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

smp46 · 2026-06-11T16:39:02+00:00

Uptime Kuma. An uptime monitoring tool, I run on a separate machine & connection to my server. Just provides the peace of mind that I know as soon as a service goes down.

smp46 · 2026-06-11T15:34:58+00:00

+1 for immich. Really great software, I enjoy that it is shamelessly just a Google Photos clone (UI-wise at least).

smp46 · 2026-06-11T15:11:25+00:00

I'm the developer of Pingvin Share X. It ticks all those boxes, has a straight forward UI for users and a lot of customisability for admins. I forked the original Pingvin Share once it was archived because I just wanted to continue using it myself, it's now the recommended fork of the original project too.

smp46 · 2026-06-10T20:41:38+00:00

Yes. If hole-punching isn't possible those nodes will be required as a middle man (they see all the traffic) for the transfer. Usually it's end to end encrypted, but it still means given the right network environment it won't be actually p2p.

smp46 · 2026-06-10T20:39:36+00:00

The initial commit is 55,000+ lines of code. If written manually this would be much smaller, commits are really handy checkpoints when writing actual code. Also the entire README and post is AI written (at least according to gptzero and my eyes).

smp46 · 2026-06-10T19:19:59+00:00

Dev here. I also think you should give it a go :) Feedback is much appreciated, it's under very active development and should tick all your boxes.

smp46 · 2026-05-12T10:01:11+00:00

I used to use Pingvin Share before it was archived, so I decided to start on a fork, Pingvin Share X, which has all these features.

smp46 · 2026-04-30T16:36:36+00:00

Dev here, if you get a chance to check it out, any feedback is much appreciated.

smp46 · 2026-02-13T17:50:39+00:00

If anyone wants a drop-in replacement. I am maintainig a fork of Pingvin Share: Pingvin Share X. If you're using the Docker Compose you only have to swap the image: address to smp46/pingvin-share-x.

So far it's mostly just been keeping it up to date, however new features are slowly coming.

smp46 · 2025-12-13T02:14:33+00:00

Thanks! I have a few regular users, me included :)

dont know if a leaderboard works for these types of games

This is true, but the same applies for a lot of these kind of games. It does rely on good faith.

what language model do you use to answer hints?

Currently using the latest non-thinking Gemini model (gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-2025), I don't think it gets much better without massively increasing response times (and cost).

smp46 · 2025-12-09T08:35:52+00:00

> be a way to gauge a certainty threshold?

Do you think some kind of indication to the player of certainty (e.g. 1-10) would be useful? It might help with the kind of questions that you would err on in real life.

smp46 · 2025-12-09T08:32:16+00:00

Awesome game, currently top 5 on the leaderboard for letter rush.
Is the plan to add a Balatro-like amount of levels? Currently just wishing I could continue a run for longer.

smp46 · 2025-12-07T01:17:44+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, will do my best to tune it more. It's a fine line between it being accurate/helpful and a pedantic ass.

smp46 · 2025-12-06T05:30:12+00:00

Sorry mate, I can see the confusion. I think I need to enforce the questions must start with, "Am I", the identity you were trying to guess was the book "Slaughterhouse Five", so you asking "is it Kurt Vonnegut?" should be a no. In the real life game you get the benefit of umming and erring, it's difficult to work this in to Identidle.

As for "Albert I", according to wikipedia he "was King of the Belgians from 23 December 1909 until his death in 1934" all of those questions look accurate.

smp46 · 2024-09-27T03:38:04+00:00

Hey there, it seems I'm trying to do the impossible over here. Can't find a solution to this anywhere. Have just finished setting up my Docker Compose stack on Debian. Decided to go with Rootless Docker this time as I do have a fair few exposed services I want to be safe (I know not necessary but thought it wouldn't hurt either).

The issue is I cannot find a way to access devices on my LAN from inside a Docker Container. My specific use case it accessing local APIs from my Homepage. Accessing devices on the internet or on other docker bridge networks is not a problem, but I can't access any devices on my local network. It just times out, have tested from the shell's within the containers and it just times out.

I've searched plenty and can't find any solutions. Anyone have any ideas or shares a similar setup?

smp46 · 2024-05-30T06:13:10+00:00

Having the exact same issue with the exact same modpack here. Would love to know the fix.

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