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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Yeah this mirrors my approach to it.

    People can like Trump/Musk or dream of Marxism in practice. I am so far from both ideologies that I find it difficult to relate to either, and end up being called a traitor by the left and a triggered lib/loser by the right. Lemmy is in my experience quite left.

    The political differences have become so extreme that I just avoid any debate at all and stick to the technical stuff and hobbies. My sanity is more important to me than trying to convince someone over the pond that they are wrong.

    Honestly, I just try to live my life as the best person I can be. I’ve gotten to old to try to change anyone else. And I have had some great encounters here, so I am not going back to Reddit anytime soon.

    Stay awesome, people!


  • I’d probably go for a small N100 mini-PC.
    Should be plenty powerful for what you need, very low wattage and relatively trivial to get GPU pass through in Proxmox. Alternatively one of the more powerful versions.

    This depends on how many cameras, resolution and frequency of course, but you should be able to see if others with similar setups have it running smoothly. You’d be limited on storage, but can set up NFS to your NAS or existing server.


  • I plan to use Surveillance Station in my Synology NAS.
    Two PoE cameras on their own physical network. Everything is laying in the closet still as life just gets in the way, but hopefully it will be done this winter or spring.

    I also have a Eufy 2k Doorbell camera with a hub for local storage.

    None of it is for actual protection though, as burglaries are rare here. It’s only because I love tech and to capture interesting moments. I also plan on making time lapses because they are cool.





  • I’m by no means an expert in Linux, but my best advice for someone finding docker complicated is to run Portainer.
    It’s made my Docker-life so much easier, especially if you run stacks with compose files. It’s all graphical via the browser interface.

    Need to make a change to to one of your containers?
    Change the compose file (which stays exactly like you pasted it originally) in Portainer and re-deploy.
    Need to update the container?
    Click update and it re-deploys with the newest image.
    Want to stop a container?
    Just click stop.

    The first thing I’ve done on all my small servers is to get the Docker Daemon running with CLI in the terminal, install Portainer and do everything else there.

    So if you’re dumb, then I’m dumb too, and it’s not very nice to call people you don’t know dumb, now is it…!?

    Honestly, feel free to ask if you find the motivation to give it another crack and need some help. It’s made me go from hating Docker to absolutely loving it.


  • I agree.

    It’s easy to forget how much time and dedication running a custom setup can cost, and that quickly drains whatever wife-acceptance-factor you had left.

    Think of paying for a pre-built NAS less as just overpriced HW, but more as great software features that work out of the box and a dev team improving functionality for you every day.
    It can host a plethora of containers with ease on the side anyways, and if you need something specific that requires more juice: build that on the side and tinker with it.

    N100 mini-PC for instance can host anything but heavy game servers for <15W.








  • I agree with this, but would like to add for OP that diversifying is not always a bad idea.

    I have a NAS that is mainly running as just a NAS with a few containers to help me download and categorize stuff. It has a AMD CPU, so no HW transcoding, so I added a N100 to host Jellyfin on the side. That little NUC can also run HA, Heimdall, PiHole, Tailscale or any lightweight container with ease. I do it with Proxmox LXC’s.

    If I wanted to host game servers, I would probably build a server for that on its own anyways, just because it would be more power hungry and need modularity for future upgrades/changes.

    I guess the point is that there is no «one server does it all» for me. I prefer to have servers more suitable for their tasks than having one beast doing everything alone. Makes it suck less when stuff breaks too.

    Otherwise I think the comment above is on point.