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I am currently looking for Thin Clients on ebay to use as my main server instead of the RPi 4 with an external USB drive.

I found decent offers for: - Dell Optiplex 3020M with i5-4590T 4GB RAM 120GB SSD - Dell Wyse 5070 with Celeron J4105 or Pentium Silver J5005 both with 8GB RAM 64GB SSD

Given the current prices of new hardware my questions are: - Should I go for 8GB RAM? - Or are 4GB RAM fine and I should take double the storage?

Things I want to run on this server: - Karakeep - FreshRSS - Paperless-NGX or Papra - Immich - Booklore

Because I plan to mostly use podman I tried to check for virtualization and all three suppoert Intels VT-x technolgy, will that be fine for my use case?

Advanced Vector Extensions instruction set; introduced with Sandy Bridge in 2011, but not included in Pentium/Celeron branded processors even after then for reasons best known only to Intel.

Mongo is the application that has most irritated me by requiring it, but I doubt it’s the only one.

Correct (which is why I mentioned Kata, as that’s a container runtime backed by microvms, sort of like how AWS uses firecracker to run lambdas and “serverless” container workloads)

I’ve noticed a lot of posts lately that are just spam for slopware, often not even having anything to do with self-hosting. As sad as I am about it, I’m pretty close to unsubscribing to keep spam out of my Lemmy feeds.

Before doing so, though, I wanted to ask if there was any formal policy or rule for the community that could help cut down on thr spam, and if so, what would be most useful for me to do when I see a spam post? That I’d, is the Report button the right tool, is there some other way to let moderators know?

I don’t know that I’d be on board for clamping to zero. You would have to decide if you are going to have a weighted zero (i.e. secret negative tally), and if so, why bother with clamping? If not, why have downvotes?

Scoring just demonstrates popularity. It’s a voluntary poll, and it has no bearing on the quality or validity of someone’s comment. I’ve seen good posts go unnoticed, and I’ve seen bad ones get lots of points. Voluntary polls are almost useless as a metric, and especially for a system like this one where all you have to do is click a button, it’s even less useful than one where you are required to write a statement about why you voted the way you did.

I’m not saying people shouldn’t be allowed to have downvotes as a way to gauge popularity, if that’s a metric they want to use to filter their content, nor do I think they should be forced to experience the Fediverse my way. I am however saying that reporting helps everyone, regardless of whether downvoting is enabled or not (plus it has the added benefit of potentially removing content that doesn’t belong; server space is a premium here, after all). We have options here on the Fediverse, and it’s a small ask to use the reporting feature and not assume there’s a “correct” or “standard” way to experience Lemmy. We can create something better than Reddit.

You’ve just traded down votes for the report button.

I say they are two different use cases. There is often a very wide gulf between a comment that I feel does not contribute to good discussion and one that is so heinous that it needs to be removed. Most of your comments for instance: pretty naive and banal adding little good to the discussion overall, but I don’t feel that you’ve said anything hateful, obscene, or aggressive enough to warrant total removal. Usually I just downvote and move on, especially when I don’t want to hear that person’s bad take reply on my own point of view. I’ve made an exception here for you simply because you are trolling all over this thread, seemingly inviting downvotes. But, I’m going to block you and move on because you’ve killed any interest I have in this thread or the larger discussion. I still don’t think your comments rise to the level of reporting.

Reports and blocks aren’t a replacement for downvotes and if your instances doesn’t federate downvotes you shouldn’t use them that way.

Hey,

have you ever wondered how to search the web while staying in your browser and eating your cereals in the morning?

This is a free solution that you can host yourself and also sell (if you want to, everything is included):

https://github.com/qubit999/voice-browser.git

You can host it locally on your computer but you need access to the API services.

It’s in its early stage and heavy vibe-coded, so I don’t guarantee anything but it’s a fun tool to play around with.

Browser that’s vibe coded 💩
No fucking way I’m hosting this

AI app written using AI. What could go wrong?

In this post I share some my personal journey with some selfhostesd open source apps and how they helped me. Maybey you will find some stuff in there that helps you as well.

Ah. I tried /feed.xml and /feed.rss, but didn’t think to check just /feed/

Great post. Just a heads up, I feel like the “loading” screen with it’s fade in and out animations and all actually make your website feel slower than it needs to.

Basically looking for an all in one program similar to the Arr stack that’s easy to use. If it needs to / can be set up with an NBZ or Debrid service beforehand it’s fine, it’s mostly on the daily usage part that it should have a somewhat friendly GUI. Also helps if it has or can be paired with an app for remote streaming what’s on the server.

Ideally works on Cosmos, but if it can’t for any reason, then CasaOS or Yunohost might be fine too.

I’m trying to set up something rather easy to use for my two partners, who are not the most tech savvy, and one of which who really dislikes clunky menus.

Technically, you don’t really need to touch those Arr applications once you set them up. As others have mentioned, Seerr (merged from Jellyseerr and Overseerr) is probably the only thing you use on daily basis.

You mentioned an app for remote streaming, I assume you know about Jellyfin already. If not, it’s like Netflix but you watch your own videos.

HugOP wants remote streaming - that’s a no for jellyfin, especially for people who couldn’t handle the sonarr/radarr UI.

Hi there,

I’m hosting matrix for family use on a server at my place. The issue is my home is affected by internet and electricity outages - which we’re trying to fix. This means that there are frequent downtimes on the chat. I have a UPS but usually is not enough to power everything - router and server - for longer periods of time.

The internet downtime is easy to fix as my router supports fallback connection which I point to a mobile internet solution.

I’ve thought about moving everything to a VPS but then I’m a bit wary of privacy regarding the data there. There’s also the option of moving the server to a family member’s house but I want this this be last resort because that makes maintenance harder.

Anyone dealt with this issues and found a solution? Perhaps a callback mechanism that temporarily hosts the sever on a VPS? :D

Similar to a mechanical device that wears out faster with heavy use, the depth of discharge (DoD) determines the cycle count of the battery. The smaller the discharge (low DoD), the longer the battery will last. If at all possible, avoid full discharges and charge the battery more often between uses. Partial discharge on Li-ion is fine. There is no memory and the battery does not need periodic full discharge cycles to prolong life. - https://www.batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-lithium-based-batteries/

Your chance of being struck by lightning in the course of a lifetime is about 1 in 13,000. Lithium-ion batteries have a failure rate that is less than one in a million. The failure rate of a quality Li-ion cell is better than 1 in 10 million. https://www.batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-304a-safety-concerns-with-li-ion/

Battery swelling (not caused by manufacturing defects) is primarily caused by overcharging, deep-discharge, physical damage, and heat, none of which are problems for my server installation.

Ok, i stand corrected

Anyone here have experience self-hosting Stoat?

After a few evenings banging my head against the keyboard I finally have Revolt and Livekit self-hosted!

It’s largely all working through the official stoat-for-web that I’m hosting, but something really simple is preventing me inviting my friends along to try it…

I’ve set the backend to invite-only and added an invite code to the database… But I can’t for the life of me figure out how the devs intend for invites to actually work beyond the backend?

• It doesn’t seem to be a feature of stoat-for-web at all.
• The app doesn’t support any alternative servers as far as I can tell

Any good workarounds, besides opening up the floodgates…?

Only the webUI works out of the box, if you want the phone app you need to compile it yourself.

Damn, that’s a nonstarter for anyone non-technical

It’s non-starter for technical, too.

You have to ship client updates to all your users.

I know this isn’t “selfhosting” as most people imagine it, but it is about hosting services on own hardware, hence why I’m posting in this community.

I’m supposed to help a teacher set up a networking exercise where pairs of computers are connected directly on a crossover cable and can access services (echo, HTTP, SSH, FTP) on each other. Every computer is identical: Windows 10 host, one VirtualBox VM running Linux Mint with a bridged adapter in promiscuous mode. Each host and VM has its own static link-local IP address.

The problem is, the VMs can’t talk to each other, and I don’t know why.

From one VM, I can ping itself, its host, and the remote host, but not the remote VM. Each host can ping itself, the local VM, the remote host, but not the remote VM. I’ve tried connecting both hosts to a layer-2 switch, with the same result.

Can someone point me at the one thing that I’m obviously doing wrong?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/29119389-18af-4b95-9019-6b44902c0460.png

Running Linux on metal isn’t an option. In the past, the classroom computers used to dual boot Windows and Ubuntu, but the Windows install got so bloated (the software too, not just Windows) that it needs the full SSD.

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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Thanks for the follow-up. Of course you would have some kind of mass-deployment, it didn’t think of that. I thought you’d maybe copy the Windows MAC to Linux, but… then you’d remember doing that.

Next up, they will also all have the same ssh host key ;-) (Which may be an advantage actually, but still confusing.) Those are the kind of problems cloud-init is solving, I guess.

This is not directly selfhosting but related. I have 2 Proxmox hosts which both support Intel AMT which is a remote control tool similar to supermicro IPMI, supporting KVM, power cycles and more. I wanted it to be able to repair stuff in case I can’t reach the servers via ui/ssh.

I set it up and it worked fine for months. I could access both on ip.address:16992.

Lately, one of them started disappearing after days or weeks. Rebooting brings it back, but it’s a running server and I don’t want to reboot it so often. The server is working fine otherwise.

Does anyone know that problem? It’s hard to pin down since it can’t be seen on the host linux (port not shown in netstat for example).

Apologies. I misread apparently. I thought your Proxmox boxes were disappearing.

They’re right here in the shelf :-)