Tootfinder

Periodic reminder for people interested in #HomeLab and #SelfHosting
There is a @… bot that replaces the old gup.pe homelab bot.
Mention it in your homelab or self hosting posts and it will boost them. Follow it to see all the homelab posts it boosts that may not normally get federated to your instance.
For those who don’t know, these bots exist because when you look for a a hashtag, your server only checks the posts that have been federated to it.
In order for a message to be federated to your server, the author (or one of the people boosting it) have to be followed by someone on your server. If no one touching the message is being followed, it’ll never get federated to your server and you won’t see it.
Hashtags are great for finding messages, but only messages that were federated to your server. They don’t help message propagation.

Thanks to #Tailscale my #homelab is mobile now. I'm currently in a hotel and this restricted wifi is all it needs to keep my services available publicly, reverse-proxied from a @…@…

Kleine Homelab-Optimierung 🌱
DB-Backups von gzip auf zstd --rsyncable umgestellt:
📦 vorher: ~919 MB
📦 nachher: ~529 MB
➡️ 42,5 % weniger Daten
Laufzeit praktisch gleich: 7:43 vs. 7:48 min.
Weniger speichern und übertragen bei gleicher Laufzeit – kleine Effizienzgewinne summieren sich.
#Homelab

After my #homelab machine died on Monday, today the PSU of one of my switches kicked the bucket. That is in addition to the already flaky WiFi repeater that keeps taking down my entire home network every few weeks for some reason.
Maybe I should really consider redoing my entire network with better hardware 😅. But I’m planning to wait until I need to buy a new router for the fiber connection I will hopefully be getting next year.
Still, I would really appreciate a week or two without tech issues.

Ich komme mir beim Basteln an den heimischen Storagesystemen mittlerweile fast vor wie ein Juwelier oder Goldschmied.
Ein falscher Handgriff und man versenkt gefühlt ein kleines Vermögen. Ich habe eben mal wieder die aktuellen Festplattenpreise gecheckt – wenn das so weitergeht, wandern die 3,5-Zoll-Platten demnächst nicht mehr ins externe Gehäuse oder NAS, sondern direkt ins Bankschließfach.
#Homelab

Well, since my #homelab server randomly died yesterday, I guess it’s time to find out how well the #homeassistant backup/restore system *actually* works in practice. Setting up a temporary HomeAssistant instance on an old Pi4 to make sure the house works again while waiting on the response by #Geekom on my warranty claim for the dead machine.

Periodic git-extra-commands announcement
#git helper scripts and other git-related resources I've accumulated over the years.
You don't need a ZSH framework to use it - the framework code just adds the repo's bin directory to your PATH automatically.
#git #homelab #selfhosting #sre #devops #swe