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1 month agoI ran vanilla Arch on 3 machines for over 15 years, but these days I just use Endeavor. Easy install, sane defaults, and then hands you a fully working and customizable arch. Absolutely love the project.
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I do host my own. I don’t notice the overhead honestly, it’s very minimal.
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Totally agreed. LLMs shouldn’t be asked to know things, it’s counterproductive. They should be asked to DO things, and use available tools to do that.
1·2 months agoOpenWebUI has TTS and STT.
6·2 months agoBroke my 'arr stack for a few days while I worked on getting port forwarding from ProtonVPN working in Gluetun, then works on getting a matching dockermod activated in qbittorrent. But it works now! And my whole 'arr stack is attached to the VPN and I have the forwarded port active for my private trackers.
6·2 months agoAdding here. Most docker containers support semver pinning! It’s a great balance between automated updates and advoiding breakage.
I’d recommend a solid backup client. This isn’t something you want to find broken when you need it.
Kopia is what I use, and it supports local (LAN) targets, as well as cloud storage if you want 3:2:1 for some or all of your data. Good luck!
Theres a Romm app in ports you can use for this.
I was interested until I saw the crypto stakes to vote on changes baked in.
Similar setup here with a 7900xtx, works great and the 20-30b models are honestly pretty good these days. Magistral, Qwen 3 Coder, GPT-OSS are most of what I use
Yeah, similar sized environments here too, but had good experiences with Ansible. Saw Chef struggle at even smaller scales. And Puppet. And Saltstack. But I’ve also seen all of them succeed too. Like most things it depends on how you run it. Nothing is a perfect solution. But I think Ansible has few game breaking tradeoffs for it’s advantages.
Wow, huge disagree on saltstack and chef being ahead of Ansible. I’ve used all 3 in production (and even Puppet) and watched Ansible absolutely surge onto the scene and displace everyone else in the enterprise space in a scant few years.
Ansible is just so much lower overhead and so much easier to understand and make changes to. It’s dominating the configuration management space for a reason. And nearly all of the self hosted/homelab space is active in Ansible and have tons of well baked playbooks.
Of course, and this is why the new hotness is a Mixture of Experts for one model that is effectively a bunch of experts arguing over the answer, or else on a different scale there’s the Combination of Agents where different specialized agents perform specialized tasks.
What controller?
Can I guarantee? There are no guarantees in self hosting. By this logic you can never move away from Plex. There’s always unknowns. There’s always new issues to trip over. Plex is hardly without it’s own warts, but because they’re ‘known’ to you and your users nothing else will ever be able to measure up.
It’s a logical fallacy and a trap.
I set up Jellyfin basically overnight when the Plex pass changes occurred. Reverse proxies are trivial, as are docker containers, don’t let the anecdotes about things being hard or VPN being needed intimidate you.
There were absolutely bumps in the road. I had to make users for each person and email them customized sign-up links. Yes, that kinda sucked, but that’s the price for running and controlling the authentication yourself instead of though a 3rd party service that can and absolutely will eventually use that data to snoop.
Most of the time, once sent the link the users were fine, 9/10 of my users had no further issues and quickly adapted. For the last 1/10, I had to trouble shoot a few things and eventually ended up recommending a different device to connect with (it was an old TV with a really old version of Plex for TVs, they ended up buying a $40 Google TV device from Walmart and got set up that way).
The whole time I was running both Plex and Jellyfin so the migration process could happen at my speed.
My point is this: no, it wasn’t painless to switch. Yes, some tech support was required. Yes, the user who was getting hundreds of dollars (annually) of streaming services effectively for free had to shell out a paltry sum to upgrade and actually enjoys their experience much more now. No, that didn’t make it impossible or not worth doing.
I’m not saying what’s best for you and your users, and I’m absolutely not guaranteeing you’ll have no issues beyond these, but I hope you understand your hands aren’t actually tied, you’re just boxing yourself in.
Richard M. Stallman, founder of the GNU project, original creator of GCC and Emacs, FOSS evangelist and hardliner, software visionary… And an extremely weird dude also known for:
- aggressive proselytizing of his many varied beliefs
- eating toe jam on stage
- questioning the illegality of pedophilia, ephebophilia, hebephilia, and zoophilia
- unwanted and persistent romantic advances
- demanding that Linus’s OS be called GNU/Linux.
I know you meant vlan, but I love the idea of a loyal tightly knit band of cameras and doorbells.