habitualTartare

habitualTartare , 7 days ago to Selfhosted in Pros and cons of Proxmox in a home lab?

I'm using a commercial desktop with an i5 Sandy bridge. I maxed out to 32Gb of ram only because I'm running trueNAS, debian with containers, and home assistant. Most RAM goes to trueNAS and trueNAS doesn't accurately report ram. For CPU, mostly just task limited but I don't really think thats a proxmox issue.
Obviously it's not going to support an enterprise or even small business but it works for what I need of less than 4 users on my budget.

Proxmox doesn't really ask for much but I probably would recommend docker for your arm devices.

habitualTartare , 17 days ago to Privacy in Is there a simple way to severly impede webscraping and LLM data collection of my website?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt

Should cover any polite web crawlers but it is voluntary.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot

Might have to put it behind a captcha or other type to severely limit automated access.

It's not realistic to assume it won't get scraped eventually. Such as someone paying people to bypass capatcha or web crawlers that don't respect robots.txt. I also don't know if Google and Microsoft bundle their AI data collection that doesn't also remove your site from web search.

habitualTartare , 4 months ago to Technology in Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff

Last I read IBM was one of the big companies pursuing R&D in quantum computers and such plus they have some software stuff like crimestat and the weather channel under their umbrella.

habitualTartare , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in How much of what you self-host do you keep LAN only over making accessible across the internet?

I keep everything behind a VPN so I don't have to worry much about opening things up to the Internet.
It's not necessary about the fact that you're probably fine but more so what the risk to you is if that device is compromised, ex: a NAS with important documents, or the idea that if that device is infected, what can that device access.

You could expose your media server and not worry too much about that device but having it in a "demilitarized zone", ensuring all your firewall rules are correct and that that service is always updated is more difficult than just one VPN that is designed to be secure from the ground up.

habitualTartare , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Bad 4K Performance on Jellyfin

Have you checked and enabled hardware acceleration?

Support and troubleshooting steps are dependent on your GPU and OS.

habitualTartare , 4 months ago to homelab in Paralyzed by indecision

I steered away from replacing my router with a PC and got an ER-X and virtualized everything else including TrueNAS on an old office PC. Having PCI-E slots helps with stability a ton when virtualizing and my setup has 64gb DDR3 which was cheap.

Ubiquiti APs are typically the homeLab standard and work great especially with multiple APs. You can start with turning your existing router to AP mode and replace with APs later.

For stability, you can create a "test network" on the ER-X. This is an incredibly useful unofficial guide to setup ER-X with multiple lan networks, APs and more.
Then create redundancy with docker containers on a Pi. (put DNS server on proxmox system and a second on the Pi so if one goes down, DNS works).

For your home assistant question, does the backups or copy/paste data folder not meet your needs?

habitualTartare , 4 months ago to Technology in Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software

I'm happy with proxmox in a non-production environment/homeLab. Stable and straightforward.

Just found out from your comment that windows is shutting the door completely on CPUs that don't support POPCNT.
There's config settings to install Windows 11 on legacy hardware (old CPU, tpm chips, etc) but who knows when they'll pull the plug on that.

habitualTartare , 5 months ago to 196 in Oh. My. God. Rule

Oh My

habitualTartare , 5 months ago to Technology in What's a good piece of hardware to run a jellyfin server?

If space isn't an issue, getting a cheap office surplus machine like a Dell Optiplex SFF line for ~$100 US vs the USFF so that it supports low profile PCI-E for a hba card for more storage, or nvidia quadro p400 for better encoding at like $30-50.

It will probably use a bit more wattage, especially with more HDDs, but still should be around 50w idle for even the old systems.

habitualTartare , 5 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in CNN blocks Firefox with uBo

Sounds like do not track +