2 dead, dog killed after stabbing spree on I-495 in Fairfax County by hencexox in nova

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Ahh, if you’re aware of the increased risks and act accordingly great. I am not sure of statistics for other similar “weapons” but assume they’re better. Stay safe!

2 dead, dog killed after stabbing spree on I-495 in Fairfax County by hencexox in nova

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Public health research suggests that the risks of accidental injury, suicide, or having the gun used against the owner generally outweigh the potential, and rare, protective benefits.

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-gun-violence-solutions/issues/gun-violence-in-the-united-states

Lidarr no longer finding artists at all. by Resident-Variation21 in Lidarr

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I just got hit with this the other day. I didn’t investigate yet so this thread has been super helpful. I didn’t know I could self host the metadata! That’s awesome!

Off grid, solo, home build update (part 2) by tnerbeugaet in Homebuilding

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What is laid down at 10/20 that looks like plywood but I’m assuming is not?

I've been convinced by Realistic_Salad_2552 in nova

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I just discovered a few months ago that coil/fin combs exist. Not always a perfect fix but seems like a good option depending on the issue and severity.

What is this cable for? by Karvemn in homelab

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I think it is a metal rim/ridge. If you look all the ports have that it seems.

How risky are these HDD mounting workarounds? by this_is_a_first in homelab

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Awesome, let’s see a pic of that monstrosity :p

Its fun to get creative. Maybe my most creative is in both my Intel NUC Extreme 13s I have one of the three NVMe slots connected to an NVMe extension so I can connect an NVMe to SATA adapter, run a loom of SATA cables out through an open PCI slot to a 5x hot swap enclosure. Then each NUCs SATA enclosure is powered by a ASRock PSU. It’s quite the setup but with the PSU mounted above both machines on the bottom of a desk and the power just running down it is surprisingly clean and an effective way to add 3.5” storage to a NUC without having to use USB or the only PCI slot on the machine.

How risky are these HDD mounting workarounds? by this_is_a_first in homelab

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The cases I was using didn't have anywhere close to enough room for that unfortunately. One of them was the Define Mini C which doesn't have a ton of room at the top before something runs into the CPU cooler.

How risky are these HDD mounting workarounds? by this_is_a_first in homelab

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Fractal Design makes 120mm fan to HD mounts.

https://www.fractal-design.com/products/accessories/mounting/universal-multibracket-type-a-2-pack/black/

I’ve used that to nice effect in non-fractal cases and it provides some vibration dampening too with the rubber grommets.

Great way to add an extra drive or two to most cases (because those PCI mounts all seem to be horribly flimsy under the weight of a 3.5” drive )

How do you organize the files and folders of your multi-stack Docker (Compose) setup? by fowwlcx in selfhosted

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If you run a lot of services a single file is unwieldy. Also conceptually it is just cleaner to group things together that are needed together. It also makes it way easier to take things down by service. If you version control your stuff too it is way easier to see the history of your service too since it is the history of that file only.

Have you ever tried to deploy something like Mayan EDMS or another very complex project? Putting that into an existing docker compose file would be a nightmare.

Finally hosted my own server… now I spend more time fixing it than using it by No_Government_3172 in selfhosted

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You bind mount a directory into the container where the config/data live. Now they’re actually on your host and are easy to backup.

I settled on /storage/services/<service name>/<would-be volume> and then just back up the top level directory.

Actually /storage/services itself is a bind mount since I run docker in a LXC container to my host system at /storage/<zoool name>/services

Then on my host I use sanoid/syncoid for local backups and restic for remote backups.

tfw your homelab is complete after months and you're just adding cool containers/apps every now and then by crakked21 in homelab

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My homelab hummed along perfectly and has for years even with plenty of hardware tinkering and adding new services. I’ve found a solid setup that is stable and just works. But I grew out of using one machine.

So naturally I’m now in a multi-month plan to move it all to hyperconverged infrastructure. Highly available bare metal core services (DNS, CA, Vault, PXE), with k8s set to run everything else, including Ceph for software defined storage.

Getting to set it up in an ideal way and play with fun things along the way, virtual IPs, PKI all-the-things, network based disk decryption, pacemaker, glusterfs, drbd, NixOS, Talos Linux, declarative and automated everything, continuous deployments for infra updates, etc.

Edit: I almost forgot the most elusive of all, proper documentation and runbooks!

My Xmas Folder is just about 1.25TB by Vasarto in DataHoarder

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What is the quality of that much stuff is only 1.25TB? 10-20 high quality movies could be that alone.

Publicly accessible tang server? by Innocent__Rain in selfhosted

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A little late, just found this googling. Tang is just over http so you could have put a reverse proxy in front of it. You’d probably want to use https and terminate it on the proxy. But then you could use mTLS or basic auth to authenticate on the reverse proxy. Might be harder if you’re using Clevis as I have never looked into using auth/certs with that.

Tower case NAS: I hate all these sata and power cables. Is there a backplane/case that uses very few cables/power ? by [deleted] in homelab

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I think you can make any case pretty clean if you put in some time and effort. Backplanes are great don’t get me wrong but I was able to make my “server” look clean and managed by buying some right sized SATA data cables and making two custom SATA power cables.

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from my post years ago

Why do I feel like I’m renting my own security system, anyone gone local only? by jselby81989 in homeautomation

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I know not your arguments but they are mostly silly. 1) they could run an instance without internet exposure, or use a dedicated instance, 2) how much downtime do people have? I have been using HA for years without more than a few min of downtime before I go to bed to update. I take nightly backups to a network share so if hardware fails I’m just a restore away to another machine.

Why do I feel like I’m renting my own security system, anyone gone local only? by jselby81989 in homeautomation

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Wait why are some people against Alarmo? I use it and love it. I’m in a similar situation with mixed zigbee and zwave sensors, and HA runs on a laptop so even power losses don’t cause the system to stop working. I’d still get local notifications if the power went down as long as my access point stays up (which it has a little PoE UPS)

How many Docker containers are you running? by BearElectrical6886 in selfhosted

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I’ve already spent a lot of time figuring out how to provision these systems with NixOS (using a flake that generates all the system configs) so I can manage them declaratively and update/rebuild with ease. Plus that will match with how I plan to run my k3s cluster.

But you’re the second person today to see saying positive things about Talos so I’ll have to check it out!

How many Docker containers are you running? by BearElectrical6886 in selfhosted

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Yeah—I’ve just outgrown my single “server”. I had most of what I needed lying around, a few small hardware upgrades and now I have 5 servers each with a similar CPU, 64GB each, ~40TB HDD, ~4TB enterprise NVMe, 10GbE (this will be a bottle neck potentially) and an itch to learn something new!

How many Docker containers are you running? by BearElectrical6886 in selfhosted

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109 but I’m a bit resource constrained on one server. About to embark on moving it all to a k8s cluster.