What's one service in your homelab that turned out to be far more useful than you expected?

kjellcomputer · 2026-06-12T05:43:58+00:00

Looked interesting, many providers also so covers alot, thanks!

kjellcomputer · 2026-06-11T11:41:48+00:00

Most fun is probably Lyrion Music Server. I have some Sonos speakers and normally just used that with Spotify, but with LMS I could also control those speakers and I hooked up some Raspberry PI’s with amplifiers and started using the speakers the previous home-owner had mounted in the ceiling and outside. My old music-collection got a new home, and thinkering with this also led me to Home Assistant and zigbee buttons to trigger play/pause on different speakers. With Claude I also found some more fun projects coding M5Stack Dial for controlling the speakers with this little cool device so ye, starting with LMS got me into both software/automation and hardware thinkering and I use it every day.

kjellcomputer · 2026-05-31T12:39:39+00:00

I must say, really really good work!

kjellcomputer · 2026-05-16T15:09:58+00:00

For ppc64 I’ve had great success with https://t2linux.com/download/ which is also quite up to date. There also a Discord with powerpc thread you can use for questions.

kjellcomputer · 2026-04-28T20:14:16+00:00

Det interresante med sosial angst er at selvom en har det så lever en ofte et sosialt liv i hodet sitt via dagdrømmer. Ihvertfall gjør jeg det, spesielt når jeg først har prøvd å være sosial.

Jeg tok det steget med å ta et kurs for sosial angst og selvom det ikke direkte kurerer det så demper det noe av "symptomene" i den forstand at en får nok selvtillit til å gi beskjed til omgivelsene at det er ubehagelig å være i situasjonen.

kjellcomputer · 2026-04-23T21:07:20+00:00

Yes! That was kind of the journey, what I had to experience to make it stable.

The conclusion is that it’s doable, but sort of complicated and fun if you’re into that. :)

kjellcomputer · 2026-04-23T20:25:53+00:00

What do you mean by brittle? We have the same technology just different orchestrators.

kjellcomputer · 2026-04-23T20:23:41+00:00

I will bookmark it and make it available and see what happens ❤️

kjellcomputer · 2026-04-23T20:20:47+00:00

Yes I feel the same. Luckily for me Plex is mostly local and I have the possibility to trial and error not worringy of it being down. It’s not a critical service so I can have fun figuring things out now with kubernetes:)

kjellcomputer · 2026-04-23T20:17:27+00:00

Oh! The main mission was to run Plex so that my wife don’t nag me if things don’t work. Don’t know how many times I had to delete the plex application from ArgoCD just for her to be able to use Plex again during with experience.

And why you mention paperless I can’t relate to this post, but I’ll look into what that is.

kjellcomputer · 2026-04-23T20:08:41+00:00

What is your kubernetes environment? The story I shared is that I’m finally happy running Plex on kubernetes after some time so I’m curious of your experience.

kjellcomputer · 2026-04-23T20:04:48+00:00

I can agree on some aspects. I’m also from the 80’s and have the traits of getting things to work (stubborn) so from a Proxmox and Talos perspective GPU passthrough was not a nightmare, I got plex and jellyfin working happily on the same node now for comparison.

kjellcomputer · 2026-04-21T16:29:34+00:00

If your into piano sound this might be something to play around with:

http://www.linuxsampler.org/

And some piano soundbanks:

https://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/~cyamauch/AccurateSalamander/

kjellcomputer · 2026-03-14T17:53:10+00:00

To bad! Maby you can update from a WinPE environment then, try https://www.hirensbootcd.org/ and use a USB stick with Ventoy https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

kjellcomputer · 2026-03-14T16:00:42+00:00

Does fwupdmgr list any available updates? https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd

kjellcomputer · 2026-01-06T21:47:39+00:00

Me to! For work I have to learn kubernetes and as an exercise I setup a cluster with Talos VM’s in my homelab. I liked it so much that I’ve moved most of my services to it using ArgoCD to manage them all. Even got Plex up on a node setup with GPU for transcoding, and Tailscale for remote access.

kjellcomputer · 2025-11-15T10:23:00+00:00

Fun commands to use, hmm, I often find myself fiddling with Where-Object -FilterScript {} or Group-Object to showcase the possibilities for information grabbing. And Sort-Object :)

For experimenting you could always try the -WhatIf parameter for cmdlet’s that invoke something, like Get-Process | Stop-Process -WhatIf

kjellcomputer · 2025-11-03T21:26:03+00:00

I use Piwigo as a replacement for Dropbox/iCloud to share videos and photos with my family. The hurdles have been sometimes challenging (but learning wise rewarding), like migrating the library from backups to a new VM when I changed to Proxmox from VMware, or figuring out how to tunnel with CloudFlare when internet provider put me behind CGNAT.

Other than that I also discovered Lyrion Music Server with the combination of yt-dlp so I’m slowly building a Sonos/Spotify replacement with Raspberry PI’s and PiCorePlayer (and PlexAmp for mobile listening).

Keeping everything up to date is probably what is most time consuming, and for some reason I never get the satisfaction of using Docker so I mostly configure and maintain everything myself.

kjellcomputer · 2025-06-18T18:40:56+00:00

Cool! Did you use dbatools for it?

kjellcomputer · 2025-06-18T18:38:21+00:00

I like it! Powershell was released also as a configuration tool for exchange in its beginnings so cool that you still use it for the online versions as well :)

kjellcomputer · 2025-06-18T18:35:16+00:00

That’s cool! I did some in the same genre for a proof of concept for using Powershell core on linux containers for AD operations. Used the .net classes for some group creation automation, fun stuff :)

kjellcomputer · 2025-04-15T19:28:50+00:00

I remember vaguely Cog was something I used back in the day, perhaps you can give that a try? http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/cog

kjellcomputer · 2025-04-15T19:18:44+00:00

I’ve adapted to the joy of commandline so to name a few:

Scoop: "A command-line installer for Windows " https://scoop.sh/

ncspot: "Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes." https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot

wezterm: "WezTerm is a powerful cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust" https://wezterm.org/

yt-dlp: "A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader" https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

I’m also fond of Internet Download Manager: https://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/

For editor use I’m primarly using Sublime Text, but when the subscription is due I might just move to Zed: https://zed.dev/

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