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@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2026-02-04 18:36:39

Still not working from my laptop due to stupid caching (particularly Safari) but can confirm mstdn.chrisalemany.ca is alive! yay.
#selfhost #footiMac

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2026-03-05 16:56:23

Mastodon Admin self hosters who are installed on standard Debian!
Have you moved to Debian 13/Trixie?
#SelfHost #Debian #MastoAdmin #Mastodon

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2026-02-11 22:03:31

Pre roll videos on my jellyfin server are one of my new favorite things.
#selfhost #jellyfin

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2026-03-05 19:25:49

you've convinced me.... (honestly,I just wanted to make sure nothing was going to blow up!)
upgrading in the background now….wish me luck!
#SelfHost #Debian #MastoAdmin #Mastodon

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2026-03-06 06:00:16

Just looking at the sidekiq stats to see how things cleared out. All in all, Not bad for a 2008 iMac.
#footiMac #Mastodon #Debian #Trixie #MastoAdmin #selfhost

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2026-03-05 22:18:11

success! Upgraded #footiMac to Debian 13/Trixie and brought Mastodon along for the ride.
Had a few hiccups...
1) I upgraded elasticsearch and ended up having to clear out its cache files as it didn't want to 'upgrade' them itself.
2) postgresql 15 and 16 are still running in the background and needed new timezones in their configs.
3) Charlock_holmes ruby gem was unhappy (as noted in recent Mastodon release notes) and needed: bundle install --force to actually get it to install again.
4) libvibs is not happy either, so I turned it off in the config file. This seems to be an ongoing issue.
Once those things were found and fixed, it all came back up.
Phew! Wonder what else broke lol
#Mastodon #Debian #Trixie #MastoAdmin #selfhost

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2026-02-03 16:24:10

updated to 4.5.6!
#mastodon #upgrade #selfhost #footiMac

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2026-02-24 17:43:59

Back up. running v4.5.7
#Mastodon #Fediverse #Upgrade #selfhost #footiMac

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2026-02-17 06:11:35

One of the coolest features of this little guy... USB modem support! If I could get a cheap data-only plan (in Canada?! AHAHHAHAHAH) then I could use it as a little failsafe WAN connection! #footiMac #selfhost #homelab #networking

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2026-02-17 05:45:19

verdict: I should have got this router 2 years ago.... as the apple nerds (me) say: the DNS loopback/hairpin "just worked"!
so much fun to be had with this little beasty! tons of config options.
success!
#footiMac #selfhost #homelab #networking

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2026-02-17 06:09:00

testing out the connection speed. Looks good max for my Telus Fibre connection.
I toyed with the idea of getting one with a 2.5Gb class WAN port as I believe Telus is offering >1Gb connections now... but I resisted. This was only $80 and is far more feature rich than the telus router and should be just as fast if not faster thanks to better internals than the Telus router.
#footiMac #selfhost #homelab #networking

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2026-02-17 04:07:45

alrighty folks! time to install the new network box!
Will see if I can fully replace the Telus router (white roundish tower thing on the top shelf) with the asus router.
there will definitely be interruptions in internet to this mstdn account, as well as to the alberniweather blog.
It would be nice if it preserves my ip address, and not need a ddns update but I doubt I will be that lucky.
See you on the flip side! I will post updates from @…
#selfhost #footiMac #network #mastodon #homelab