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Cake day: July 12th, 2023
  • Epzillon@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•The Six Stages of Code Grief
    7 months

    Jesus i worked at exactly this kind of project once. The only other dev was also very hostile and protective of this position. He did not want me there in the slightest. Took about 6 months before we cancelled the contract since this dude was just actively harrassing me in Teams DMs on the daily and he just ignored all my concerns regarding maintainability since “he could understand the code” and i was probably just “not experienced enough”.

    Don’t downplay what this does to your mental health. 5 years of workplaces like this and I’m now starting to see a therapist due to exhaustion disorder symptoms in my goddamn 20s. Take care our there!

  • Epzillon@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Home server adviceEnglish
    11 months

    Sorry for not being able to answer until now. From what i can summarize a dGPU seems useless for my case. It also seems like a 11th gen i5 is the way. I wonder, does RAM speeds matter? If i can get a mini or micro ATX board and hook up an i5 with a good amount of DDR4 RAM i think i can get away cheaply. Will probably start off with a small M.2 and see if i can hook up my HDD later.

    Also which i5 would you suggest? I havent been on intel since my 4690K so i have no idea whats “good” or “enough”.

Selfhosted@lemmy.worldbyEpzillon@lemmy.world
11 months

Home server advice

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Hello /c/selfhosted!

Im sorry if this is not the place to ask but i figured id give it a shot. Mods feel free to delete if i should post elsewhere.

Im currently contemplating building an actual home server. My problem is i have no idea what to prioritize in a server. My main concern is probably power consumption and price. It doesnt really need to be a brast. I currently self host a media center on my gaming rig which id like to move over and id like to be able to host stuff like Immitch and maybe some game servers from time to time.

Im fairly confident in my building skulle since ive built a fair share of gaming rigs over the years but i dont really know whats optimal in a server setting. So i come to you to ask about this landscape.

Im thinking good amount of RAM a fairly recent AMD processor on an unspecified motherboard. I do have an M.2 and extra HDD lying around and also an old GPU (GTX 960) but idk if GPU matters. In any case, how would one go about reducing power consumption, my first idea was underclocking the CPU even though i know AMDs recent CPUs should be pretty efficient. But is there any other, better, solutions to bring down idle consumption?

As stated im pretty fresh on this. Closest ive gotten to a home server is a couple of RPis. Any information or tips are very welcomed!

(Edits: typos)

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    • Epzillon@lemmy.worldtoLinux@programming.dev•When did you go full Linux nerd?
      1 year

      Uni, around 2019! Had a professor on the web team who encouraged all students to do the entire uni education on Linux.

      All tools and course material was tailored to work on Linux. Hand-ins, exams and anything related either functioned or had custom solutions built by the teachers, student and professors on the web programme.

      Everything was open source and if we found any bugs we could just open issues on GitHub. Weekly hand-ins were done on the student server on your own instance of the web server.

      In almost every aspect i think that programme was so well tailored for learning real web dev work.

    • Epzillon@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Tips for Smart TVs?English
      1 year

      Good tips. I mostly use it for YouTube and watching movies on Jellyfin. I already have a a PiHole set up so thanks for posting the domains, will make sure those are blocked properly.

      And I will also look into rooting the WebOS, blocking the YouTube ads would be a godsend 🙏

    Selfhosted@lemmy.worldbyEpzillon@lemmy.world
    1 year

    Tips for Smart TVs?

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    Hello! Ive had my LG Smart TV for almost 2 years now and i have some issues with it. Apart from the obvious data collection and shady opt-out “do not sell my data” settings theres just a bunch of other magical issues with Jellyfin, WebOS and their apps that annoy me.

    Does anyone have any alternative Smart TV OS, tips or tricks? Would love to run another OS entirely that is privacy friendly but I dont even know if its possible.

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      Selfhosted@lemmy.worldbyEpzillon@lemmy.world
      1 year

      Pi-Hole question regarding unbound and cloudflared

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      Hello lemmings! I have recently started the process of setting up my own Pi-Hole, I am a developer and pretty comfortable with Linux but I am a bit of a newcomer when it comes to networking.

      Now, during the process I noticed that the VPN I use (Mullvad) claim to have DNS leaks (This is a bit obvious since I was no longer using the DNS they expected in the VPN tunnel). So after reading a bit on the pi-hole guides I figured I’d set up a cloudflared service, but instead of using the cloudflare dns-query I route it to Mullvads own DNS.

      Now this works fine and all, it’s DoH and running Mullvads own DNS to query so Mullvads own tool is happy with the DNS settings I have.

      However, I also read about unbound in the Pi-Hole guides. I was curious if this was to prefer over cloudflared? Since I am running through Mullvads own DNS I don’t think there should be any issues. However locally hosting your own recursive DNS server also sounds good.

      What is your opinion? Is it overkill? Is what I have now enough or should I try to set up unbound aswell?

      Happy with just a discussion around this to learn more, just curious whether I should continue cooking on what I have now or if I should just focus on getting the entire network set up to use this.

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        • Epzillon@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•RPi Alternatives for Self-hostingEnglish
          2 years

          I’m not super into the whole sphere here. But as you mentioned the Pi I thought I might chime in. I just ordered a Pi 5, 8GB RAM and 2-3x effective speed of the Pi 4.

          I’d youre looking for more powerful hardware in this format the Rockx 5 and Orange Pi 5 are alternatives that go up to 16GB RAM.