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crony , 12 days ago

The more and more of stuff like this I see, the kore I just wan't to buy the cheapest possible mini pc, make it tv remote controllable and just put it to open jellyfin directly that's connected to my home media server.

And then hook it up to the most dumb tv I can fijd with decent picture quality.

crony , 11 days ago

I never touched streaming services, mostly cause they came to my country 2years ago and were already shit they are now, plus cost me too much to even afford one.

So I just have torrenting setup automated with arr software. ( Don't even need a vpn because my country has no copyright laws so free to torrent whatever I wan't )

crony , 1 month ago

Planned to get some pizza today, in the end the pizza place in my city is closed for next couple weeks.

My mood has been destroyed for the rest of the day.

crony , 1 month ago

It's a matter of different country and standards, here a town is something with just one grocery shop.

crony , 1 month ago

Elden ring says otherwise.

crony , 1 month ago

Gnome*

crony , 1 month ago

FFmpeg enters the chat

crony , 1 month ago

It has support for it tho.

crony , 1 month ago

Whats the name of the series? I can't read sor get context clues from this messages.

crony OP , 2 months ago

This sounds amazing!

You have any good resources to recommend for learning ansible?

crony OP , 2 months ago

Fun fact: I actually run nixos on my main pc.

crony OP , 2 months ago

Luckilly no, just self interest.

crony OP , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I tend to grow my fleet of servers every couple months, and that requires me to once again setup everything from the beginning, settings, sshd, update debian if old version, new user for ssh, docker/podman, ...

Quite literally added new vps to my fleet yesterday and spent 4 hourson setting all that up, when it could have been a simple ansible script.

crony OP , 2 months ago

Sed comes into play there, or :%s in vim, whichever you prefer ;)

crony OP , 2 months ago

I feel like matrix is an overkill for something like this personally, because I wan't to be motly only used for quick help with peple around the globe and matrix is more generally used to communicate with a huge amount of people around the globe.

Main reason also why I didn't go with matrix is because in my eyes it's still inmature and requires a good amount of maintenance, for what I think of as a simply a quick and dirty server to quickly help people in a more real time setting.

I don't mind people not liking the fact that it's a mattermost server and not wanting to sing up only for this community, it's their choice after all.

crony OP , 2 months ago

That's also where your argument from before comes in, as I don't use matrix. Never had an use for it, that's where the conflict for me comes in not wanting to create an account on a platform I don't personally use.

Mattermost I will have an use for personally and with friends, while matrix for me is unnedded and overkill for my needs, that's why I didn't go with matrix, neither on an already established server, or self host it.

crony OP , 2 months ago

I agree with you, they serve different needs.

crony OP , 2 months ago

It's discord like interface and I plan on only having selfhosted related content on it, mostly just for people to help one another in a more "well known" way of discord and real time chatting.

crony , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Minimal, I have to force myself to check the servers for updates atleast once a week.

Main problem for me is I automated podman and docker updates with their respective autoupdate mechanisms and use ntfy for push notifications so I know if a service stops working and I had an update recently on it that it's an update issue.

Also have uptime monitor wih uptime kuma to monitor state of my services to catch them not working before I do, also ntfy for push notifications.

Also have grafana+prometheus seted up on my biggest server for monitoring and alerting with alertmanager+mail to get notifications on even more errors.

So in general I only have to worry about occasional once every few months error and updates of the host system (debian).

crony OP , 2 months ago

That's a fine but, as long as the server was hosted at my personal devices, which it isn't but on a hetzner dedicated box. Which is still better than on shared pc's.

Don't really need it, it's just nice to have.

crony OP , 2 months ago

That's why I said E2EE is nice to have, but not required.

crony OP , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Update: Ended up setting up a mattermost server.

Main reason cause it's the easiest to setup as it only need 2 containers.

Edit: Might create a specific team just for selfhosters where people from this lemmy community can talk about posts there, or generally about selfhosting

Edit 2: I have created "Casual selfhosters" team on my mattermost instance, will create a post either later today or tommorow promoting it, but for now will leave an invite link here so feel free to join in and talk about selfhosting!
[https://mm.cronyakatsuki.xyz/signup_user_complete/?id=trbsbo38c3bu7kqirx644wcqiw&md=link&sbr=fa](Invite link)

crony OP , 2 months ago

Yea, matrix is too much for that I need, an dhave seted up a mattermost server for my needs.

Planning to create a selfhosted team on it for the people of this communitty to talk real time about selfhosting and help each other fix issues in a more timelly and easier manner.

crony , 2 months ago

Any must have mods to experience the game in a more modern setting?

Tried playing today with gmdx on linux but was crashing all the time.

crony , 2 months ago

Thanks for mentioning lutris and community update. Installs all needed mods that in general also prepare deus ex for max performance for linux.

crony , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I agree with you, recently moved to hetzner one of my vps's, ended up costing me almost 2 euro cheaper than vultr + higher specs.

Also have another auction dedicated server with them, which is really amazing for the price it costs me (hosting my lemmy instance/sharkey/... in total about 20 diff services plus a minecraft the 1.12.2 pack server ) the server barelly sees around 20% cpu usage on my grafana dashboard.

So from the point of price/performance hetzner is amazing.

crony , 2 months ago

For people scared of bugs?

It's the worst.

crony OP , 2 months ago

Yea this seems like the most easy solution for mumble specifically.

crony OP , 2 months ago

I am using it in a cron script, but the mumble server doesn't support automatic reload of the ssl certs, so I need to restart tge mumblr server to load the new certs. That's where my problem comes cause I run it inside docker.

crony , 2 months ago

I selfhost an instance of ntfy and changedetecttion.

Ntfy is for simple push notifications from absolutely anything, even just curl.

Changedetection is for detecting changes on websites, prices, is something in stock, ... It supports ntfy for push notifications so I just add the releases page from github to changedetection and then I get a push notification on my phone when anything gets an update.

crony , 2 months ago

I thimk the problem here's that whois is a cli tool.

But scrap that since there is already a web version of whois that you can use.

crony , 2 months ago

I'm the same but mostly because of health issues.

I live in country side and have some farm work to do, but because I'm allergic to grass and dandruff ( don't know the exact word for english ) if I go out in short's I will end up with legs full of red spots and itchy af.

When working with hayballs I literally need to have long sleeves and a mask to not have red spots on hands and not start to have problems breathing at times when my allergy is in full throthle at 30-40 celcius weather in summer.

The irony of being in countryside and having a farm but being allergic to what you work with.

crony , 2 months ago

Guess I'm unwanted here then ;)

crony , 3 months ago

I would hapilly use linux mint if only it didn't use apt, honestly don't like it as a package manager.

Ghere is also the fact that mint will have older versions of packages, for example neovim which I need to be latest version always.

That's why I loved arch and gentoo before, for their package managers and roling distro nature.

Now I'm on nixos unstable and it's currently my favourite unbreakable distro, and the nix package manager is really good and making my own pqckages is really easy.

crony , 3 months ago

That's fine when you need only one or two things, but when you wan't your whole system to be up to date as much as possible it becomes tedious.

crony , 3 months ago

You don't miss out on anything if it does what you need.

For me apt is just slow and clunky, don't like the way some of the commands are and they are long, I prefer the way that pacman and portage do it where I can make commands be sinple and only be couple characters instead of whole words.

I liked pacman because it was fast, and it was really easy to block a package from upgrading and downgrading packages is really easy.

I liked portage because it worked with program's sources so I was able to just remove part's of program's and their dependencies I didn't need.

I like nix now because of the way it manages dependencies, and for the fact that packaing programs in it is really easy to do.

crony , 3 months ago

Seems like a fine idea, but nixos is just exactly what I want from a distro it turns out and nix is just the package manager I wanted but never knew I did.

crony , 3 months ago

Just the pure act of installing a package is longer than with pacman for example.

And the way that apt has seperated regular package and -dev packages irks me a lot when I need a library for something I need to make sure to install a =dev package compared to most other package manager where libraries are installed with the lackage itself.

crony , 3 months ago

For me it's the fact that I almost always need a feature from a program that's in a recent release that is never in debian/ubuntu until a couple years later.

crony , 3 months ago

Just about 90% of packages that I wan't to use

crony , 3 months ago

I mostly just searched nixos how to package pyrhon/go/rust/ program or nixos how to package sddm theme/gtk/...

The best resource honestly are the randon blogposts since the wiki itself is really bad.

I also recommend the channel vimjoyer.

I also recommend to get into the habit of searching for options on https://search.nixos.org/options and for packages on https://search.nixos.org/packages which are great resources to know what you can set or install and already packages.

You can also check my nixos config on examples for how to package sddm theme and shell scripts.

I also have a couple programs on my selfhosted gitea that use flakes for packaging which you can checkout also.

https://code.cronyakatsuki.xyz/crony/nixos

crony , 2 months ago

For podcasts I recommend audiobookshelf. It has a very nice podcasts category with ability to backup the podcastst yourself, also syncs progress over multiple devices.

For rss I use miniflux.

crony , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Docker and podman in general work the same, commands are the same, ...

Only biggest difference is that now that I'm trying to migrate from docker to podman is figting over volume binds permissions for databases and such.

Finished migration of 3 containers, 50+ left.

crony , 3 months ago

Read it also quite a lot, love getting a good laugh from linuses comnents.