

It’s probably more than you are looking for but if you are already looking at self hosting things connected with NextCloud, use NextCloud Talk. We use it for the family and it is great.
It’s probably more than you are looking for but if you are already looking at self hosting things connected with NextCloud, use NextCloud Talk. We use it for the family and it is great.
It’s a lot for the homeland, but I love zabbix
Fair, my home office is a monument to too much free time, a hoarding habit for ewaste, and a wife who works weekends and overnights.
That is a self-made soldering kit box I made when I was in college and had to haul it around a lot. I have actually been meeting to replace it with something more permanent now that I’m a grown up with my own house. I have an air flow soldering rig which doesn’t really have a home, and I could have a much better use of space. I have my brocade ICX6610-24 next to that which I’ve been programming for way too long, and a whole bunch of 3D printer parts on top of that.
I’ve done some of that, recently I have an old putty knife and I will put it right against the crack and just hammer it which will unstick it enough that I can pull it off. Newer drives definitely have weaker magnets than some of my much older ones.
I started collecting in probably 2007, so manufactured before that for sure.
That’s rad, and you did an amazing job keeping them whole. Recently I have been wrapping them in cloth, then the kids form clay around them for various fridge and office magnets.
I don’t have the exactly solution for you, but I went through this a while ago and came up with using openLDAP for this. It’s not tidy at all, but it was a tremendous learning experience, and I documented it in 2 blog posts which may be interesting to you; I doubt you’ll want to do what I did, but it was informative and has worked flawlessly since. I documented some of the flaws I found in options I considered at the time:
https://www.surfrock66.com/openldap-kerberos-and-sasl-my-experience-in-the-homelab/
I’m not an expert, but I’ve been using TrueNas Scale since I cut over from TrueNAS core, and before that Freenas, since about 2010. I have a bunch of lessons and assumptions, but someone can correct me if these are misguided, they’re my tl;dr of knowledge.
You mention Jellyfin…my struggles with that were never storage. My struggles there were networking; it was a big part of why I decided to upgrade my server networking to 10G, which supported running Jellyfin on another hypervisor and having all that go over the network.
For most systems, ext4 because it seems stable and uncomplicated.
For my NAS and big data, ZFS. People whose opinions I trust recommend it, and to the best of my technical ability to evaluate said things, the claims make sense and seem to be extremely beneficial against the threats I perceive to my data.
The pi4 especially is great for proof of concept or MVP testing, but I often migrate to VMs on my proxmox hypervisor once something becomes critical. I started Shinobi, pihole, and home assistant on a pi4.
Tt-rss though the developer can be a bit abrasive if you go asking for help. Been using it since the icanhaz days.
Crashplan can’t tell the difference between local folders and NFS mounts, and they have an unlimited size backup plan per device for like $10/month. I have 1 device with NFS mounts from many desktops and my Nas. About 9TB.
Let’s encrypt is fine for encryption but not identification. I have some stuff which I prefer that on, specifically around demonstrating services that I host at home in the workplace. Having full verification just reduces the questions I have to deal with. It’s like $90/year for a wildcard.
Subdomain; overall cheaper after a certain point to get a wildcard cert, and if you split your services up without a reverse proxy it’s easier to direct names to different servers.
Complicated. Ultimately, I don’t use it, but at a previous job we wrote a web-based softphone, and I was proud enough when I left of it that I continued to maintain it (since we open sourced it). I needed a test server for that, so I set up asterisk at home lol. Now that it’s there though, I wanna get a SIP trunk and actually have my kids use it when they get old enough for phones…I Have a few years to go.
It’s ok, but it’s VERY manual. I am ok with that, and it’s helped me learn better. I’ve written some scripting to help manage it, but I am always worried that there are gaps and I’ll miss some expiration. I am trying to compile an open source suite to essentially replace the AD suite, and it’s competent thus far but with much less UI.
Lots. I have 2 proxmox hypervisors and 3 Raspberry Pi’s; my OS of choice for servers is Ubuntu Server or Raspbian.
Experimental:
I use pinchflat to download media, then Jellyfin Youtube Metadata Plugin. It works very well, and it’s let me block the youtube app for my kids but still give them specific content.
https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat https://github.com/ankenyr/jellyfin-youtube-metadata-plugin