hell yeah brother go kill an antelope
The good ol days, obviously
I have recently tried bamboo underwear and I will not buy different anymore
It's inspired by all the X-Twitter employees
you had me at pork roast
No no, this is Twitter because this poor guy doesn't have any coworkers left to ask.
Not a problem, thanks!! I'm sure this will be a big help
Thank you, and good suggestion! I installed grafana once last time and failed to get anything useful as I didn't invest enough time. Notifications sound great so I may look into the same combo you mentioned and see if I can wrangle it this time. Did you follow any particular guide when you started out with that? Otherwise I'll just dive into the google
Thanks! Too much spare time on the weekend, haha
Good point, mine might be the same. I was linking things up from memory since it's been >1year since I last had the server interface up, and I can't remember how the modem was represented now that you mention it - I'll have to fix that up
Thanks for the ideas! I hadn't thought about budget apps but that could be a good one.
Not sure if I have use cases for n8n or not, but I'll go learn about it and find out!
Thanks for the hint, it's a good point. I need to check that my TV app store has it, I could see that being the catch.
That being said, I have been learning that my TV's software is complete garbage and I may just go back to Android casting for TV control in general...
unga bunga
I enjoy making diagrams, and I spent as much time on this as I did because my internet has been out for 2 days and counting and it was an offline tool I already had. Nevertheless, thanks for the link to a new tool to look at
Fast data is priority 1, and learning how to host and administrate is priority 2, so I wouldn't consider it - but it's a fair question!
You're definitely right, I'm going to remove the Hue hub and connect everything to the ConBee. They were separated before because Hue came first, and I didn't want to rebuild my lighting setup at the time. HA automations were set up to use Hue-side groups, rather than HA-side groups. The thought hadn't occurred to me yet that I can unify them now - but I definitely will.
I did think I remembered that Hue bulbs don't work properly as ZigBee routers, but could be wrong there
Good point, possibly - I haven't set one up before (new house has a wider range to cover) so I threw it in the diagram and didn't think further. I'll fix it up :)
This is awesome, I didn't know there were game server managers. I definitely see the point as I did some ugly file hacking a few times. I'll check out both Crafty Controller and Pterodactyl!
I've used Ansible for other stuff but never thought about it for server config, definitely going to figure that out too, been bitten there before as well.
Thank you!
Hi all, new to Lemmy but this seems to be the best community for this that is decently active. Apologies if not!
I got into home servers in my first house a couple years ago, but our stay in that house was unexpectedly brief and everything got put back into boxes. It's time to setup at the new place, and I have many improvements in mind from the first implementation - so while I wait for server parts to arrive, I decided to update the diagram for planning.
In no order, here's a list of lessons I learned from V1:
- The blade form factor doesn't work for me. I enjoyed getting one and learning about them, but my use cases are small (&quiet) enough that a tower and a small network rack works better.
- In the quest for automatic home lighting, I shouldn't have gone all-in on smart bulbs rather than switches. There get to be too many in the house, and when a couple start inevitably failing, expensive bulbs and misplaced warranty info are a gigantic pain. So now the bulbs are just for special things like ceiling fans and floor lamps.
- I need to put more attention on storage. That's what gets used the most, by multiple users, so I will use TrueNAS Scale as my host instead of ESXi. I was not enough of a power user for that to be important to me. The rest of it is mostly for play and doesn't need to be perfect.
- My media streaming needs are very simple, so I think I may like Jellyfin better than Plex.
- I need to be 'a little' more lax about security. I don't think my server is realistically likely to be heavily attacked, and when I tried to go all out on best practices, more often than not I just broke things and upset my family users. My server will not have an outside access except via VPN, and my IOT devices will not speak unless spoken to - I think that will be enough.
In particular, I tried so hard last time to have a tagged management VLAN in UniFi and always just broke connectivity between something that required a hard reset. I'm planning to skip that this time but if someone has a pointer to a good setup guide, I could try that again.
Thanks for reading/looking, all comments or suggestions are welcome! I also still need to find more applications I can selfhost so I will be keeping an eye on the community for ideas.
Hello birders!
I don't have a cool bird pic for you today, but I'm wondering if anyone has some recommendations for good birding festivals you know about? My wife and I are relatively new birders and have greatly enjoyed a couple festivals that we tried out, so I'd love to add the list of ones we should try to make it to.
Would love to hear any mildly related stories as well!
In an attempt to keep activity going, here's what I'm working with for build two - black limba with a claro walnut topper. I have high hopes in particular for this walnut grain when it all gets finished.
In case any other luthiers end up finding their way here, I would love to hear experiences about working with black limba. So far I'm getting a lot more chipping and splitting than my first build, which was maple and sapele.
Welcome! I am looking to re-grow my absolute favorite community here on Lemmy - to kick it off, I'm sharing my first build that I finished in April.
It was a dream come true to finally be able to build up a workshop and try my hands at this. It took 4 months of weekends and the occasional lunch breaks, and I had so much fun, I can't wait to get going on #2 and dive deep into this craft and all it's secrets.
I could just post pics on one of the 'guitars' communities, I'm hoping this community can become a forum for people who really want to discuss the techniques and the process, not just the final product. Please comment or post if you'd like to see the same thing!