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ij<p>Des Rätsels Lösung:</p><p>a) Die Pfosten standen zu dicht, um die Rackschienen eines Servers einbauen zu können. Während der linke Pfosten vorne sich mit der Hand bewegen ließ, konnte davon beim rechten Pfosten nicht die Rede sein. Dem rechten Vollpfosten musste ich erst durch ein paar kräftige Schläge zur Vernunft bringen.</p><p>b) beim linken war oben im Rack die Leiste mit den HE vorbogen. Keine Ahnung, wer das geschafft hat, aber den linken Pfosten habe ich dann auch wieder auf Linie gebracht.</p><p> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/sysadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sysadmin</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/sysadminlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sysadminlife</span></a></p>

Here’s a (very non-exhaustive) list of services I currently self-host across my own hardware and data center deployments:

☁️ Cloud Storage – Synology Drive-based, hosted on enterprise-grade Synology servers
📸 Synology Photos
📆 Synology Calendar
📇 Synology Contacts
🔐 Authentik (SSO / identity management)
🐘 GoToSocial (Fediverse presence!)
🧾 Invoice Ninja
🔗 Kutt (URL shortener)
📰 Ghost (blog CMS)
🌍 Wordpress
🎓 Moodle (online learning)
💬 Matrix (w/ Element)
📅 Cal.com (booking system)
📷 Immich (photo/video backup)
🎥 TubeArchivist (YouTube archiving)
🎙️ Jitsi (video conferencing)
🧠 Tdarr (media transcoding automation)
📈 Uptime Kuma (monitoring)
📺 PeerTube (video hosting + federation)
…and many others in testing or on the roadmap 🤓

Some of these will soon be publicly available to others — privacy-respecting, ad-free, and powered by love for open infrastructure. ❤️

If you’re into self-hosting, the Fediverse, or building a digital home you truly own, let’s connect! 🧵

#SelfHosting #Fediverse #FOSS #ActivityPub #OpenSource #Homelab #SysAdminLife #CloudSovereignty

A Windows sysadmin tool that more people should know about is the Magic Number Database at magnumdb.com

This database is great for pasting weird Windows hexadecimal errors into and finding out what they might mean.

Example from today, I got 0x80d02002 during a Windows update. Magnumdb tells me that this result corresponds to DO_E_DOWNLOAD_NO_PROGRESS, so now I know it's probably because an update server isn't responding.

www.magnumdb.comThe Magic Number Database | MagnumDBThe Magic Number Database. Type a value and it will return the corresponding constant, and vice versa. Contains 360,000 values!

Yesterday, my VPS control panel showed 10GB/100GB. Now, it's plus 1, making it 11GB/100GB. It seems like I have little to be concerned about, and maybe I can reduce the remote data retention to only 3 to 1 day, making it more efficient. 😄 Federation isn't my main focus for my server, I think. But I prefer to have an audience that chooses to read my posts, whether they are trusted acquaintances, friends, family, or others. 😄

I successfully renewed my VPS `vps.kupiapps.my` for RM91.00 for another 1 month. With the support of my mother, who raised me and is still raising me now, my mother unconditionally loves me, and she is responsible for taking care of us since childhood, along with my father. I hope this VPS lasts longer, maybe around a century? Hehehe. Because I love YunoHost's built-in email features. Have a nice day! 😎👉

#VPS #ServerLife #YunoHost #TechJourney #GratitudePost #FamilySupport #LinuxHosting #EmailServer #SelfHosting #MotherlyLove #TechWithHeart #SysadminLife #DigitalTools #OpenSource #HostingGoals #PersonalServer #MalaysiaTech #GeekLife #RM91WellSpent #TechForLife

Giving #Pangolin a try…

Very first install experience:
- Installer is a #GoLang binary, which is hard to inspect
- Installer doesn’t tell you the requirements for the initial admin password before asking for it.
- Resulting Pangolin container crashes immediately at the very first attempt to start because of my password.
- There’s no —flag to force the installer to rerun everything
- It IS possible to rerun the installer after manually removing broken containers and config files.