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Did the scariest part of the #minirack project today: setting up the power.
I replaced the 300w power supply in the server with a 600w one, discovering halfway through that I needed to build my own connector to fit the 14-pin motherboard power socket.
Then I ran extra 12v, 5v, and ground wires out the back and up the sides of the frame, and cut off the ends of the individual power supplies to wire them instead to the rack power.
The whole thing now runs off one powerpoint! I still need to do cable management, but there was no point in doing that until I knew my idea would work.
#homelab #minilab #projects
I replaced the 300w power supply in the server with a 600w one, discovering halfway through that I needed to build my own connector to fit the 14-pin motherboard power socket.
Then I ran extra 12v, 5v, and ground wires out the back and up the sides of the frame, and cut off the ends of the individual power supplies to wire them instead to the rack power.
The whole thing now runs off one powerpoint! I still need to do cable management, but there was no point in doing that until I knew my idea would work.
#homelab #minilab #projects
Goals for May Spring Cleaning:
Sell folding bike 
Sell Nishiki bike = US$150
Sell or donate #homelab stuff -
Sell computer = US$150
Sell monitor = US$50
Sell multi-function black and white laser printer = US$100
Sell or donate old Raspberry Pi 3B+ and box of stuff for it = US$50
Donate old laptop and netbook to Free Geek (they will probably just end up being recycled).
Sell or donate #homebrewing stuff = US$100
Donate two or three Kala ukes from my small #ukulele collection to a local music school.
(Though if there is interest in buying one or more, I will take pictures of them. I''ll take reasonable offers.)
Want everything sold or donated and gone by June 1st.
Debating buying a new laptop. I have a Dell XPS 17 (9700) w/ 10th Gen Intel and a NV 1650 GPU. It's "fine" but there's this one cheesy Windows CAD app that I run that could use a boost.
What is the short list of non-US laptops that are Linux first or at least Linux friendly these days?
While I appreciate Intel's Quick Sync for additional GPU processing (on-machine content capture), I never do that on my laptop so all AMD would be fine.
I don't need a "super crazy" GPU - just something competent for 3D. 4K/UHD+ and great 16"-17" screens are the other non-negot requirement. Dual NVME for dual boot would be nice.
What non-US laptop vendors do you recommend? Is Lenovo considered non-US nowadays? What's out there? Asus? MSI? Tuxedo? Slim? Generic AliExpress (lol)?
Reccos appreciated.
Aaron and Shane both recently had a bad experience when buying hard drives, the hardware we picked for our homelabs, why gigabit LANs aren’t quite cutting it anymore, an update on Shane’s janky Kubernetes setup, and more.
The worse the Internet becomes, the more I go full-Smeagol with the server in my basement.
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That's a Lord of the Rings reference.
Seeing some noise about changes to Plex's subscription policy today. I'm out of the loop since converting to Jellyfin so not sure if there was an actual change or not.
Anyway...
The purpose of this message is to reassure Plex users that are considering switching to Jellyfin that it is worth the change.
I used a lifetime Plex Pass for something like 10+ years. I switched to Jellyfin about six months ago.
I have zero regrets.
Every little change to Plex in the last ~five years has been abrasive to the user. One thing that really bothered me was using their centralized sign-in mechanisms. For a locally hosted library why do I need to auth using something off-site, especially when I'm at a remote, low bandwidth site that has intermittent connectivity... and this causes issues. I get it, some of their auto-magic remote access features more or less requires this - still don't like.
What really put a sour taste for me was realizing they are farming usage data. Yeah, eff that noize.
Jellyfin can be a little rough around the edges at times. The UX is not at the same level as Plex. You know what though, this many months in I don't even notice any more. It is perfectly adequate and in the absence of Plex would probably be considered best in class.
Also, Jellyfin is noticeably improving release over release. I notice little tweaks here and there that make it nicer and there has been good improvements in the speed of the backend. A year ago Jellyfin was basically unusable for my large library. Now speed is a non-issue.
Embrace Jellyfin plugins. They are very helpful for meta data and tagging. Migrating my library was mostly painless. There were a dozen or so assets that needed manual intervention and when investigating it was like "how did this even work under Plex?".
Hope this is the "pep talk" needed to give Jellyfin a try.
PSA: It's 15:00 on Friday, and I'm done with literally all the chores. The rest of the weekend is reading and Homelab time. 
My Prometheus volume is at 96% again. So I will attempt to set up Thanos quickly to head off the embarrassment of having to increase the volume size beyond 250 GB. When it's all just in a humongous S3 bucket it's going to be a lot easier to pretend I don't have a metrics hoarding problem. 
Data I can touch )
Tossing around some drives in the scope if #TheGRATEmigration11
#homelab #diynas #nas
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@thedarktangent I definitely need to add #Kraftwerk to my Nextcloud and other #homelab upgrade procedures!
Question of the day, I have #mastodon hosted on my halis.io domain, same for my #synapse instance, and it works without issues because one uses #activitypub and the other #matrix
But, if I setup a #manyfold instance on the same domain, as in without subdomain, it shouldn’t work, right ?
Would there be a way to converge both manyfold and mastodon under the same base domain ? Or do I have to use a subdomain for one ?
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All nodes deployed successfully. This was a comfortably uneventful Homelab day. I would have expected that I'd screw up the PCIe cable for at least one of them.
The switchover from the Pi 4 to the Pi 5 also went through without a hitch - although I had a slight wrinkle because I wanted to keep the hostnames. But that also went as expected. Completely removed one node from the cluster completely, shut it down, booted the new one, added it to the cluster.
note to self: don't muck with network interfaces before coffee.
Anyone seen or using any interesting self-hosted / homelab search solutions?
I'm looking for something that can index:
* Repository contents from Forgejo
* Files in Syncthing
* Pages and tags from Silver Bullet
* Bookmarks from Readeck
From some initial poking around I can't see much chatter about this kind of problem - any pointers would be great 
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And deployed successfully. First control plane node replaced. But this took a lot longer than I thought it would. Hopefully I will still get the other two done today.
Seems to be running very stable. With the Pi 5, I've now only got 10% CPU utilisation, while I had 30% with the Pi 4.
Temps are also looking okay. CPU temp on the Pi seems to have settled in at about 52 C, compared to 45 C with the Pi 4.
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Alright, first one done. If I could ask one thing from Pimoroni, it would be to make the PCIe cable 10mm longer. It's really fiddly to get it seated.
Also, pro tip: Insert the cable on the Pi side before installing the heat sink.
My relay instance for the #Fediverse evolved in a great way - more than 120 instances are already connected to boost your posts across the Fediverse.
If you're running #snac / #snac2, #Mastodon, #Pleroma or any other software on the #ActivityPub protocol that supports relay instances - feel free to join the relay! Hopefully #GoToSocial also supports relay services soon! Of course #IPv6 is supported (for IPV6 only instances).
Let's start this thing. The first important check is to see whether I measured correctly and my screws are long enough to fasten the Pis, NVMe base, heatsink and rack baseplate together. Then I'm off to deployment. Let's see how this goes...
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Hi everyone 
I guess it's time for my #introduction !
I present myself under the nickname of DocYeet, I am a software engineer who cares deeply about data privacy, digital sovereignty and decentralized tech in general
You will see me ramble about stuff like #k3s, #longhorn and #proxmox, as they take most of my time
You guessed it, I spend countless hours on my #homelab for #selfhosting :)