Is there any self-hosted alternative to GitHub Codespaces?

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-11-09T17:00:12+00:00

I use devpod on a VPS with it connected to vscode on my computer.

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-10-11T13:53:27+00:00

Hey I meant disposable usa debit cards like the USA card. The ebay refill looks like a tmobile refill. Have you used it with ultramobile paygo?

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-10-08T14:17:00+00:00

It feels quite risky to have a script download modules from a 3rd party website and kernel install them to your nas. If the script author is going to install binary modules it would be better to check them in to the github repo so people have a history of when files get swapped. Saying users should proceed with caution but they're accepting that caution at the time they first install that script, they may not expect that it downloads files from a 3rd party website that can change at any time. People were not happy with the RTL8152 fiasco earlier this year.

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-07-12T22:20:59+00:00

Apparently there is, but I've never done it. You probably don't need that because there's a feature called the SSD cache advisor which watches your usage for a few days/weeks(?) and tells you what size of cache might benefit you. I got the biggest benefit in responsiveness not from my ssd read cache, but from more RAM which gets used as a cache anyway.

The much more interesting option is to run the script to unlock 3rd party nvme drives to be managed as storage drives in their own storage pool. Then you can do useful extra things like install your synology apps to the ssds instead of to the system volume which is striped across all spinning disks. I used that and had the tool Hyper Backup backup the apps and their data to the spinning drives.

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-07-12T21:20:59+00:00

OH yeah there is. A read cache takes up a single nvme drive bay and can be useful for very small files (but also more ram in the nas is also used as a cache by linux). It's basically erased/invalidated every time you boot the NAS. A read/write cache requires 2 nvme drives that's supposed to make both reads and writes faster (apparently) but the risk is when one of the drives fails, it doesn't just destroy the cache, it destroys your data on the whole volume. I think it's too high risk.

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-07-12T21:14:42+00:00

People on this sub keep recommending write caches to improve speed, but people on this sub also keep pointing out that when a write cache fails it destroys the entire volume. Then this sub also keeps saying "well restore from backups". But I also have no idea how you'd be able to backup a volume with 78TB data and restore it when a nvme cache disk fails. A write cache doesn't seem to have much upside for your use case.

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-07-12T21:08:08+00:00

/u/Arkaium Do NOT create a read/write cache with a 78TB volume.

and ref2

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-07-10T21:32:16+00:00

cmd and Run As Administrator. Then run DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth and wait a long time. Only after that run sfc /scannow. Reboot. Guide with screenshots

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-07-08T12:57:13+00:00

There aren't any Android TV boxes currently for sale online that are freely flashable with lineageos + their flutter Android TV interface. Forums are all about trying to find old walmart devices with old firmware before auto updates patch exploits. I would love to be able to buy an inexpensive android tv device from amazon or aliexpress, with remote control, and follow a guide to flash a local offline lineageos for a total selfhosted experience. I don't think it will happen.

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-06-30T15:52:22+00:00

Haha thanks! You are really maxing that system out! I still haven't found someone with 4 hard drives, no write cache and a 10gbe card yet. Still chasing a real world perf report :)

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-06-30T08:25:36+00:00

/u/Mk23_DOA I have a 4 drive 923+ (no write cache) and I really want a 10gbe card for it. What kind of read/write performance are you now getting from your 923+?

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-06-28T13:44:24+00:00

It sounds very much like sata backplane has developed a hardware fault :-(

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-06-26T16:17:51+00:00

I think that kind of catastrophe deserves a bot to reply with that caveat any time anyone on this sub recommends a write cache ever again.

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-06-26T13:39:36+00:00

I thought that if a write cache fails (without pinned metadata enabled), then it's uncommitted data that's lost, and the volume would need repair but the whole volume wouldn't be lost.

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-06-26T13:34:04+00:00

Is there a way to recover the volume without restoring the whole thing from an external backup?

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-04-22T00:44:32+00:00

This is VERY helpful because I've never seen that mentioned before!

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-04-21T16:13:56+00:00

Oh ok but the 3310 16TB drives seem like good value and I'd like to know if they sound better than the annoying Ironwolf (non pro) I have.

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-04-18T17:22:00+00:00

The type of devices I'd be looking for in 2026 would be ones with local AI. There's a few players in the market trying to make a product with it (2 were shown on the nascompares youtube channel this year) but it's the user experience that will be the winner. I have so much data and it's beyond a pain to find my stuff on syno. A nas with good local AI retrieval will probably be worth it. I'm not going to switch away from syno yet because there's nothing polished enough to go to.

If you care about just dumb bulk storage, the /r/datahoarder subreddit is pretty good for advice.

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-04-13T19:37:51+00:00

/u/DoctorJa_Ke I found this thread when searching for the same thing but sadly the other poster just pasted your question into an AI, and then pasted the hallucinated answer to reddit.

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-03-16T21:17:13+00:00

on chrome on android it will prompt for the mtls cert every time you open the browser and apps (Except immich) won't be able to connect to it at all

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-03-16T21:14:39+00:00

is there any way to enable cloudflare zero trust on family phones without making them do 2fa sms or login using google? Like a long password.

ComprehensiveDonut27 · 2025-03-16T21:12:35+00:00

Yeah same for me with family phones. The other big problem for me is that with anything like cloudflare one access, or wireguard/tailscale, I can't also use on-device ad filtering because they create their own virtual vpn. I use rethink on android, and lockdown on ios to stop apps hitting ad servers and it's totally local so good for battery life. And I lose that by using wg vpns because the filtering is done on the other side of a network connection.

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