acockworkorange

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Uses for a SBC (When You Already Have an x86 Mini-PC?) in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 31 minutes ago

Add to the list running a Kodi home theater box.

Postiz v1.6.12 - open-source social media scheduling tool in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What’s a social media scheduling tool?

OS market share in Top 500 supercomputers in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

BSD was embroiled in a messy legal battle with AT&T over Unix copyright. Businesses wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole. That’s what really enabled Linux to be anything more than a hobby protect. And we’re all worse for it.

Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law in c/technology@lemmy.world
Post your setup. no matter how uggo in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Where do you source your diagnostic dust?

Post your setup. no matter how uggo in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 26 points 3 days ago

Just a NAS for now. Plan to add PiHole at some point.

We're never going to have better internet in the USA, are we? in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

We had to pay extra for no caps

fr fr

World's largest EV never has to be recharged in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 6 days ago

I saw that Tom Scott episode too. I’ll miss him.

Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Linux does AD. Don’t let that stop you from switching.

Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin phaseout has begun in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Firefox portable keeps me sane at work. I don’t give a shit about the IT policy of either chrome or edge.

Color scheme with a pure black background? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Which window manager, dammit?

Anon meets up with a girl in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

I only realized I had near exclusively toxic relationships in my circles after starting college and meeting decent people. It was a rough adolescence and wrecked my sense of self worth for nearly two decades.

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Importing Flickr data? (mander.xyz)
 

Does anyone know of a script I could run to import my Flickr data into, say, pixelfed or another federated service?

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What is TrueNAS writing all the time to disk? (mander.xyz)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by acockworkorange@mander.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
9 comments fedilink
 

I have a TrueNAS install with SMB turned on and nothing else. Even when it’s idle and nothing is accessing it, there’s constant disk activity. Very low bandwidth, but it’s like some log is in verbose mode.

TrueNAS is installed in a NVMe disk with plenty of room, and there’s only one pool. I’ve checked my snapshot configuration, nothing enabled faster than daily.

What could be causing it? How do I stop it or redirect it to the NVMe drive? I’m willing to create a partition on the NVMe drive if that’s what will do it.

Edit: thanks everyone for all the feedback, I’ll try these out and report back.

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Self hosting courses on Udemy (mander.xyz)
 

So my employer got me a business Udemy account and I want to make the most of it. What are good courses there for a home self hoster?

I’ve got a couple Docker for beginners courses.

Would an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner be any useful?

I’m looking into networking as well, so I understand VLANs, routing and firewalls.

I have a decent grasp of Linux fundamentals, but I’m outdated in administration as I haven’t been more than a user for the past 10 years.

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Ingenious ways to measure power draw (mander.xyz)
 

So I wanted to get myself a Kill-a-watt. Being who I am, I wanted information regarding its accuracy, especially at low power draws. I found a comparison with a industry grade equipment (Fluke is about the best out there in handheld electrical meters). It’s not encouraging, so I thought about a more proper meter, but it’s not easy to find an actual power meter that is accurate at low loads, isn’t a hassle to install and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.

What do you use? Am I overthinking it?

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Local backup on TrueNAS (mander.xyz)
 

I am building my 3-2-1 backup system and wanted to add an external HD to my TrueNAS machine. Since it only works with ZFS, I thought of setting up that drive as a compressed, dedup ZFS volume.

I have a truckload of NVMe left on the boot drive that I could repartition and turn some of the free space as a dedup vdev for the backup drive. I don't have any other physical bays to add a dedicated drive on the machine.

A) Is that a bad idea? What are the downsides of using the boot drive like that?

B) Which tool do you recommend for local backup? I'm looking for actual incremental backup, not just a sync tool.

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