Selfhosted

I'm going through hell, trying to update from truenas scale 24.04 to 24.10

I plan on setting up the *arr suite and getting rid of Netflix, Crunchyroll, Amazon Prime and Disney+

Just set up Lemmy! I wonder if this gets through

I'm currently looking to connect an NVMe SSD to a Pi 4 I have in a differences location to finally have proper 3-2-1 backups. I'm trying to find a NVMe to USB adapter that will work though.

Currently doing a full backup of 37TB to tape. Which I would normally do once per quarter but I got a smart error on one of my drive that I'll have to replace but before shutting down and removing the drive I want to have a full backup I might even get warranty on the drive at least I got the last time this happened drive has lower then 200 days of runtime. We'll see

I just got cactus comments working on my writefreely blog. Cactus comments needs matrix, so I got matrix with element set up. It was an incredibly frustrating journey of learning, but it turns out the final bit wasn't too complicated. I'm running on TruNas, which I hear you shouldn't do, but it's too late haha.

I also got the whatsapp bridge set up, but it doesn't look like matrix supports disappearing messages, so I left some rooms it created b/c one of the larger groups easily took up a gig of storage before disappearing messages was turned on.

Anyway, writefreely has federated cactus comments that you can currently only sign in with a matrix account lol. I can try and change that later. I host the photos with picsur.

I think that I need to collect my notes and memories and put it into a blog post, but I don't really want to turn my blog (if I even keep up with it) into a blog about how to self host a blog.

In hindsight, I don't think the comments were worth it, but whatever.

I upgraded immich without breaking everything. That's always reason to celebrate.

I finally moved from reddit to Lemmy. maybe a 3-4 hour set up time to get it all working lol.

Finally moved all my lxc onto a lower-power Xeon D host, consumes 1/3 the electricity of my previous Dell R430, same essential performance.

You can use https://schedule.lemmings.world/ to automate the posts. Or, given the community we're in, you can selfhost it!

This week I've been doing some work on my GOG Downloader to finally back up all my GOG stuff when I buy new disks, that's pretty much it for my selfhost/homeserver stuff this week.

Finally got my lemmy instance fully updated.

Been improving my backup scripts in advance of adding backup to a server.

Updated servers and other services.

Had a hard drive fail my main zfs array. First time I have experienced a disk failure so it was a bit worrying. Thankfully I had added an additional drive to expand the array so I was able to quickly rebuild to that drive. Currently shopping for a replacement. From now on I think I will keep a cold spare just in case this happens again. I just wish hard drives would stop increasing in price.

I've had two failed harddrives in the last month. Not sure if bad batch or what. Thankfully the order these were on only were the two drives so may not see more. They are under warranty but it's still a pain!

Otherwise I'm enjoying Mealie lately for my recipes. Kinda nice having them all in one place but accessible by anyone in the house.

Just swapped VPS hosts from ssdnodes to MassiveGRID. Got a pretty sweet deal, so I'm pretty excited.

Got my services transferred over this week and it's been fun as hell. It's interesting because I was discussing Portainer with my buddy and he has Portainer on his local PC to connect to his remote instances and with hindsight it sounds obvious of course, but it's such a nice little setup. Just finished setting up my Jellyfin reverse proxy so I'm gonna watch a movie and chill.

Trying to get my hands dirty with LLM, Ollama and Web Scrapping.

I don't understand most of it , but hey, that's the fun. No complaints.

Since it's winter and I mostly don't want to leave my house, I busted out an unused Raspberry Pi 4b a couple weeks ago. Started with CasaOS and AdGuard. Have now added a few other services including Navidrome to serve up a lot of local-area music for myself and friends. Got a Cloudflare tunnel set up, then some authentication through CF as well. And finally secured a static IP from my ISP. This is the farthest along I've ever gotten with any of this and it's been going great. Nearly every hurdle I've encountered I've been able to work through.

Two things causing me grief today though:

1. I also have Nextcloud hosted on a VPS and I cannot get to the point of running occ commands. First it wasn't found, then no php cli, then just errors. I gave up.

2. I'm using Homer because it's just so simple, but the theming and CSS is driving me nuts. Sure, I can change colors, but will this little bar in the neon theme change from 4em to 100% for me? NOPE. Override fonts? Nosir. All good though.

I've been working on some bash scripts to help manage my media files. I've been slowly working on learning more bash and I'm pretty pleased with my progress. After I finish this bash book I'm reading (can't remember the title atm), I think I'm gonna jump into awk.