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  • A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink

    “I have to admit, I’m always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up,” the CIA agent says.

    “Thank you,” the KGB says. “We do our best but truly, it’s nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them.”

    The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. “Thank you friend, but you must be confused… There’s no propaganda in America.”


  • Sames, I have a bunch of users(2) all streaming jellyfin fine over tailscale, except one house which buffers sporadically over the day. There’s no rhyme or reason to the when, or the what that needs to be buffered. As in it’ll buffer direct plays/HEVCs/AV1s, or it’ll play them fine. Some times it’ll buffer at night, sometimes during the day, sometimes neither or both. Worse, I’m getting all my information via users, so maybe theres a common thread, but they haven’t found it.

    Their internet speed is fine. It could be WiFi being saturated in their area. It could be the relay being a very old rPi3 just isn’t up to it (The pi, captures their requests through Pi-Hole and proxyies their traffic over tailscale). It could be the laptop they’re using as a client isn’t up to it. Or it could be some setting somewhere.

    It’s annoying whatever it is.


  • Not too close. My Proxmox server is basically set up, I can’t fit anything more on it, so it’s just back end and tinkering now. I’m comfortable with Proxmox.

    That said, new box and a large windfall I’d have a look at Unraid. After donating to Proxmox at least that much first.

    If Proxmox didn’t exist (and TTeck didn’t exist) I think I would have at least tested Unraid. I was comfy in Debian with Docker as a virtualisation host before moving to Proxmox anyways.

    I’m sure it’s good, I would like to give it a go. I’m happy where I am though.






  • I’ve been on full maintenance mode for spring/summer, those are the times to be going placed and doing things. Autumn I’m going to write my winter goals for the server.

    I have another n100 box that I’m going to dedicate to immich, I have 7 users now, so when they all upload on a night my current n100 has a little bit of a cry.

    Security is always a big one. I’m currently relying on tailscale (limited to necessary lxcs), reverse proxies, Https, and app ‘sign ins’. Not bad (it’s bad) but not good either.

    For new projects, I want to integrate Audiobookshelf with Hardcover. I’ve got a project installed but it didn’t work on my first attempt so I gave it up for winter.

    I’d like to set up a virtual DosBox, accessable by a browser, for my 1000s of dos games. Again I’ve found a few projects, none worked out of the box so have been given up for winter.

    Other than that all my front end services are working well. *arrs are becoming a pain for all the malware named as good files confusing rad/sonarr. Qbit knows not to download .exes, and the like, but sonarr doesn’t know to delete them and look again. Lazylibrarian accepts no shit though, if things aren’t going as expected LL very quickly deletes and goes again. I might try vibecode a script for that.

    I’d like to break out my storage into a dedicate box. Probably get some e-waste to fill with drives. Currently I have a n100 running network, storage and virtualization, it’s a little cramped.

    It’s probably smarter to break out networking first, build a little router/firewall box (the above n100 mini would be perfect). But, I don’t get along with networking, I find it challenging in an unsatisfying way. When I’m done banging my head against the wall and things work I’m just relieved I don’t have to do it again, instead of feeling accomplished. New projects are fun, Storage I get the feeling of accomplishment from doing the thing. Networking is a dark art full of black boxes I don’t understand that sometimes play nice together and mostly fuck my shit up.

    I want to move over to IPv6, not for any other reason than it’s probably a good idea to progress to the 2000s. If I can move everything over to Hostnames however, that’d be the dream.

    Moving from Docker to Podman is probably smart.

    Lots to do over winter… I’m probably gonna build a fish tank instead









  • I used proxmox to set up my ZFS pools and use bind mounts. It’s fine, I’m sure it’s a “grass is greener” thing.

    Home labbing is a winter hobby, so in the summer months I hate the time spent updating all the machines when I could be outside.

    If I had purely Docker set up, in winter I’d be complaining that “everything is too simple” and “I want more control” etc.



  • Don’t start here. Get something tiny: some ewaste, a rPi3/4 or an n100.

    Build a Pihole to block ads, malicious sites and trackers on your network

    Risk free, tonnes of learning opportunities, huge utility, tonnes of documentation and guides to help.

    Once you’ve built a couple Piholes (break and rebuild then) you’ll have an idea of what you might want to do next and what is achievable for you.


  • I don’t believe so. Maybe someone’s written a script on github, I haven’t looked.

    A thing I like about lazylibrarian is that it just keeps rerolling until success. You probably miss good files just because LL couldn’t parse the folder structure or something, but it’s just set and forget.

    Perhaps this could be modified to work. Like time is set to zero and file size to zero.

    Not that I use LL, I just think it’s neat… From a purely onlooker POV.