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[–] billbasher@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I solved my no display issue on my server. I couldn’t even get the BIOS on output. After taking the entire thing apart and testing all the components it turns out my Tv broke itself with a firmware update and couldn’t receive input on any of the HDMI ports..

[–] 123@programming.dev 2 points 5 hours ago

Name and shame the brand?

[–] clif@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Reinstalled Dropbear for remote LUKS unlock after a SSD failure.

SSD failure was two weeks ago or I'd say rebuilding the server from backups and further polishing my Ansible playbook.

I survived another week without using LLM in my self-hosted servers.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago
[–] jobbies@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I stepped away from the keyboard and riced my elitedesk 800 SFFs.

[–] Greenbeard@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] gergolippai@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

The truest answer :)

[–] parzival@lemmy.org 3 points 1 day ago

Started running arr stack, started running music assistant, improved home assistant dashboards, and fixed uptime tracker

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

My servers are up

[–] Bronzie@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago

I managed, without ever trying, to convert a friend to swap to Linux about a month ago.

Today I’m driving over to give him my old old server so he can start self hosting. He’s super keen on getting started.

So not my success, but ours? One more person joins the community today!

[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 18 points 1 day ago

this is a great thread! this should be a recurring one

[–] thelocalhostinger@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Decided to buy a raspberry pi, it arrived, I installed pihole on it and put it into my dad's house, all in a few days. Biggest win: I just took action and did it, instead of researching, brainstorming and writing down stuff for weeks and then never execute.

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I finally got around to installing Jellyfin. Still trying to get hardware transcoding working. I think I have it set up, but it still wants to use the CPU. I'm thinking permissions but I ran out of time.

Fun project.

[–] BaconWrappedEnigma@lemmy.nz 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think QSV is the new "easiest" way if you have an Intel CPU. Here are some docker compose values that might help:

    group_add:
      - "110"
      - "44"
    devices:
      - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128

110 is render

44 is video

You can grep render /etc/group to find your values.

I found CPU accelerated transcoding to be as effective as using GPU acceleration for my small media server setup. Nvidia wasn't worth it for me.

[–] sharkaccident@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Why the group add? Does JF default user not have access to dev dri?

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 5 points 2 days ago

Oh thanks! I didn't have the group_add.

It may not really be selfhosting but, managed to get a live USB with persistence so that i don't need to carry a laptop around

[–] shark@lemmy.org 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I'll go first: I got XMPP (Prosody) setup for the family.
Also, less this week (cheating a little), but I've setup all my services with SSL (self-hosted root CA), domain names, and (finally) a dashboard (Heimdall.)

Edit: I can't sepll.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nice, same! Was also really positively surprised by how great the Android app(s) for XMPP feel.

Only thing not working yet for me is group chat creation. Oh well. Maybe this weekend.

On the other hand though, voice and video calls have worked flawlessly.

[–] shark@lemmy.org 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nice, same! Was also really positively surprised by how great the Android app(s) for XMPP feel.

We're on iOS and I wish I could say the same. Looking at the Android apps makes me very jealous.

Only thing not working yet for me is group chat creation. Oh well. Maybe this weekend.

What server software are you using? I went with Prosody and it felt pretty easy to setup the muc module for groups, but, on the other hand, I haven't gotten around to voice and video calls.

[–] baner@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you using sturn/turn server? Almost always needed for calls and video, you should join prosody support channel that are really helpful xmpp:prosody@conference.prosody.im?join

[–] shark@lemmy.org 4 points 1 day ago

No, not yet, that's why I haven't set it up yet. Hopefully its a this-week thing.

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[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Discovered and got psittsa up and running, a cool little project that combines Piper (TTS engine) with a web frontent that allows users to copy-paste text or URLs and to either stream the audio from the browser or download it as mp3. Apparently it even does clean-up of old files behind the scenes.

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

I finally buckled down and built a music server. I had a ton of FLAC from before sources but never found the right software stack to make it a good replacement for the typical streaming services.

It took about a month of beating/breaking/resetting and removing unnecessary software. In the end it was way simpler than I originally thought and required very minimal resources.

[–] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Building to this week. A few months ago, I was given a broken nas. I took it, thinking I've at least got 16TB of storage if it won't work. Fixed it. Saw the software includes docker, and then saw it has just 2GB ram and before I installed anything it would complain about low memory. Got 16GB, and installed it last weekend.

Spent the week installing and setting up Immich, navidrome, and integrating my other server running arrs.

[–] qbus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

16gb. So you got a $300 nas

[–] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Pulled 8 out of an old laptop, and bought 8 for about 30€.

[–] kossa@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In recent weeks samba became unstable for using external storage, finally came around this week to use sshfs instead. Seems stable for now, all I could ask for 👌

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Samba is great, but it's hell when you need multiplatform support... I have some weird fruit thing going one to support MacOS :/

I can't remember why, but I gave sshfs a try but stayed why samba.

I deployed ntfy and traefik, and adapted a few composes to use it.

[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

~~Setup~~ Set up my audiobookshelf server successfully. Also, just realized that the Synology NAS that I’ve had running for a couple of years now without really using it much, can be mounted onto my Debian server, that I use a lot, as a mass storage and will work just fine. Mind blown. I now have plenty of storage after struggling for a while. Lmao.

[–] shark@lemmy.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Set up my audiobookshelf server successfully.

I've been meaning to do this for a while. Do you put ebooks in it too, or just audiobooks and podcasts? I've been using BookLore for my ebooks, and really like it -- I just wish it was a little faster.

[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Strictly audiobooks. Mostly for my wife because that’s all she listens to. For me, it is 90% ebook on my kobo and 10% audiobooks. Only when I’m doing something around the house or driving do I listen to an audiobook. I’ve also built my own android ABS client that I made to my liking.

[–] nickiam2@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

I just replaced the piece of junk XFi router with a proper Ubiquiti dream router 7. I didn't think it would make this big of a difference, but wow. Had to keep the old thing in bridge mode though. I want to next replace the cable modem built into the thing, but Comcrap requires you either use their equipment for $20/mo or you have to pay for unlimited data for $30/mo. They actually change you more to have the pleasure of not using their junk equipment.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I dockerized FileHunter and workflowed it on project updates: https://github.com/ikidd/file-hunter-dockerized

Seems to work fine, idk why author didn't have it dockerized already, seems like a project ready made for that.

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Managed to get stoat working over I2P.

[–] Restaldt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I got fedora installed on a refurbished win11 laptop and finally got jellyfin working in my new house after i moved 1.5 years ago.

Kodi got me by in the dark times but its nice to have episode progress saved and being able to resume from any browser on my local network.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I plugged in an NVIDIA gpu in my server and enabled ollama to use it, diligently updated my public wiki about it and now enjoying real time gpt: OSS model responses!

I was amazed, time cut from 3-8 minutes down to seconds. I have a Intel Core7 with 48gb ram, but even an oldish gpu beats the crap out of it.

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[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

proxmox backups fixed!

copyparty is really REALLY cool. (i use the phi95 theme)

self hosted gitea was much easier than expected.

jellyfin updated to latest.

fixed habitica issues (gotta have my goddamn checkmarks!)

self hosted ntfy ssh login scripts EVERYWHERE

i said fuck NUT and passed battery backup straight to truenas VM, the graphs are beautiful.

ive decided that a rclone docker set up to serve webdav will be a tool i keep on all lxcs, for moving shit around easier. turn it on, move the stuff, turn back off. (i can SCP with the best of them but this is so much easier)

i want a self hosted CA 😭😭😭

[–] shark@lemmy.org 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

copyparty is really REALLY cool. (i use the phi95 theme)

Wow. That's amazing!

i want a self hosted CA

It's totally worth it. I was putting it off for a very long time, but it was actually kind of easy.

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