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Adding another Mikrotik recommendation with the standard warnings -- a bit of a learning curve, although it has a default configuration that "just works". If you mess something up you can just apply the default config to get back online.

Don't buy from Amazon. For whatever reason people have problems with those units. Fakes maybe? Who knows. If you're in the US buy from streakwave, roc-noc, ISP supplies, Double Radius, or Getic (international shipping).

The RB5009 series is very good if you want something beefier with more ports.

I did this recently and I wish I could answer you, but I'm on mobile and don't remember exactly what got it working. I also referenced the guide linked below, along with the proxmox documentation.

If you start blacklisting drivers, you've gone too far for passing through Intel quicksync. I think I'm the end it was a pretty basic config, like checking motherboard settings and adding text to the grub config.

Also don't guides say you have to use q35 as the machine type for the VM, but that didn't work for me. Only 440fx works for me.

Isn't that good enough?

30w x 24 hr./day *30 days/mo. = 21.6 kWh. I pay about $.25/kWh, so $5.40.

Good timing for this thread. I just finished consolidating 2 computers worth of fun into 1 newer computer that can do it all. I sold my wife on the idea with electricity as the reasoning.

In the end, it uses 30 watts less, which is not as much as I had hoped. That's about $5 a month.

180 watts with an i5-13400, 9 spinning disks, 1 M.2 SSD, no extra GPU, 24 port switch (powers 3 AP's), modem, Mikrotik router, and a large UPS. I wonder if the UPS uses any power as a trickle charge for the batteries.

I'd say start with getting Lemmy going inside your home network (not accessible to the outside world). That'll give you a chance to play around with Docker if you want to go the Docker route. I like to make Portainer the first docker container I install (I install it with Docker Compose), and then I manage all other docker containers/etc. through Portainer. Just a quick heads up on Portainer... what Docker calls "docker compose", Portainer calls a "Stack", because it can have a "stack" of different stuff running under it.

Anyway, from there I'd figure out a reverse proxy. I use Nginx Proxy Manager, which is nginx under the hood, with a web interface to manage things. I've never tried Caddy, but people like that one, too.

The reverse proxy is what controls security, basically. Someone from outside your network types in lemmy.superspruce.org, and you've told Dynadot to forward that to your home IP address. You open port 80 and 443 on your router, and forward them to the machine running Nginx-Proxy-Manager. So NPM gets everything that's pointed at your house on those ports. It see's the request is for lemmy.superspruce.org, and you've told NPM where to look for that, and it handles it from there.

Just doing these things will open up all sorts of learning challenges that you'll have to figure out through Googling.

It took me years to finally decide to figure out a reverse proxy, and once I wrapped my head around it it makes so much sense. I wish I had learned it sooner.

No, it opens without delay.

Thanks for the heads up!

I got Immich running last week and it's impressive.

The only thing I yearn for is a way to get the pictures to easily display on the cloaed-source frame we have.

Anyone know of a way to automatically email pictures added to an Immich album?

Thank you, I'll bookmark it for later.

Nice, I just installed FreshRSS (the LinuxServer version) and got it working with 0.9.12.

I had to use https://url.com/api/greader.php as the URL in the app. I also had add an API password under my profile, and in Administration -> Authentication I enabled API access.

I have an RB5009 and it's great. I'd say they're actually quite easy to get going with the default config. It's when you get the itch to start messing with stuff that the learning ramps up.

That sounds cool. I've never messed with scripts on Mikrotik, but would it be possible to share what you have?

I'm guessing a relatively short DHCP lease time is also in play so devices can get the new DNS address? Or do you have Mikrotik set as the DNS server?