Almost done wiping one of my older #unraid servers.. Time to pack up the older hardware in favour of the new box. It's.. pretty slow though 😅

#homelab #nas

Haha, this is hilarious. Medium is one of the worst offenders too imo, considering they publish so much, push for high SEO scoring and then subject the reader to this..

Credit: https://aussie.zone/post/20485646

Google is fighting Nextcloud by harming our Android app. Nextcloud now has less functionality than Google Drive. This is clear anti competitive behavior. https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/nextcloud_play_store_complaint/ https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-android-file-upload-issue-google/

@mr_daemon Haha, I must’ve missed that one.. But yes there’s something to be said for the artwork and effort that went into big box releases.. or even the lack of effort (resulting in quirky designs that make them even more desirable to collectors today).

Just regret not keeping more when I know I had quite a collection. Hindsight right?

Finally got the big one back in the collection! Now with that and Terminal Velocity, I’m missing but the last one of the holy trio - Rise of the Triad - which happens to be on the way already 😅

I never set out to start collecting retro big boxes but this seems to suggest that I’m way past that point..

#BigBoxGames #retrogaming #vintagegames #dosgaming #dukenukem3d

About a week away from #jsday in Bologna - I’m stoked to be heading back to Italy. Will probably be my 6th time going to this conf but I’m happy they moved it otherwise I might not have gone again. Verona was epic but I was starting to feel like I knew the place like the back of my hand.

Anyone heading there for the first time?
#javascript #conference

@FRYTG Haha.. yeah that’s not surprising given the staleness. Mind if I ask what you migrated to, out of curiosity?

Thanks for writing though! Funny timing 😄

I'm automating stuff at the family farm using #homeassistant ; lights, smoke alarms, stove fire preventers, heaters.

It's inspiring to see so many iot devices support #ZigBee but also infuriating that 50% of the ones I've encountered has something fucky with their zigbee implementation. It's also somewhat concerning that the mains-connected zb router devices I've found will drop off immediately when the power goes out. The thought of not getting alerts about a fire in the barn if the power's out, concerns me.

I've got my eye on #matter , but I can't find compatible smoke alarms in Norway (so I can be confident they comply with local regulations, and return them if they're bad), and only limited reviews of ones available from abroad.

I see there's https://www.matteralpha.com/category/smoke-co-alarm and https://community.home-assistant.io/t/smoke-detector-with-matter-over-thread-support/810731 but idk.

Can anyone recommend a mains-powered zigbee router device with a built-in battery, that'll keep it routing for at least 1 hour if it loses power?

Alternatively, a small (max 20*10*10cm) #ups that'll power a zb router or other tiny device for 1 hour? #NUT #networkUpsTools compatibility is a big plus

#askFedi #smartHome #homeAutomation

@ryan Imo use anything but SQLite, especially for Nextcloud.

@train Wish I’d had a need, but not so far. NFS/SMB for most large mounts, and Longhorn for fast/critical storage. Unraid as the backing for the network shares.

Finally got #nextcloud configured on #k3s using their official helm chart.. That was honestly a pain, especially getting it working with #tailscale. But it's done, and seems to be working well. Hopefully no more update issues with new versions causing the docker install to go into maintenance mode.

Even managed to get it configured on #homepage.. Success!

#homelab #selfhosted

I just released the first major update for the ULID unique ID generation library in over 8 years! I’ve been following it as a user for years, having even forked it for ulidx when it wasn’t being maintained. It’s fulfilling to not only see it updated (as I use it a lot), but having done so myself.

If you’re building a new feature and are about to reach for an ID generator (like UUID), you might consider trying ULIDs instead: https://github.com/ulid/javascript

#ulid #uuid #javascript #typescript #library #foss #oss

@pax0707 From what I hear #jellyfin is great, but just so you know.. you can still stream #plex remotely for free. You just need to do it like every other free streaming self hosted solution (including jellyfin). By opening a port in your firewall, using a VPN, using reverse proxy, or a Cloudflare tunnel.

Plex is charging for using their servers as a proxy to your content. A service they used to provide for free. Unless you’re a lifetime subscriber. As I have been for over a decade.

@KevinM1 You don’t need a NAS to self host some basic nginx/apache server with DAV enabled, and use WebDAV to sync your vault. You could use Tailscale to make it accessible without port forwarding.

@tommcc haha that’s great..

Yeah it’s been coming together nicely. I’m in the process of shutting down 2 old servers now that I have a strong backbone of storage. The office is steadily becoming more clear of clutter and odd PC components. These humongous drives have made a lot of that possible, considering the older servers are running a mixture of drives between 4 and 16TB..

I was going to try tape as a backup solution but it’s simply too pricey, at least for right now. It says a lot when I’m more comfortable buying a whole NAS and 2x 28TB disks instead!

Once again thanks to Datablocks for the cheap disks and excellent service - I’d highly recommend trying them out if you’re in Europe and want decently priced HDDs - https://datablocks.dev/

I’ll set this box up as a manual backup target for now, running RAID 0 or equivalent. I don’t need redundancy here and already have a backup offsite.

#homelab #nas #backup #selfhosted

@patrickleavy Hmm.. that’s interesting. What formats do you have your media in? Anything exotic?

I did notice Immich using an insane amount of memory when indexing the first boatload of images, but I didn’t have any cap on memory at that stage.

Doing the best I can to distract myself from the madness of the world. Just powered on my latest design for the #eZ80 on #RCBus. A 5V #VGA graphics module. 640x480 @ 256 glorious #retrocomputing colours. As the guy in the basement would say "it freakin works!"

@patrickleavy I don’t unfortunately know exactly what the issue could be, but if it’s killing the container to me it sounds like this would have to be on the initialisation cycle. Sometime during startup. Though I agree it sounds strange that whatever process is reading the photos is even capable of crashing Immich upon a read error.

Are you able to narrow down the images causing this?

@blakeashleyjr @ironicbadger I’ve done the same. When you explain setting up a cluster of mini PCs it sounds like a lot more work but at least in my experience it’s been far more reliable. Retiring 2 larger boxes right now in favour of my k3s cluster which is running maybe 30 applications and services right now..