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I'm going to talk to my local Repair Cafe about switching people over to Linux because of W10 EOL. Is there anything I should mention so they take it on board? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

You've reminded me of a slightly off-topic point...

I tried to put Linux on an old laptop for a friend so their kids could use it... it had some weird (Realtek?) chip that was a combination of things (ie video and networking?) and Linux just couldn't drive it, so I had to give up.

That's the only Linux failure I've had and it was also the one where I told them it would definitely work...

A bit of my selfhost journey [that no one asked about] in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you're looking for a different approach, I moved from Nextcloud to Radicale for my family calendars, which includes ToDo functionality.

From an app point, for Android I'm using Fossify Calendar (which I think you're using?) and Tasks.Org ToDo - and this definitely handles recurring tasks (inc. with different types of schedules)

From a remote access point of view, I have HA Proxy to convert the internal HTTP traffic into external HTTPS traffic (with Lets Encrypt certificate)

(Yes, I also have a VPN for other things... just focusing here for the calendar / todo)

I'm going to talk to my local Repair Cafe about switching people over to Linux because of W10 EOL. Is there anything I should mention so they take it on board? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Admittedly I've just scanned your list, but from a repair shop POV, surely the legal licensing would be of interest?

Ie, someone brings in an old device thst won't run Win7 let alone 11 - but you can't repair / upgrade without being very careful with the COA license

Linux: no issues.

Happy birthday, feddit.uk 🎉 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Crikey, I only joined a couple of weeks after this instance started too... looks like a few of us didn't realise the paint was still wet when signing up.

Thanks @[email protected] , @[email protected] and @[email protected] for all your hard work! (& Tom...)

Anyone heard from Emperor? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Is this where we find out that @[email protected] was actually @[email protected]?

started using #Logseq for my work notes. loving it 📒 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Been using Logseq for ~2 years as I was becoming overwhelmed with stuff... the number of times it's helped me, I'd even call it a mental health support tool !

I use the daily journal page for what's happening and link it to various projects via templates for meetings, webinars, calls, etc and then I can find who said what, when in relation to each project... it's fantastic

Safest CalDAV/CardDAV server [Choice Made] in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My journey⋮ Nextcloud ---> syncthing + radicale

Much simpler, easier to maintain, less resources needed

Moving the homelab to another country in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So, the R320 is just for bulk storage?

Personally I'd drop that one for the lowest power consumption box I could find... unless it's part of a (V)SAN for your R710?

But be careful with assuming many SFF PCs will be better than 1x R710, consider their power properly as they might be more expensive... servers ~~are~~ can be more efficient at heavier loads

Is there any good decentralized cloud storage for personal backups as a self-hoster? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Got a link for that? Searching for "garage backup storage" doesn't really get me anywhere...

New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice. I'll go that way when I next brave the dust and cobwebs where the server's currently located

New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Aha! I was considering moving from proxmox to incus too, but incus seemed quite new and not much documentation (at the time)

How do you find it now?

How has your week been? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

LOL.

I've got a tendon pain in my arm and was moaning about it... I'm gonna shut up now 🙂

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Pause alerts during the night (feddit.uk)
 

Well, as the title says, I've had a few notifications that alerted over night and I'm wanting to sleep instead

These are ntfy alerts, but driven by Uptime Kuma... and I can't find a programmatic / config option that says "don't notify between 11pm and 7am" (but willing to admit I've just not found it... yet...)

I need my (Android, ofc) phone to be on in case of family calls / messages, so I can't use "Do Not Disturb", and remembering to manually mute the ntfy app each night just doesn't make sense to me - computers are quite capable of automating my requirements for me.

So... any pointers? I'm sure you're not all getting alerts at 2am because your ISP dropped a few packets...

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Desktop Security (feddit.uk)
 

I secure systems for my day job. That means installing AV software, ensuring Windows Firewall is ON, etc. (Plus many other things...)

I've seen discussions around disk encryption here, but I don't recall much about a malware protection. Maybe a little about personal (desktop) firewalls.

I'm aware of Clam, etc, but is anyone actually using these tools much?

Or are we just presuming we're all immune from the bad guys targeting Windows?

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XMPP... on a Pi? (feddit.uk)
 

So, I've had it up to here (^^^) with the family using WhatsApp, etc and I'm heading off into the land of XMPP to find a better solution.

I've got a Pi3 hanging off my pfSense firewall acting as a kinda DMZ box, so thought I could setup an XMPP server on it (Prosody?)

Any advice? Will the Pi crumble (see what I did there) under the pressure of 4 people using it?

Issues with proxying outside with a Lets Encrypt cert on the pfSense box, but maybe not inside the network?

"Better" server software?

Thanks

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AUR with Ansible (feddit.uk)
 

I've started looking at Ansible to manage all the laptops, VMs, SBCs that I have running Arch Got the ol' pacman installs / updates working fine, but I'm having some problems understanding how to setup AUR to install some of those packages.

Main issue is where Ansible is basically doing everything as root, and AUR helpers don't want to run as root, so ok, create a 2nd non-root user first...

But even installing an AUR helper (yay) brings problems:

I can setup a folder in /tmp/aur , I can git clone the yay package, but then I have no idea how to run makepkg or then yay as that non-root user.

Does anyone have this already figured out?

Or... am I going about this the wrong way?

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HA redundancy options (feddit.uk)
 

I'm currently running HA on a Pi3... it works fine, but it's now a single point of failure.

I have some new hardware arriving to run VMs in and was intending to move HA to it, but now I'm wondering if I can have HA in 2 places for fault tolerance.

I'm aware that there's no built-in failover options, but has anyone done something similar?

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Sonoff S26 R2 Zigbee (feddit.uk)
 

Ok, I've done a fair bit with wifi devices, now I'm waking up to zigbee.

Got myself an S26 R2 to play with, but just wanted to clarify a few things...

So, if I had a few of these around the house, would they form the man backbone of the zigbee mesh network? Or do they not provide that function?

And also - possibly n00b question - I presume there's still a need / benefit to flash with esphome? Couldn't see anything obvious on the site and only searched online for a few mins before giving up and asking for experience rather than random sites...

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Traccar Integration (feddit.uk)
 

Has anyone used the Traccar integration with a full Traccar server vs the webhook Android client?

There's an issue with the latest version of the Traccar client sending more data than HA can understand (Traccar Integration: extra keys not allowed #84540)

So, I was wondering whether it's worth setting up a full Traccar Server?

It seems like total overkill, but maybe it has other benefits?

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PacDiff comparisons (feddit.uk)
 

I have a few devices running Arch... Rasperrys, laptops, a NAS, etc

After an update I'll run pacdiff to check for any updated configurations to look out for.

On the laptops I'll use meld to compare and it's nice to visually pick and choose what to update.

But for the headless units, I'm using vimdiff and it's sometimes difficult to see what to change - esp. when a few lines in a block of changes needs picking and choosing.

What other approaches are you using for this?

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