tbh i don't worry too much about datacenters because they can be built under the land, under ice, alone in the desert full of solar panels and so on. the heat in the winter can also be used to heat houses if it's in the city..
the sad part is that most of that energy is used for bullshit tasks for surveillance capitalism.
If you want to judge whether energy consumption is a waste, you have to consider the value of what's consuming that energy.
Keeping the internet running? A global storehouse of humanity's collective knowledge available to almost everyone around the world for free? The ability to communicate in real time with your family on the other side of the world, or coordinate protests in every major city in your country, or host a live meeting that would have required fifty people to fly cross country into a single zoom room?
Yeah, data farms could become more efficient and sustainable, as could we all. But I don't begrudge the power they spend one bit. 2% of global energy consumption is low for the benefit.
Compare to Bitcoin, which accounts for 0.5% of global energy consumption, and benefits no one and nothing...
i have two old PCs refurbished as Ubuntu servers running the latest LTS version.
machine the first:
- Taskwarrior
- Taskserver
- Docker and Docker Compose
- local media and stuff on a 2TB NAS
machine the second:
- Docker and Docker compose
- Jitsi Meet server
- Rustdesk server
coming soon:
- PiHole
- Unbound DNS
- Plex (maybe)
- Mealie (possibly with a dedicated ancient iPad that will live in the kitchen)
- BirdNET-Pi
also possibly a home weather station built out of a Raspberry Pi 4B that is on order; i love the idea of having one of these in my backyard to track our microclimate.
On an old raspberry pi 3b, a copy of a blog by one of my favorite writers (the original is long gone and was never archived, I happened to grab a copy with wget when it came back up briefly) so I can read it when I'm on my home network. And a pi hole dns adblocker.
I'm hoping to set up some kind of media system for streaming eventually, but we currently use a PS4 as our media center and it doesn't look like our options for compatibe apps are great.
I'd definitely like to get a local Mealie instance going in the next year
I do recommend it. It's easy to setup and does everything you need in a documentation knowledge base. I used to use confluence before their enshitification; WikiJS is much nicer for my use case.
GitLab is really nice, just needs like 6-8gb of ram, vs 1 for GitTea. Are you working with other folks, or is it just for personal stuff? I run a small GitTea server myself for super private stuff. The rest I just put on GH.
At this stage I'll probably just mirror my stuff from GH. I have a feeling they'll be doing something stupid soon, forcing people to look for alternatives.
Would be nice to collaborate with others, but getting started is hard when you don't have enough free time.
It seems Gitea has basic CI + package registries now, that will be plenty for my needs.
Yeah, their runners are GH Actions compatible, which is great. I think GH is too smart these days to mess with devs.
MS has too much skin in the cloud and OSS game these days to pull shit like they did in the 90s. Do wish they didn't bork Windows 11 so bad, made me switch to Ubuntu. They don't really care about desktop anymore TBH. Very happy Steam works great on Linux.
Zigbee2mqtt (converts zigbee devices to talk mqtt)
Mosquitto (Mqtt server)
frigate
Jellyfin
Jellyseerr
Radarr, sonarr, lidarr, bazarr, prowlarr
transmission + a VPN tunnel
Uptime Kuma
Prometheus, Telegraf
Grafana
Influxdb, chronograf
Three PiHole instances, synced with Orbital Sync
Unifi Controller
And some small services to pipe metrics into Grafana dashboards for apps that don't have native support for metrics. Most of this is managed through Docker with a Traefik reverse proxy with letsencrypt certs for https.
My most useful so far has to be openhab. I'm barely using it to it's full potential but it's so freeing to be able to buy (nearly) any smart device and know I can integrate it with the rest of my system. It also allows me to block Internet access to most of my smart devices completely for added privacy.
Second most useful is probably the Jellyfin/*arr stack to manage and view my collection. Soon I'm planning on adding either Calibre or something similar for books to sort my ebooks and old digital textbooks.
And once you have two or three services, monitoring obviously helps. I honestly wish I had set it up earlier, in particular Uptime Kuma for general uptime tracking. It would have saved me so much time pinging all my services to try to diagnose issues.
Could you point me to the documentation you used to get etherpad lite going? I’ve had a hell of a time getting etherpad running and usable on my server.
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