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Jamie<p>Immich app backing up the photos and video from my phone. Gonna be here a while. 😆</p><p><a href="https://gamerstavern.online/tags/SelfHosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfHosting</span></a> <a href="https://gamerstavern.online/tags/SelfHosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfHosted</span></a> <a href="https://gamerstavern.online/tags/HomeLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HomeLab</span></a> <a href="https://gamerstavern.online/tags/Immich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immich</span></a></p>
BLACKVOID ⚫️<p>These are the kind of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/synology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>synology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DSM</span></a> system messages you want to receive!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/selfhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/selfhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhost</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HAT3300" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HAT3300</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RS2423" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RS2423</span></a></p>
Jamie<p>What are your favourite monitoring tools for your home labs? </p><p>I’m looking to get some recommendations. Be great if it has an accompanying app for mobile or a decent web app.</p><p><a href="https://gamerstavern.online/tags/SelfHosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfHosting</span></a> <a href="https://gamerstavern.online/tags/SelfHosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfHosted</span></a> <a href="https://gamerstavern.online/tags/HomeLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HomeLab</span></a> <a href="https://gamerstavern.online/tags/Docker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Docker</span></a></p>
DocYeet :verified:<p>I've been progressively more and more frustrated with Zitadel as Identity Provider in the last months</p><p>It came with the default Netbird installation process and thought I would use Zitadel as my Identity Provider for the whole infrastructure, learning with it</p><p>But it feels clunky, slow and overly complicated, so I am here to ask you, is it a me thing or is Zitadel actually not so polished ?</p><p>I am currently eying Authentik and have to run some tests before migrating but I would be curious to hear your feedback on the matter</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.halis.io/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.halis.io/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.halis.io/tags/oidc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oidc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.halis.io/tags/zitadel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zitadel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.halis.io/tags/netbird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>netbird</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.halis.io/tags/authentik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authentik</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.halis.io/tags/idp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.halis.io/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a></p>
tjhowse<p>Anyone got firsthand experience with Nomad? I'm currently running all my services on one machine with docker-compose. I want to add more machines, but docker swarm is limited and k8s is overkill.</p><p>Other suggestions, including "It's all too complex, just use two docker-compose files", are welcome.</p><p><a href="https://howse.social/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a> <a href="https://howse.social/tags/devops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>devops</span></a> <a href="https://howse.social/tags/nomad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nomad</span></a></p>
Pascal Leinert<p>Ich habe testweise mal <a href="https://social.pascal-leinert.de/tags/Anubis" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anubis</a> über meine absolut unbenutzte Seite <a href="https://pascal-leinert.de" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://pascal-leinert.de</a> drübergeklatscht. Theoretisch bräuchte man dafür ja kein <a href="https://social.pascal-leinert.de/tags/Cloudflare" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cloudflare</a><span> mehr, aber welche Alternative gibt es dafür bezüglich der Maskierung der Heimnetz IP, außer einem VPS zu nutzen? Eine DDoS Attacke darauf kann ich nicht gebrauchen.<br><br></span><a href="https://social.pascal-leinert.de/tags/Homeserver" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homeserver</a> <a href="https://social.pascal-leinert.de/tags/Homelab" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homelab</a></p>

I'm conflicted, do I migrate to OPNsense or take the time and build a NixOS router.

OPNsense is much of the same with a few fluffier features, but NixOS would allow me to expand the usage of the router a bit more.

The downside is having to learn NFTables, and my home network config is complicated.

Question to the home lab and self hosted communities: what's the go-to cloud backup service these days? I've been using Backblaze, but there have been some controversies about their future. Are those irrelevant?

Additional context: I need to run backups both from Linux (doesn't matter the tool) and Synology (their native backup tool).

TIA (thanks in advance)

Edit: people have been asking what happened to Backblaze. I'm not in a place to judge anybody, so I would say you can do some research about their finances, and make your own judgement.

Yesterday I took an old i7 first generation I had lying around, added a couple of other things I had lying around, cleaned them up, put them all in a box, and now I have a FreeBSD server in a box.

Total cost: 0 $

Don't throw away old hardware!

There's so much you can do with those unused computers everyone have at the bottom of a drawer.

With most of the vacation chores out of the way, I can finally continue with the Tinkerbell Pi project. Sadly, I can only do it today, as I will be going on a family visit tomorrow, without my Pis.

The goal for today is to at least get a basic initramfs going that can mount the real HookOS initramfs and pivot into it.

movers today, homelab racks return. finally. and having 5GbE symmetric fiber is a proper match. let's see... bunch of amd64, various eras of arm64, POWER9 ppc64le, and a Mac G5 PPC-970MP (water-cooled) off-screen...

looking forward to rebuilding the networks 💝

Today I tried AI MCP agents for the first time. I read about these agents before, so I had to see them with my own eyes. I mixed GitHub Copilot with a local agent that inspects my Kubernetes cluster. Very cool functionality. I will try to blog about it at some point (when I can confirm I'm doing this the right way).

New blog post: blog.mei-home.net/posts/tinker

I'm trying to directly boot Tinkerbell's HookOS without using EFI/iPXE. I'm failing to, but I have a plan.

This post is mostly a bit of detective work on why HookOS' initramfs is not booting properly. The answer is: The Raspberry Pi's firmware.

ln --help · Tinkerbell Part V: Booting HookOS on a Pi 4I'm trying to boot Tinkerbell's HookOS on a Pi 4 without iPXE/EFI