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can we prioritize Wi-Fi networks yet?
  • Same, if I'm wrong about something I'd love to hear what it is.

  • can we prioritize Wi-Fi networks yet?
  • So this generally happens because there's too much overlap between the APs, try reducing transmit power on the 2.4ghz radio on the extender.

    Also making sure that fast roaming is enabled on both APs should help.

    You can also try enabling minimum RSSI on the extender 2.4ghz radio if it supports that.

  • Linux distros good for hosting Plex/jelly
  • Debian is always the answer for a stable, easy to set up server OS.

    You don't need to use Docker if you don't want to, you can install Plex/Jellyfin using their normal apt repos instead.

    Bonus round: anyone who’s ever transferred Plex servers from win to Linux (insert flavor), is it actually possible to keep my collections and playlists and stuff?

    Yes, transfer your plex database and that will come with it.

  • Is it safe to automatically pull and update docker containers?
  • No, but you should already have good backups in place (right??) so restoring if something breaks isn't too hard.

  • New apartment Internet has no port forwarding, admin login
  • It's not self-hosted, but Tailscale funnels are also an option.

  • Optimizing a WiFi Network
  • Yeah it's wild, the larger the channel width in use the faster it drops off too.

    6GHz Wifi is even shorter range!

  • Optimizing a WiFi Network
  • If I'm like 5 feet from the AP I'll see about 600Mbps on 2x2 802.11AC, that's about as good as it's going to get because the link speed is only 866Mbps, and you're never going to get close to that with actual transfer speeds due to overhead.

    Speed drops off very rapidly with range on 5GHz, so across the room it'll be down to 300Mbps or so already.

  • Q: Do I need Geforce Experience to make use of "Game Ready Drivers" (Nvidia)?
  • I believe you don't get Shadowplay without it, so if you need game recording / replay without impacting performance it's worth installing. But I would recommend the nvidia app beta instead of geforce experience as it doesn't require a login.

    Other than that you don't get any optimizations by installing geforce experience, other than its game settings tuner thing which doesn't work at all.

  • [email protected]: Caching frequently downloaded / used page assets?
  • Gotcha, mine always seems to be 1GB of space usage on all my PCs so I figured that was just the default.

  • Should I get a firewall appliance?
  • Yes, don’t expose Windows to the internet

    It sounds like they're just exposing a game server, not windows.

  • [email protected]: Caching frequently downloaded / used page assets?
  • Yep, every browser has a browser cache, I believe in Firefox it's set to 1GB by default? It will cache assets like JS or images on the same domain name.

  • Cloudflare is bad. Youre right.
  • Quality of their products maybe? Cloudflare feels like they put a lot of effort into their product, Google not so much with how buggy everything is and how often they just abandon products they offer.

  • Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?
  • I can't say I've seen anything like that on the webservers I've exposed to the internet. But it could vary based on the IP you have if it's a target for something already I suppose.

    Frankly I’m surprised that machine I setup didn’t get hacked.

    How could it if all you had was a basic webserver running?

  • Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?
  • Getting DDOSed or hacked is very very rare for anyone self hosting. DDOS doesn't really happen to random people hosting a few small services, and hacking is also rare because it requires that you expose something with a significant enough vulnerability that someone has a way into the application and potentially the server behind it.

    But it's good to take some basic steps like an isolated VLAN as you've mentioned already, but also don't expose services unless you need to. Immich for example if it's just you using it will work just fine without being exposed to the internet.

  • Is this a bad idea? Mesh/VPN
  • Seems like a good way to do it, would be fun to try that setup myself.

  • Is battery calibration necessary on a fresh distro install?
  • You don’t even need to manually keep your battery in the 20-80 range nowadays since almost every charge controller automatically monitors temperature and adjusts charging parameters to not damage the battery.

    Sort of. The charge controller will limit charging current if too far outside normal temperature ranges. But it will still charge all the way to 100% unless you manually limit that with the settings on your device.

    Heck, lithium ion batteries nowadays last longest the longer they’re plugged in.

    That's actually incorrect, charging a Li-ion battery to 100% is significantly worse for it than charging to 80%, and keeping it at 100% plugged in is even worse. Which is why most devices will have the option to stop charging at 80% or near there instead of going all the way to 100%.

    Charging while warm is also much worse than charging below 50 degrees F or so.

  • Is battery calibration necessary on a fresh distro install?
  • It should never be needed, even when replacing the battery as that data is part of the BMS.

    Calibration was a thing like 25 years ago with the awful NiCD/NiMH batteries as I remember.

  • Interesting OSS project: Holesail creates instant P2P tunnels between networks (like a VPN)
  • Yeah matrix is even worse than discord for usability and finding things.

    Just use a normal publicly readable and indexed forum like has been common for the last 30+ years, I don't understand the obsession with chat clients for this purpose.

  • Electricians of fediverse, should I have my selfhosting box grounded?
  • Without a ground there is nowhere for a surge to go, permanent damage is much more likely. Surge protectors or a UPS will not protect against surges at all without a ground.

    There's also no ground so the chassis may have enough voltage on it to cause a shock if you touch it. This could also damage components as they are not grounded and touching things can introduce high voltage from static electricity which will have nowhere to go.

    Additionally if you have ethernet connected to it the system may end up grounding itself through the ethernet cable, if the device at the other side does have a ground, which could cause issues.

    So it basically just means you have a much higher chance of damaging the parts, or injuring someone touching things.

  • Interesting OSS project: Holesail creates instant P2P tunnels between networks (like a VPN)
  • I don't understand, it says it's P2P, then it also says expose your local network to the internet securely. How can a P2P service expose anything to the internet without a gateway server somewhere?

    Static IP address and Dynamic DNS can expose your network to attackers on the internet. With Holesail, you expose only the port you choose.

    That's also how NAT works, you only expose the ports you choose.