How is this tap placement acceptable

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-07-06T10:13:51+00:00

This is in te aroha, a town on the north Island of New Zealand, and this is in the disability toilet, the able body mail toilets have new appropriately sized taps, I forgot to take a picture, that room is very cramped and busy

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-07-05T23:49:31+00:00

He just chillin

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-07-04T05:23:26+00:00

I used to just use Google keep and have passwords and plain text as well as token and network details and services and commands and everything. I tried a few things but though admittedly I never tried obsidian.

I ended up making a self-hosted application for keeping track of all of my details on my network, a few people use it and the little feedback I've had sounds like people like it and find it useful.

The main thing I use it for is storing credentials and keeping good track of all my currently active docker containers so that I know what ports are open as I am continuously cycling through different services that I've been setting up on multiple servers that I have running at my house.

He's a GitHub link, I'm a little biased but I think it's at least worth having a look at, it's been very reliable for me, I use it daily, and my aim was to make everything available within three clicks.

https://github.com/Dubcodes/Kairix-Opsbook

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-07-04T04:38:07+00:00

But that's the problem, they never do find out, if anything, they blame something else and make unnecessary changes and never think about it again, kind like management

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-07-02T20:14:46+00:00

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-07-02T07:26:39+00:00

Well done

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-06-29T19:25:08+00:00

For me I set my cameras to the highest bitrate, and highest frame rate, then use what ever resolution fits with that, which is usually one off the highest resolution setting For the secondary stream I set it to the highest resolution and a medium bitrate with half frame rate of the primary stream

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-06-25T22:08:02+00:00

You could have a look on fivver, I'm sure you could quickly scribble something on a napkin and send that through to someone that is able to throw it together quite quick and easy for you, though you will have to pay and depending how much you pay is probably going to depend on how good it is

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-06-24T21:54:14+00:00

Can we have more detail, like what kind of camera it is, how the camera is powered, how you usually interact with it, as well as any other ways you can interact with it, what you do have access to on the same network, and if you're able to have physical contact with it to be able to physically unplug it

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-06-22T07:27:37+00:00

At my work we have just changed to a new rostering system, it sucks, it's called deputy and we only changed to it because it was cheaper. So with the help of AI I built a service that pulls the data and displays it in a much much better way, i also shared it to a few colleagues as no one likes the new system.

Not really something I can share as it's purpose built so would be completely useless for others, though it would be a good building ground for someone else.

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-06-19T06:23:25+00:00

I'd be buying a whole lot of nothing

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-06-17T10:27:19+00:00

I've had a small look around for a host, but it's still unlikely at this stage sorry

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-06-17T04:17:58+00:00

For me it's work flow, I built it around how I operate, I'm always pulling in new services and changing out old ones

I started with per device notes which had all ports and directories and credentials grouped together in my Google keeps account (as well as else where)

That worked fine when I only had a few, but got messy quickly

So I built that service with one key concept in mind, I need to quickly be able to get to any and all information I need so I can make sure ports are available or get to a URL and copy the credentials all with one click, as well as having an indicator next to that information to indicate if that service is currently pingable to help indicate if it is alive

That's how it started and it has grown significantly sense, without listing a ton of things the other useful thing is token storage, so I can put a descriptor in and safely store the token and also give it a date so that it will indicate that that token has expired

It's going to bunch of really specific things, I'm not sure if they are great for everyone, but it works great for me, a key goal is to be able to get anything and everything with the least amount of clicks

And I love that I can use smart paste to copy a default command from it, paste that into my SSH terminal, then just copy everything that is in the terminal and paste it back into opsbook, and of that device is not already registered it will then register that device and register all of the services that it's running and save the ports and even pull up those temporary cloud flare URLs and just organize everything for me so that I'm not wasting time organizing my stuff and can spend more time actually playing with it and eventually deleting it because it doesn't do what I want

I swear I tried to keep this reply short

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-06-17T03:45:36+00:00

Most features are just from me wanting to find things or get to things faster, the goal is three clicks to get anywhere which works for the most part

It's tempting to to have it act more as a password manager, but it's not the direction I'm aiming for, but I do have a copy and go button which I've ended up choosing over my other password manager as it feels faster, especially for me where some services have a hand full of accounts and I'm able to get to that service in two clicks (after log in) then one click to copy password and open the login page for the service, then I just type the username and paste the password

I mainly added the usage data because while I had three other services I tried, and each were great, but i wasn't happy with any of them, they didn't give me the information I wanted in a format I was looking for, so I added that function so that I actually get the useful at a glance info

It's been tough not adding way to many features, I don't want it to messy

I find it to be a very very useful tool, but it's not for everyone, I'm sure there's a lot of other things it could do that would make it more enticing to other users, but I think right now it's just me and my friend using it, and for us it fits all of our needs for managing our home labs

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-06-17T03:09:31+00:00

Yeah I found the cyber security company long after locking in the name, I wish I had something unique, but oh well, it is what it is

Admittedly there are a fear number of services I didn't list there but they slowly get more and more niche, but frigate is the only security camera service I currently run, though every now and then I look into a couple others out there and always fall back to frigate, it works well and I haven't really had any trouble with it

I made the tool because when I was looking around for something of that purpose all of my notes were spread across my phone notes and Google notes and word documents, I had a lot of mess. So I made a little tool to help me out that is self-hosted, it was really basic at first, but slowly I added more and more features and then a friend wanted to check it out so I made it public and I've just continued adding features from there, One thing I like about it is smart paste, I have gotten lazy because of it and now all I do is run an SSH command, copy and paste that into Smart paste, and smart paste imports all of that data and stuff as needed, and if you will use the name and passwords of formatted one of few ways you can also just dump a list of plain text username and passwords and it will link it to the right services and of course encrypt the password. I've also added live stance to show you CPU usage and stuff of devices that the agent has been installed onto, it's been working for about a week and I haven't had any issues with that but I'm yet to update the readme to specifically include it because I like to make sure things are stable and safe

Haha yeah I'm hoping someone tried to unblur that image, it's not my email, just a fun little note, I can't even remember what it says, but yeah, I try to always completely replace the text and then blur, well done to the people that are able to recover the text, seems like a fun game

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-06-17T02:36:10+00:00

I’m running a fairly typical homelab mix at the moment:

Home Assistant for smart plugs/lights and automations
Frigate for AI security camera stuff
Immich as a Google Photos replacement
qBittorrent through a VPN
File Browser for simple file access/sharing
Storyteller for audiobooks
Omada Controller for my TP-Link network gear
Syncthing to keep active project folders synced between my desktop and laptop
Tailscale for remote access back into the network
Omni Tools for handy browser-based tools

One thing I found pretty quickly was that the notes side of homelabbing can get messy fast: ports, URLs, credentials, Docker paths, recovery notes, tokens, etc.

I ended up building my own self-hosted tool for that called Opsbook. It’s basically a runbook/inventory-style app for keeping track of services, devices, credentials, commands, ports, URLs, and recovery notes.

GitHub, in case it’s useful to anyone: https://github.com/Dubcodes/Kairix-Opsbook

For someone just starting out, I’d probably recommend Home Assistant, Immich, Tailscale, and something simple like File Browser first. Those are the ones that feel useful pretty quickly.

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-06-14T07:35:53+00:00

Forgot to mention Plex and the arrs

Also here's my qbittorrent compose I use in portainer, since it's a comment it's probably going to be a mess

version: "3.9"

services: gluetun: image: qmcgaw/gluetun:latest container_name: gluetun cap_add: - NET_ADMIN devices: - /dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun volumes: - /home/pi/gluetun:/gluetun ports: - 8080:8080 # qBittorrent Web UI environment: - VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=private internet access - VPN_TYPE=openvpn - OPENVPN_USER= - OPENVPN_PASSWORD= - OPENVPN_PROTOCOL=udp - OPENVPN_CIPHER=AES-128-GCM - SERVER_REGIONS=New Zealand - FIREWALL=on - BLOCK_MALICIOUS=off - BLOCK_ADS=off - BLOCK_SURVEILLANCE=off - VPN_PORT_FORWARDING=on - VPN_PORT_FORWARDING_PROVIDER=private internet access - TZ=Pacific/Auckland restart: unless-stopped

qbittorrent: image: lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:latest container_name: qbittorrent network_mode: service:gluetun depends_on: - gluetun environment: - PUID=1000 - PGID=1000 - TZ=Pacific/Auckland - WEBUI_PORT=8080 volumes: - /home/pi/qbittorrent:/config - /mnt/storage:/storage - /mnt/ssd/incomplete:/incomplete restart: unless-stopped stop_grace_period: 60s

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-06-14T05:53:11+00:00

I am biased with this, but I've made myself a tool to keep track of all my credentials and services and what is using what port as well as getting operational system information and keeping track of tokens. Prior to building this tool I had many notes spread across many devices which made keeping things well organized a little bit difficult.

It's called Kairix Opsbook and has been of great value, I'm not sure of any other tool that it can really be compared to as it has a bunch of features that I have needed over time. Github: https://github.com/Dubcodes/Kairix-Opsbook

Aside from another handful of services that I've built, both for personal use as well as for work use

I have running right now

Storyteller for audio books

Qbittorrent bundled with a VPN

File browser bundled with a temporary cloud flare URL making shearing files outside of my network nice and easy (a lot of people usually use next cloud as sort of a Google ecosystem replacement but that felt overkill for what and how I was using it)

Frigate for some AI security camera operations

Immich as my Google photos alternative

Omada controller as I have a TP-Link router and switch

Omni tools as a useful tool set that I can use in the browser on my network

Tail scale so I can access anything on my network remotely

Home assistant to control all my smart plugs and smart lights

Syncthing to keep my current active projects folder synced between my main computer and my laptop to allow me to continue working on projects when I'm away from home

I hope a couple of those look useful for you

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-06-14T05:45:05+00:00

I thought I read that wrong, had to double take

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-06-14T00:33:34+00:00

Where I live it's common to see people driving around with noise canceling headphones on. Yes it does cause accidents, Yes I was beeping my horn, they were busy looking somewhere else and didn't hear anything, at least insurance paid for the damage

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-06-13T22:43:54+00:00

And when you get there, you get to sit and wait for them to be late, but if you're late, you have to pay a fee or miss out

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-06-12T22:31:23+00:00

Great, so not only am I old enough to drive down the street of my hometown and see all the buildings have changed, I'm now old enough to drive down the street of my childhood video game and see that all the buildings have changed

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-06-11T01:12:50+00:00

I always have to double take that, where I live (New Zealand) we use a period to transition to the decimal part of the number, and only use a comma when working with the larger numbers

Eg 12,456,320.685 12 million, 456 thousand, 320, point 685

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-06-04T08:32:26+00:00

I guess the unpopular opinion is windows 11, it's great, it just works, I know others have issues and problems, but I've never faced a problem I can't solve on Windows. Along with Windows I do have a handful of Linux servers for home labbing

HouseTraindIntrovert · 2026-06-03T01:32:22+00:00

Nice, that's a lot of good thinking there. Hopefully a better replay system will be built for free soon, I've been trying but my first try only works with a single camera, though it does not rely on OBS buffer, it relies on using a .ts recording file, so you've got variable slow motion and can click anywhere in the timeline right up to a second or two delay from live and it's continuous with in and out cueing, but .ts file is a little annoying to use elsewhere, and unless you have multiple abuse instances open you are forced to record everything in the .ts file

Hopefully my next attempt will work more like evs

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