I migrated iptimr-kuma to the new v2.0 release. The DB migration took a long time. I learned I probably should have run the vacuum command before the migration, but I never noticed the button in the settings before.

Also preparing Jellyfin for its new 10.11.0 which comes with another long running DB migration.

Another benefit is if you lose your all parity disks and a data disk, you can still access the filesystem on the other data disks. So if the array fails, you don’t lose all the data, just the 1 (failed) disk worth of files.

Yubikey. It supports TOTP as well as passkeys. Plus is a physical device separate from my phone. Recommend getting 2 to have 1 as backup

I just rolled some of this out on my setup. I already had lidarr running, but didn’t know about the metadata issue.

Beets is running excruciatingly slow importing my music collection. Anyone have any insight on this? I’m running the Linuxserver.io docker container with a very basic config.

Soulseek is new to me and I set that up with a vpn.

Are you using B2 or S3? Setting both might be causing it to get confused. The bucket name needs to be appended to the end of the S3 or B2 URL like “s3:b2.backblaze.com/<bucket_name>” inside the RESTIC_REPOSITORY variable

I implemented authentik for my immich server just last week and I can confirm that Immich will merge the accounts as long as they have the same email address. My other services I had to configure to use email matching. Paperless-ngx needed an environment variable added to allow it, and Grafana I didn’t even have a user created for myself, just used the default admin account.

Jellyfin doesn’t support OIDC without a 3rd party plugin, so I haven’t set that one up yet. I also don’t use nextcloud, so can’t comment on that.

I hate to say it, but i kinda saw this coming. Ever since they went public, i lost trust in them as they become beholden to profit maximizing shareholders. I switched away 3 years ago. The part I didn’t expect was the lies and insolvency.

I switched to StorJ, which supports S3 and works as a drop in replacement for a lower price.

Another good drop in alternative that speaks S3 is scaleway. Their based in France, but it’s a bit more pricy, especially with the US$ taking a nosedive against the euro.

Tailscale is how I access my server. I’ve got a domain name that points to the internal tailscale IP address, but that’s not really necessary

I run uptime-kuma on a cheap VPS and have it ping my external ports on the home server. If the house loses internet I still get alerts.

No, unless the game you’re playing is trying to download ads then you might have some minor issues but it shouldn’t effect online multiplayer.

I’ve used AirVPN for this exact setup and it works great. The port forwarding is static and doesn’t change once setup. I switched to proton because it was convenient, I was already paying for ProtonMail et all, so I dropped the extra VPN subscription when it renewed.

I use restic with a wrapper script to automate it on all of my machines. The backend storage can be anything that speaks S3, so B2, or iDrive would both work. I currently use Storj for my backend. It’s globally distributed storage, so no single point of failure geographically and it’s cheap. Backblaze is also a great company, but I’ve grown a little skeptical since they went public.

As others have pointed out, just get a VPN and run your torrents through that. I’ve used AirVPN and ProtonVPN. Both are P2P friendly and even offer inbound port forwarding. It would be easier to setup and likely cheaper too. Proton is incorporated in Switzerland and has servers all over the world.

Wasn’t this exact scenario posted to r/talesfromtechsupport a few years ago? It sounds very familiar

That’s true. i do sometimes have issues with the ZFS package not compiling because of a too new kernel not being supported yet.

another recomendation for Fedora from me

I use ext4 for all boot drives and root filesystems. Anything really important goes on a ZFS array. And for my Linux isos, I use a drive with ext4 + snapraid. The parity drive has xfs because ext4 has a 16tb file size limit.

Got rid of anything NTFS as it was unreliable and slow on Linux.

I had a cis major and I didn’t have issues using Linux all that often. One class we had to write code in VisualStudio, before the Linux version existed. My professor was fine with me using my own IDE as long as the code compiled on Windows, which it did after adding about 3 lines of code to the start.

If we had shared documents they went in Google docs, and libre office, (open office at the time) docs were exported as PDF before submitting. I also had a Windows 10 VM ready to go just in case, but rarely used it.

I work in hospitality and our systems are completely down. No POS, no card processing, no reservations, we’re completely f’ked.

Our only saving grace is the fact that we are in a remote location and we have power outages frequently. So operating without a POS is semi-normal for us.

Not yet. It will be integrated in a layer point release