I replaced my tabbyml code assistant this week with ollama+continue.dev. But I’m having issues with speed. I think this is because I switched from code qwen 2.5B (ish) to Deepeek Coder 9B (ish) and I think I’m pushing the limits of my GPU. Maybe I’ll spend today sorting out which models I want to use and which computers I want to use them on so I dont run into this issue (I’ve got ollama on 2 computers with 3 GPUs shared between them, for a total of 24GB VRAM)

Updated my NAS recently and Immich’s database stopped working due to some PostgreSQL update that needs something changed manually, so I need to get my head around that.

Also trying to get a tablet to run as a 2nd satellite for HomeAssistant voice commands and no matter what I do, only the 1st one responds to wakeword… but I tend to give up after everyone’s gone to bed as I’m literally in a room on my own talking to myself…

I spent half a day trying to get acme-dns + Cert Warden up and running and failed miserably. And I think I will give up on it. That does not happen usually, but during my debugging sessions I have seen that the acme-dns project is not maintained regularly since quite a while. The current maintainer just has not enough time, but tries to prepare the project for a move to a new GitHub organization, so more people can help with the project. Until then, Issues and PRs accumulate, so I am not sure anymore if I should stick to acme-dns or just do it differently.

Why did I pick this scenario? Because of Let’s Encrypt certificates and my DNS provider does not allow fine-grained API Keys for DNS management. This means, that currently the processes that request certificates in my Network need the API Key for the dns-challenge for Let’s Encrypt.

Ways around that are by either using Let’s Encrypt alternate (I think it is called DNS alias mode) method where you can request Certificates for your main domain, but put the TXT records for the DNS challenge on another Domain. One way is to just use a 2nd Domain for that if you have one.

I tried to do it with a Subdomain of my Main Domain that I delegate to acme-dns. The whole acme-dns, Domain delegation stuff etc. works fine, but I am not able to get this hooked up to Cert Warden properly and end up with error messages that make no sense to me and since I do not find any further information in the logs, as I said, I just gave up yesterday evening… for now ;-)

Another thing I am struggling sometimes is my Pi-Hole + Unbound setup where Unbound for no reason just returns a NXDOMAIN for some queries and I can not figure out why, under which circumstances and when that happens. It just seems to be random and a restart / cache clearing etc. does not fix it.

I like this thread :-)

I have just checked off a long standing item in my backlog: implementing OIDC on at least two apps. I’ve used a remote keycloak instance for authention for my household and so far so good. Now I’ll try to understand the configurations a little better before take on other items on my backlog.

I am finally in a position to have hardware running at home without it bothering anyone, so I cobbled together the hardware peaces I thrifted for over the years.

I played around with Proxmox and lxc containers, which are awesome, but not really useful for my usecase. I currently needed the essentials to get started and to finally have some kind of backups.

So TrueNAS scale it is. I got the ACLs down quickly, so the built in apps are no problem. But some things are not suited to be run as a built in app, I found. To avoid these headaches, I created an ubuntu server vm and a network bridge to allow for host access, and spun up those containers there.

I went for too little storage on the vm in the begiining (10G) so of course it filled up to the brim in a day. So I had to learn how to extend an lvm. Which worked only after I made some space available. It was so full, even mkdir failed.

I set up Affine and Kanboard to help with various projects. I got fed up of Notion, Trello, and/or a git repository full of documents.

I set up Jellyfin, it was easy but I’m only allowing local network access

No issues at the moment but need to update a few containers when I get the chance. I also need to set up contacts sync in radicale for the address book and integrate it with Thunderbird and davdroid.

In the near term I’ve been working on a plan to make sure my keepass db is accessible to my SO and family in the event of my demise. I recently lost a dear friend and had to gain access to his stuff for his family, luckily he didn’t have the linux partition encrypted so I got a recovery shell then remounted the disk and changed the password and could then also mount the windows partition once I logged in.

It made me think as all my stuff is encrypted and there is no way someone would guess it nor crack it so I’m writing documentation and leaving it with family members.

The documentation explains how to use keepass and who to contact for support. Im leaving the db with family members and the password with a select few people that dont have the db. My SO will have access to all the info too.

I’ll update the db periodically and give them a newer version but keep the same password

I encourage you all to consider this too.

Currently still fixing alpine Linux lxc running docker that decided to stop being able to network after a PVR update.

I’ve managed to migrate my services to debian-based docker Lxc, but it bothers me that I can’t figure this out.

Best I have so far is that flushing the iptables in alpine lxc works temporarily.

I’m currently reconsidering using a couple mikrotik for some layer 3 hardware offloading.
Not really homelab, but close.

I have a project that gets integrated with another network for an event. I’m thinking of using 2x crs504 (cause I’m using mlag for servers, think vrrp or whatever for “public” (it’s all internal) ip) and seeing if I can get l3hw working as a router.
While I could sit on a subnet of the “host” network, having a gateway that traffic goes through allows me to test and prove everything for my system in my homelab, with just the final integration being a do-in-a-time-crunch problem.
I’m already using the crs504s for networking (I bought them ages ago, thinking 25gbps was going to be as easy as 10gbps. It’s all running at 10gbps), and this saves having to use something as a router, cuts down on rack space, all sorts of benefits. I think.
Anyone have any experience with mikrotik l3hw offloading?

My actual homeland is just a NAS and some networking. It’s a small flat, it’s just me. Not complicated, no need to give me more headaches!

I just set up some geofencing on pfsense, found alot of traffic that I didn’t know was happening. That freaked me out.

I kinda-sorta finalized my migration to a smaller setup with my mail+web server. I’ve been running a small MSP business for several years and as customers flee right and left mostly to microsoft (due to 365 setup pricing) it’s been in a decline for quite a while. So, I finally pulled the plug and shut down the business side of things and downscaled that to a single VPS with a handful of domains, email service and a few simple wodrpress sites.

Also I kinda-sorta moved all of my photo archive of 20+ years to immich and set up a backup scheme for it, which is now (only) 2-1-1. I also need more storage for that thing, but it needs to wait for few days until paycheck and after that migration I can finish importing all the photos I have laying around. That also requires some reconfiguration of my disk arrays, copying couple of terabytes from system to another and back again, but that’s relatively easy thing to do, but it takes “a while” to accomplish.

After that there’s a long list of things to do, but mostly I’ll spend my free time and money to improve the current setup as quickly as possible in the immediate future.

I’ll just start! Personally, I’m tinkering with my local network to create a subnet for my homelab.

I want to set up Lemmy and Audiobookshelf next, but I want to tweak the infrastructure a bit before hosting more stuff.

Before the firewall thing, I set up authentik and am integrating it in more services. Migration was mostly straightforward so far in Bookstack and Paperless. Also the proxy authentication is pretty cool, finally being able to ditch basic auth in Prometheus was cool.