Hey #selfhosted, what is your favorite mood-tracking web app?

I’m poking around in #infomaniak email service and it is fantastic! I could have a separate user for my #selfhosted services who don’t have access to my personal emails. Nice web interface and very nice mobile app. I think I want to migrate from #Fastmail to have my emails in Europe. Also this is a good opportunity to also move my main email address into my personal domain, so I don’t bound to a specific email provider.
#homelab #email #Europe #eualternatives #emailproviders

this post on reddit of a hidden secret #homelab is something i've saved for later because Tracey is not the sort of woman that finds my mad scientist workstation and rolling half-racks. this person hid it behind books which even my ex-wife would be hard pressed to complain about, although she tolerated my shenanigans better than some

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1jl14o6/secret_homelab/

There is so much more shit you have to do to make things HA! I"m trying to see how I can make an s3 gateway highly available in the #homelab . Need to create multiple of the things, then you need to load balance them, then you need to anycast or Dynamic DNS the load balancers so those are HA!

Fuck it I'm taking the outage!!

Make U/FTP great again?
I got a few of those slim cat6a patch cables and I like them a lot. Could save a lot of space/weight/hassle compared to boring cat7 cables.

Any concerns when used up to 10m length? I just plugged this cable into a 10gbase-t link which seems to work fine.
What's your favorite fancy CAT cable?
#networking #homelab #ethernet

added a USB-powered 120mm fan on top of my otherwise fanless mini PC server last night, because the SSD has been getting uncomfortably warm and it has reached the level of occasionally dropping off the bus and needing a hard reboot (because that's where /, and therefore /bin/reboot, is)

no idea why the temperatures spiked for a while when i did so, that seems like the opposite of what a fan should do, but it seems to have helped once it got over that bit

A fancy tool to check disk usage!
(replace df)

- Progress bar
- Shows tabled results
- Colors according to space left

alias dufl = duf --only local

#linux #sysadmin #homelab
https://github.com/muesli/duf

Current status: waiting on #Ansible

ansible-playbook jail-named.yml --limit=dns1.int.unixathome.org

And for my second cappuccino.

Oh the glorious mornings of #homelab

Need some advice. Setting up Endless Os to a couple of laptops to give out to kids. Unfortunately my ISO was the “small one”, is there a suggested list of educational applications ? I got Kiwix, Scratch… anything else that is uber cool for 6-11 years old? #homelab #selfhosted

Huh. This is interesting. Home #Ubuntu server has been fine for a long time. For the past several days, it's rebooted every night at almost exactly midnight. Nothing in the crontab. No issues in authlog suggesting compromise. Super weird.

Dear #HomeLab

I have a Synology RT2600ac router I don’t currently need. It’s worth about $50 on eBay.

Do I keep it “just in case”, or sell it now to free up space and clutter, hedging that by the time I need something, this will be out-of-date or unsupported?

My hardlined network is currently all 1GB ethernet connections. I have a few machines that have 2.5gb Ethernet ability and am debating going the cheap route and just getting a 2.5gb switch.

I also have 2 Sun Infiniband 40gb switches and a ton of Infiniband PCIe cards, but holy heck is rack mount network gear loud AF.

I'd love to move to 40gb but can't seem to find decent desktop switches for it. Is it only data centre grade equipment? Should I just sell it off and go 10gb Ethernet?

I know Infiniband offers a lot more than just basic networking, but only one or two of my machines would support those goodies.

#infiniband
#homelab
#networking

Machine Build Sunday

Twelve hours of additional system fun today!

Rack rebuild state: 95%
Talos II OpenBMC validated
GPU boxes rebuilt and upgraded
EPYC workstation rebuild to 4U
Router rebuild 25G + QAT: 50%
Network upgraded:
UPS' upgraded:

Supervillain Agenda 2025
1. Mandate all screws and bolts to be replaced with Torx head
2. Mandate all packing tape to be silent type, with zero residue

Sometime in the next few months, my regular stream co-host will be out of pocket for a few weeks.

I think that that'll be a great time to do some #HomeLab #Streaming instead. Maybe that'll be the motivation to get the full CO-to-subscriber T1 circuit working and we can poke at it while on air?

Still need to snag a H4TU-C card for the CO side, and will probably need to rig something up for power and signal since I won't have the unit that that's meant to slot into.

That was really straightforward. I've now got the gpg-agent from my desktop forwarded to my Homelab's C&C host, and I can use the private key on my desktop to decrypt pass secrets on the C&C without having to have the key there or having to enter the password for decrypting the key there.

Next step: Configuring kubectl to use pass to get the k8s certs, instead of having it sitting unencrypted in the .kube/config file.

New Blog Post:

wherein I detail a relatively simple deployment to the new cluster
https://blog.transitory.social/posts/2025-03-30-episode-iv-a-new-blog/

The ep IV ref is due to a mix of: a time skip, the forth actual post on there, sudden relevance of evil empires #Homelab #Kubernetes #SelfHosted #Blog