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.
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I feel bi-weekly is a good rhythm for this.
What does biweekly mean to you? Twice a week, or once every two weeks? If it’s the latter, I prefer to use fortnightly, since it’s not ambiguous.
Yeah, nobody other than Brits use fortnightly anymore.
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
Just set up Lemmy! I wonder if this gets through
I’m reading it so I’d say it works!
Hell yeah, you just sent the first notification to my instance :)
That’s actually so cool and the more I think about it the more it’s making me really want to host my own Lemmy instance. Can I ask what sort of hardware resources you’re running it on?
Sure! It’s a Lenovo m910q tiny. Mine has an i7-6700 and 32GB RAM but Lemmy runs in a VM with 4 cores and 8 GB RAM which should be plenty, it’s not even using half that RAM. Disk Space seems to be the limiting factor after a while since it keeps copies of all remote threads and comments but that can be cleaned up too.
Found some threads online on resource usage beforehand like this: https://lemmy.ml/post/440678
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I finally moved from reddit to Lemmy. maybe a 3-4 hour set up time to get it all working lol.
You can use https://schedule.lemmings.world/ to automate the posts. Or, given the community we’re in, you can selfhost it!
This week I’ve been doing some work on my GOG Downloader to finally back up all my GOG stuff when I buy new disks, that’s pretty much it for my selfhost/homeserver stuff this week.
Trying to get my hands dirty with LLM, Ollama and Web Scrapping.
I don’t understand most of it , but hey, that’s the fun. No complaints.
I’m going through hell, trying to update from truenas scale 24.04 to 24.10
What’s not working? I just set up TrueNAS for the first time, went with 25.04 and figured I could just update my way out of potential bugs, but the updater is broken :D
Well, firstly I had this weird issue where the pools were giving me errors because some folder was missing, I fixed that but 24.10 has literally 0 compatibility with apps from 24.04 and it looks like I’m going to have to reset the whole pool in order to use their new apps ecosystem (because trying to install anything from 24.10 just errors out)… Which is extremely annoying as I have quite a lot of apps setup
Finally got my lemmy instance fully updated.
Been improving my backup scripts in advance of adding backup to a server.
Updated servers and other services.
Replaced the fan with a bad bearing on one of my proxmox hosts today. For a short while I figured I was going crazy because it seemed to stop making noise when I actually got close to the server, but it finally fully gave today and I was able to identify and swap it.
I upgraded immich without breaking everything. That’s always reason to celebrate.
How exactly does stuff get broken? Never rly had a problem bumping up the version in docker. The only issue has been the playstore version taking longer to push updates sometimes for the mobile apps.
Pihole 6 broke my DNS (dnsmasq), and since I had a fw rule in opnsense to only use pihole’s DNS, and deny public DNS access, it was an early rise for me :)
And that’s why you have either a backup for your DNS or know whats auto-updated ;)
As you mention opnsense:
What do you mean with fw rules to only use pihole dns?
This sounds partly like a DHCP config and partly like a deny (hardcoded) DNS requests and to please use what DHCP supplied (looking at you google/amazon)I did have backups, it was an easy fix. I had a
pihole -upon a crontab for years, probably not the best idea :)FW rule accept :53 from pihole only, deny :53 from all. I had some devices with hardcored DNS settings (8.8.8.8).
I’m a new selfhoster and reached the limit on what my DS923+ can handle after setting up an Immich instance (on top of qbitorrent, radarr/sonarr, plex). So I picked up a mini PC this week and migrated the Immich stack over (pointing to an NFS mount for the NAS!) and now it’s running super smooth 🙌 Now I’m hype to move over more services and eventually start separating out media services from mission-critical stuff like photos when I have another machine handy.
I wanted to set up local domain resolution for my devices in order to stop having to visit sites with the local 192.168.1.x IP, so I started following some guides to run dnsmasq on the mini PC (Ubuntu Server) and add entries to /etc/hosts. It was pretty easy to get working OK, but for whatever reason the DNS doesn’t seem to be working on a fresh boot. My local workstation can’t ping the custom DNS entries for my devices until I
sudo systemctl restart dnsmasqon the mini PC, after which everything works fine, which leads me to believe it’s some weird boot order problem? I’m trying not to screw with it too much before bed, but hopefully I can figure out what’s going on this week.Highly suggest putting Caddy on a machine, forwarding port 443 and 80 to caddy, and then letting it do your reverse-proxy stuff. Register a domain name, give it your IP address, and then tell caddy that ‘immich.yourdomain.bleh’ goes to port 78789 and plex goes to ‘media.yourdomain.bleh’ port 89898 – Caddy handles all of the TLS stuff, handshaking, you name it - so you can have secure sites with proper certs.
Then make sure those things are isolated from your home network through vlans if your router supports it.
You can get fancier with it using a tailscale and getting some datacenter IP to forward into your network
I set up DNS challenge with Let’s Encrypt with Caddy, and now I don’t need to forward anything to it if I don’t want to.
DNS challenge so you can get a wildcard cert? Or is it still per domain? I haven’t looked recently but it seemed difficult but I’d like to avoid transparency log installs where I can.
You can do both (not sure how wildcard works through Caddy though), I did it per domain. I prefer doing TLS trunking per device, hence no wildcard.
