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Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.

I finally finished my first iteration of my Minilab including a very smooth migration from the old server yesterday so I can go to the service side of things again. I plan to get some kind of selfhosters VPN for external access to stuff that's not exposed to the internet, I'll have to investigate which one.

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[–] Tenkard@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Was able to put calibre web on nixos. Still trying to build a package that's not available (piped), but boys is it hard to package java stuff for nixos...

[–] jhdeval@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I recently setup a full matrix server. What I am currently worried about is my server. I am currently shopping for a used dual Xeon server. I am hosting close to 40 docker containers on 2 1 liter PCs with very low specs. I would love to bring it all in house to a single server with a separate NAD which I do have currently holding 60 terabytes of storage space.

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Went through and verified that a number of things were backing up and updating correctly. I feel a little less weight on my shoulders knowing things are working as they should.

[–] cmeu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Trying to get the right combo of iptables rules to shuttle traffic from vps to home lab server (as I think I'll need to do once my ISP upgrade puts me behind CGNAT for the first time...

Got it working sorta, but I didn't like seeing my vps private link address instead of the remote in logs.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

I installed Jitsi Meet on my YUNOhost server and am very impressed. It works really well and needed basically no setting up after installing.

[–] jhdeval@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I have a question on top of my matrix setup. Has any one integrated VoIP? I am trying to bring all communication in house.

[–] MaceyDay@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I finally bought a tiny PC to replace my aging APU border router/firewall (OpenBSD), so I'm trying to wrap my head around building a router currently inside the network that it will be protecting.

I have Debian installed as hypervisor, Incus, and sticking with OpenBSD for the firewall. pf makes too much sense to me too switch to firewalld. I'll also move the network-related containers off my main lab host once this is up and running.

[–] witx@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

How the hell do you get Wger working on http only? I always get the CSRF error even after trying their recommendations

[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 2 points 2 weeks ago

Finally found what's causing my laptop's DNS servers to change automatically in the background. It was the systemd-resolved FallbackDNS setting. Disabled it in a config and now I can access all my custom DNS names.

[–] TVA@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Weirdness: My Authentik instance had a PostgreSQL upgrade prerequisite in order to update it.

I'd followed instructions 3-4 times completely unsuccessfully and had to keep reverting to backup.

So, I gave up for a couple weeks and left it be in order to get over my frustration.

Yesterday, I followed the instructions again. As far as I can tell, I did nothing different than I'd tried previously and it worked first try and then I was also able to upgrade Authentik.

NOTE: The instructions aren't exactly difficult! So, I don't see how I'd have gotten it wrong!

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

NOTE: The instructions aren’t exactly difficult! So, I don’t see how I’d have gotten it wrong!

Dude, don't feel pregnant. It took me an embarrassingly long time to wrap my noodle around Caddy. Seriously, I just couldn't grasp what was going on in the Caddyfile. Then, after extensive trial and error, I happened upon one tutorial that changed everything. Now it's so simple for me, but at the time, I felt like a complete dumbfuck.

[–] TVA@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's always crazy how that happens sometimes and after weeks of banging your head, everything just 'clicks' when you're exposed to the information in the way that works best for you!

Dude, don't feel pregnant.

Context clues, I assumed this autocorrect was some variation of crazy/bad/dumb? :-D

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

was some variation of crazy/bad/dumb?

No, no, no. I wouldn't call you crazy or dumb. It was meant as 'don't feel singled out' or 'don't feel like you're the only one'.

[–] TVA@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sorry, I didn't mean to insinuate you were being insulting!

"Don't feel crazy/bad/dumb, I've had the same thing happen to me!" is a pretty common phrasing in my region to show sympathy and understanding and I thought that's what you had meant (and it sounds like for your area, 'pregnant' serves the same general purpose!).

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

“Don’t feel crazy/bad/dumb, I’ve had the same thing happen to me!”

There you go. As far as 'my area' I didn't grow up in the US or any particular area. I grew up around the world and multiculturaly, so there is no telling where I picked that up at. LOL

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