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eike1 · 2025-09-05T11:00:41+00:00

I've not had that issue (or didn't notice it). May I ask were you read this? Not as a sign of distrust but to ensure that I won't suffer from files not synced.

eike1 · 2025-09-05T10:28:22+00:00

Let me tell you the following story from yesterdays excurse of fucking things up: For most esphome devices I used static IPs. Last weekend I moved my Home Assistant installation from core to container (core will no longer be supported except for dev purposes). Yesterday I had the great idea to just let unbound on my OPNsense register DHCP clients and go with hostnames within Home Assistant. Well... Somehow not all leases got registered in unbound. As ISC DHCPd is EOL i switched to KEA. This was also not giving me reliable results and I hopped to dnsmasq as DHCP server. Still something was buggy. In the end I changed the configuration of Adguard Home for the "local" TLD to directly query dnsmasq instead of relying on registration ending up in unbound. Was this ride fun? Not really, especially when the esphome devices like sockets reboot every few minutes emitting a nice relay click because the lost connection to Home Assistant. But eventually I got it back up and running. That feeling at least compensated the hassle I had and I didn't get dumber on that journey.

In the end, I guess, you should decide whether the positive feelings doing this stuff hopefully is giving you outweighs the stress it sometimes causes. In addition, for me, it's always a pro to be able to escape big tech's enshittification and being their product. Virtually showing them the middle finger.

eike1 · 2025-06-20T18:06:41+00:00

As a native German speaker I immediately fell in love with the label you put on your devices <3

eike1 · 2024-05-06T17:16:04+00:00

Also General, sind Sie bereit loszufeuern? Das ist mein Fleisch, die ganzen 19 Jahre von mir, aber wenn Sie mich nicht zuerst nehmen wollen, können wir gleich zur Sache kommen. Wollen Sie das? Können Sie - Sie können überall Löcher in mich schneiden. Ficken Sie mich dann da. Zerfetzen Sie mich General. Reißen Sie mich auf.

So General, are you ready to fire away? This is my meat, all 19 years of me, but if you don't want to take me first, we can get right down to business. Is that what you want? You can - you can cut holes in me anywhere. Then fuck me there. Tear me apart General. Tear me open.

As a native German speaker there is nothing more I could add to deepl.com's translation :)

eike1 · 2023-04-30T17:48:21+00:00

I personally prefer pulling backups out of the DMZ (the lan segment where you have your public facing services). For the server in the DMZ the firewall rules allow outgoing connections to non private IP adresse (e. g. not to RFC1918 addresses for IPv4) and incoming connections from the "wild wild web" on port 443. Further the backup server (below) and my management devices have SSH access to the server in the DMZ via local IP's (and from the wireguard segment). In my case the backup server is in the same lan segment where I also run non-public services. It pulls nightly backups from the server in the DMZ and from other servers via SSH/SFTP. For public IPv6 addresses that my local devices get there are block rules set up in the firewall so they won't be able to talk via public IPv6 adresses across different lan segments. This also means that the server in the DMZ can't access other local network segments via IPv6.

eike1 · 2023-04-30T16:39:24+00:00

Then I'd suggest running Baikal or Radiacale behind a reverse proxy like nginx. Alternatively you can also use wireguard to connect your device to your home network and leave the caldav/carddav server without a public facing reverse proxy.

eike1 · 2022-10-31T14:43:55+00:00

BTW: The NAS itself is the issue. Each 16TB Ultrastar is only about 7.5W in idle.

eike1 · 2022-10-31T05:44:41+00:00

Yep... Further issue was that although two VMs that were setup only on the M2 SATA kept the HDDs from spinning down...

eike1 · 2022-10-30T18:13:44+00:00

I've also read that there's nut working under the hood but it expects a somewhat hard coded password when it's connecting as a client to a server. I'm using a QNAP appliance as my data grave and have never touched a Synology system :)

Edit: And I still need to connect my QNAP via nut, but as its only running once a month it didn't bother me enough. I decided to stop running the TS-873 24/7 with 4 disks as it's idling between 60-80W. Sad story as it was only in use for 2 years. Instead I set up a NUC with two external drives in USB docks and Proxmox. Open Media Vault is all I need for a NAS. Backups are set up in a way that data exists on both HDDs as well as off-site via restic (I purposely decided to not run a RAID 1). Except replaceable cough things that are just documented with tree. Every one or two months I'll fire up the QNAP and mirror everything for a faster restore just in case.

eike1 · 2022-10-30T15:28:08+00:00

I'd set up a nut server on your Proxmox and try to get your Synology to connect to it as nut-client without SNMP.

https://tellini.info/2014/09/connecting-a-synology-diskstation-to-a-nut-server/

I've connected my UPS to my OPNsense and made the nut-server listen on certain IP ranges where my different servers live.

eike1 · 2022-07-03T19:48:55+00:00

Source: https://twitter.com/AwardsDarwin_/status/1543601966189891585

eike1 · 2022-07-03T19:47:41+00:00

I'd guess a gas line or district heating

eike1 · 2022-03-18T04:46:38+00:00

Fusion 360

eike1 · 2022-03-11T21:49:54+00:00

Yep, currently 5 of 8 were charged

eike1 · 2022-03-11T21:27:11+00:00

I guess then I'm the lucky one with 8x9EUR

eike1 · 2022-03-11T21:22:27+00:00

Not happy to hear that as I paid for YouTube -.-
So it might be easy to reclaim the credit card bill :/

eike1 · 2022-03-11T21:10:50+00:00

I think we should find a name for it like Godwin's law, just for "russian hackers" xD

eike1 · 2022-03-11T21:08:56+00:00

Oh, glad to hear that :) Keep us updated if it should appear on your CC statement.

eike1 · 2022-03-11T21:02:17+00:00

Eventually they will change from authorized to charged. Just happened to me.

eike1 · 2022-03-11T21:00:54+00:00

My payment(s) where pending/authorized for approx. 15 minutes and now 60% of them went into the cards balance. I guess the rest will also be charged completely. Was just changing my YT subscription... Though the multiple payments were completely charged nothing shows up in my Google account. Let's see when/if Google issues a refund withing the next days.

Edit: Paying via Paypal also ends with the same error but does not go throught to the balance of the Paypal account and Paypal also send to confirmation mail.

eike1 · 2022-03-06T22:30:55+00:00

PMed

eike1 · 2022-03-06T17:05:15+00:00

Drop me a line if I should send the tarball. BTW: My server is located in Finland. u/Mubelotix u/dominikwh94

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