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IT ist ein blödes Hobby.

Meine private Seite und das örtliche Stolpersteine Projekt sind mit @gohugoio gebaut. Der Code liegt bei GitHub, die private Seite baut über GitHub Actions und deployt auf meinen Webspace. Das andere Projekt wird bei Netlify gebaut und gehostet.

Vorgestern Umzug beider Repos nach @Codeberg. Gestern Umstellung auf Eigenbau CI/CD auf dem lokalen Server und Umzug Stolpersteine auf den eigenen Webspace. Jetzt fehlt noch ein Webhook-Adapter als Build Trigger.

Dell PowerEdge - Replace DVD w/SATA Bay

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eviltoast.orgDell PowerEdge - Replace DVD w/SATA Bay - eviltoastThis is a hack to add an extra bay to a Dell Server. Tried with both PowerEdge R230 and R430. Replace DVD w/SATA Bay. They make replacements for laptop DVD bays that allow you to put a second sata drive there instead. This replacement part can also drop right in place of the slim DVD bay on a Dell PowerEdge. I’ve seen multiple references to this setup working. This guy’s blog has screenshots of it. https://tachytelic.net/2019/10/install-ssd-optical-13th-generation-poweredge/ [https://tachytelic.net/2019/10/install-ssd-optical-13th-generation-poweredge/] I don’t see the disk. At all. The OS doesn’t. PERCCLI doesn’t see it. iDRAC doesn’t. When I got into Lifecycle Controller to manage the disks, It used to see the SATA DVD drive at the end of the list, but now there’s no entry. (On the R230 when I removed the drop-in and put the original DVD back, it went back to normal. The bay is in the R430 right now.) I’ve got the right bay, it fits. More important, the electrical stuff all matches up. The drive light activates. Got a brand new drive in there. It hasn’t been tested otherwise, but I’d like to think its ok. In the post I’ve linked, it looks like he has his SATA set to ATA, not AHCI, so I tried that, but no change. Poked at it quite a bit. Can’t think of anything else to examine. Alright … so there’s all the setup. And here’s why I think it doesn’t work. My main disks are all SAS on both machines. R230 PERC H330 - 4 x SAS 7.5k 3.5" spinners R430 PERC H730 mini - 6 x SAS 10.5k 2.5" spinners I’ve read that you can’t mix SAS and SATA drives. As the DVD seemed to be a normal SATA, I figured I could use that port with a SATA SSD. But maybe not. It’s not worked on either server, and all the gear involved appears to be operational. It’s worked for other people. But every reference I’ve seen to this working seems to be all SATA setups. Does anybody know for sure?

What are people doing for home server UPS in 2025?

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lemmy.todayWhat are people doing for home server UPS in 2025? - Lemmy TodayI’m kind of curious as to what people these days are doing on a UPS [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninterruptible_power_supply] front, to keep systems running through power outages and provide a clean shutdown prior to batteries becoming exhausted. It used to be common to see UPS systems sold to give desktop computer systems time to shut down cleanly. The UPS market seems pretty stale to me. There have been changes over the past twenty years or so that I’d guess have caused some of that: * A move to filesystems structured so as to not risk corruption at the filesystem level from power loss at an arbitrary time. * Many people using laptops. Doesn’t change the situation much for servers, but I think that it reduces volume of the market that might want some kind of UPS. I had expected that, with the drop in cost of lithium batteries and rise in tremendous rise in use of large batteries, that one would see new lithium-ion UPS units with large capacity. But in practice, that doesn’t seem to be the case. UPS units are still around, but basically only provide a small amount of power, enough time to shut down. They aren’t normally geared up to keep systems running for hours. There are lithium battery-based “home power backup” systems that provide loads of storage and automatic switching over to battery power if the mains power drops. However, these have some serious drawbacks that limit their use in a UPS role: * Some of these aren’t rated to switch over within a sharply-bounded amount of time, to avoid risk of momentary power interruption. For many devices, a momentary power interruption isn’t a huge deal, but for computers, it matters. I understand that on the order of 10 ms [https://www.storagereview.com/review/portable-power-stations-actually-work-pretty-well-as-a-ups] is expected for reliable UPS use, to keep computer power supplies happy. * One thing that one would like from a UPS is a clean shutdown prior to the battery becoming exhausted. For that to be done, the UPS needs to report its current charge capacity, so that software on the system can predict remaining runtime before exhaustion. Network UPS Tools [https://networkupstools.org/] is a widely-used Linux UPS-interfacing software package that does this shutdown. But looking at its hardware support grid, there isn’t support for these power stations, and I suspect that if there were reasonable charge-level reporting support anywhere, there would be. * USB has device classes that permits charge-level reporting, and looking at the USB spec, that appears to be true of USB PD. I have wireless headphones, for example, that make use of this. However, as best I can tell from looking through the kernel source, Linux doesn’t provide a way to treat these as a power_supply-class device, the way laptops have a BAT0, BAT1, etc, which would let the OS provide a clean shutdown itself when the time-remaining drops to a critical level. And even though power stations typically provide USB charging, I have not been able to find any that actually report their charge level via that USB in such a fashion. I can think of at least three viable ways to do this: * I’m sure that there are people who have rigged up some kind of ad hoc system off a full-blown grid-tie power system, with separate batteries, inverter, charge controller, etc. In that case, all one needs is a voltmeter linked to the batteries prior to the voltage-regulation stuff, knowing what battery type is involved, and one could give a capacity estimate. Doing this ad hoc is going to have some drawbacks that I’d hope that a vendor-provided battery management system wouldn’t, like having to calibrate to one’s batteries and not automatically dealing with battery aging. * Simply run a UPS and a “big-battery” lithium backup power station. Plug the UPS into the power station and the computer into the UPS. The UPS provides the rapid changeover time and provides the computer with a warning prior to shutdown. This uses systems that should work out-of-box, but doesn’t really seem ideal to me in that one’s buying extra hardware and doesn’t have a unified view of time remaining on the battery – the computer thinks that everything’s normal until the power station is drained and the UPS kicks on. * Some people use old laptops as servers. For those, you can already use the OS’s built-in power management to deal with laptop batteries. If you have a power station extending the runtime, great, though in that case, you run into the same “you don’t have a unified view of the laptop and power station battery charge” situation. I’m pretty sure that people out there doing self-hosted servers have thought about this, and I’m curious as to what people out there are doing in terms of the options out there. Do you just not worry about it, given the fact that corruption at a filesystem level isn’t such a big deal? Do you just use a UPS for a handful of minutes prior to a clean shutdown, and not try to keep your systems running through longer power outages? I also don’t know how resillient home Internet connections are in the presence of power outages, whether typical cable, fiber, and DSL connections remain functional from the telco’s standpoint. I know that cell towers typically have some sort of generator setup, as I’ve read about those in the past, and believe that I’ve read that they typically can run for at least several days without power even without technicians driving out. I don’t know to what degree that is also true of wired communications hardware. I’m curious as to what the experiences of people who have put their server and network hardware on some form of backup power is. If you keep your on-premises hardware powered, have you retained Internet connectivity in power outages that you’ve experienced?

Vikunja is really nice:

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@vikunja (made by @kolaente)

Self-hosted planner. Set up projects, create tasks, kanban, etc. Assign tasks to other people (for team use), set deadlines and repeating tasks, make child and parent tasks. Very nice, slick application.

Managed European hosting too, if you prefer.

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Smarthome: Von FHEM über openHAB zu Home Assistant
Vor mittlerweile acht Jahren begann meine Reise in der faszinierenden Welt der Homeautomatisierung – und was für eine Entwicklung es gewesen ist! In diesem Blogpost möchte ich meine Erfahrungen, Herausforderungen und Learnings teilen, die mich von FHEM über openHAB bis hin zu Home Assistant geführt haben.

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Tandoor looks good:

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Self-hosted recipes database. Can import recipes from websites, share with private links, built in shopping list to add ingredients for a particular recipe or meal plan, etc.

They also have European managed hosting plans if self-hosting isn't your thing.

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After much waffling and mucking, I finally have a functional mail server.

Still a few more things to finish up, but it's coming along. Even with #RYOMS, it can be quite the process. I tried testing out some of the AIO solutions, but kept running into trouble with those as well. Between the book and the LinuxBabe tutorials, things have been working well, if a bit time consuming.

[OC] mag37/dockcheck - CLI tool to automate docker image updates.

lemmy.ml/post/27296522

lemmy.ml[OC] mag37/dockcheck - CLI tool to automate docker image updates. - Lemmydockcheck [https://github.com/mag37/dockcheck] is simple CLI tool to simplify keeping track of and updating your containers. Selective semi/fully auto updates, notifications on new versions and much more. Another 6 months have passed and a bunch of updates have been made. The most recent ones are multi-threaded/asynchronous checks to greatly increase speed, notifications on new dockcheck release for those who run scheduled unattended checks, osx and bsd compatibility changes, prometheus exporter to push stats to eg. Grafana and more. I’m happy to see the project still being used and improved by its users as I thought other great tools (dockge, ) would replace it. As it’s been a while I’ll try to list the features: - Checks all your containers for new updates, without pulling. - Manually select which containers or choose all. - Either run it to auto update all, or not update any and just list results. - Tie it to notify you on new updates. - Templates: Synology DSM, mSMTP, Apprise, ntfy.sh [http://ntfy.sh] , Gotify , Pushbullet , Telegram , Matrix, Pushover , Discord. - Enrich with urls to container release notes. - Optionally export metrics to Prometheus to show how many images got updates available in a graph. - Other misc options as: - Use labels to only update containers with label set. - Use a N days old option to only update images that have been stable release N days. - Auto prune dangling images. - Include stopped containers. - Exclude specific containers. I’ve got to thank this community for contributing with donations, ideas, surfacing issues, testing and PRs. It’s a joy!