Thank you!
This is almost exactly my motivation when I recently started my homelab journey. A bit of privacy, but what pushed me over the edge is that I was supporting these anti-social corporations with my money or data, when they went fully mask-off.
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You can’t be underestimated
Many of these rely on big words, or are actually pretty obviously insults even if you don’t understand.
The real gems are the ones that read like simple english compliments, unless you spend actual effort looking for the insult.
I’m ashamed at how bad some of these are.
Especially Mhania train (Shania Twain / I’m on your train).
This isn’t how I remember Terminator ending
I’ve been going through a similar journey, and I’ll tell you want I did:
I ended up just getting a low-end 2 bay Synology NAS, because it is cheap, and easy to set up shares and backups, and 12tb mirrored is all I needed. I was too intimidated by the prospect of configuring trueNAS correctly, and Synology walked back their requirement of using their own branded drives.
If you want open source NAS software, then TrueNAS and OpenMediaVault are the main options. Truenas has the better pedigree afaict, but it has pretty significant requirements that mean you’ll need expensive hardware. In the end, I decided it was way more than what I needed, I wanted my NAS to be purely a NAS, and I’d do my server/cluster on different hardware.
I almost got a HexOS NAS (fork of trueNAS SCALE with a front-end written by a bunch of ex-unraid folks to be much easier to configure and admin), but it’s still beta and I didn’t wanna wait a few months for GA, and also it has the same requirements as trueNAS, so it’d be expensive and you also have to pay for a license.
If you go with a traditional OTS NAS, then you probably want raid 1 for a 2 bay or raid 5 if you have 4+ bays.
If you get something like truenas that uses ZFS then you want raidz1 (which is like raid5 with one parity disk). Current there are limitations with raiz if you wanna expand it later, but HexOS folks are sponsoring a ZFS feature called Any RAID, to make expanding raidz more flexible, which will presumably make it’s way to all ZFS NASes when it is finished.
I’m pretty early in my self-hosting journey, but so far I have a 2 bay Synology with cloud backup and a couple of shared volumes, a rasppi 5 running home assistant, a beelink ser5 running Ubuntu server for portainer, and a cheap VPS for pangolin.
I don’t think that is self hosting because I think that the game actually runs on their servers and your deck is just a client. But maybe it actually runs on the deck and the server is just for connecting the clients? 🤔
They’re party games you play together in person.
Some have analog-only equivalents but they often require you to have physical equipment, like pictionary basically requires an easel.
I don’t really disagree with you, but it’s good to meet people where they are. Party games that use a phone is better than no party games at all.
I’d love that too.
Some games like gartic phone / draw.io, codeword, balderdash, jackbox-alike type games, that I could host on my own server to avoid tracking/ads, and play with my family over holidays.
Yeah, from what I can tell if you frequently use ibuprofen it can be a problem. I thought it was mostly stomach but I’m not a medical expert so some of the sources were difficult for me to understand. Maybe it’s kidneys too. Or maybe I’m completely mistaken.
For ibuprofen, you have to exceed the dosage by a large amount; you have to be really trying. This is evidenced by the dosage information on the packages themselves, which are totally inconsistent: 2x200mg 4 times a day is the max… But so is 2x400mg 4 times a day. But 2x600mg 4 times a day is the prescription dose. The more relevant danger of ibuprofen is chronic use, which can cause severe stomach issues.
At least this is what I’ve been able to find. But I still follow the dosage on the bottle because I’m not gonna risk it for a headache.
I’ve recently switched to pangolin, which works like cloudflared tunnels, and it’s been pretty good.
They offer docker support but they also support installing manually. You install pangolin on your vps via a setup script, and you install newt on a machine inside your homelab. It supports raw udp/tcp in addition to http.
I’d challenge what you said about docker, though. There is very little overhead in making a docker turduckin.
And actually docker is exactly for delivering turnkey applications, not for reproducable dev environment; I imagine that they don’t have a default data persistence because not everything needs it and that’s less secure by default. LXC (which is what you’ll mostly use in proxmox) and VMs seem more for reproducable dev environments, afaict. And there are some really good tools for managing the deployment of docker artifacts, compared to doing it yourself or using LXCs: for example dockge or portainer. I gave proxmox a try, but switched to portainer recently, because managing containers was easier and they still let you define persistent shared volumes like proxmox does.
Proxmox is still good if you need to run VMs, but if all you need is OCI/docker containers, then there are simpler alternatives, in my limited experience.
General rule:
Ibuprofen: you’re not gonna OD, but it’s bad to take it to many days in a row
Tylenol: safe to take consistently for a long time, but dangerous to exceed dosage
Aspirin: no idea
I am not a doctor so… Probably ignore what I said and play it safe
These boots are made for stumblin’
And that’s just what they’ll do
One of these days these boots
Are gonna walk away and I stumble
Crabs and fish tacos for dinner and the game is on the way home from the airport and you can come over whenever you’re free to join us if you’d like to meet up with a few people who are actually in the middle of nowhere it is just the same thing with the spiderman of the time you use it or you have to go bankrupt because you have a fiduciary duty or something like that I don’t know if you can make your life easier for the purposes of the day before you get a chance to see it again and when you have time and you don’t need me I will probably be in a good mood.
I understand they have different purposes, but one (container manager) seems far more suited to the typical things that people want to do in their homelabs, which is to host applications and application stacks.
Rarely do I see people need an interactive virtualized environment (in homelabs), except to set up those aforementioned applications, and then containers and containers stack definitions are better because having declarative way to deploy applications is better. Self-hosting projects often provide docker/OCI containers and compose files as the official way to deploy. I’m not deep in the community yet, but so far that has been my experience.
Additionally, some volume mounting options I wanted to use are only available via CLI, which is frustrating.
So I don’t really understand what value proposition proxmox provides that has causes homelabs folks to rally around it so passionately.
Having a one-stop-shop that can run VMs is handy for those last-resort scenarios where using an application container just isn’t possible, but thankfully I haven’t run into that yet. It doesn’t seem like OP has run into that yet either, if I read it correctly.
I’m not deep into my self-hosting journey, but it doesn’t seem like there are that many things that require a VM for hypervisor 🤞
Yeah I looked into dockge and I really like it, but I still went with portainer because it manages volumes directly rather than having to mount it manually and modify fstab.
I have to admit I don’t really understand the philosophy or value proposition of portainer as it relates specifically to homelabs, because I don’t really understand the value of VMs or LXCs except as last resorts (when you can’t make an application container, since defining applications declaratively almost always better).
Almost everything I want to host, and I see people talking about hosting in their homelabs, are stacks of applications, which makes something like docker compose perfect for purpose.
When I saw proxmox supported OCI containers, I was hopeful it’d provide a nice way to deploy a stack of OCI containers, but it didn’t. And in fact, some volume mounting features (that I wanted) could only be accessed by CLI.
I don’t get it, and I feel like I’m probably not supposed to.
Kind of a shame. I guess I’ll just get led astray