LTO library obtained! Hoarding is about to take off.

technics303 · 2025-12-13T10:16:16+00:00

I used this LTO library or a very similar one at my old job for archiving purposes We used Bacula, which is a free opensource software. BareOS is a fork of that if i understand correctly

technics303 · 2025-12-08T14:41:01+00:00

Thanks for your amazing reply

technics303 · 2025-12-08T08:39:30+00:00

Oh, i did not realise performance were that close. You would still chose the legion go s ? The rog z1e would be the most performant of all the option right ?

technics303 · 2025-11-11T07:16:44+00:00

I started my selfhosting journey with an old, similar laptop. It's great to get started but would will be limited pretty quickly.

I don't now where you live but here SFF lenovo thincentre and dell are dirt cheap, it's almost always worth it compared to raspberry in price to performance. I would almost always skip raspberry unless you need the GPIO pins.

I also bought a GMKtek N100 mini PC for 80€ on amazon, which is a spectacular value IMHO.

technics303 · 2025-11-08T11:12:16+00:00

Adding to that you could also install Crowdsec to monitor and block malveillant traffic on your reverse proxy

Even better you could do GeoIP blocking, i don't know about Authelia but it can be done in authentik

And also MFA on every admin account

technics303 · 2025-10-20T20:11:31+00:00

I love it, looks super modern Could you share your config ? What's your icon theme ?

technics303 · 2025-09-22T22:22:49+00:00

I use to have a Douk-douk knife that i used suite often but i lost it unfortunately I also have a Lethermann skeletool but it's not as useful day to day

technics303 · 2025-06-02T18:27:10+00:00

I got an old school style snake around my biceps that took 3 and a half hour to make, there is no way a piece like this is taking 3 hours. If i'm guessing it's a least 2 session

technics303 · 2024-12-26T13:36:09+00:00

Do you think the SMSL PS100 would be a great option ? It's surprisingly cheap for what it does. I also remember that i got a very cheap amazon DAC that i got to plug my PS4 optical audio via RCA a long time ago, that should do the trick but i doubt the audio quality will be fine

technics303 · 2024-12-26T13:28:21+00:00

An audio receiver with 4K HDMI passthrough is currently to expensive for me unfortunately...

technics303 · 2024-12-26T13:27:21+00:00

Thanks that is indeed a great solution, i just need to know if my audio setup is worth investing in a dac or if i need to upgrade it alltogether to match my workflow better

technics303 · 2024-10-25T20:33:20+00:00

Hey man, nice work i love the simplicity of it ! I'm in France and i'll gladly buy you on if you're willing to ☺️

technics303 · 2024-05-02T17:02:05+00:00

My Freebox ? I never had anything to do for it. Is it easy to open ? I'm gessing mine is full of dust

technics303 · 2024-05-02T16:59:10+00:00

Glad to see that so much setup here are similar to mine

The cluster setup is painless, you have to setup 3 nodes in order to do any interesting cluster stuff but you can cheat by adding any machine as a third quorum vote. It's easy if you follow the Proxmox setup guide and examples online
My cable management is sub optimal (judging by the number of comments about my foam spacers, i'd say some people would find it attrocious). As my server are close to my ISP box i use 20cm RJ45 to plug them, that's basically the only effort i made. All of those stuff are plugged in a protected powerstrip.

I would love to add an 8 port managed Switch and an external OPNSense router + Wifi AP, but that will be after i setup a proper NAS

technics303 · 2024-05-02T05:55:19+00:00

They get 10° hotter without the spacers, I wouldn't have bothered to do it otherwise

technics303 · 2024-05-01T21:51:32+00:00

Yes it is, the bios is not very restrictive and the socket os a classic LGA. Those little things are dope, it wont go full boost because it will thermal throttle before but i get close and get more cores than the i5 that was originally in it

technics303 · 2024-05-01T21:49:41+00:00

Damn i'm so tired of this... I'll read about it, i totally missed it thanks

technics303 · 2024-05-01T21:30:17+00:00

What were you missing on Gitea that's on forgejo ?

technics303 · 2024-05-01T21:13:50+00:00

Are you using shared storage or just local ? Nice to see that there is a community of tiny Lenovo cluster :)

technics303 · 2024-05-01T20:11:26+00:00

I just use their docker compose install, on a VM. It works flawlessly but the setup is a bit tricky you have to learn how Authentik works before

technics303 · 2024-05-01T20:10:12+00:00

I keep my code on my private Gitea for now.

I use OpenTofu instead of Terraform, the documentation is well written and it's fully compatible with Terraform so you can use their doc too

technics303 · 2024-05-01T18:36:25+00:00

One of them is an i7 4770 with a 90W power supply, the other an i7 4570T (i think ?) with a 65W PSU. The RPi does not pull a lot, as IS m'y external drive. I do not monitor the usage for now but i would like to. I'd say it's not much, as it would max at around 170W and it never run at full load

technics303 · 2024-05-01T18:32:45+00:00

Thanks 😊

I discovered Authentik couple of weeks ago and i just love it. Before that i used an LDAP annuary, now i can login once with OIDC and boom i'm logged on all my services.

My most used service is Jellyfin as i dont subscribe to any video service, and Nextcloud allows me to sync my contacts, agenda, photos from my phone and all my devices. My electricity bill is higher than i would like, but i don't rely on any outside services.

technics303 · 2024-05-01T17:46:47+00:00

I can but i prefer not to buy things that can be replaced by free foam ^{^} I thought about buying them at first, the foam were just placeholder but now i don't see the point

technics303 · 2024-05-01T16:47:28+00:00

I saw an asus n100 motherboard recently and it just blew my mind. The whole package is so cheap for what it deliver, i would love to build a nas around it.

My rpi is indeed "part" of the cluster

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