[-] lal309@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I don’t have an answer for you but I have one instead. When I attempted to do swarm my biggest challenge was shared storage. I was attempting to run a swarm with shared storage on a NAS. Literally could not run apps, ran into a ton of problems running stacks (NAS share tried SMB and NFS). How did you get around this problem?

[-] lal309@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

I’ve never heard of modmic. Will look into this. Thanks!

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TL:DR; What wireless headset do you recommend (obviously works well with Linux)?

Just finished upgrading my gaming rig and monitor. Got everything up and running (EndeavourOS and the usual gaming things). The last piece to upgrade all my stuff is a new headset. I would like it to be wireless (if possible), works well in Linux (if that’s even a “problem”), lightweight, good quality audio and microphone (lots of Discord talking). I’m simply not up to speed as to “what’s a good gaming headset”. What do you guys have/recommend?

[-] lal309@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

OnlyOffice has fantastic support for Microsoft originated documents. I typically use the Flatpak version. The look and feel is very similar to the office suite so you should be “right at home”.

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submitted 1 month ago by lal309@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I've been trying Tumbleweed for my gaming needs and so far it seems to be working relatively well. My issue is about removed packages. When I first installed TW, I removed quite a few packages I did not want (KSudoku, LibreOffice, and a few others). It has been a little since I've turned on my PC but yesterday I noticed that KSudoku, LibreOffice, and really all other apps I thought I had uninstalled (sudo zypper remove ) were back on my desktop. I thought "maybe I forgot to uninstalled them in the first place" so I went through and removed all the unwanted stuff again. Since it had been awhile I updated my OS right after uninstalling those packages. After the update (sudo zypper up), I rebooted and immediately noticed that all those packages I had just removed were back (AGAIN). So WTF... am I not removing those unwanted packages "properly"? Why do they keep coming back after updates? How can I prevent this?

[-] lal309@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

Lemme fix the headline for you.

HashiCorp joins the list of companies and software killed by IBM.

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submitted 2 months ago by lal309@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

TL;DR: is there an app that can alert me when a new version of some other app is available?

I have about 12 - 15 services (freshrss, heimdall, photoprism, Wordpress, etc) running using docker compose spread across 4 hosts. Through my self-hosting journey I’ve been burned a few times using “latest” images so I now pin app image versions within compose.

The problem then becomes that every couple of weeks, I have to go out to different GitHub’s, docker hub, etc. to see if a new update for that service is available. It gets a bit tedious with 12-15 services every couple of weeks so I need a centralized and more efficient way of “keeping up”.

Is there some type of app that can track whether an app/service has a new version available? Ideally it can send me some type of notification, self-hostable, and ideally not Portainer?

[-] lal309@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Great suggestion. Not sure why I didn’t think of it. It’s one of my first stops for this kind of stuff. I did check out this site which is how I found Akaunting.

[-] lal309@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Honestly, if you have never used containers before I would suggest starting with docker as it has more readily accessible beginner walk through and tutorials. From there, you will have a good idea as to switching to podman is the right move for you or not.

Personally, I started with docker and haven’t moved from there since I don’t see a need (yet). I have dozens of services running on docker. I don’t know how heavy of a lift it would be to learn podman but like I said, I don’t feel the need to do so.

Maybe try out both and see which one you like more?

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submitted 3 months ago by lal309@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

I’m running a very small business and now I have a need to start tracking my sales and expenses for the business. Not looking for a full blown Quickbooks type of thing but if that’s all that’s available then no big deal, I can just use what I need and ignore the rest.

Obviously, I have to self host this. Hardware available varies but I have several raspberry pi’s laying around not doing much (3, 4 & 5). Ideally dockerized. My research shows GnuCash, Akaunting and Odoo.

What does this awesome community recommend?

P.S. Tried spinning up Akaunting on an rpi 5 and encountered a breaking bug (already reported to their github).

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submitted 4 months ago by lal309@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

My apologies for the long post.

I have a single server running Unraid with about 12 services (Pihole, Wordpress, Heimdall, Jellyfin, etc.) all running on Docker. This server is also acting as my home lab NAS. Everything runs fine for my use case (at least for right now) but I’ve been thinking about creating some type of compute cluster for my services instead of a single server.

Recently, I saw a discussion about Proxmox, Docker, LXD and Incus where a user felt that Incus was a better option to all the others. Curious, I started reading up on Incus and playing around with it and contemplating switching all my services from Docker in Unraid to an Incus cluster (I’m thinking around 3 nodes) and leaving the Unraid server to serve as a NAS only.

In a nutshell Incus/LXD appear to be (to me) a lightweight version of a VM in which case I would have to manually install and configure each service I have running. Based on the services I have running, that seems like a ton of work to switch to Incus when I could just do 3 physical servers (Debian) in docker swarm mode or a Proxmox cluster with 3 Debian VMs with docker in swarm mode. I’d all possible, I would like to keep my services containerized rather then actual VMs.

What has me thinking that a switch to Incus may be worth it is performance. If the performance of my services is significantly better in Incus/LXDs as compared to Docker, then that’s worth it to me. I have not been able to find any type of performance comparison between Incus/LXD and Docker. I don’t know if there are other reasons as to “Incus over Proxmox and Docker” which is why I’m asking the greater community.

Here’s my question:

Based on your experience and taking into consideration my use case (home lab/home use), do the pros and cons of Incus outweigh accomplishing my goal by creating standalone hosts cluster or Proxmox cluster?

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by lal309@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

Basically, title.

Just started playing Elite Dangerous again and saw someone using their voice to control the game. When I looked into it, they were using VoiceAttack but they were on Windows. I would love to use VoiceAttack or similar alternative for gaming. Looked just about everywhere (Reddit, YouTube, etc.) but the only thing I found was an archived thread on Reddit that seemed promising but it has been deleted (post was 4 years old).

[-] lal309@lemmy.world 53 points 5 months ago

Personal opinion. If you successfully booted Debian, stick with it. No need to try out a bunch of distros. Debian is well known, well supported, tons of resources AND everything works out of the box with your POS systems. Sold!

[-] lal309@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

In my opinion it really comes down to support, price (first year and renewal) and ethics.

For the ethics piece, if you think Google is an evil company then avoid Google Domains, as an example.

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RTS recommendation (lemmy.world)

What beginner friendly RTS game can you recommend?

As a quick background, RTS is completely new to me. I spend majority of my time in FPS type games but want to branch out a bit and try out something different/new (to me).

Requirements:

  • Somewhat casual (if that’s possible)
  • Somewhat easy to learn
  • Relatively modern with decent graphics (something that looks nice)
  • Runs on Linux (of course) and Steam
[-] lal309@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

When you created your containers, did you create a “frontend” and “backend” docker network? Typically I create those two networks (or whatever name you want) and connect all my services (gitlab, Wordpress, etc) to the “backend” network then connect nginx to that same “backend” network (so it can talk to the service containers) but I also add nginx to the “frontend” network (typically of host type).

What this does is it allows you to map docker ports to host ports to that nginx container ONLY and since you have added nginx to the network that can talk to the other containers you don’t have to forward or expose any ports that are not required (3000 for gitlab) to talk from the outside world into your services. Your containers will still talk to each other through native ports but only within that “backend” network (which does not have forwarded/mapped ports).

You would want to setup your proxy hosts exactly like you have them in your post except that in your Forward Hostname you would use the container name (gitlab for example) instead of IP.

So basically it goes like this

Internet > gitlab.domain.com > DNS points to your VPS > Nginx receives requests (frontend network with mapped ports like 443:443 or 80:80) > Nginx checks proxy hosts list > forwards request to gitlab container on port 3000 (because nginx and gitlab are both in the same “backend” network) > Log in to Gitlab > Code until your fingers smoke! > Drink coffee

Hope this help!

Edit: Fix typos

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submitted 9 months ago by lal309@lemmy.world to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

What software do I need to use to create a 3D wireframe of an object such an imported stl?

Essentially, I’d like to create something like this out of an existing stl (preferably) or created by hand if needed?

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by lal309@lemmy.world to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

Typically I would just buy whatever brand had the cheapest white color PLA (I like to paint my print) and quality wasn’t always top of mind. Now I have several prints that I want to do in all kids of different colors and quality matters. Given the new color and quality requirements, it no longer makes sense to get the cheapest.

What brand is of good to excellent quality that also offers a decent range of colors?

I mostly run my prints through Ender 3 Pros

Edit: Thank you for everyone’s suggestions! Certain brands are being recommended often so I’m going to start experimenting with those! Keep being awesome!

[-] lal309@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Honestly, haven’t even though about it. Better make this my weekend project.

Someone mentioned having a static page with instructions (home.example.com/emergency or something similar) not a bad idea at all. Actually this might the route I take too. Thank you for talking about something I didn’t even know I needed!

[-] lal309@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

I avoid McAfee like the plague!

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submitted 9 months ago by lal309@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

TL;DR - What are you running as a means of “antivirus” on Linux servers?

I have a few small Debian 12 servers running my services and would like to enhance my security posture. Some services are exposed to the internet and I’ve done quite a few things to protect the services and the hosts. When it comes to “antivirus”, I was looking at ClamAV as it seemed to be the most recommended. However, when I read the documentation, it stated that the recommended RAM was at least 2-4 gigs. Some of my servers have more power than other but some do not meet this requirement. The lower powered hosts are rpi3s and some Lenovo tinys.

When I searched for alternatives, I came across rkhunter and chrootkit, but they seem to no longer be maintained as their latest release was several years ago.

If possible, I’d like to run the same software across all my servers for simplicity and uniformity.

If you have a similar setup, what are you running? Any other recommendations?

P.S. if you are of the mindset that Linux doesn’t need this kind of protection then fine, that’s your belief, not mine. So please just skip this post.

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submitted 10 months ago by lal309@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

TL;DR - had to rebuild my PhotoPrism database and now my originals count is off by ~5,000. Can I do a full sync of my devices and have it only upload what is missing?

Hello gurus,

I’ve been running Photoprism for quite some time and I’m happy with it.

I ran to an unrelated issue with my database (MariaDB) and has to rebuild the database. PhotoPrism uses this instance of MariaDB so naturally the metadata was gone.

The original pictures (originals) were stored in a separate array so at a minimum I still have all my pictures. I rebuilt the database and PhotoPrism (docker container) and pointed it to the array for the originals. Once that was done, I logged in to the PhotoPrism UI and perform a complete rescan and index of my originals. Once it was done, I noticed that my originals count was 27,000 but i should have 31,000 objects (according to a picture I took of the PhotoPrism UI I took the night before rebuilding the database). So I started digging a bit.

  • The array itself (where my originals are stored) is showing 27,000 objects.

  • The pictures I took the night before rebuilding the database and PhotoPrism containers said that the count of originals was ~31,000.

  • The two main devices backing media to PhotoPrism is my phone and my wife’s phone. My phone shows ~4,500 and my wife’s sores ~26,500.

  • Since these two phones are previously fully backups a few weeks before the rebuild I should have ~31,000 objects in the originals.

My question is, can I redo a full backups sync of both phones (through PhotoSync) and have it only copy the objects that are not in the originals?

Since the database has to be rebuilt, I fear that if I do another full sync, it will just copy everything again and I end up with ~60,000 objects rather than the ~31,000 I should have.

What can I do to see which objects are missing between my devices and PhotoPrism and how can I only copy those over to PhotoPrism?

[-] lal309@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

This right here

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Unraid to Backblaze (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by lal309@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

For those of you running Unraid and backing up their data to Backblaze, how are you doing it?

I’ve been playing a bit with KopiaUI but what is the easiest and most straight forward way?

Bonus points if I can have the same “client/software/utility” backup data from non-servers (Windows, macOS and Linux) in my network to said Unraid server.

I don’t want to complicate the setup with a bunch of dependencies and things that would make the recovery process long and tedious or require in-depth knowledge to use it for the recovery process.

To recap:

Workstations/laptop > back up data with what? > Unraid

Unraid > back up data with what? > Backblaze

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