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Ich habe es jetzt doch gewagt und ein Forum aufgesetzt. Ich lade alle, die sich den Themen Homelab, Selfhosting, usw. widmen, herzlich ein vorbeizuschauen 😀. Ich möchte versuchen, die alte Forenkultur wieder ein wenig zurückzubringen und gleichzeitig eine kleine Anlaufstelle für das Hobby bieten.

Es steht noch am Anfang und ich bin wirklich gespannt, ob und wie es funktioniert.

Das Forum ist ans #Fediverse angebunden 😉

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Hey y’all — I’m a self-hosting addict, open-source tinkerer, and pfSense whisperer. I wrangle YAML, harden servers, build Grafana dashboards, and obsess over quiet fans and logs at 2AM. Expect posts on Home Assistant, Matrix, Ollama, Linux, and DIY homelab chaos. Let’s connect and make some beautiful FOSS and automations together :)

Oh, and I also run a web design studio in #Belgrade , so there’s that too :)

Question to the home lab and self hosted communities: what's the go-to cloud backup service these days? I've been using Backblaze, but there have been some controversies about their future. Are those irrelevant?

Additional context: I need to run backups both from Linux (doesn't matter the tool) and Synology (their native backup tool).

TIA (thanks in advance)

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Here's the most important lesson I would like to share with you, based on my experience of building a Kubernetes cluster at home: don't. It's probably too hard for what it's worth.

Managed Kubernetes clusters in public clouds (AWS/GCP/Azure) are relatively easy, because you have a lot of the infra already figured out, and the cloud provider already gives you a lot of tools to get you up and running fast. I've done that many times with my hands behind my back. In those environments you mostly have to worry about "day 2" (usage/maintenance/growth).

In a home lab environment, where you have to do everything by yourself, you end up in deep rabbit holes and break-fix loops that are sometimes frustrating. Day 2 is probably easier, because you don't have to worry about scalability, compliance and other enterprise-y things. But building it ("day 1") is a lot more complicated.

Am I going to tear this down? Probably not. I still want to be able to test stuff at home that I can't just throw in a corporate environment.

But if anybody asks me "where do I start my home lab?", I'll just tell them to stick to Docker compose.

I wish more of my #homelab could be configured to use OIDC. Or that I could somehow tie more of my identity to my own OIDC server. Is that a risky idea? Sure. Would it be fun anyway? Oh hell yeah.

I have a weird definition of fun, I think.

It’s not a proper rack or anything special, but it’s a start! 🤩

Top Shelf

  • Orbi RBR10 Mesh Router
  • 8 port Netgear unmanaged switch
  • SmartThings Hub
  • Philips Hue Bridge (Hub)

Bottom Shelf

  • Terramaster F4-424 Pro NAS server with 4 x 4TB Seagate Ironwolf HDDs.

Behind the Shelving Unit

  • Semi-tidy cabling. It’ll do. 😅
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The weather's cloudy a lukewarm. Perfect for today's stream where I create a "yes, but no" resource for everyone who tells me to just switch to #linux :P
Nah but seriously we'll look at a number of first-time experiences (install, initial boot into the OS ec.) of various popular and less popular distros. I will comment on the #accessibility considerations primarily for #screenReader users and I'm sure other things'll come up. See you bright-eyed and bushy-tailed around 3 PM EST/8P BST/9pm CEST over at twitch.tv/ic_null or youtube.com/@blindlyCoding. My #peertube account is, unfortunately, not approved yet :) #selfPromo #tech #foss #selfHosting #homeLab #stream #ubuntu #debian #fedora #elementaryOs #kaliLinux #blind

TwitchIC_null - TwitchFully blind person hacking, coding and tinkering while using a screen reader. THM, HTB, accessibility, all the things.