It’s the root OS; that Pi is a media centre in the living room (plus it’s taken on a few extra duties since it’s always online). It’s been going for a good few years now, 8+?
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I’ve been running OSMC (Kodi on Debian) plus a few useful things like maintaining a reverse SSH connection to a VPS.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Mounting Backblaze B2: s3fs / rclone / GeeseFS / goofys?English
3·2 years agoI plan to switch over later when it makes sense to - the nice thing about Backblaze is that it scales with your storage, whereas with Hetzner you have to jump from 1 TB to 5 TB.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Mounting Backblaze B2: s3fs / rclone / GeeseFS / goofys?English
2·2 years agoIt’s for storing a few terabytes of fairly static media (for the most part, write-once). The codebases using it don’t natively support object storage (and will be in Docker containers).
It’s on a Hetzner server, and Backblaze (even after the price increase) will be a lot cheaper than normal drives, although their storage box option is probably better value over about two GB.
When I last used Debian, I found myself very annoyed with the lag in the package manager. This is a very long time ago (15 years?), so probably isn’t the case any longer. However, due to laziness (or proactively avoiding a bikeshed rabbit hole) I didn’t check and just chose Ubuntu over Debian the other day because of that.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•I hope this post qualifies, but laptop on last legs, planning for a replacement...English
2·2 years agoYeah, the original thin clients were basically useless without the server they connected to, but nowadays even computers the size of a stick of gum are plenty powerful enough for consuming webpages and videos.
You still need peripherals like mouse, keyboard and screen but you might get them as part of the package (sounds like you already have them though).
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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: Mastodon bots work here too— there IS a remindme bot already!English
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•linux/self host newbies, now is a good time to get you a cheap serverEnglish
1·2 years agoWhat did you move on to, and what features made you move?
my account is still 100% storj token funded
That seems to be the key bit, since everyone can use up to 25TB (if they can pay for it). Are you also hosting a node to earn
creditstokens?
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What do you use to document your home lab?English
3·3 years agoI love Mermaid, although I don’t think you can currently do network diagrams. I’ve seen Kroki recommended here for doing that, which supports Mermaid plus many similar markup-based diagrammers.
[Edit: added link and more info]
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What do you use to document your home lab?English
3·3 years agoI was going to say my notes are in Joplin, but my more honest answer is basically yours.
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Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml•Today i installed arch linux for the first timeEnglish
4·3 years agoI just tried to decode that acronym for a bit too: “mystery kanban bunny haired boss”? He’s a tech YouTuber.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What Self-Hosted Single Sign-On (SSO) do you use?English
2·3 years agoMy SSH auth uses SSH keys stored in authorized_keys, but I see your point. For me, OpenLDAP will be letting users in to the various services and SSH is outside that. I suppose SFTP could be something I want, but I’d be tempted to put a new sshd inside a container and have it more restricted than the system one.
I think the backup key idea is definitely the most broadly applicable, but there’s physical/KVM for a more old school access route.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What Self-Hosted Single Sign-On (SSO) do you use?English
1·3 years agoYou can star comments or posts to save them, it might be under the
⋮menu. You can view your saved posts in your profile.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What Self-Hosted Single Sign-On (SSO) do you use?English
1·3 years agoWhat’s your DR plan? My “plan” is to SSH in and figure out what’s wrong.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•YSK: There's a website with seemingly never ending offers on VPS.English
11·3 years agoThey do seem almost too good to be true. I might use those for when I want lots of little, disposable servers (like regional game servers) but I’d be scared trusting critical stuff to them.
On the other hand, https://lowendtalk.com/ users seem to have rated them highly (not that I’d heard of that site before today either!).
Overall, definitely worth the risk at that price, thanks for the heads up.
The most crucial thing for me back when I learnt to not treat cash point says no = I’m broke was that: simply tracking my spending. When I had a better idea of where it was going, it was easier to cut back.
The other thing was always know your balance, which helped say no to things that were going to take me too close to skint.
I guess the third thing is understanding compound interest, but that came after I was on the path to financial health.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Running webpages as standalone programs in WindowsEnglish
3·3 years agoAs others have answered your main question, I’ll just point out that on Firefox you can search through your open tabs by adding
before your search. I imagine the other browsers have a similar feature.
It allows me to connect into the house via the VPS without opening ports or knowing my home address.
Nowadays there are various companies offering tunnelling services, but my setup has been working for a long time and I see no reason to change.