Selfhosted

Finished my migration from Plex to Jellyfin

Was using realvnc to vnc from remote, it was easy and cloud driven.

Fully swapped to tailscale and normal VNC sever now.

Performance is good and works great for the troubleshooting and small GUI stuff I need to do.

I've finally powered on a 15 year old machine to run a bot I've been writing. The thing is slow as dirt and stuck behind a flakey power line network, but it's working. I got to write my first systemd service definition, which is kind of cool.

Finally switched from plex to jellyfin, seems to be ok so far. Needed to make some small scripts for metadata management but it's running smoothly. Finally decided I'm hosting enough software with user accounts that I've made an authentik instance for SSO with each (ofc jellyfin first)

Found out that docker volumes are important after restarting my server 🙃

I've been learning bash and working on scripts to automate stuff in my homelab. It's been a lot of fun. I'm currently working on a script that will rename the movies and TV shows I rip from my DVD collection.

The script queries the tmdb api, presents me with a mwnu of matches if there's multiple matches, renames the media files according to jellyfin spec, and then places them in the proper folders to be indexed by Jellyfin and Kodi.

Oh, I've just been tinkering around with LangFlow specifically as a news aggregator.

The flow: https://i.imgur.com/5HqznQm.png

Then asking AI to go get me some news: https://i.imgur.com/ltZPBwC.png

Still needs a little tinkering and as the final step, to send said news stories to my Telegram. I really have a blast with automation platforms like N8N, Flowise, Gotify, DopplerTask, & Kestra.

Afterwards, I smoked a small bowl and worked on a couple songs I have in the works.

HBU?

Recently been working on setting up forgejo to migrate away from GitHub. My open source stuff I’ve actually put onto codeberg and I’ve set up a handful of pull mirrors on my local instance for redundancy. This weekend I’ve been testing out woodpecker-ci for automating pushing files to s3 for some static websites for repos on codeberg as well as my forgejo instance. Today will tell if that is successful!

I'm switching my immich instance to an SSD one and switching my VPN from zerotier to tailscale.

Hopefully that means my Immich will be a little more reactive.

More incus:

• mounting persistent storage into containers (cheating by exporting NFS from my proxmox zfs into the incus host.
• wrote a pruning backup script for containers, runs daily, keeps last 7 days and the first of the month
• passed through hardware (quicksync) into jellyfin container (it works!)
• launched an OCI container (docker home assistant) natively in incus (this is a game-changer!)

Next:

• build 2nd incus node
• move all containers from proxmox to incus
• decom proxmox
• setup Debian with NFS export

https://romm.app/

A catalog for organizing various Roms you have. It can pull metadata from a number of sources and properly add all the details, cover art, and platform information to each game. It’s smart enough to auto-generate collections based on game series, and embed YouTube videos for gameplay of each one without even any configuration.

The best part? It has Ruffle and EmulatorJS built in so you can play any games supported by EmulatorJS in your browser. I tested games up to N64 and they all ran smooth as butter right in the browser with gamepad configurations built in. They even support local multiplayer.

Scrubbing a little demo project I made featuring a web app behind oauth2-proxy leveraging keycloak as local idp with social login. It also uses a devcontainer config for development. The demo app uses the Litestar framework (fka starlite, in Python) because I was interested, but it's hardly the focus. Still gotta put caddy in front of it all for easy SSL. Oh, and clean up all the default secrets I've strewn about with appropriate secret management.

All of it is via rootless podman and declarative configuration.

Think I might have to create my own Litestar RBAC plugin that leverages the oauth headers provided by the proxy.

It has been a minute since I worked daily in this space, so it has been good to dust off the cobwebs.

This week I finally managed to route torrent traffic through a VPS that was sitting around gathering dust. I am behind CGNAT so was taking me 6 weeks to do the kind of traffic I do in a day now. I couldn't be more chuffed.

I set up my own Lemmy server, mastodon, and matrix. Finally making the move off centralized social media and communication platforms

Last week got my new epyc server with GPU running ollama and all the trimmings.

This week linked my 2 home bases with wire guard, all the subnets mesh and the wifi isolation is solid. Performance is surprisingly good considering they're 9 time zones apart on different hemispheres.

Migrating plex to jellyfin to get hw accel working.

Also trying to get my second base multiple statics and 10gb if possible, rural fiber in Europe is unbelievably aweome, hope to drop Comcast business back home if it works.

Got someone to work with on a new company, so that's part of this, though my day job relies on this too.

I tried to update my lemmy instance and it all went so horribly wrong. DB never came up, errors everywhere, searching implied I updated to a dev branch sometime in the past (not a dev, don't think I did) and it'll be console and DB queries for a fix.

Ran out of time and overwhelmed, I restored backups and buried my head in the sand. Nope, not now. Future, yes, but oh not now.

I've just moved and I'm setting up my machines. NIC died in my DIY router just before the move so I'm upgrading to 2.5/10 Gbps at the same time.

Email... My wife really wants to further de-google, this means moving custom domains off gsute.

Do I move to proton/tuta or go back to self hosting email again like I did for years until about 2010?

If I self host, do I do it at home or on the server that runs my lemmy instance?

I am currently arguing what to do with my gaming rig and home theater. Either get a long cable which would need a DP-to-HDMI adapter or get a used mini PC (which is currently cheaper than a Raspberry Pi?) and setup Sunshine and Moonlight (but over WiFi and not LAN) to be more flexible when I eventually move the two into separate rooms. Does anyone have some experience with that? Maybe also latency over wireless network?