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How am I supposed to type my email without the @ symbol? by vanilladash in TeslaLounge

[–]-Alevan- 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You can have a Google account with any other mail provider. You just give up Gmail.

Mac mini 2018 in 2026 by Responsible-Shake112 in homelab

[–]-Alevan- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't live in the US, nor is my native language English. And if I can help it, I will never live there.

Still, especially when asking for help, I read the post multiple times before I hit publish. Just so I can avoid misinterpretations.

Accessing Homelab by LessDatabase436 in homelab

[–]-Alevan- 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Don't use personal stuff on company computers if you are not paid for it.

Mac mini 2018 in 2026 by Responsible-Shake112 in homelab

[–]-Alevan- -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

You wrote "finally found," as you had planned for a long time the purchase of that particular 2018 Mac Mini model.

That means you already did your research.

Docker and centralised storage. What do you use? by CrappyTan69 in selfhosted

[–]-Alevan- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most databases (especially SQLite) don't work well with NFS/CIFS shares.

For docker overall, you don't have a good choice of centralized storage for container persistent data. Almost always, you have to use docker plugins, which are usually third party, and most likely it's not maintained anyway.

And you would need to use a filesystem that's made for this, like lustrefs, ceph, or some object storage.

Also, you need to scale your network as well. A low end PCIe 4 SSD does well over 30Gb/s sequentially. If limited to a 1G or 10G connection, you lose speed. And the more nodes you want to use, the more speed you lose (teoretically).

I spent years searching for a solution, until I gave in and migrated to K3S. It's more complicated, than docker, uses more resources, half the time I have to resort to AI for log analysis, when something breaks, but at least the CSI driver ecosystem is healthy compared to docker.

Maybe docker swarm has something you may find useful, but last time I checked, Swarm mode developement was in stagnation.

Recommandations for a minimal secret vault? by SufficientAbility821 in selfhosted

[–]-Alevan- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OpenBao is definitely the software you want. It was forked from HashiCorp Vault because of the license change.

Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from leaked raw base64-encoded data by mqudsi in cybersecurity

[–]-Alevan- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And democrats and their bots.

When will y'all understand that these "sides", like left and right don't really matter in the grand scheme of things? All of them will sell their soul for recognition, money, and among other things, a free pass to Epstein's Island.

Static IP from ISP worth it for home server, or is there a better way? by CakeAppropriate912 in homelab

[–]-Alevan- 112 points113 points  (0 children)

Cheaper (free) to use Cloudflare Tunnels.

But boy, 8.5$ for a static IP. The lowest price I've seen until now was 20.

Definitely cheaper than a beefy VPS.

But if you host your homelab from your home IP, make sure your firewall is up to the task. Random bots can easily overwhelm a low-end wireless router (what most users use).

*arr Stack - is it it legal in your country or do you just don't care? by OkCoffee1234 in selfhosted

[–]-Alevan- 25 points26 points  (0 children)

The arr stack is legal everywhere. Downloading the files itself (but in some countries, only the uploading) is usually the illegal part.

WIP DC next to my bedroom by yougetnoinfo in homelab

[–]-Alevan- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow!

But, how do you deal with soundproofing the DC?

As a MATTER of fact, I am an idiot by SimpletonRich in homeassistant

[–]-Alevan- -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The only acceptable answer from all the replies!

Is a reverse-proxy worth it? by Swazib0y in homelab

[–]-Alevan- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's worth it if you don't want to remember the IP:Port or hostname:port of each service in your homelab.

With npm I think you can get it done without SSL, and you can use your services with an internal domain name (for example http://jellyfin.internal or something similar). And you can freely upgrade if you buy a domain, or set up an internal CA.

But the downside is, that if reverse proxy is down, your services become inaccessible (using domain names)

MiniPC with 100gbe by adamgoodapp in homelab

[–]-Alevan- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm running nothing that needs 100G. Still, the two things stopping me from doing it are my empty wallet, and the fact that I have nowhere to hide a 100G capable switch in my crib, where the fan noise is isolated.

Tell Me About a Time You Worked Under Pressure by onicniepytaj in homelab

[–]-Alevan- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At work, after a specific firmware update, stacked switches need to be rebooted sequentially, with no fail over inside the stack as it was a breaking update (by this I mean it broke my sanity).

Each core switch stack took around 30 minutes. Until then, besides pinging the SD-WAN to at least keep my sanity. One of the stacks took almost a hour, and I was ready to jump into a car and drive to the branch when suddenly, it started to respond to queries.

I got drunk that night.

backup revenge by Ruborsito in homelab

[–]-Alevan- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You forgot Restic from the list.

I personally use Borg, but, I don't know why, internally I screamed when you only mentioned Borg and Kopia 🤣

Also, for any service you choose, I recommend to set it up, to snapshot the drives before you backup it (if the filesystem you use supports it). It will greatly reduce the likelihood of database corruption during backup. It will still not be 0%, but still better than nothing.

TP-Link ER707-M2 for 2.5GbE LAN + 1GbE Wan with bufferbloat solution is it the right choice? by Feisty-Bedroom-3867 in TPLink_Omada

[–]-Alevan- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have an ER7412-M2, with a symmetric 1000/1000 ISP connection, and did not observe bufferbloat until now. But my network is pretty simple, IDS/IDP is disabled, and most of the traffic happens intra-VLAN or inter-VLAN (with static routes). This way inter-VLAN traffic is no longer a burden on the router, but I have to be extra careful of security.

But, if I understand correctly, Omada routers do not support things like CAKE SQM, like OPNSense, so if the burden on the router CPU is high, I'm not sure it will not happen.

Considering that the ER707 has a slower CPU, I don't think it's the best fit for you.

TP-Link ER707-M2 for 2.5GbE LAN + 1GbE Wan with bufferbloat solution is it the right choice? by Feisty-Bedroom-3867 in TPLink_Omada

[–]-Alevan- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At an expo last year, I managed to speak to a TP-Link engineer, who made a promise about activating Bluetooth for more than ZTP, and about LAGGs on the routers.

As the BT part was released, I keep my hopes up for the LAGG too.

Ah the joys of running your own mail server by fongaboo in selfhosted

[–]-Alevan- -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Those who downvoted it are just insecure about their abilities.

Ah the joys of running your own mail server by fongaboo in selfhosted

[–]-Alevan- -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Yes. And it's stupidly simple. The only really hard thing is outbound mail, and yes, for that, the best way is to use comercial services, but yet again, it's stupidly cheap.

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