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Its true all i have are cat pictures and grafana dashboards

Me after mailing tape backups to a vault in every country so my cat pics and ps2 iso's can survive ww3

Edit: perfect nerd bait this site is all nerds

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[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Man goes to aquarium and is like “wtf are all these fish doing here?!”

[–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This seems like pretty obvious satire. It's kinda like a love letter to the community commending them for their dedication and niche hobbiest interests without actually being sappy. Just a bunch of "you guys are so cool for X" without seeming like a suck up.

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

I don’t doubt it, I still think it’s a goofy post regardless

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Unix grognards running every service uncontainerized on one server keep winning.

[–] Gorb@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This used to be me but I've become a container demon

[–] PaX@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Me :3

I simply install my OS's packages and use the inbuilt privsep without needing to install like 20 different versions of Linux on my machine for every different service cuz no one can figure out dynamic linking (we should send ld.so to /dev/null imo)

"Yeah, I use containers. They're called user accounts catgirl-smug Cgroups? You mean rlimits?"

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[–] machinya@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

containers get bad rep because docker and all the mess it causes, but every process, or at least most, in the system should use containers in one way or another. it's a shame this is nowhere close to normalized and doing it is messy

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[–] BRINGit34@lemmygrad.ml 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Raid is for cowards. I have a singular 12tb used hard drive for everything. It literally can't break

[–] Gorb@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mines been telling me failure imminent spin retry count too high for years now and do i believe it? No! Get back to work!

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 10 points 1 month ago

RAID fucks up often enough and adds enough complexity that I’m honestly considering this approach. Maybe I’m just going crazy.

[–] Quai@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

WD external from 2008, its always made that noise thats just how things were made

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 30 points 1 month ago

I'm just a half step away from a caveman but I appreciated the line "your electric meter is spinning so fast it could probably create it's own electricity."

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

running Pi-hole with Unbound is superior to forwarding to Cloudflare.

NO FUCK YOU, IT IS.

[–] Gorb@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I love my pihole and unbound its also super easy to configure and has excellent documentation

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago

it absolutely is. And using fucking icloud? jesus christ

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

That sub has useful information, but it has so many gearheads buying $500 routers and building $5k server racks that sound like jet engines for backing up their photos and watching a few hours of TV every day.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I really appreciate the repetition of the central thesis ("you are all a bunch of sick freaks"). That's solid writing.

[–] riseuppikmin@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I will never stop self hosting. I have converted some of my friends to self hosting their own stuff. We have automated encrypted offsite backups of eachothers critical/cherished data.

I will continue to spread this and no one can stop me.

You will learn docker (from compose files, including minimum shared networking), you will learn the *arr stack, you will use Audiobookshelf, you will learn about and deploy a reverse proxy, rclone usage is not optional, and I'll eventually turn you into a hobbyist programmer.

I just pray their children can stand on my shoulders and convert it all to kubernetes some day because I refuse to learn enough to make arguably employable as a Jr. devops engineer.

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

We have automated encrypted offsite backups of eachothers critical/cherished data

That is sooo cool.

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[–] BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I’ve literally been toying with the idea of implementing Raft on a Commodore 64 so I can have a clustered thingummy to manage the state of an led light to indicate build status

I need an intervention

[–] fen@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

you are literally the person they made up in the OP omfg

anyway, here's your intervention:do it, it'll be super cool :)

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 month ago

picturing a couple having dinner
"check it out sweetie, i made a plex server for all our dvds! :)"
"YOU ARE SICK! you need help!"

[–] NewOldGuard@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] NewOldGuard@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Literally scheduling time this weekend to convert my docker compose setup to k3s

[–] Gorb@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

I will never relinquish docker compose!

[–] crime@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

yeah honestly, all power to the home-self-hosters but I'm so burnt out I'm not dealing with any more of that shit unless I'm paid. Last thing I want to do after spending my whole week trying to unfuck the heap of infrastructure you end up with after 15 years of "move fast and break things" is pour over my own kernel logs so I can figure out why I can't watch TV today

[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago

Haha one of the few times a super text meme is actually a worthwhile read. Self hosting really is a weird sort of drug spiral…

[–] TheVelvetGentleman@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

This is just an average redditor stroking off other redditors. I don't want this in my life anymore.

[–] Midnight_Pearl@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

it was a good post, and we can't have that, so the subreddit's mods had to remove it smh

[–] piggy@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I actually work with....

Yeah after dealing with my annoying corporate job I also don't want to deal with computers, but it's not a reason to complain that people have found durable elegant solutions to running their own services on their free time.

This just smacks of jealousy. Someone has to write the yaml, if it's not you it's gonna be the people you're paying $X/mo to also steal your data/call the cops on you after they find IP finger prints/etc.

[–] lil_tank@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

I live this thread, I'm a gamedev and it makes me feel normal for once

[–] x87_floatingpoint@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Me after mailing tape backups to a vault in every country so my cat pics and ps2 iso's can survive ww3

You have backups on magnetic tape? Please educate me about magnetic tape for backups

[–] Gorb@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don't those tape machines cost like 2k. The tapes themselves are cheap but it was a joke. Well other than I've suspiciously looked up tape backups and their costs....

[–] x87_floatingpoint@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Was my experience, too, looked up cost of tape drive, can't afford that. Not 2k, I have seen new ones for 1k, used ones for like 200, but I can't afford any of that. Perhaps some day, I will get lucky and find a very cheap one with decent capacities. It would be awesome to have backups on magnetic tape...

What do you use for backups?

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[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fuck that guy, those are the types of tech bros we need

[–] BabaIsPissed@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh no I just installed proxmox and some stuff on an old laptop last sunday. Is this my future?

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Yes.

Welcome to the group.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah but I don't want Google to have all my cat photos kitty-cri

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They already have it anyway

[–] Gorb@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)
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[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

tagline pls

[–] makotech222@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just using Jellyfin + 2 sata HDDs + an always on computer, for my selfhost

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

that's how we all begun i fear

[–] tripartitegraph@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can pry my YAML from my cold dead hands

[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

No please take yaml away, it sucks ass

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lmao

My media server is containerized

This is a very funny bit

[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

I have a PC running OpenMediaVault (NAS) with about 8 terabytes of movies and TV shows, and a separate PC running Jellyfin and Plex accessing the video files through a samba share.

I'm sure r/selfhosted would give me all sorts of shit for not running those services in VMs on a single machine. Maybe when I can find a more powerful computer to do that on...

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