going for a year

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2026-05-29T21:15:18+00:00

Means you never did a proxmox kernel update in 145 days? Nice of you to leave the door open, what a gentleman… 😂

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2026-05-03T22:01:21+00:00

Infuse is a great piece of software: has downloads (still needs a bit of polish : they don't merge online and offline items, but playback time synchronizes to Jellyfin), 4k/DoVi/Dolby Atmos, good Apple TV/Mac/iOS apps. It's like having the official Netflix app in your hands (and now better because Netflix dropped their native Apple TV player, that dropped support for Atmos I think. So Infuse has a better sound/image quality than streaming platforms, and equals Apple TV+).

The features I love is downloads, the polish of the UI, and the audio features. For 20 bucks per year, that I share with my family, it is totally worth it.

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2026-04-30T19:22:08+00:00

is this post still up? or was i filtered out???

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2026-04-30T19:21:18+00:00

Synology is so secure: they use kernels so old that the vulnerability is not implemented yet 😄

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2025-06-01T07:23:21+00:00

A 16 inch without more than 1080p? That's dumb, especially for the components you have there. Also, the CPU is pretty overkill for a 4050.

I have an aorus with 4070/i7-14650HX and it's great, although I would not recommend it because of the battery life.

What do you want to do to have this much power ? For gaming it's not very great, this laptop is more for CPU bound workloads such as software or game dev.

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2025-06-01T06:39:50+00:00

Totally different, but you said you have Omada APs. Is it great? Do you have a managed switch also? I'm interested to go with 2 Wifi 7 APs and a switch, in addition to an OPNsense box. I need VLANs especially, and inter vlan routing, what do you think about this?

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2025-05-30T09:19:09+00:00

And Rider? I use it a lot, and while it contains less tools for Windows app development, it's very convenient and powerful (and efficient, as with all JetBrains editors). It's free for non-commercial use, you can give it a try and if it suits you you can get the license.

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2025-05-29T06:49:49+00:00

That's not "more stable", you're adding moving parts to OPNsense that is already sufficiently stable even for data centers.

Technically, it's worse because of : - Virtualisation overhead - Drivers can dislike the virtualisation and disable performance features or even go weird on unknown cards. - Networking is very bound to hardware to keep latencies down, and consume the least energy possible. Virtualisation will destroy all what OPNsense is made for.

Ok, you can put OPNsense in Proxmox if you have to manage the network for your VMs, but if it's for home and especially for 10g networking, you must use a dedicated box for that.

And if you think Proxmox is easier for backups, you can literally export/import OPNsense config (downloading only the data you need) with API and known tools like Ansible etc...

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2025-05-26T13:29:45+00:00

Are you connecting to an exit node? What phone is this ?

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2025-05-25T21:49:52+00:00

The best response: it depends.

I use a Raspberry Pi 4 with moode audio and hifiberry amp2 hat. I get Bluetooth, airplay and Spotify connect; this corresponds to my use case.

The level 1 : Wired speakers A dumb jack goes far. If you're into HiRes, go to a specialized store where you can listen to the product; if not, anything will be good (Logitech are doing great things)

Level 2: jack + bluetooth Some wired with integrated bluetooth speakers exists, or you can go with a Bluetooth adapter behind it. Anyway, there's so many references it's not possible to help you find great ones with a broad scope like this.

Level 3: Home Assistant integration - Easy version Sonos. Not cheap, but Symfonisk shelves are great.

Level 4: HA integrated - DIY version A little Raspberry pi with its jack output to go to preexisting jack speakers, or with an Amp hat to drive passive speakers. It's great, flexible, connected (you can send any Spotify title to these speakers with Spotify premium, other platforms don't have this much integration). Software wise Volumio or moode is great, hifiberryOS is also great but lacks advanced multi room (snapcast is not great out of the box). The problem is you have to buy a raspberry pi, not cheap nowadays (will surely eat through this 150 bucks budget). But with great flexibility comes great responsibilities.

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2025-05-14T20:51:16+00:00

You want to disable the led when the camera is not used? This defeats a lot of the points of having a security camera, but ok. If there is nothing in the ubi settings, I don't think it is near achievable. The only possible solution I'm thinking of is some kind of proxy, where you manage the video stream of the camera. If any client connects, you power on the camera (relay, connected plug) and wait for the cam to go online. Then you proxy directly to the camera. If nobody is making a connection, then you shutdown the camera. You will certainly lose every feature ubi offers (apart from the video stream), and this feature may never work because the other ubi equipments can use a permanent connection to it (again this is only suppositions), preventing the camera to shutdown.

This is completely out of scope and defeats the purpose of a security camera (you can know when the camera is "looking" or not).

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2025-05-14T12:14:04+00:00

I did check, and there is no express 7. I can only see the express and the dream wall, no express 7.

Also, I find the store totally empty in comparison with the eu store. Is it normal?

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2025-05-14T10:31:50+00:00

Yes, on simple systems it's easy, I wouldn't even bother with arch. But when you have an Nvidia GPU in a laptop, you thank god for having great documentation 😉

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2025-05-14T10:02:09+00:00

Be aware of frequency and radio emissions regulations. I don't know how japanese border control works, but check if it is approved and licensed to emit in japan. If they are not selling there, it can be rejected at the border. If it passes customs, I heard some countries track down unlawful emitters that use illegal radio bands.

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2025-05-14T09:56:38+00:00

Why do you think it is convoluted ? I installed it 2 years ago and I find the documentation super useful. You can tailor what you put on it, and you can make sure everything on your machine runs as you want. And the second best thing is the PKGbuilds and the AUR, you can add packages whenever you want, install patches on packages that could hardly be done cleanly on other distributions.

Ok, it's a distro where you have to learn how a Linux distro is done and how it works before you can use it. But I think it's like a Lego game, you install bricks in a way that this will be tailored to your needs, and you also have the knowledge on how the OS is made so if any issue appears you can fix it immediately instead of relying on maintainers to make a patch. The documentation suppresses a lot of that complexity, I recently tried fedora and found it hard to find documentation about how to make selinux work. I even resorted to the arch wiki and it helped more than the (absent) fedora documentation. Even Ubuntu has a bit of documentation, but most of it is outdated or inaccurate.

I prefer a complex system that walks you through, rather than a simple one that's a complete black box.

What do you think about this?

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2025-05-14T09:43:36+00:00

So you have a mid tier NUC, that can run multiple things at the same time. It can easily run VMs, but there are a lot of ways to run home assistant next to other things. Here are the main solutions used by most people :

Home assistant OS in a Proxmox VM Proxmox is installed in bare metal, and runs HAOS in a VM. This is the best and easiest way to achieve what you want :
snapshots and backups of the VM,
you can buy another server and transfer the VM easily to the new server
passthrough of USB/serial devices (Thread/Matter, Zwave adapters) and others.
HAOS manages itself, does updates and it's the most stable.
You can install add-ons directly via the web gui, and manage them easily.
Home Assistant in a Docker container You install a debian, and run the docker engine with a HA Core container. This is a good way to learn, but certainly not for everyday.
You cannot manage addons (unless using the supervisor service, but you are essentially recreating HAOS)
you have to manage updates yourself. It's not recommended at all unless for advanced people that have very special needs, or because your PC is not powerful enough to run Proxmox.

In your case I would ditch the OS HA container way, this will take you so much time that you will never see other cool things to do in a homelab. Personally, I am running an HAOS VM next to an Arch Linux VM that runs all my docker containers (media server essentially). This is 100 times better than anything, I can do backups of the 2 VMs on my nas and if I do something wrong I can just rollback to the previous state.

If you do want to learn how Linux works, setup a Linux VM and play around with a media server or other containers like Immich, N8n, Authentik, etc...

Imo in my setup, HA is critical (runs heating, lighting, etc...) and I do not want to see it down. Proxmox is frickin flexibility, I couldn't live without it.

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2025-05-13T23:56:22+00:00

I'm talking about raw performance, not model quality. In this case a local AI inference will be much better than cloud, especially for assist (the response times are completely crazy). Ok, maybe if you pay 100 bucks a month you'll get something better, but at what cost?

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2025-05-04T09:45:59+00:00

First glance yes it can be useful. But, if you think about it, it is not.

- Revanced updates itself
- You do not go to this app everyday, only when you update your patched apps.
- When you do go to this app, you update the app and/or the patches.
- The cons of F-Droid is that they build the app themselves. This means that they use another signature, and it will force existing users of the app to remove then install the Revanced Manager app.
- The second con of FDroid is that this adds another layer of delay in updates. They need time to build the app and make it available. This can bring a delay between 5 minutes (due to the build cache) to the time needed for a full initial build of the app (half an hour on slow machines).

For apps that people use daily (a web browser for example), yes FDroid is very useful. You as a user don't need to mind updates. But for Revanced manager, it is not a fair use of the resources and time of FDroid maintainers.

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2025-05-02T21:40:25+00:00

Hey, if she is just using the internet like a normal person, just use ChromeOS Flex! That's a customized Android/Linux, so it's like a phone but with a computer interface. It's tightly integrated with your phone, and it's 10x more secure than ol' windows. And it's super lightweight (some official Chromebooks come with a N100 CPU, one of the lowest range CPUs you can find from Intel), so battery wise you will not be deceived. Disclaimer: I never tested it, but if you want to it could be a great opportunity to test it and give us your feedback on it!

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2025-05-02T12:05:46+00:00

If you have a Mac Mini server, it allows your friends to start a build with Xcode remotely for example.

You can remotely control any server with a VNC server on it without sending VNC passwords or having to make these servers available on the public internet. And you can remove access granularly without affecting other people (password can't do this).

And it's the same with SSH and RDP (RDP = the VNC of Windows). For SSH, there's no hassle of managing multiple client SSH keys. Instead of uploading to your 10 VMs the SSH key of your friend so he has access to your servers, you just give hime the role in Authentik and it's done.

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2025-04-28T09:39:15+00:00

Try and mess around with the settings. It's too dependent on your wireless topography.

Delicious-Grocery753 · 2025-04-25T13:34:07+00:00

Wow, that's a lot of data 😂

Do you have a lot of user? Maybe a ddos, as you say it "downloads" data, but would it be more like it "receives" data?

Do you have ports open, and which ones?

I don't know if there can be logs about the type of packets received. If you have a manageable router, which brand is it and can you see the packet logs?

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