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Great tool for documenting your setup. I use this at work a lot

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I would say that "on prem" defines a location, "selfhosting" an action. You can do both at the same time, e.g. selfhosting nextcloud onprem.

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I would say that this is a sign of a bad product. Apparently, compatibility between SQL server versions is not great.

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Apparently, it is not only my oberservation, but the article says similarly:

The inconsistent approach to backward compatibility in decades past may also have played a part.

However, I'm not a db admin and my perspective might be biased (infosec).

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Probably overkill, but for projects like this I've setup WordPress in the past. Once everything was done, I converted the WordPress page to a static site with httrack and use the static version.

This gives the ease of setting up and editing combined with the stability and security of a static HTML website.

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While you can probably use them for some small tasks (like a switch, a file server with a USB thumb drive or a print server), you're probably better off if you can sell them and buy a raspberry pi or similar.

The Fritzbox 7530 for example could be sold for 50€ (at least in my country).

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What I don't get is why anyone would like to buy a new gadget for some AI features. Just develop a nice app and let people run it on their phones.

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Have you tried the official Nextcloud desktop app?

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TBH, the description in the original post is not very clear.

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That's exactly what the nextcloud desktop app does.

Why is replacement for home device controls so complicated?

I recently learned about Home Assistant here on Lemmy. It looks like a replacement for Google Home, etc. However, it requires an entire hardware installation. Proprietary products just use a simple app to manage and control devices, so can someone explain why a pretty robust dedicated device is necessary as a replacement? The...

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Many "smart" devices are sold with the idea that you can control your home from somewhere else. Maybe change the temperature on your way home or get notified when someone rings your doorbell. All this stuff requires servers to work.

Controlling some lightbulbs via bluetooth/wifi would be possible of course, but probably not very interesting for many.

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The performance target of "linux desktop running lxd" and the price tag "not crazy expensive" is not very clear...

I would personally look for a fanless barebone pc and equip it with as much RAM and storage as you like. One example for this could be the Zotac ZBOX CI629, which you can get for around 400 Euros and has a 13th gen Intel i3 built in.

Is this within your budget?

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Even a raspberry pi can run linux with an lxd desktop, and this i3 is a few times faster than a raspberry pi. But it depends on what you want to with it...

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If you are not happy, then try a few more distros.

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The raw electricity usage is ~25 times lower for E-Bikes. And that is not counting in the 2 ton weight difference with all this steel, battery cells, electronics etc.

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Wait until he discovery day and night.

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Not OP, but generally, you want to separate internal and external services as much as possible. Some even suggest running external services on a cloud server and internal servers on your LAN.

If you run internal and external services on the same host, you need to be careful to not make any configuration mistakes. Take extra time to also test what should NOT be possible.

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While I really like uptime kuma, it seems a bit too restricted for OPs use case. For example, to monitor disk or CPU usage, you would need to write your own scripts. It would be doable, but not very nice.

At least how I understood the.question, OP would probably look for something like icinga.

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We had it at work, but I never did anything else than receiving and resolving alerts. But it looked good for me and I liked the system.

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I have no idea why, but I made the same experience. Used drives are in most cases much overprized. Often far beyond the price/TB of new, larger disks.

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My guess is that it is often hard for people to grasp that HDDs loose value much faster than other items they own. New HDDs are larger and offer better price per TB, and older HDDs have a higher risk to fail.

I can buy new HDDs at 16€/TB, why should I spend 12€/TB on a used disk?

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One of the best offers I could find is 300€ for 20 TB, which makes exactly 15€/TB.

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With 4 TB, the price difference is quite painful (at least for me). With anything below, I'd buy an SSD without thinking twice.

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Awesome :D But providing a speed test on a 10 Mbit line is IMO pretty pointless.

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umbrelOS is licensed under the PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 license.

I've never heard of this one.

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I think this is the real question. From the stats you posted, I'd say that at most 10% of Plugin hybrid owners charge their vehicles.

Which is such a waste of ressources. Why does someone buy a car with 10 kWh battery and never even use it (beyond what the car charges itself)?

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I would recommend avoiding RAID for backups. It's preferable to have two separate backup disks in two distinct systems rather than relying on mirrored backup disks. If there's a human error on the backup machine, you risk losing both backups simultaneously. Additionally, unforeseen events like system failure due to a lightning strike could compromise your data. Ideally, you should have two backups stored in two different location.

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Thanks for sharing this. Its a shame that most AI tech is hidden behind steep price tags and cloud subscriptions, while even midrange PCs can run interesting AI models.

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Regarding your question B:

I personally built a SSD-only homeserver, because of performance, noise and power efficiency. However, if you need much storage, the price difference gets really painful.

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Thats true when the cars are driving fast, but don't forget that much of the time cars are driving slower through the city than most bicyclists.

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Now I'm curious, in which parts of the world is the usual city speed 60-80 kmph? In the united states, most citys have a speed limit of 25 mph (40kmph), while in Europe, 50 kmph seems more common.

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Ich sehe schon, in Bayern werden die Themen angegangen, die Frauen wirklich brauchen.

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I think he meant something like these mainboards (german comparison portal). These mainboards contain the CPU.

However, you also need memory, a case, storage and a power supply, which brings you closer to 200€.

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True, they are much cheaper on aliexpress than on our local suppliers.

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Just as a side note, the load factor can also mean that processes are limited by IO:

Unix systems traditionally just counted processes waiting for the CPU, but Linux also counts processes waiting for other resources -- for example, processes waiting to read from or write to the disk.

Source

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As expected, the Core i9-14900KS only shows marginal gains over the vanilla 14900K, with a 3.8% lead in single-threaded work and a 1.5% lead in multi-threaded work.

And all this with more than 25% TDP increase. That's insane.

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But you should also take into consideration that this article did not get a huge attention. It is almost a week old and has a few thousand viewers.

https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/15f8c2f8-eaf8-4c93-8338-2420a6d9590c.jpeg

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This reminds me of how Google handled the stadia shutdown. Now many controllers have got a second life thanks to the option to enable bluetooth.

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True. And communication was also not ideal.

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I think the file server analogy isn't really fair. Nextcloud is better compared to Microsoft 365 or Google GSuite.

All of these offer file storage, but also much more.

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Maybe call your provider and ask them? Sometimes they hide settings in the user UI but can easily disable DHCP for you.

Another option that is sometimes offered by the provider is another, more capable router model. This might cost a little more.

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What benefit do you hope to get?

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I'm not convinced that a pile of old HDDs is a good fit for your homeserver.

  • Many small disks will consume more energy than fewer large disks. Currently, the best capacity per price seems to be in the 20TB segment. A similar argument can be made for noise.
  • The HDDs you have might not be perfect for 20/7 usage. I personally would recommend using disks that are made for continuous usage.

Start with what you have, but if you outgrow your setup, buy proper hardware. And make backups.

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Streaming 4k content is not a problem, transcoding on the fly to lower resolutions is hard and requires good capacity planning.

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I'm unsure about the end-to-end encryption aspect. While this feature is great for a cloud service like ente.io, it doesn't really help much in a selfhosted scenario - and might make backups more complicated. Any other opinions on this?

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Remotely hacking into my server is probably harder than just walking into my home with a warrant and confiscate everything.

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No, but thats what TLS does absolutely fine.

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While this argument is valid for a larger domain, it doesn't really matter for the small selfhoster.

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