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Homelab Organization
  • StandardNotes for me

  • Fuck this guy.
  • I mean, you can give us a bath first.

  • Using solar power station for home office/ lab
  • Gotcha, thanks so much for the reply. I was looking at EcoFlow options and the price range is also in the range I was looking at (a bit more with panels most likely). The EcoFlow options provide AC out right, so I would still need an inverter before plugging a UPS into it? Glad I asked.

  • Smart password
  • I've had this before as well; Very annoying.

  • Using solar power station for home office/ lab

    My office/ lab at home uses around 600W when fully running, and I see that there are quite a few power stations that will comfortably handle that, and foldable 4 panel setups that can generate 300-400W.

    Would there be any issues plugging a UPS (my lab has a few of them) into a solar power station such as this?

    Is there some sort of feature I want to look for such as sin wave, etc to have this work reliably, or does a UPS not really care since the controller in the power station should be normalizing voltage, etc?

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    Self hosting is hard. How do you overcome?
  • I try to balance things between what I find enjoyable/ worth the effort, and what ends up becoming more of a recurring headache

  • Hacker Accesses Internal ‘Tile’ Tool That Provides Location Data to Cops
  • Very disappointing. Does Apple sell Air Tag data to 3rd parties?

  • Filen cloud
  • Just bought 3 since they stack and I'm worried they won't be offered in the future XD

  • Why do used electrics drop so quickly in price?
  • Yeah, I've heard that's a concern. I also heard that there hasn't been enough failures to know when you should expect batteries to fail. I've heard numbers like 300k-500k miles, since the cells inside the batteries are rated for thousands and thousands of cycles. I guess one way to hedge your bets would be to buy one that has modular battery replacements, so you only pay 4k vs 20k

  • Why do used electrics drop so quickly in price?
  • They're tempting, but Tesla's feel too sterile for my liking. Also not a fan of the center screen. I'd prefer one in front of the driver

  • Filen cloud
  • I actually emailed their support asking about the lifetime licensing, and they did mention they calculate/ limit the lifetime licenses to be sustainable. I hope they are able to succeed and be around for a while with their price modeling. Maybe lifetime won't be for sale for much longer

  • Filen cloud
  • Oh interesting, was there a Q&A or something or just speculation?

  • Filen cloud
  • I've noticed this too. I have to open the app for sync to start happening. I raised this concern to their customer support and they quickly responded saying they'll pass it to the dev team. Fingers crossed they add a fix soon.

  • Filen cloud

    What are your thoughts on filen? I don't seem to be able to find a community for them here, but it seems like a pretty solid up and coming company for secure cloud storage options.

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    Why do used electrics drop so quickly in price?
  • I've read that quite a few EVs have batteries where you can swap individual modules, and don't need to replace the entire battery arrangement if something fails. That seems to bring the price down significantly, especially considering you won't be spending money on oil changes, timing belts etc

  • Why do used electrics drop so quickly in price?
  • Great point! I'll have to look into this more. What did you end up getting?

  • Why do used electrics drop so quickly in price?

    It's been years since I've checked the used electric market, but I'm seeing cars like the Hyundai Ionic 6 or Polestar 2 for low 30s, where as they were in the high 40s or mid 50s new a year ago.

    My suspicion is that:

    1. Normal car depreciation when driven off the lot
    2. General fear of batteries wearing down prematurely, even if the car has ~10k miles
    3. Any applicable federal rebates or otherwise have already been claimed and can't be claimed on used vehicles(?)

    Is there any other reason why these drop so quickly? Would buying one be considered foolish in anyway?

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    Emulating Proton Drive on Linux
  • I've heard of rclone, and did see that they support Proton Drive, but it's just hard for me to trust a translation layer like that. I know emulating their program is also not ideal.

  • Emulating Proton Drive on Linux
  • Yeah, this is my concern as well. Not just the additional chance of data corruption, but the extra layer that you have to trust. I just tried setting up a Proxmox VM running Windows and mapping the Proton Drive client to a NAS file share (hoping all my devices could see that file share and sync to it, then Proton Drive would sync everything to their servers), but you can't map network drives apparently. RIP.

  • Proton @lemmy.ml root @lemmy.world

    Emulating Proton Drive on Linux

    First off, I'm guessing this is the most active Proton Technologies community on Lemmy (if there is another, please let me know!)

    I recently started playing around with Proton Drive, and my biggest complaint is that there is no dedicated Linux client.

    I've run quite a few Windows application on Linux in the past using Wine/ Lutris/ Bottles, etc. However when trying to run the Proton Drive installer (for Windows), it quits prematurely with a generic error message.

    I'm guessing there are some config options I need to tweek, or perhaps it knows it's not running in a Windows environment and prevents installation for security reasons. Anyone have any tips or done this successfully?

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    Finding old car

    I had a 2002 Bugeye for a decade and had to let it go when I started college. I was able to find the VIN in some old paperwork, and am wondering what I should do next to try to contact the current owner.

    I see several sites that cost money that might be candidates, but was wondering if the DMV is a better bet, or if there is sites you guys have used and would recommend

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    YNAB vs Quicken Simplifi
  • Great to hear; Sounds like I made the right choice!

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml root @lemmy.world

    YNAB vs Quicken Simplifi

    I wanted to start using a budgeting program to better organize my spending/ goals, and basically narrowed it down to 3 --YNAB, Actual and Quicken Simplifi.

    I setup a self-hosted instance of Actual and was able to import my spending from my account by exporting from my bank and importing into the app, however this seemed like it might get tedious over time, so I decided to try YNAB.

    So far this has been pretty straight forward. I’m still waiting for things to sync up with my linked accounts, but I like it so far. I would try Simplifi but there’s no trial period there; though the graphs and UI make it seem appealing.

    Anyone here have any experience with Simplifi/ YNAB, and why might you chose one over the other?

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    YNAB vs Quicken Simplifi

    I wanted to start using a budgeting program to better organize my spending/ goals, and basically narrowed it down to 3 --YNAB, Actual and Quicken Simplifi.

    I setup a self-hosted instance of Actual and was able to import my spending from my account by exporting from my bank and importing into the app, however this seemed like it might get tedious over time, so I decided to try YNAB.

    So far this has been pretty straight forward. I'm still waiting for things to sync up with my linked accounts, but I like it so far. I would try Simplifi but there's no trial period there; though the graphs and UI make it seem appealing.

    Anyone here have any experience with Simplifi/ YNAB, and why might you chose one over the other?

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    Recommendation for software/ apps
  • Thanks for the reply! I'll look into these!

    Update: Ended up installing Actual and it's pretty nice! I think I'll also check out Quicken and YNAB (for non self-hosted options).

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml root @lemmy.world

    Recommendation for software/ apps

    Hello,

    So I recently revisited (and recreated) my savings spreadsheets so that I can track my needs, wants and savings. To try to keep track of my fixed costs and also try to follow the 50/30/20 rule (not sure if this is a good strategy or not).

    I have everything mostly sorted, but as new things come up, say a new subscription or a cancelled one, changes in rent, etc. It will be a bit of a hassle to keep this up to date.

    Are there any software/ apps that you guys use that you like that make this kind of thing easier to see where your money is going?

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    homelab @lemmy.ml root @lemmy.world

    PiAlert without WAN access

    For those of you who know of PiAlert or similar projects/forks like NetAlertX, do you know of any that can run without WAN access?

    I just got PiAlert running the other day and noticed that it does not update correctly unless it has access to WAN which seems odd, since it's basically just running arp commands within internal IP ranges over specified interfaces.

    Edit: Looks like I was just able to modify one function to return a hardcoded value to resolve the need to connect to WAN

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    homelab @lemmy.ml root @lemmy.world

    Network conflict on VM with multiple interfaces

    So, I finally got this project (PiAlert) working how I'd like.

    It basically uses arp to keep track of devices on your network, and let you know when new ones join. It gives some basic stats like uptime, etc and you can configure a few different notification options to be alerted when a rogue device connects.

    Anyways, to get this work on my network involved setting up several network interfaces, as I have quite a few VLANs I'd like to keep an eye on. While everything seems to be working, I feel like I may have created an asymmetric-routing situation, as now when I SSH to the VM hosting this, it will freeze up after a few seconds.

    My interfaces look like such. The problem is that I am accessing this VM (hosted on 192.168.1.0/24) from my personal network (192.168.6.0/24). My personal network has access to 192.168.1.0/24 and obviously to it's own subnet, so I think packets are getting confused, as there are multiple routes they can take to this VM.

    I believe this is confirmed, because if I disable the entry for 192.168.6.0/24 in my /etc/network/interfaces file, the problem goes away.

    How should I handle this? I've tried some simple UFW rules to try to force things to only use the 192.168.1.0/24 interface, but to no avail.

    Edit: Sorry for the weird markdown, not sure why it's highlighting keywords

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    homelab @lemmy.ml root @lemmy.world

    Homelab Honeypot

    I recently installed an instance of TPot Honeypot, and it looks and feels pretty fantastic.

    I haven't opened it up to the whole world, because my goal here was to just have the same ports I expose for my personal projects (game server, matrix chat, wireguard, etc) be exposed to it.

    I know this project is a bit overkill for this use case, since it comes with a ton of honeypots that I'm not using, and that I'm essentially trying to make a fancy IDS, however I have a couple questions.

    1. Is it possible to add custom ports for honeypots that aren't included in the project? For example, if I have a game running on port 4567 and there is no honeypot for that, I won't see any activity.

    2. Is there another (perhaps lighter) Honeypot that you guys would recommend?

    Edit: I guess disregard. I realize now that I can't have honeypots running on the same ports as the services in which I'm wanting to monitor. Port forwarding from WAN to multiple devices using the same port won't work

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    Tire suggestions [WRX]

    I've been using the Michelin Pilot Sport AS3+ for a couple years now, and they've been great. Very responsive, no tire roll in the corners and great for all season (I live in an area with only light rain and no snow). My WRX is mainly a commuter car, no track or anything like that.

    That being said, are the Michelin Pilot Sport 4's the only tire worth looking at, or are there some others that might fit my needs.

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    homelab @lemmy.ml root @lemmy.world

    Pi Alert VLAN issue

    I recently discovered Pi Alert (and the various forks of it) and it seems like something that might be useful on my homelab.

    I've decided to use this version, and have tried the others as well, but I can't seem to get it to discover things outside of the VLAN that it is installed on.

    It is running on a Proxmox VM using a trunk'd interface that has several VLANs available to it. If I SSH into the VM hosting Pi Alert, I am able to ping the devices on the other VLANs without issues, so I know ICMP detection should be working.

    Here is the config section. I am using SCAN_SUBNETS = [ '192.168.1.0/24 --interface=ens18', '192.168.2.0/24 --interface=ens18' ] To test 2 of my VLANs, and as mentioned, they are on the same interface, however this does not seem to be working.

    Anyone have any suggestions?

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    Possible change in job title

    Hey all,

    Firstly, not sure if this is the best place to ask this question, but here it goes anyways.

    I've been a Systems Engineer for about 6 years now, and it's fairly enjoyable. I get to program, play with hardware from time to time, but something is missing.

    In my free time, I like to spin up projects on my home lab, write and host new open source projects, maintain a fairly complex network, etc.

    A couple years ago, our company got hacked, and honestly, the aftermath was some of the most fun I've ever had at a job. I got to discover new tools to help my team (like Ansible to help us perform bulk actions across our tester fleet), I got to come up with clever ways to upgrade our fleet of machines to meet the new IT regulations and deploy them at scale once we got the green light to return to the labs and I got to think of new security strategies to help better protect us (my small team within the larger company) going forward.

    After the dust settled, it was back to basically only programming, but I do miss when I was able to use my infra/ security/ networking knowledge for that short time.

    If I were to change from Sys Engi to something else, what should I be looking for?

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    The Dyson Show nearing 1,000 episodes!

    This small YouTuber has been pumping out dad jokes for almost 1,000 episodes (999 currently).

    Show him some love :)

    PS, I’m sure some bot will yell at me for this link. Apologies.

    https://youtu.be/LtSWM-f2Rg4?si=e0-uur23aJh-MhEE

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    The Dyson Show nearing 1,000 episodes!

    This small YouTuber has been pumping out dad jokes for almost 1,000 episodes (999 currently).

    Show him some love :)

    PS, I'm sure some bot will yell at me for this link. Apologies.

    https://youtu.be/LtSWM-f2Rg4?si=e0-uur23aJh-MhEE

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    Time Warm in 4k 60fps?

    I just got my first GoPro (Hero 10 Black) and it's been pretty great. I noticed that you can use time warp (nice for walking around a big city) and then go back to regular speed by touching the pill button on the main screen when you are in an interesting situation.

    It seems the options are for 4k 30fps for normal speed, or 4k 60fps for "slow mo".

    I tested both, and it does seem to be 1/2 speed for the 60fps option. I think I know the answer, but is there a way to have 4k 60fps at normal speed when pausing time warp?

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    homelab @lemmy.ml root @lemmy.world

    Gl.iNet no longer open source?

    After looking into travel routers a bit, I quickly came across Gl.iNet which seems to be a leader in the space. It seems they use OpenWRT which is great, but with some special sauce on top of it.

    In a few different posts I've seen people mention that they are no longer open source. Does anyone know if this is the case? I see some activity on their Github repo, but am not quite sure which parts people are worried about being closed.

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    homelab @lemmy.ml root @lemmy.world

    Travel Routers

    For those of you who use travel routers, do you only use them to wire guard/ openvpn back to your home networks for local resources?

    Do you use the travel routers firewall features at all, or does the VPN tunnel home take care of concerns about others in the public (hotel/ coffee shop/ etc) from seeing your devices?

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    homelab @lemmy.ml root @lemmy.world

    Whoogle

    I've been using Whoogle for probably a couple years now, and it's been great.

    I do not have a cert on my PC that's running it (in my house) so my connection to it is not https. My question though, is once my query reaches from my device to the whole server (http) does Whoogle then use HTTPS when exiting to complete the query?

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