Let’s do another round of this. What’s going on on your servers, any cool things? How’d the recent CVE flood tangent you and did it change how you see/do stuff?
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I recently set up my code forge (forgejo) in my home lab (yes a local only remote) and now got my first project in! I turned my OpenWRT backup in a IaC repo with now secrete rendering, a image builder pipeline, a deploy workflow guarded with my security key, nightly drift check etc
A while ago I made my first attempt at setting up a SSO for some of the things I host. I figured out things that have built in support, like Immich, but struggled with getting it done through Proxy for things that don’t have baked in OAuth or OIDC support.
I revisited it yesterday and figured everything out so I’m happy about that. Navidrome was one of the more difficult ones to figure out because I need SSO authentication for the web-ui, but username/password for the API. That was actually pretty easy once I wrapped my head around it.
I picked Authentik based on general positive things I’ve heard about it, and I use Nginx Proxy Manager for reverse proxy.
Decided to get back into podcasts recently, but baked-in ads and sponsor reads make standard listening unbearable.
I spent the weekend spinning up MinusPod, an open-source tool that detects ad reads and strips them using ffmpeg. It uses Whisper for local transcription, then feeds the transcript to an LLM to identify exact timestamps for sponsor segments and commercial breaks before slicing them out. I routed the text processing through Gemini Flash, which runs about $0.07 per episode. Clean, ad-free audio feeds with zero manual editing.
Nothing really cool per se, but I installed Radicale on my local network as I am slowly moving away from my cloud providers.
Once I find some hardware to host Immich, I’ll be fully self supporting on all my tech.
Radicale and immich replaced my nextcloud instance and I never looked back. I have both updating through apt like everything else and it’s amazing how little maintenance it requires.
Working on a custom rust server / client for self hosted obsidian lifesync. Goal is to be significantly faster than existing solutions as well as being hassle free. Using noise with curve25519 keys instead of HTTPS.
Apart from that I finally figured out why tailscale wasn’t working on my pfsense and that enabled me to move the majority of my services to be behind the VPN.
Got my hands on an old laptop. Since I started using nix a little while ago, and want to migrate to NixOS for my servers, this will be the starting point. Started cobbling together some code to commission it as a smart tv platform. KDE Plasma BigScreen is what I’m looking at atm.
My automatic weekly backup ran for the first time last night. Everything worked nicely.
If it’s automated, why only run it weekly?
Some backup methods – like VM backups on a basic Proxmox VE – only support full backups, so they put a lot of stress on the system and take a lot of space. Even if the performance hit or service disruption during the backup is manageable, a homelabber has finite disk space for backups, so there’s a tradeoff between RPO (most recent backup) and retention (oldest backup). Keeping 2 weeks of backups is cheap for weekly, expensive daily.
Ideally, everything would be backed up incrementally at fairly short intervals (short RPO, long retention), and restorable very quickly (short RTO). Getting there is a journey and weekly automatic backups is a great step.
But maybe losing a week of data is fine in their case. There are parts of my lab that would even be fine with monthly backups…
(that’s correct, I just wanted to add that Proxmox Backup Server supports incremental backups)
I’m always super excited for this kind of stuff :D
I practiced restoring my offsite backup this week. Good experience.
Then I printed and laminated the instructions and stored in two locations.
I’m into this as a regular thing!
Pinned, I think a lot of us really enjoy seeing what others have been doing to take back and make improvements to our own setup.
Glad you like it! I tried to go for a 2-3 week cycle as I realized every week is a bit too often (less comments). I also tried to do it alternating with the community on slrpnk but they’re currently down. I often forget to do these anyways :D
Anyone can make these, of course. I always enjoy doing them and talking about stuff I enjoy.
Upgrading one of my powerhouse Dell R410 proxmox nodes to 128GB of smoking hot PC10500 DDR3 ECC Ram from 64.
Now it’s cutting edge.
Last week I had to update everything to make sure that it didn’t fall back on DST because the fucking idjits in my backwoods province decided that they needed to create a new time zone.
