It’s been a while! Let us know what you’re currently working on, what exploded, what cool stuff you found, or just brag that everything is running fine unattended.

I haven’t been doing a lot, renovate auto upgrades for patches and sometimes minor updates work great so far. I got involved in my union to spin up a mastodon server soon, so there’s a new project, but I already run mastodon so it shouldn’t be much of a deal, I just need to get comfortable with the infrastructure. I also set up ntfy but only sent some test notifications and didn’t configure any app yet - planned for Element Chat.

[Meta] I’m not sure how to apply the new tags. In the recent versions of this thread, people sometimes posted about their ollama setup or the like, but I’m not mentioning AI in the post body (except this meta thingy) and it shouldn’t be much of the discussion, but it’s an open post. Maybe curbstickle can chime in to let me know if I should apply one of them.

  • Takahe@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I scored an old HP Microserver Gen10 from work with 4 4tb wd reds. Spent the weekend putting in an extra SSD for the OS and testing the drives. So far so good. Now I just need to figure out what I’m going to do woth it…

  • Carl Newton@feddit.ukEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I built a dashboard themed around my dog. It uses the Home Assistant API to get various stats from the house. I’m pleased with it!

    • undefinedTruth@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Care to share any more details? Looks very aesthetically pleasing. I think I should make one themed around my cat.

      • Carl Newton@feddit.ukEnglish
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        12 days ago

        It’s a PHP container On the front end I’m using Bootstrap and theming it with Catppuccin. The data for the home energy charts are populated from the Home Assistant API. They’re drawn with chart.js. The server stats are pulled from PHP shell_exec commands, and drawn with Bootstrap progress bars. The temperature card also takes data from the Home Assistant API, which also has an endpoint for local weather data. This doesn’t update as often as I’d like. But it compares the outdoor temperature with the reported temperature of my thermostat, and then the messages below that are determined by a comparison of those values. I’m also using HTMX to load each card, and each tab of the energy card separately so that I don’t have no wait on all requests for the dashboard to load. Not that it’s slow - the home assistant API is surprisingly efficient at loading a great deal of logs. When you click my dogs face, she says WOOF WOOF WOOF in a modal to offer me a search with searxng.

  • IronKrill@lemmy.caEnglish
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    13 days ago

    The best thing I did was probably set up Obsidian Live Sync after hearing about it in selfh.st weekly. Compared to the Syncthing setup I had before it is so much quicker, much easier to catch sync errors, and won’t drain my damn phone battery as much! The more things I can move away from Syncthing the better so I will probably be looking at Immich for my photos soon as well.

    On the management side, I’ve had my Docker stacks split across Dockhand and Komodo ever since a poorly executed move away from Dockge a few months ago. I finally thought about it and had the time to decide to give up on them both. I like some of the concepts of compose in a git repo and the fancier interfaces, but I just realised it was all over the top for what I need. I missed being able to simply SSH into a damn machine and docker compose up -d in an emergency. Compared to the constant deploy errors of Dockhand and the potential of scrounging application databases for in-DB compose data or attempting to deploy stacks from forgejo when forgejo itself is a stack deployed via git… going back to basic files is a blessing. Lesson learned!

    What that culminated in is all my stacks are now in Sencho (which clearly uses a lot of AI code sadly), but it was that or Dockge and I knew Dockge lacked a few things I wanted. The nice thing about Sencho (and Dockge) is that I don’t need either of them because they are based around file-on-disk simple operation. I can cut it out of my setup entirely at any moment and not shed a tear. So much peace of mind leaving Dockhand. Now I just need to find a builder image or write a script to replace Komodo’s build feature because I don’t want to keep using it.

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I found the best thing to deal with a device that won’t work…

    I’m trying to get the 3.5" adafruit touchscreen working and it’s being stubborn…

    So… I went outside and split a large pile of logs.

    Problem still not fixed, but I feel a hellofalot better

  • TheHive@feddit.orgEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Infrastructure as code. My lab has been working stable for a while now, so it’s time to mess things up again. I want everything in code. The POC with the ansible proxmox collection is already working, but it will surely take some time. In particular since I want to implement some improvements like VLANs, proper user management and such

    • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      12 days ago

      I have found that a combo of Terraform and ansible cover almost everything, if that’s of any use.

  • NeonKnight52@lemmy.caEnglish
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    12 days ago

    I just set up an orange pi as an off-site restic backup!

    I use restic for backups in my homelab onsite to my NAS. I’ve been doing this for about a year but I don’t have off-site backups. I’ve set up the orange pi with just a small HDD and set up wireguard on it so I can still access the pi when it is outside my network.

    Then I added a restic copy command to copy my repo from my NAS to the remote, and it’s working!

    Now I’ll leave it in my house for about a month or two to test that it’s still working, then take it to a family member’s house!

  • yuman@programming.devEnglish
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    12 days ago

    got a busted Lenovo Ideapad 520ISK out of a dumpster, missing screen but otherwise perfectly functional. the thing has i5-7200u, 8 GB, two SATA ports inside and this prompted me to look up converting the thing into a server, specifically figuring out how to run 3.5" drives off it; I’m very anti-friendly towards using USB solutions for such a task.

    searching was arduous, both web and yotube, and except one lonely forum post (remember those?) didn’t find anyone attempting let alone succeeding in running it thus. the 2.5" and 3.5" connectors are identical (there are micro SATA to SATA adapters for the DVD port) but the drives will need 12 V that the 2.5" ports ain’t got.

    what I’ve concluded is that all that’s needed is a M/F SATA extension cable which I have trouble sourcing locally; the power will come from a separate ATX PSU for the time being, although I’m sure I can pull 12 V from somewhere on the board.

    don’t got no 3d printing nor fabricating options, so it’ll likely look super-janky, but that’s not a huge concern for me now. I’ll do a write-up if I succeed.

  • ApocolypticGopher@infosec.pubEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Finally moved everything to the basement.

    Spent years with everything in the office with me. Used to run some pretty old and noisy devices too lol. I always wanted to move everything somewhere else to cut down on noise but that means cables to run and total disassembly. Finally bit the bullet and moved it all last Saturday. The office has never been so peaceful

  • jobbies@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I thought I’d take a shortcut and use AI to help me setup an arch thing I’m working on. Jokes on me, took two days and in the end the thing was so fucked its irrecoverable. What a waste of a weekend.

  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I installed cameras in my condo recently, and I need to buy and install a larger HDD for capture storage. I ordered a 6TB WD Purple off Amazon, only to have it arrive used (it was absolutely not marked used or refurbished.) So I returned it, naturally. I think that the safest bet is just to order it directly from one of their vendors.

    Also, I need to tinker with my postgres install on my Unraid server a bit. Right now a couple other services I host on Unraid use it, but moving forward I need it available to other devices on the LAN.

    • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyzEnglish
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      13 days ago

      You might try ordering from ebay. I find a lot of vendors sell there, and at least you know you’re actually getting the product from the person you ordered from, rather than a box randomly stuffed with “similar” products from all sellers.

  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Building a new server, pinping up the specs to run more serious llm in parallel with all my services.

    Waiting for the CPU (an amd Ryzen 9 5950X) that delayed in delivery, and building wooden crate/case to hold everything together with proper ventilation .

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Not working on anything particular, but I’m going on a road trip on Tuesday to this regional airport that is giving away two racks perfect for my use case. Deep enough for my larger machines, sound proofed and 42U tall.

    Finally my hardware can have a proper rack instead of being in a stack/pile in this harrypotteresque locker under my stairs.

  • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyzEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Over the last few weeks I’ve been making the horrifying leap from PHP5 to PHP8. I knew it was going to be a lot of work to upgrade all my various scripts and web pages but I’m nearing the end, just have some random CLI scripts still failing that I have to work through.

    I’ve been making a big push this year to get all my servers caught up to supported operating system levels. Debian will truly run forever even when it really shouldn’t. I was happy to finally get my mail servers modernized last month. The old code I had relied on for managing spam scanning and such had been abandoned but I finally discovered rspamd which replaced everything plus does so much more. The first couple weeks saw an awful lot of server emails being marked as spam while I trained the new system, seems to be settling in nicely now though, and I created some new spam-trap mailboxes and sprinkled the addresses around several web pages. Nice to see their activity picking up again.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    [AIT] I know this isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I’m excited about Deepseek V4 flash. It’s (for me) the perfect size and architecture to self-host an LLM.

    My box (and brain) are chugging through a queue:

    • Figure out why my swap is going crazy, and how to ban processes from it [Done].

    • Figure out why Code OSS is unhappy [Partially Done].

    • Make an ik_llama.cpp iMatrix for Deepseek V4 [Done].

    • Figure out why quantization isn’t working [Done].

    • Make a test IQ2_KL/MXFP4_R8 quant to see how it does squeezed onto my box [in progress].

    • Test. Tune. Inevitably troubleshoot the dozen other things that go wrong. Figure out how much spare RAM that leaves me.

    • Make a higher quality IQ3_KT quantization. This will take all night on my CPU.

    • KLD test both of them vs the full precision, to quantify quantization loss. Likely an overnight task, too.

    • Try merging the new model release with the base model, 50/50, for a less “deep fried” model. imatrix, quant, test.

    The goal is to host it on a single RTX 3090, Ryzen 7000 with 128GB RAM, for anyone curious. Though I may try smaller models too, like Laguna S1.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        13 days ago

        • It’s just under 300B, trained at FP4; absolutely the perfect size for servers with 128GB-192GB CPU RAM to spare.

        • Its fast. I’m getting 17 tokens/sec on a single RTX 3090 GPU, all experts offloaded to RAM; for a 300B model this smart, that’s crazy fast.

        • Its attention mechanism is cutting edge, good for long context without too much processing time.

        • The benchmarks for coding/agenic usage are absolutely bonkers, within margin of error of frontier models or Deepseek Pro in some cases: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731

        • …Though I don’t put much stock in benchmarks. And I haven’t tested it enough to tell you if it lives up to that hype for specific use cases.

        • Deepseek also publishes its base model. That means I can “unfry” the model with a merge if I have to.

        I am afraid of the the model being “overfit” to coding and agenic stuff.

        For reference, my previous favorite model was Xiaomi MiMo V2.5 310B. It benched well, but it also feels “smart” outside of benchmarks, like in knowledge of trivia without tool usage/internet access or comprehension of weird questions.