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SelfHosting Guilty Pleasure(s)
(lemmy.world)
Watching the bots eat my iocaine poison. Its most of my traffic.
Muuhahahaha!
Tweaking my various Nix configs feels good and satisfying.
... When it works, that is.
I love to fiddle to see if I can improve on some app, service, or configuration of my server just to see if I improve performance, etc. Example: pFsense....great googlymoogly at the options. I kept trying this or that tut, no joy. So I sat down with the manual, and just did what I knew, Then did a lot of reading, and I did find one or two tuts that actually were, I guess you'd say, 'at my level'. Then I fiddle to see if I can get better performance or to see what one of the thousands of options does. I have leaned heavily on backups from time to time.
Mine is using a network share to transfer files faster than any USB device we have at home.
....and how do you manage those speeds?
Three important factors:
- Gigabit ethernet
- SATA-attached storage
- My family not knowing what the fuck USB 3.0 is, and why blue USB is better than black USB.
Pushing my commits that trigger my own gitlab runners that build my c++ application across 32 cores/threads homelab server.
A second guilty pleasure would be looking at my grafana dashboards.
Third guilty pleasure is 10gbit/s fiber network at home.
Well, would you look at Mr Moneybags over here. LOL I wish tho. I just have a 1gbit connection.
Crying in 70Mbps copper.... 15 upload.
Realistically, 1gbit connection is good for uploading and downloading huge architectural plans, but other than that, I rarely use anything close to it's max capacity. It's like having a killer sports car that will go 0 to 60 in a few seconds, but you rarely have the need to do that.
Fact. I only use more then 1gbit/s for file transfers internally between computers or between the server and a computer.
10gbit fiber locally doesn't mean I have this speed to the internet (I'm not).
I bought the server hardware 3 years ago, so when the prices of ram were also fine. Today it's not fun anymore.. I really hope those ram and nvne prices go down again! I can't upgrade anything now.
It's a trade off. Buy older equipment and DDR3 is cheap. I dropped 40 more gb on the server for about $45 USD. The downside is that older equipment is not as energy efficient and as fast as newer equipment.
Ahhhh I do like my grafana dashboards.
My proxmox dashboards make me feel tingly in my no no parts
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- Seeing the rising request count as ai bots circle around in iocaine
- Knowing where my photos and files are
- Having useful services that don't require a subscription to random company
- Learning and experimenting with things
Learning and experimenting with things
This is the part I really love.
Mine is seeing the "removed" and "started" when I update all my dockers
Can relate.
Use Watchtower. You'll miss out on this pleasure though.
I like manual updates, keeps me in the loop
Not maintained anymore.
Please look for replacements and stop recommending it.
Gaming with friends and family over Tailscale on my servers; it just works
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Mine is looking at the blocked domains in pihole and watching my TV trying to call home desperately without success.
I don't feel so weird now that I see a lot of people who have the same guilty pleasures.
I get a good deal of satisfaction seeing my aliases of blocked connections.
Not really a guilty pleasure though.
Do you feel guilty if I'd asked you about that?
Do you feel guilty if I’d asked you about that?
Yeah I probably would because I spend a lot of time watching it, blocking new threats and unwanted guests. My goal is to achieve the cleanest stream possible.
Good luck on achieving that.
You'll be more successfull in whitelisting every possible connection instead ;)
Spend some time (IMO too much) mysealf researching ASNs and publicly accessible blocklists of datacenters/crawlers.
Not an easy task.
Edit: Grammar (lol)
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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) |
| SATA | Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.
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