DeltaTangoLima

DeltaTangoLima, 5 months ago

I’d avoid Google, they don’t have a stable offering

What you you mean by not stable?

I’ve been (stuck with) Google Workspace for many, many years - I was grandfathered out from the old G-Suite plans. The biggest issue for me is that all my Play store purchases for my Android are tied to my Workspace’s identity, and there’s no way to unhook that if I move.

I want to move. I have serious trust issues with Google. But I can’t stop paying for Workspaces, as it means I’d lose all my Android purchases. It’s Hotel fucking California.

But I’ve always found the email to be stable, reliable, and the spam filtering is top notch (after they acquired and rolled Postini into the service).

DeltaTangoLima, 5 months ago (edited 4 days ago)

Using CloudFlare and using the cloudflared tunnel service aren’t necessarily the same thing.

For instance, I used cloudflared to proxy my Pihole servers’ requests to CF’s DNSoHTTPS servers, for maximum DNS privacy. Yes, I’m trusting CF’s DNS servers, but I need to trust an upstream DNS somewhere, and it’s not going to be Google’s or my ISP’s.

I used CloudFlare to proxy access to my private li’l Lemmy instance, as I don’t want to expose the IP address I host it on. That’s more about privacy than security.

For the few self-hosted services I expose on the internet (Home Assistant being a good example), I don’t even both with CF at all. use Nginx Proxy Manager and Authelia, providing SSL I control, enforcing a 2FA policy I administer.

DeltaTangoLima, 5 months ago (edited 9 days ago)

I have two Proxmox hosts and two NASes. All are connected at 1Gbps.

The Proxmox hosts maintain the real network mounts - nfs in my case - for the NAS shares. Inside each CT that requires them, these are mapped to mount points with identical paths in each, eg. /storage/nas1 and /storage/nas2.

All my *arr (and downloader) CTs are configured to use the exact same paths.

It’s seamless. nzbget or deluge download to the same parent folders that my *arr CTs work with, which means atomic renames/moves are pretty much instant. The only real network traffic is from the download CTs to the NASes.

Edit: my downloader CTs download directly to the NAS paths - no intermediate disk at all.

DeltaTangoLima, 5 months ago

This is exactly my setup on one of my Proxmox servers - a second NIC connected as my WAN adapter to my fibre internet. OPNsense firewall/router uses it.

DeltaTangoLima, 5 months ago (edited 9 days ago)

Nope - Proxmox lets you create VLAN trunks, just like a physical switch.

Edit: here’s one of my Proxmox server network configs.

DeltaTangoLima, 5 months ago

No worries mate. Sing out if you get stuck - happy to provide more details about my setup if you think it’ll help.

DeltaTangoLima, 5 months ago (edited 9 days ago)

The magnifying glass next to each season header will automatically search for season packs and pick a download for you. The person icon will do it interactively, where you see the results and select which one(s) you want to download.

This is the case across Sonarr. Magnifying glass at the top of a series will auto search for all missing, monitored episodes. Same applies at individual episode level, but the the person icon does it interactively, in case you want to select the specific release you want to download.

Edit: here’s a screenshot showing what I mean

DeltaTangoLima, 5 months ago

Is there a particular reason you used the wall plate? Was there a larger hole to cover up?

DeltaTangoLima, 5 months ago

I feel your pain. That stuff really shits me.

DeltaTangoLima, 5 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I have a 2N+C backup strategy. I have two NASes, and I use rclone to backup my data from one NAS to the other, and then backup (with encryption) my data to Amazon S3. I have a policy on that bucket in S3 that shoves all files into Glacier Deep Archive at day 0, so I pay the cheapest rate possible.

For example, I’m storing just shy of 400GB of personal photos and videos in one particular bucket, and that’s costing me about $0.77USD per month. Pennies.

Yes, it’ll cost me a lot more to pull it out and, yes, it’ll take a day or two to get it back. But it’s an insurance policy I can rely on and a (future) price I’m willing to pay should the dire day (lost both NASes, or worse) ever arrive when I need it.

Why Amazon S3? I’m in Australia, and that means local access is important to me. We’re pretty far from most other places around the world. It means I can target my nearest AWS region with my rclone jobs and there’s less latency. Backblaze is a great alternative, but I’m not in the US or Europe. Admittedly, I haven’t tested this theory, but I’m willing to bet that in-country speeds are still a lot quicker than any CDN that might help get me into B2.

Also, something others haven’t yet mentioned is, per Immich’s guidance on their repo (Disclaimer right at the top) is not NOT rely on Immich as your sole backup. Immich is under very active development, and breaking changes are a real possibility all the time right now.

So, I use SyncThing to also backup all my photos and videos to my NAS, and that’s also backed up to the other NAS and S3. That’s why I have nearly 400GB of photos and videos - it’s effectively double my actual library size. But, again, at less than a buck a month to store all that, I don’t really mind double-handling all that data, for the peace of mind I get.

DeltaTangoLima, 5 months ago

Wouldn’t this just be the Google alternative to what OP already has, and wants to drop?

DeltaTangoLima, 5 months ago

Yeah, this is the answer. I don’t have a Reolink doorbell, but I have their PoE cameras with Frigate and HA, and they work perfectly.

DeltaTangoLima, 6 months ago

You can also self-host a Joplin sync server, which works exceedingly well too.

DeltaTangoLima, 6 months ago

Vive la France!

DeltaTangoLima, 6 months ago

Immich - I moved from PhotoPrism some months ago, and am very happy I did.

DeltaTangoLima, 6 months ago

Yep, and the active development is really impressive. I’ve messaged on the Discord server from time to time, and the primary dev has often responded within minutes to help me deal with my query.

DeltaTangoLima, 6 months ago

This is usually my first place, for fiction books. Hardly ever walk away empty-handed.

DeltaTangoLima, 6 months ago

Sit tight, I reckon. All the projects have been forked by one of the more involved contributors to SMT, so I doubt it’ll be long before we have rebranded versions, that’ll take an import of the settings from the original apps.

DeltaTangoLima, 7 months ago

My biggest problem isn’t discovering my own crime. It’s trying to determine what my motive was at the time.

DeltaTangoLima, 7 months ago

Bloody typical.

They take our money by offering features that don’t meet advertised expectations.

And, yet, we’d be the ones labelled criminals for downloading via other means.

DeltaTangoLima, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Yep - I have a list of a dozen or so that I donate to annually, so about one a month. Usually it’s around 20 dollars (mine or theirs - depends on how they’re setup to receive).

DeltaTangoLima, 7 months ago

It’s no downside either. Generative AI can help speed up the creative or development process, if you take a little time to figure out how to use it.

I’ve used gen-AI to bootstrap Python projects in mere minutes, when it would’ve taken me much, much longer to re-remember all the Python I’ve forgotten, and debug my way through to the same result.

DeltaTangoLima, 8 months ago

When I was an up and coming Unix admin, the senior admin told me it was all about “little tools for little jobs”, and the OS lets you string them together into whatever solution or outcome you need.

That was nearly 30 years ago. Still holds true today.

DeltaTangoLima, 8 months ago

people who want to watch Porn without supplying a government ID

Yeah, and this is where the part of my comment that discussed “laws that apply” is nuanced. If the laws that apply are designed to abridge people’s autonomy, and right to privacy, then that’s an unjust law.

DeltaTangoLima, 8 months ago

Yeah, sadly there isn’t. I don’t envy lawmakers - there’s a knife edge they have to walk, between enabling them to catch the bad guys, but without infringing on the rights of the innocent.