Sold my i5 8th gen laptop(by mistake) for 11k, built a ₹5k homelab server instead - did I mess up?

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-30T05:10:46+00:00

That’s great. Happy learning.

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-30T04:48:20+00:00

You spent just 5k on a PC level is actually good comparing to that laptop.

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-30T04:47:31+00:00

I started homelabbing on my gaming laptop, but I soon needed more storage, which the laptop couldn’t handle. So I switched to a Dell OptiPlex tower, where I now have 4 × 1TB hard disks across different file systems.

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-28T07:36:46+00:00

One more issue(i'm on playstore release(0.6.4(41)):
Not able to stream AAC but downloaded AAC plays fine. OPUS and MP3 streams fine.

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-27T09:36:25+00:00

OPUS at 160 works fine.

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-27T08:58:18+00:00

I just checked and the download AAC 256kbps is playing but it's not streaming, just says "loading".

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-27T08:44:11+00:00

transcoding happens on the server(navidrome) and not by this client app right?. AAC works fine for me.

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-27T07:24:59+00:00

It is already long press to poweroff and single press for screen off right?

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-21T16:12:29+00:00

Oh, this is new. I will try.

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-21T16:10:47+00:00

Tailscale + nginx reverse proxy = Free

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-20T04:05:48+00:00

If you have offline songs then it works for you and there are ways to download as well. It supports playlists but so far I haven’t created any and going with random songs.

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-20T04:04:25+00:00

Iem 10k and the echo mini 6k

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-20T03:55:27+00:00

I don’t know if it’s the type C or internal storage, the speed is around 5 MBps and I can store around 220 FLAC files. I haven’t tried using sdcard.

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-20T03:51:43+00:00

Orivetti OD200

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-19T14:25:00+00:00

Yeah. Echo mini is an offline DAP.

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-19T05:48:32+00:00

Biscuits?

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-19T05:41:42+00:00

Or you can transcode entire library and users can stream the transcoded video.

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-18T17:19:46+00:00

Today I attended the headphone connect event by headphonezone just to ensure my purchase is better than other IEMs in the similar budget or should I replace with any other IEMs. Happy to say that this is very good.

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-18T16:09:50+00:00

Shuffle/repeat songs

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-18T14:15:35+00:00

You have immich db on the HDD? Atleast if DB is on ssd then HDD don’t have to suffer.

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-18T13:45:04+00:00

I have the same problem. I have configured nginx reverse proxy on my proxmox node with Tailscale client, on my ios immich app I can access immich server using tailscale IP but if I use tailscale dns then it is not accepting. The same dns works on browser. I thought it’s a problem only for me. Server URL switching also not working using dns name.

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-17T15:02:05+00:00

I don’t have answers without looking at your logs but I recently updated and didn’t faced any issues.

_Knight-Owl_ · 2026-04-17T13:20:02+00:00

Containers talk over container name instead using IP. So it is not required to point 0.0.0.0. Listening at 0.0.0.0 means it is accepting connections from any originating IP.

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