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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • It’s been fairly smooth lately, knock on wood!

    My Valheim server that is set up for friends and family had some issues, but nothing in the logs so I assume it was a weird network issue that solved itself.

    I also battled some problems with the Jellyfin temp/transcode folder ballooning in size, causing the whole server to crash as I hadn’t dedicated enough space to the container. Considered making a script to clear the folder at even intervals, but it would cock up streaming if the missus was watching while the purge happened.
    Ended up just giving it 100 GB and let the daily clear be enough.
    It ended up being the missus’ tablet suddenly requesting transcode of everything but H264, so I’m quietly hinting that she is due an upgrade anyways…

    Next project planned: Caddy (I’ve been saying that for 6 months…)


  • Yeah I can’t argue with that, it’s more that I have no financial gain in this setup, so every redundancy set up costs me directly. At some point I have to say that it’s good enough.

    It’s always a trade-off I guess, with cost being the deciding factor.
    If I ever build a new house, I’m having a proper rack with room for a redundant server for sure!



  • Like others have said, I also prefer having a backup and getting new HW when shit hits the fan.
    You can build a warm-standby solution, but that road is both costly and more labor intensive.

    The family can survive for a few hours while I run out to get a new drive or NUC to fix stuff.
    If you’re lucky, it happens right after dinner so you can skip clean-up too!


  • I have three servers running these days.
    One is a NAS that hosts the .arr suite and my torrent client. This is just to keep the media management in one place.
    A N100 NUC that runs a lot of stuff in Proxmox, like Jellyfin, Heimdal, HomeAssistant, PiHole, Tailscale. I hope to add Caddy to this in the future, but I’ve never played with a reverse proxy before so I’m a tiny bit scared hehe.
    Lastly is a inudstrial PC I got from work that hosts game servers. Right now it’s down as we haven’t had time to game, but usually it’s either a Minecraft server or Valheim.

    For backup I have one copy on the NAS and I upload the most critical data to a cloud service I trust and pay for. This is now Proton.
    My dream is finding a tech friend with his/her own NAS so we can set up a encrypted partition on each others NASes for automatic backup. I give you 1 TB, you give me 1 TB, life’s good!


  • As with most things: it depends…

    If you’re in a country where ISP’s freely give out user info, I’d say you should have a VPN.
    If you’re on a private tracker, you might not need it, but you never know if the people hunting pirates managed to get in there too.
    I don’t use one as our ISP’s mostly throw those letters in the trash and I’m in a private tracker, but your mileage may vary.

    To get started, you only need a server (like Jellyfin or Plex) and a torrent client. Then you can automate it with the .arr stack, such as Radarr and Sonarr, race others with autodl-issri/Autobrr, share your media with friends and family with open ports (not recommended) or Tailscale/Netbird…
    It gets as advanced as you yourself want it to be.

    Feel free to ask if you have any questions, not just about piracy but how to set things up in general.
    Good luck, and remember to have fun while doing it. If you don’t, you won’t bother keeping it updated and working in the future.




  • No, again, he said anyone that parrots it. If you keep repeating that argument over and over, then your are parroting it. That’s what parrots do; they repeat stuff.
    If you are offended, then it’s time for some self reflection. That is not an ad-hominem, but a blanket statement and opinion.

    And no, you’re being selective with the truth. You cherry pick bits of what he said to present your argument in a better light. I don’t entertain that, my friend.

    Your last point is true, but again you are being selective with how you present it.

    If I point a gun at you and say you die unless you do something against your personal morality, you’d most likely still do it. That is in the name of survival.
    Yeah, you’ll be able to go to work tomorrow and make money because you’re not dead, but nobody can accuse you of doing it for profit. That is what you are in essence doing here and it’s a bad take in every possible way except morally.
    Steam fought back and lost. They could morally tell Visa and MasterCard to pound sand and die with their heads held high, but I’m guessing they like you as my potential murder victim above, chose to keep existing instead.






  • Yeah my CCwGTV is what died, so I ended up with their streamer. Hopefully locking sideloading is not something that will happen yet, but they are fighting hard to control how we use the internet these days.

    Give me a AppleTV with sideloading and I’d pick it up in a heartbeat. It just works so well.

    You could buy a small NUC and format to Linux, but you’d be stuck with either a keyboard or some small keyboard-like remote in the living room.

    Let’s hope for better offerings in the future!