Yeah. Lots of good info there.

That looks pretty cool. Doctor says no more lifting weights, but I do resistance training and speed walking. Might have to give it a go.

Am I technogrouch for continuing to watch video at no more than 1080p?

I rarely watch any video. Video tutorials just aren’t as informative to me, than if you read the exact same material. If it’s a tutorial on something mechanical, where part x has to line up with part z, or the wheels fall off, sure.

I understand economy of scale, but how much could you actually mine over nite on a little droplet before junior sysadmin notices that there is an influx of nasty grams in his in box and his little 4 banger VPS is maxed out on resources.

Didn’t down vote, and I get what you’re saying to a certain extent. I’m not touting my server as hack-proof in the least, but it would take some work. My concern wouldn’t be someone hacking in and listening to my personal music collection I’ve been working on for decades…it goes all the way back to 1937.

I would be more concerned that my compromised server was used as a zombie attack on some other server. The first VPS server got ransacked and used over-nite to (unsuccessfully) DDoS another business site.I got a ton of nasty grams for that boner. I didn’t loose anything but time.

Bitcoin miners are easy to spot. I’ve never really understood why someone would hack into a small server and deploy a nefarious miner. On a huge corporate server farm, sure. But not some small selfhost VPS somebody found on lowendbox.

I’ve got whole home audio. 150 watts…just crank that bitch up. LOL Never heard of SnapCast but I bookmarked the link for later on this evening. I like the site. Very clean and easily readable.

If you’re old enough and you live in North America, you probably remember Ronco

Ron Popeil…very interesting pitch man/entrepreneur. His infomercials were cheesier than Wisconsin, but you remember them.

Thank you for sharing

@Kairos@lemmy.today over here downloading the whole internet.

Got to be a hoarder, or a subcontractor for the WayBack Machine.

My ISP doesn’t cap, so I never really noticed/checked. If I had to swag, I’d say 300 gb to 500 gb just depending on what’s going on. A large majority of that is streaming music from Navidrome on a daily basis. Just one user. No mass downloading of Linux ISOs.

Ahhhh the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor). I don’t have those issues, so I’m free to run amuck as I please.

PVE helper scripts

+1 for the helper scripts: https://community-scripts.org/

Just get a new rack Jack

Install the 'arr stack

Cancel your sub bub

Set your self free

Please do not conflate me with the bullshit that is going on. Not all of us have hive mind.

750 reasons not to get back with your (Pl)ex

750 ways to leave your lover

As a kid I always thought the basement model train set ups were cool. Then as I grew into a young man, I thought it was kind of weird that some grandpa had a train set in his basement he played with. Then as I got older, it started making more sense to me. I don’t have a train set in my basement, but selfhosting I would imagine, is along the same lines at least for me.

@trilobite@lemmy.ml my man, I share your enthusiasm even at 71. I look back to the days I started with an Altair, which didn’t do a lot in regards to modern computers, but boy was I hooked. Today, I have a small OptiPlex MT coming in and I am going to set it up for a friend of mine’s son who has expressed a desire to get into selfhosting at the age of 10. I just checked the tracking on the shipment and it is out for delivery!!! I’m all giddy like a little schoolgirl at what the day has in store as I set up the server.

We’re going to start off small. A couple of Docker containers, and the boy wants to host a simple MineCraft server for himself and a couple of other school friends. I’ve got a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 low profile, to drop in it, and am going to max out the ram at 32 gb. The GTX 1650 isn’t the most banging GPU but it will be better than the onboard graphics and it won’t need additional power cables and will play well with the stock PSU.

I’m going to also install RustDesk so that any issues or questions he may have can be resolved remotely. I’m sure he will probably out grow the Optiplex in a few years (hopefully), but it’s simple enough to whet his appetite for now and could be converted into a simple NAS later on. The kid is just an impressive young man, gifted, but doesn’t lean back on his abilities and is always pushing himself academically or otherwise, to excel far beyond that of a normal 10 year old. Certainly head and shoulders above anything I was as a kid and I think it’s important to give kids all the opportunities to at least try something to see if they like it or not. He just received a fistful of academic awards recently. Most of the kids that were called up to the stage received a cert of achievement. They handed his in a folder there were so many.

I’M STOKED!!!

ETA: After getting everything set up to transfer ownership of the server, I have to admit, this little 9020 has some kick to it. I wanted to go ahead and refresh the thermal paste, and while I was at it, swapped out the i7-4770 for a i7-4790 which was about the best you could do for the situation, and upgraded the cooling fans. Upgraded the BIOS. Maxed out the mobo with 32 gb RAM. I’m kind of jelly. LOL It’s got some snap to it. Little man is going to have a blast.

AI is pretty useful tool if used properly

It is, however we desperately need some heavy governmental regulation as much as I rail against over regulation. If AI entities are not willing to police themselves, then government should step in.

Mandatory AI disclaimer

At least you are upfront about it, and I certainly do appreciate the honesty.

It’s interesting OP. I use the evil Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust, and I’m pretty much sold on it, much to the chagrin of others here. Yes, there are caveats, pros and cons. Even tho I am sold on the product, I would entertain a clone/fork/rewrite if it gave me everything that Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust along with the security features. I’ll do some reading once the blog is back up.

Holy shit. That’s all I got