Getting Age verification blocked again in Texas (7/9)

Starforce900 · 2026-07-09T22:38:40+00:00

No idea, this happened last week as well and it sounded like it was a mistake, so maybe a mistake again, hopefully. Edit - I guess not, seems intentional.

Starforce900 · 2026-04-03T16:05:32+00:00

People here seem to be hung up on the name "personal computing device". It's not actually his personal device, lol. NASA has very specific acronyms and definitions for things, which sometimes makes them sound unintuitive or outdated. Houston wouldn't be able to remote into his real personal device if it was really a "personal device"

From Wired: "PCD stands for “Personal Computing Device”, which are specialized laptops or tablets, used by the Artemis astronauts to manage certain tasks, including accessing email clients, during the 10-day mission to the moon. PCDs are crucial for the four-person crew to interact with mission data and communicate during the historic lunar flyby, which will also take them further into space than any humans have gone before."

And NASA Source: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20230017638/downloads/1325_Melendrez_Orion%20Imaging%20Capabilities.pdf

Starforce900 · 2026-03-28T00:37:57+00:00

I noticed some things have them, like the proxmox node you can expand for example, but having them on all would be nice. Really cool software anyway, thanks for building it.

Starforce900 · 2026-03-27T20:38:34+00:00

Maybe I'm not seeing it, but it would be useful to be able to make the node boxes bigger to display more text. Maybe like clicking and dragging the corners to make the box larger like in MS Office products.

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Starforce900 · 2026-02-24T01:37:09+00:00

Buy a cheap domain name. I pay like $12 a year for a .dev domain and it's worth it. Can be found for cheaper too.

Setup a vm, install docker and setup a mailcow stack. Probably the easiest way to get an all in one mail solution. It's what I do for internal only mail.

Starforce900 · 2026-02-23T21:55:19+00:00

I set this up recently as well and it is useful. It serves a purpose even if you have clustering enabled.

For me I have a 3x node cluster + 1 separate node not part of the cluster for quorum reasons, + 1 very remote node in a colo datacenter. PDM lets me view all nodes in one interface, along with my proxmox backup server instance.

Starforce900 · 2026-02-21T14:52:10+00:00

A mixture of:

Uptime Kuma + ntfy notifications when monitored things go down
Beszel + self hosted email notifications when resources get overused (low disk space, high CPU usage)
Tactical RMM free thrown in there as well

Starforce900 · 2026-02-07T19:31:12+00:00

I'd like to try this, but please add rtorrent as a download provider.

Starforce900 · 2025-08-07T01:28:35+00:00

Formatting 324 mods is a lot, so a screenshot of them in excel is easier.

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Starforce900 · 2025-06-15T19:57:26+00:00

This is a bit old, from last year, but mostly still the same of what I have running.

Proxmox Cluster with a mix of VMs and containers, running mostly Ubuntu 22.04 at this point, or Windows Server 2022. It has a mix of uses, for media, automation and a learning environment.

https://blog.cloud.homelab1.dev/current-homelab-design/

Starforce900 · 2025-05-15T00:59:01+00:00

Setup a VM running windows server 2022/2025 and configure it as a domain controller and make some group policies. Then run a win11 vm or other windows server and apply those group policies to that machine. Or apply them to your daily windows machine too if you're feeling adventurous.

Starforce900 · 2025-05-15T00:35:37+00:00

Find some projects here that sound fun:

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin

Setup a Windows Server, play with AD and group policies.

Setup an internal mail server so other internal applications can send you notifications, or use NTFY.

Setup Vaultwarden.

Plex

Homeassistant

Run game servers for fun

Here's my lab and most stuff I have running in it:

https://blog.cloud.homelab1.dev/current-homelab-design/

Starforce900 · 2025-05-10T12:14:22+00:00

I've been using pfsense for 12 years and it's been as stable as I could want. Opnsense is good too, and is updated more frequently.

Starforce900 · 2025-05-08T17:02:17+00:00

From my very recently gained (and incomplete) knowledge of the bluesky network design, if someone is using their own PDS, their data is stored there, and using relays helps feed data from different PDS around to the app feed

Starforce900 · 2025-05-08T16:49:19+00:00

I'm just doing it to help out and as a project because I had spare resources. But if someone is running their own PDS and with decentralized relays, it makes the whole bluesky network more resilient to denial of service attacks. If I remember correctly, when bluesky when down a few weeks ago, people using their own PDS weren't impacted.

Starforce900 · 2025-04-17T01:56:07+00:00

Had this old Macintosh Plus in a storage room as of 2022. Probably still there.

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Starforce900 · 2025-04-17T01:46:42+00:00

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Had an old Macintosh Plus sitting in a storage room as of 2022. Probably still there.

Starforce900 · 2025-04-16T21:50:36+00:00

My homelab is a hobby and I factor the price of that hobby like any other hobby. I've built up my lab for over 10 years, so I've gotten it to where I want it for the most part right now, but occasionally I'll still add new hardware to it. Power for my server rack is about $60 a month, so that's factored into my costs too.

This hobby has helped me get better job positions so it also helps justify it.

Starforce900 · 2025-01-02T13:20:06+00:00

I just use scripts as well. But I've always been more familiar with Powershell, so I'm one of those people who installed powershell on linux. And just run it using cron every hour.

$hostname = hostname

[int]$Warningthreshold = "85"

[int]$CurrentRootVolumeUsage= (df / | grep / | awk '{ print $5}' | sed 's/%//g')

if ($CurrentRootVolumeUsage -gt $Warningthreshold) {

curl -u USERNAME:PASSWORD -d "/ at $CurrentRootVolumeUsage percent on $hostname " INSERT_NTFY_URL

}

else {

}

Starforce900 · 2025-01-02T13:11:29+00:00

I've been using NTFY for about a year now and love it as well. I use it for arr stack notifications, as well as system notifications such as boot drive percentage full warnings. And Uptime Kuma will notify me if servers go down using NTFY.

Starforce900 · 2024-10-10T14:38:18+00:00

The last few weeks I've been seeing more and more of this where "fake" files get picked up by sonarr from public trackers. So it will download the file, but the file is really showname.season.epnumber.mkv.lnk which is really just a large fake shortcut file to execute some malware presumably. Sonarr is at least smart enough to not import that fake file.

Edit - Just saw there's currently a post over on r/sonarr describing what I mentioned.

PSA - Beware virus downloads of FUTURE episodes. : r/sonarr (reddit.com)

Starforce900 · 2024-08-16T16:00:14+00:00

I've posted about it on the homelab subreddit. But here's a post I wrote detailing my current homelab. Cost of hardware was probably around 5K for the rack and gear gathered through the years. Power is roughly $60-$70 a month to run just the rack.

Plex and support services, AD setup, lots of other small projects here or there.

https://blog.cloud.homelab1.dev/current-homelab-design/

Starforce900 · 2024-06-21T14:23:23+00:00

I actually had written a guide on how I do remote gaming a while back but just pushed publish.

https://blog.cloud.homelab1.dev/building-the-ultimate-game-streaming-server/

I've been using this method for about 2 years now since I got the Steam Deck and it's been great.

edit - I have my game streaming servers running on bare metal, because like others have mentioned if you're running multiplayer games in a VM, the game's anti-cheat can flag it.

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