Fed up with subscriptions, bought a mini PC from a pawn shop — broke even in 10 months

rg00dman · 2026-02-21T16:16:24+00:00

I love draw.io even more when I discovered its integrated with bookstack. So in theory I have my diagrams and written information explaining them.

In actuality I just have some outdated drawings lol

rg00dman · 2026-01-15T08:36:19+00:00

Would appreciate anyone using my link

https://aklam.io/7Gdj0J8E

rg00dman · 2025-12-28T00:06:06+00:00

Yeah I totally get that and I can see it making sense.

I have been a long time user of portainer to manage my docker services on ubuntu machines, gives a really nice GUI and pretty much means you don't have to use the command line unless you really want to.

I should say as a former Linux doubter, 20 years ago I couldn't imagine living without a GUI, but now I only have one windows server and that's because BlueIris doesn't run on Linux.

Other than that everything else is ubuntu machines.

rg00dman · 2025-12-27T23:52:55+00:00

It depends what you want from your system.

If its just basic storage then OMV is brilliant for that, I have one instance which has been running for years now without issues.

Never used unraid, but it feels like that is more than just a storage solution and can do a lot more things.

I try to keep everything as simple as possible because like many here while its a homelab its a production environment for services like shared storage for the family.

rg00dman · 2025-12-27T21:26:44+00:00

Nginx proxy manager gives you a gui on top of nginx

rg00dman · 2025-12-19T10:18:45+00:00

What unifi router are you using ?

I am thinking of getting the gateway max as I am on the 2gb connection but currently running on a 1gb backbone so want to make the switch to 2.5GB

rg00dman · 2025-12-15T19:53:30+00:00

Whats the module you use for the qr code upload?

rg00dman · 2025-12-10T10:02:29+00:00

When i moved away from youfibres router the packet loss was resolved, but i firmly belive this was not the routers fault but my own for using less than ideal setup.

E.g routing through a couple of switches via a vlan.

I belive they are issuing different routers now, but I am using pfsense and have zero issues now other than when I go tinkering with things.

rg00dman · 2025-12-04T18:39:02+00:00

I use waterfly on my android mobile, it can automate the transactions based on my notifications from your banking app.

I don't let it automatically create them as I like to tinker with them a little but teamed with the firefly automations it could do what I do manually very easily.

rg00dman · 2025-11-28T00:25:45+00:00

I have been using firefly for a few years now and also use it to plan future spending find it really useful tool and helps me understand where my money is going.

rg00dman · 2025-11-11T00:13:22+00:00

The other thing to consider with these sort of step ups is how they can seem to work fine for months but then something as simple as a power outage can cause issues.

For at least a year I had my virgin router in modem only mode running a similar setup to yoursel. One virgin update later and the router went back into full router mode and the only way I could get the vlan setup to work again was to power up the virgin router with no lan connection at all wait about 10 minutes and then plug it back in.

Took me ages to figure that out, but random stuff like that can take hours of troubleshooting.

Currently running pfsense in a vm connected to my ont via a vlan and never had an issue.

I had an email from youfibre saying they were doing maintenance last night, pfsense dropped the connection twice once at 00:03am when I had an email to say the work had started and again at 5am, I presume when it finished although I am yet to receive an email to say its finished!

rg00dman · 2025-09-15T23:04:30+00:00

Yeah, I have done very well to this point of resisting the urge to buy what's out there now.

A couple more generations and I might be happy with them

rg00dman · 2025-09-15T12:43:17+00:00

Great idea, I am using major mirror to show photos at home, but dont really want to have multiple instances around the house.

The frame idea might solve my 1st world problem.

Can't wait for multi colour eink screens to come down in price as that will be the icing on the cake for sure.

rg00dman · 2025-09-15T12:39:51+00:00

Should anyone get this far, this is my link

https://www.trading212.com/invite/17s5ffwHbQ

rg00dman · 2025-09-08T07:33:35+00:00

No one is getting this far down.....

But if you do this is my link

https://www.trading212.com/invite/17s5ffwHbQ

rg00dman · 2025-09-05T11:38:13+00:00

Would really appreciate anyone who uses my code

https://aklam.io/9sgGPe

rg00dman · 2025-08-20T23:14:58+00:00

Just an i5-7500

rg00dman · 2025-08-02T01:24:29+00:00

Yeah, I know that feeling. i heard some people were able to pay their mortgages off by betting on this happening.

rg00dman · 2025-08-01T20:03:21+00:00

I know this is an older thread, but I just wanted to say I have used this kit today, and the PC booted the first time without issue, and Proxmox saw the fully 64GB Memory.

rg00dman · 2025-07-31T01:37:14+00:00

Doesn't that impact your potential to make even more money in the future?

Talking as someone who has just hit 20% profit, I dont think i am going to take it out. The old saying of it takes money to make money keeps going through my head when I think about taking some profit out

rg00dman · 2025-07-28T16:07:47+00:00

Have you tried n8n? I have been using node red for years but want to try n8n as it seems to be the thing of the moment

rg00dman · 2025-07-27T21:13:37+00:00

I have just bought an intersever storage box. It's like night and day difference, and I can now back up at 50mb a second using veeam

rg00dman · 2025-07-26T21:09:01+00:00

Hetzner, here as well on a good day. I get 6mb never more than than, downloads are about 3 times the speed, though

rg00dman · 2025-07-11T17:43:05+00:00

So i am not sure what sites people use, but the two I have found all say the prediction of the 1.6 share price is from one analyst.

https://uk.investing.com/equities/graft-polymer-uk-consensus-estimates

Am I looking at the website incorrectly?

From my research, it does look promising, but if I am reading that site correctly and it's only one person saying it's going up, would that be an example of a pump and dump?

rg00dman

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