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20 minutes agoWell, like i said, I don’t wanna stare at a terminal at home. I’m running too many services as it is.
Automate the updates with a cron job and use family for outage notifications.
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I get that but the setup investment up front. Wow. I’ve built out my services exactly once (over 10 years now), so I don’t really see the value for myself.
That’s not what I meant. I can self host without building layers upon layers of infrastructure and infrastructure management tools.
In fact your post could be misconstrued to suggest that if you can’t build out a home server cluster with enterprise tooling and automated deployment as in TFA, you shouldn’t self-host. Realistically, it’s not necessary.
The advantage to using something like terraform is repeatability, reliability across environments and roll-backs.
How much fucking work do you do at home anyways? The last thing I want to see when I clock out is another terminal screen. I’ve been doing this too long.
I’m looking forward to seeing these trends in the care homes in 30-40 years.
Buccal fat removal + fillers is going to be pretty striking at 95yo.
Pure bare metal is crazy to me. I run proxmox and mount my storage there, and from there it is shared to machines that need it. It would be convenient to do a pass through to TrueNAS, for some of the functions it provides but I don’t trust that my skills for that. I’d have kept TrueNAS on bare metal, but I need so little horsepower for my services that it would be a waste. I don’t think the trade offs of having TrueNAS run my virtualisation environment were really worth it.
My router is bare metal. It’s much simpler to handle the networking with a single physical device like that. Again, it would be convenient to set up opnsense in a VM for failover. but it introduces a bunch of complexity I don’t want or really need. The router typically goes down only for maintenance, not because it crashed or something. I don’t have redundant power or ISPs either.
To me, docker is an abstraction layer I don’t need. VMs are good enough, and proxmox does a good job with LXCs so far.
Why would I spin up a VM and virtual network within that vm and then a container when I can just spin up a VM?
I’ve not spent time learning Docker or k8s; it seems very much a tool designed for a scale that most companies don’t operate at let alone my home lab.
Any ONVIF/ RTSP camera is probably going to work but I still keep them segregated from the Internet.
Motion triggered recording works fine to a SD card on many cameras. I’m so far happy with Reolink.
For remote access look into Tailscale.
2·24 days agoIt’s great but it’s $$$.
My understanding is that you can’t really get an espresso grinder that’s good for French press and vice versa. It may be a cost thing though - why pay $800 for a grinder and use a $20 coffeemaker. Manual grinders do narrow the gap though if you’re willing to put in the work. Usually, I’m not.
Heard good things about Commandante.
5·25 days agoIt’s interesting that the places that make lots of babies are also the source of emigration to places that make fewer babies.
I would give it more effort if it wasn’t the third tier coffeemaker in my house but routine is routine. Also for a while I had a stove that didn’t work with it as the base was too small vs the burner.
The videos came out well after I’d given up on it. Maybe I’ll dig it out again next weekend. Hot water in the pot and not tamping it probably makes a big difference.
I’ve never been able to get on with Moka pots but certainly a good grinder will make all the difference!
This is your sign that it is now time to use the spice grinder for spices.
2·1 month agoSame problems I have… I’m going to have to insulate the garage and put in a minisplit sometime.
Might be able to use a baseboard heater thermostat.
Slightly odd option is to connect it to a car charger like Technology Connections did, and then automate the cafe charger. And then you have a car charger for the future.
Another idea is to consider a mini split heat pump. It won’t be hot, but it’ll take the edge off.
43·1 month agoSpot on with the AI C-Suite description.
Educate your friends and relatives and write your representatives at every level. It’s only a small difference but it’s something.
102·1 month agoWhite space sensitive languages are evil.
I get that. It’s never been easier to self host with minimal knowledge and people still say it’s too hard.
I deal with the tech all day. I get paid to. I’d rather spend my leisure time touching grass, but I’m at that point in my career where it’s difficult to get excited like I do in my 20s.