- cross-posted to:
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- cross-posted to:
- technews@radiation.party
Hopefully this is not too long! There has been a lot of changes since the last time I posted a full overview like this
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This guy selfhosts.
Me: hey, I own that exact Anker USB power supply. I’m basically as pro as this guy!
Narrator: his old laptop and external hard drive set-up was not as impressive, even with the Anker USB power supply.
Funny you think I’m pro, I just like blinky lights!
Some people harness that desire into Christmas displays.
You made a mini-internet, complete with mini-mini-intenets!
Wow, you must be rich
I think the reason we aren’t rich is because we do shit like this.
Anyway, I’m off to buy enough HDDs to get me through the end of the month.
Honestly its all cheaper than you think, 100% of it I bought used bar a few things, and over a long amount of time too. Plus messing with stuff like this has 100% helped me advance my career
it’s this or plastic surgery
I’m too ugly for plastic surgery
No way that’s true: possums are known for the natural majesty!
“What would you do if you won the lottery?”
Me: points to this blog post.
You’ll be surprised how cheap some equipment goes for when a company runs out of business. Just sayin
I’ve been trying to hunt down cheap used network equipment lately. It’s a weird thing to be disappointed that there aren’t any failing businesses around me :(
I’m about to make an 8 hour round trip drive for a cheap server rack this coming weekend. Please send help.
Feeling of inadequacy rising…
You must throw sick LAN parties…
I love the fact that you have a favourite switch!
Honestly I’d love to throw a LAN party
Can I come?
If you bring the beer
I’m horrible at CS:GO but I’ll cheer you on
Great job on the cabling and the setup! As an Apartment dweller, I hope you don’t mind my living vicariously through your setup!
I’ve been there! Such a hassle. It was great when I moved and was finally able to do what I wanted
Question. I have a home network that’s more advanced than your typical house. I started holding back though as I figured when I die my family won’t have a clue about all the stuff I have setup. Do you guys ever think about this? I’d hate to leave behind a nightmare for my family members to remove and replace with a regular ISP provided router.
I’ve thought about it, and nobody will care about your/my elaborate setup after we are gone. It will just be replaced by a ISP router without regrets.
I’ve thought about that a lot. I don’t know whether to try to type up a manual of how everything works or just leave instructions on how to revert to a more basic setup. Either way I think my family would struggle.
My opinion is that your spouse will have to get rid of any other hobby related stuff. If you’re a fisherman, she’s going to have to find something to do with all the tackle, boat/s, gear.
I know a guy that was a woodworker who had a shop full of well over $20k worth of tools. Poor guy got cancer and died, and his wife had to try to get rid of all of it. Luckily she had some of his woodworking friends who helped her price and sell the stuff. (I got a pretty nice used planer out of the deal)
I have Bitwarden set to give my wife access if she requests it and I don’t respond in X days
Things generally “just work” so she would have access to everything, and she can figure out what she wants to do. All the passwords are there and all of the configs are fairly easy for stuff she cares about anyway
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters DNS Domain Name Service/System ESXi VMWare virtual machine hypervisor HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web HTTPS HTTP over SSL IP Internet Protocol NAS Network-Attached Storage NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption VPN Virtual Private Network Jargon Definition Raptor Methane-fueled rocket engine under development by SpaceX
9 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.
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Who mentioned Raptor?..
I work in a school and I think you have more stuff than we do lol.
I don’t know if I should be happy or sad
Proud.
Solid writeup. Good looking setup. I like how you have a great reason for every decision you made.
Crazy overkill for almost everyone, but you’re living in the future!
Thanks!
You said complete details… So where’s your private ssh key and public IP address?
Cool setup btw. Would love to get my hands on such a system.
Best I can do is my public key on the contact page!
Yeah but can it host PiHole?
It sure can, but so far I’ve not found much use for it. I set it up to see if it can block YouTube ads in the mobile app, but it can’t. Since I already use uBlock Origin, I don’t know what I gain
At least from my experience, with a proper blacklist it shuts down a ton more stuff. Not just pure ads, but a ton of tracking and websites/apps phoning home too. You can configure it to be as strict or lenient as you’d like, basically. For me it’s nice, because I can just apply it to the entire network, and I don’t have to worry about trying to explain how this works to my family
Maybe I’ll give it a go again, after all it does have a really nice slick WebUI
Also has the benefit of being a completely local DNS server for all your devices to use. I think you are also able to add custom entries if you wanted to be able to refer to your devices using dns. It also has some caching benefits so there are less DNS requests going out of your home network.
Personally I set up AdGuard Home because it has DNS over HTTPS support out of the box, which means your ISP cannot see your DNS requests. Pihole supports this too, but it requires additional setup.
Check out the Star Trek theme for PiHole! It’s one of the default options.
Crazy awesome setup! I noticed you had an enphase inverter next to your electrical meter, I assume for solar panels. Would you mind giving details about that system? What size array do you have and how efficient has it been? How are you monitoring the solar systems output?
I already made a detailed write up on the whole install and all the issues I faced, and monitoring. Here you go!
https://blog.networkprofile.org/17kw-enphase-solar-install/
https://blog.networkprofile.org/power-monitoring-setup-iotawatt-grafana/
These are great write ups. Much appreciated.
Gah, treasure trove of info. Thank you for sharing! How’s the garage rack holding up? I’m so tempted to put some servers in my garage but the heat can get excessive.
Holy #%!@ng sh#%.
You. I like you.
Honestly amazing setup. It’s more robust than some industrial applications I’ve seen.
Thanks for such a great write-up. I’ll definitely be referring back to it as I upgrade my homelab.
Cheers!
Thanks!
