hendrik

I really don’t know what to recommend to other people. I use opennic.org for DNS. And I don’t use any tunnels, I just do port forwarding on my router. I have an internet connection that allows that.

Fair enough. Judging by OP’s later comments, the pool is online again.

Well, not using Cloudflare would make us all rely a bit less on a single company that already dominates the internet. And it’d make them unable to theoretically mess with your traffic and snoop on your data. Other than that… I don’t think you’re missing out on features.

Care to explain?

Strange. Okay, hope that spares you from similar troubles in the future.

Check out yunohost.org (and similar projects) If you’re in for a turnkey-solution.

But yes, a reverse proxy that does all the work and handles SSL is a nice solution. I also use that. It’s relatively easy to set up, doesn’t really slow down anything and makes a lot of stuff easier to manage.

I use NGinx, but Caddy or Traefik will do the same. And I don’t use Cloudflare, so I can’t comment on that.

And btw, Jitsi-Meet is going to require some more dedidated ports for the WebRTC, STUN, etc

I don’t know anything about ZFS, but in the future you might want to address them by /dev/disks/by-uuid/… or by-id and not by /dev/nvme…

Fair enough. Yes I figured you probably wouldn’t have a M40 lying around by accident 😅

Maybe you should do the maths on other options. You could get a refurbished PC for $350. Or buy the dock anyways. Or spend the money on cloud compute if you’re just occasionally using AI. Idk.

I did some quick googling. Are those thunderbolt docks really $350 ? That’s like half the price of a cheap computer?!

That “either” means, it doesn’t matter which path you took, from now on the following text applies to both… So you don’t need to care.

Btw: With the regular Linux software mdraid, you can also swap drives without powering down. That all works fine while running. Unless your motherbard SATA controller craps out. But the mdraid itself will handle it just fine.

No support for any of the free social media platforms like Lemmy…

Correct answer. There is no general purpose AI model that can fit ino 1GB. These small models exist, but they do very specific small tasks. Sentiment analysis, object detection, word embeddings for vector databases…

For coding, answering questions and generating text, you’d need like 6-8GB minimum. For maths way more than that and they’ll still be throwing dice instead of giving correct answers.

Sure. I think there are some areas where self-hosting is kinda mandatory because other solutions don’t fulfill my requirements. But I don’t think a password manager is part of that. It stores the passwords encrypted in the cloud anyways, $0-$10 a year isn’t much and I think Bitwarden has a good track record and you’ll be supporting them. Self-hosting is a nice hobby and I think integral part of a free and democratic culture on the internet. But it doesn’t have to be every tiny tool and everyone. Do it if you like, otherwise it’s fine if you support open source projects by paying a fair price if you want convenience and they offer a good hosted service.

Lots of people like and recommend Bitwarden. I think followed by KeePass on second place.

I self-host stuff because I can, because I learn something while doing it and it gives me control. And I’m running that server anyways, so I might as well install one more service on it. If you don’t want to spend your time managing and maintaining servers and services, go for the official (paid) service. That’ll do, too.

If you’re worried about your internet connection going down, either use a VPS in a datacenter or just use software that syncs to your devices. I think Bitwarden does that, your passwords will be available without an internet connection to your server. They just won’t get synced until the server is reachable again.

Sure. It’s constantly pulling all the posts, comments and likes from potentially hundreds of instances and writing it to it’s database to make it accessible to you once you decide to open Lemmy. It’ll get updates from the network every few seconds (unless all the Americans are asleep) and that’ll cause some database operations on your side.

Concerning the requirements: You’ll need some form of server, and probably a domain name. If you’re doing it at home, make sure you have a proper IP address and can forward ports. I run a Piefed instance, not Lemmy. It uses a few hundreds of megabytes of RAM and a bit of CPU and disk. It doesn’t cache media files as Lemmy does so I can’t comment on the storage size. It’s 3GB for me.

I think about 8 years. I’m not sure. I bought it when 6TB drives were the best value for money. I’ve managed a few other storage systems in my life and usually they fail soon, ideally while still under warranty, or they last quite some time. But there are exceptions. And I’m not entirely up to date anymore. I wouldn’t recommend skimping on backups. At some point in time they will fail. But in my experience it’s completely random. You can’t expect a drive to last like 2 or 5 years. They’ll do whatever they want. And on average last way longer than 2 years or whatever refurbished drives have lasted when they get re-sold.

I’ve had one of my 6TB drives fail this year. And I occasionally hear from my friends or extended family that they have harddisks fail. Sometimes I help scrape off the data on it, if it’s someone who doesn’t do backups. So it definitely happens. Just not super often. And SMART also didn’t warn me this time. All these drives were purchased new. I’m not sure about OP’s question. Maybe I’ll try a refurbished drive myself.

Everything has pros and cons. I’ve seen 3 laptops (of my family) with batteries that looked like a baloon after several years. I’ve subsequently removed or replaced them. I’d definitely check on them every now and then. A UPS is nice. Burning down a house isn’t. I haven’t seen them catch on fire (yet), they supposedly have at least some protection. But definitely get them out of the laptop once they’re dead anyways or don’t look alright. Everyone is responsible to make that decision on their own. Take care.