: OPNsense on Proxmox
      • Primary NAS: Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ V2
      • Secondary NAS: Qnap TS-410
      • Switch: Netgear GS324TP
      • Wifi: Aruba IAP-225 Virtual controller
      • Printer: Fuji Xerox CM115w
    • Health
      • rey: Raspberry Pi 4
      • lando: Raspberry Pi 3
      • quigon: Raspberry Pi 3
      • bobafett: Raspberry Pi 2
      • jangofett: Raspberry Pi 3
    • Databases
      • Prometheus: Pi-hole stats
      • InfluxDB: Timeseries databases
      • Radius DB (Adminer): PostgreSQL database
    • Tools
      • VS Code: Remote code editor
      • searxng: Private web search
      • Changedetection: Monitor website changes
      • Octoprint: 3D printing
      • Shellinabox: Ajax console client
    • Media Libraries
      • Sonarr: TV show library
      • Sonarr (anime): Anime TV show library
      • Radarr (4K): 4K movie library
      • Radarr: Movie library
      • Radarr (Anime): Anime movie library
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I self-host a ton of software. For context, I'm leveraging docker-compose on top of TrueNAS SCALE:

  • Monitoring
    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
    • the basic dockprom exporters: nodeexporter, cadvisor
    • NUT Exporter (UPS statistics)
    • PiHole exporter
    • UptimeKuma
  • Ad blocking
    • PiHole
    • unbound (censor-resilient DNS resolver)
    • dnsproxy (in order to use PiHole on my smartphone and laptop outside my home network)
  • Media
    • Plex
    • Transmission
    • Sonarr
    • Radarr
    • Bazarr
    • Jackett
    • Flaresolverr
  • Services exposed to the outside world
    • Bunkerweb (security-hardened nginx reverse-proxy)
    • Bird.makeup (Twitter to Mastodon bridge)
    • FreshRSS
    • n8n (automation software, think IFTTT or Zapier, but open-source and on steroids)
    • Self-Host Planning Poker (my very own software!)
    • Courier (parcel tracking software)
    • Overseerr (user-friendly interface for friends and family to request movies and shows, plugs into Sonarr, Radarr and Plex)
    • Lemmy
  • Kresus (personal finance)
  • Wireguard (VPN I use as a gateway into my home network)
  • Caddy (reverse proxy with HTTPS, I use it for serving locally everything I do not expose to the outside world)
  • Restic server (an HTTP server to push Restic backups from various computers at home)
  • wakeonlan-cron-docker (because TrueNAS doesn't allow installing WoL package. Once again, I made it myself)

What I'm looking into at the moment:

  • Tandoor Recipes (deployed but I cannot make CSRF work with my reverse-proxy so far)

What I'll be looking into in the near future:

  • Promtail + Grafana Loki to aggregate Docker containers logs in Prometheus/Grafa
  • Immich (Google Photos alternative with automated backups from smartphones)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • Vaultwarden
  • audiobookshelf (Best audiobook and podcast server)
  • Teamspeak3
  • Sinusbot (music bot for Ts3)
  • SWAG (reverse proxy with built-in fail2ban)
  • Plex
  • Sonarr / Radarr / Overseerr / Jackett
  • Lemmy
  • Uptime-Kuma
  • Nextcloud
  • Bookstack
  • LanguageTool (Grammar and spellcheck)
  • Multiple game servers depending on what our group is playing. Currently, Minecraft with PaperMC
  • calibre / calibre-web (calibre with guacamole to manage library and calibre-web to access it with a webpage and send to kindle)
  • DailyTxT (Diary server)
  • Libreddit (Alternative reddit front end that doesn't use the official API)
  • Rallly (scheduling for groups)
  • Tandoor (recipe manager and shopping list)
  • Tautili
  • Grafana
  • Pihole
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • The Lounge (IRC Client)
  • Blocky (local DNS server with ad-blocking)
  • Tailscale (VPN mesh between clients and other servers)
  • Cloudflare-Tunnel (to access some local services directly from the internet via my own domain)
  • traefik (reverse proxy + TLS for all my services)
  • Authelia (auth server for services that don’t have their own authentication)
  • borgmatic (borg backup automation for container data. Pushing backups to borgbase.com)
  • paperless-ngx (document management system)
  • Plex (media server)
  • Tautulli (stats and tracking for Plex)
  • mosquitto (MQTT server)
  • zigbee2mqtt (service to manage my Zigbee devices)
  • Homebridge (service to get z2m devices into Homekit)
  • Homeassistant (home automation)
  • Prometheus (collect stats from several services above)
  • telegraf (more stats collection + server metrics collection)
  • Grafana (for some dashboards that I didn’t want to create in HA)
  • miniflux (RSS reader)
  • Linkding (bookmark manager)
  • Atuin (shell history sync server)
  • uptime-kuma (monitor some external servers + my local internet connection by pinging healthchecks.io)
  • redis (for paperless and some own projects)
  • postgres (for miniflux, atuin and some own projects)

Everything is running in containers on an Unraid server

  • 24 TB usable (16 TB parity drive)
  • 1 TB nvme Cache Drive
  • Intel i3-12100T

With disks at idle/spun down, it consumes roughly 25W.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have a very similar setup minus the iot and metric related services. I'm managing the services with Docker Compose on unRAID.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Here you go !

  • Vaultwarden
  • Searxng
  • Nextcloud
  • Smallstep (own CA for self-signed full chain certificates)
  • Linkding
  • Gotify + watchtower
  • Adguardhome
  • Traefik
  • Wireguard

Took me to much time to make everything work perfectly together, but learned alot along the road ! Everything hosted on a old spare laptopt with docker containers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Proxmox host. Fedora server vm.

  • openvpn as a backup (and because i went through the highly laborious process of setting it up)
  • wireguard
  • nitter (twitter alternative frontend. makes twitter usable)
  • audiobookshelf (podcast manager)
  • pihole (block ads by dns)
  • nginx for my website and some related website stuff
  • Vaultwarden (sometimes. I usually keep it off because I prefer KeepassXC anyway)

The hardware is a 10 year old Thinkpad. I think it's pretty clear by my software list that I don't ask it to do much, but it does so much for me. Like, I wouldn't run Jellyfin off of this thing. In fact my NAS is 4x8TB drives but I keep it mostly shut off. It's powered on maybe about once or twice a week for a few hours at a time. I try to batch my activity with it. Like "oh, yeah, I want file X but it's on my NAS. Maybe later, when I have a need for file Y I will turn it on and retrieve both."

I can achieve everything I want with even lower spec hardware, but this Thinkpad has a faulty trackpad anyway, which is also how I got it for cheap. I have never measured it, but supposedly it consumes around 6W at idle which is low enough for me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plex, nzb/sonarr/lidarr/radar/, homeassistant, AD, vpn, teamspeak, lemmy, a blog, wifi controller, cert authority, Pi-hole, mail relay, all data/files etc, backups of email from workspace, zabbix for monitoring, miniflux, windows update cache, quicken server

Probably more.

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

Nice - what are you using to cache windows updates? LANcache?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Straight up wsus with a nightly script to keep it from fucking itself up.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a noobie:

  • portainer
  • pihole
  • wireguard server
  • jellyfin
  • youtube-dl
  • nextcloud
  • tor/privoxy
  • freshrss
  • minetest server
  • nginx proxy manager

All running locally on a 2008 lenovo core 2 duo with 2gb, 1 120gb SSD, 1 1tb HDD and 1 250gb HDD...couldn't open the services to the web since my ISP blocks every port (except 52180 udp) even if I open them in the router sothey can change the double on a fixed IP withppen ports in their "enterprise" package

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • apache - web server/reverse proxy + PHP-FPM interpreter
  • rsnapshot - remote/local backup service
  • dnsmasq - lightweight DNS server
  • gitea - Git service/software forge
  • graylog - log capture, storage, real-time search and analysis tool
  • custom homepage/dashboard
  • jellyfin - media center
  • jitsi - video conferencing and screen sharing
  • libvirt - virtualization toolkit
  • dovecot - IMAP mailbox server
  • matrix + element-web - real-time communication server and web client
  • netdata - lightweight real-time monitoring and alerting system
  • rsyslog/lynis/debsecan/fail2ban/various log and security scanners...
  • mumble - low-latency VoIP/voice chat server
  • nextcloud - file hosting/sharing/synchronization and collaboration platform
  • openldap + ldap-account-manager + self-service password - LDAP directory server and web management tools
  • postgresql - database server
  • samba - cross-platform file sharing server
  • shaarli - bookmarking & link sharing
  • ssh/sftp - remote access and file transfer
  • transmission - bittorrent client/web interface
  • tt-rss - web-based news feed reader
  • wireguard - fast and modern VPN server

All running on Debian 11/12 physical hosts, VMs or VPS, deployed and managed through https://xsrv.readthedocs.io

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
  • Lemmy
  • Searx
  • Matrix
  • Xmpp
  • Soapbox
  • Lotide
  • Peertube
  • Nextcloud
  • Nostr
  • Wordpress
  • Plex (sorta borderline of this counts)
  • Invidious
  • Pfsense

Running on a total of 5 fanless commercial grade sign PCs. That's why the motto of my websites is "this site runs of parts scavenged from a roadside sign"

1x core 2 duo running Lemmy

2x atom d2550s running xmpp, matrix, lotide, searx, nostr, and invidious

2x core i5 4000 series running everything else

I try to run bare metal so I can stick my fingers into things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

this site runs of parts scavenged from a roadside sign

Love keeping that old tech alive! My Core 2 Duo died a couple of years back, if I could figure out a way to leverage old mobile phones for some sort of project I would.

I've always called it 'ghetto IT' personally.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • airsonic
  • audiobookshelf
  • calibre-web
  • freshrss
  • invidious
  • kavita
  • n8n
  • nextcloud (with some neat apps like phonetrack and bookmarks)
  • nginx proxy manager
  • vaultwarden

All in docker containers on an Ubuntu NUC

EDIT - also got a dedicated pivpn (wireguard+pihole) on a pizero and time machine server + borg backup server on a pi4 running yunohost

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Proxmox host running on a Dell Inspiron laptop with a 6th gen i3 and 12GB RAM, 120GB SSD

  • Home Assistant
  • Jellyfin
  • Sonarr
  • Radarr
  • Prowlarr
  • qBitTorrent
  • Syncthing

Home Assistant runs in its own VM (HAOS), the rest run in a Ubuntu Server VM.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some are used way more than others, but here is my list.

  • Home Assistant
  • ttrss
  • audiobookshelf (mostly for podcasts)
  • linkding
  • bitwarden
  • Amp game server (the game varies but right now it's space engineers)
  • immich
  • baby buddy
  • nextcloud
  • pihole
  • Plex
  • jellyfin
  • usememos
  • paperless-ngx
  • mealie

(Probably some underutilized app I'm forgetting)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just navidrome & the Synology suite (drive, photos, video)

I'm lazy 🫠

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Lazy is good.. I try not to think about the time I've invested in this stuff

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Piped: Youtube proxy
  • Hyperpipe: Youtube music proxy
  • Beatbump: Youtube music proxy (has much better interface than Hyperpipe on mobile)
  • Jellyfin: To stream some local titles
  • Nextcloud: To be used as a syncserver for Carnet and Obsidian
  • SimplyTranslate
  • Matrix + Element
  • Taiga
  • Gitea
  • Libremdb: not useful, going to remove this one
  • Funkwhale: removed since I hoped for better federated content
  • Penpot: soon!
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Pretty much anything I can. It's too much to type out, but my Homepage lists most of it minus any databases or reverse proxies. I also host a one person Lemmy instance. Everything but Lemmy is run on a 2013 gaming PC with Unraid.

https://imgur.com/a/OVntije

EDIT: After posting this, I'll probably end up selfhosting an imgur alternative too...

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

(copied from an older comment)

I run basically all of the Arr stack, Plex (more friendly to my less tech savvy family then my preferred solution Jellyfin), HAss, Frigate NVR, Obsidian LiveSync, a few Minecraft worlds, Docspell, Tandoor recipes, gitea, Nextcloud, FoundryVTT, an internet radio station, syncthing, Wireguard, ntfy, calibre, searx, traefik, Wallabag, FreshRSS, Kopia, Navidrome, and a few pet projects.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Nextcloud
  • OnlyOffice container
  • Jellyfin media server
  • Gitea
  • DokuWiki
  • Woodpecker CI container for building static websites and other CI tasks for hobby projects
  • HAProxy load balancer to forward external traffic to the right services
  • A pair of web servers hosting various websites/apps
  • A pair of Postfix acting as internal mail relays that sends mail through Mailgun
  • SaltStack for configuration management
  • Munin for monitoring
  • MariaDB database for various internal apps
  • Four internal BIND DNS servers (two are the primary and replica on virtual machines, then two more replicas on Pis in the event the VMs go down)
  • OpenLDAP directory server for centralized auth
  • Kanboard for video project tacking
  • Postgres database for DaVinci Resolve projects
  • UniFi controller
  • Backup server hosted on a Raspberry Pi 4 w/ a pair of 5TB external HDDs in a BtrFS mirror

And most importantly: as of recently I'm self-hosting Lemmy and Kbin instances for myself to try them out! Kbin was a pain to setup, but I seem to be liking it more.

It's all running on two Ryzen R7 1700 systems with 64GB of RAM in one and 48GB in the other (long story), and virtual disk storage is done over a 10Gb iSCSI link to a TrueNAS system with two 1TB SSDs in a RAIDz mirror. I've also got an unRAID NAS that hosts my video project files. Pretty smooth overall :D

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

lemmy mainly

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

TrueNas Scale (4820k, 64gb ddr3, 1x256gb sata ssd & 2x4tb hdd):

-> Plex (Looking to replace with something less.. commercialized)

-> EmulatorJS

-> OpenSpeedTest

-> DisqTV

-> Calibre (Looking for flashier alternative)

-> Nas storage + media storage

Windows Server w/CubeCoders AMP (xeon 1230v2, 32gb ddr3 ram, 256gb ssd)

-> Minecraft W/Mods

-> Satisfactory

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oooh I’m getting motivated by this post.

  • Home Assistant
  • Pihole
  • Jellyfin
  • Plex
  • *arr series, at least up when I am looking for specific content
  • Lemmy

I tried Mastodon. Too resource intensive for little I use it.

Next up in my list to try:

  • Vaultwarden
  • Peertube
  • Matrix
  • Bookwyrm
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Caddy
  • Vaultwarden
  • LLDAP
  • AdGuard + Sync
  • Linkding + Injector
  • Jellyfin + Infuse (tvOS) & FinAmp (iOS)
  • Pocketbase
  • Uptime-kuma
  • Cloudflared

Services that I'm experimenting with:

  • Owntone
  • Gonic + Supersonic (macOS) & play:Sub / Amperfy (iOS)
  • Calibre (can't get Kobo sync working reliably)
  • Audiobookshelf (love the idea but not using much yet)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • *arr media services
  • tailscale
  • mullvad
  • Jellyfin
  • qbittorrent
  • pihole
  • unbound
  • Minecraft server
  • Portainer-CE

On an OrangePi with a powered USB hub using a bunch of SSDs.

All except the Minecraft server running on Podman.

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

Home assistant

Plex

Jellyfin

Sonarr

Radarr

Prowlarr

Readarr

Organizr

Overseerr

SaBnzbd

Transmission

Calibre web

Homepage

Memos

Pwndrop

Picsur

Remotely

Youtube dl

Changedetection.io

Uptime Kuma

Kavita

Nginx

And a couple discord bots

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

NextCloud

Discord bot (let's my friends update Valheim /satisfactory and reboot them etc etc)

Valheim server

Satisfactory server

BirdNet

MariaDB and flask for my Arduino / raspberry pi sensors (weather station and water temperature, particle sensor)

Tailscale for remote desktop

PiKVM

Might setup a Lemmy instance later.

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

Nothing too crazy. I use Proxmox on hardware that used to be a gaming rig (4th gen Intel) and I upped the RAM to 32GB.

  • Plex
  • Home Assistant
  • NextCloud
  • VM to host Duplicati + Samba which backs up some shared storage.
  • VM that contains the extremely specific build environment for one of my mechanical keyboards
  • VM that contains my ESP Home environment.
  • VM for Docker based web development because as good as WSL is, it still sucks sometimes.

Some of my β€œVMs” are actually LXCs but I can’t remember which are which at the moment.

Playing with ZFS was fun too, and it puts all that RAM to good use!

I’ve also been meaning to create a VM for Dokku, but I haven’t had a strong enough need yet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • Lemmy
  • Red Discord Bot
  • Matrix Synapse
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Look at Mr. Moneybags over here running Matrix Synapse on his Cray supercomputer! ;P

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

Why run RockyLinux HV when everything is in a Debian VM anyway?

I just have Ubuntu server running docker on my old workstation which has plenty of RAM to spin up a production-sized workload just to play around.

I’ve setup these images up as Docker containers:

  • Portainer
  • GitLab
  • Nginx
  • Neftcloud
  • Grafana
  • MariaDB
  • RabbitMQ
  • Redis

Just played around mostly, I haven’t scaled out any full infrastructure schemes yet, but that’s the plan for the workstation. Container and terraform testbed.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't really know what I'm doing so I'm currently banging my head against a wall trying to get nextcloud to work alongside a wordpress site both in docker, and this Lemmy is on a linode. I know a lot more about self hosting than I did a month ago that's for sure, I wonder how long until I start trying to use ssh in my dreams.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I know a lot more about self hosting than I did a month ago that’s for sure, I wonder how long until I start trying to use ssh in my dreams.

Now that you've written this? Tonight. It'll happen tonight.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I used to self host everything but nowadays I value my time too much so I have moved my data to google drive and back it up to a local hard disk periodically. Photos go to iCloud and google photos. iCloud is running my email domain (previously was google domains/gmail)

I still do run a Plex server with my shield tv pro but that’s mostly to access my TV tuner as I stream my media from google drive directly instead.

I just got tired of taking time away from my family to troubleshoot my services or just live with downtime. I did run a $5 linode to host things for awhile but eventually it just became more cost effective to just refactor things to run natively on various cloud services. I even just redesigned my personal website/blog to run on google sites

I still love to follow the self hosted community, someday I will take my data back just not right now.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

e-mail, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, koel (pretty good music server imo), Minecraft server for the homies, Grocy, CalDAV and CardDAV, Nextcloud and probably something else I forgot and can't look up right now

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Jellyfin, Shinobi, and more recently NextCloud. Looking into Home Assistant and Paperless.

Shinobi's on a Pi4 and the Jellyfin/NC are on a mini PC.

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