former cake day: January 25th, 2025 -> lemm.ee refugee
since manjaro is on fire rn, the question is whether you want a distro by a malicious corp, or a corp that’s abandoned the distro, accompanied by an uprising.
if you can cycle your home assistant with the shelly plug whilst your home assistant is down, yes. from experience it’s really quite annoying to have a smart plug switch off HA…
well, my full private address, including name, as well as email and one of the following phone number, fax number, contact form. also you need to be reachable in a „timely manor“ usually 48 hours during workdays.
however i really don’t want to publically display my address and phone number. i’d love to have a fax number that converts to pdf/ email tho. well, and then i’d need to rent an address…
literally the reason for why i don’t host a blog… those impressum services be pricy
i don’t really understand. from my understanding kde will keep working on the BSDs despite them not having systemd. so, kali could just keep kde without systemd, couldn’t it?
oooh, true, i forgot to included them on the list. thanks for the reminder!
I‘ve been looking into this a bit and whilst i haven’t really tried any of the alternatives, i did collect some notes:
please let me know what y’all think
I get your point, it can be really quite confusing to go from a compose file or just general instructions and mby a docker run command to the settings of truenas.
you mention jails and that’s a core (no pun intended) issue of truenas. Truenas core is based on BSD which uses jails, whilst truenas scale is based on debian and uses docker. then recently it was all combined back into one, based on linux. hence no jails, just docker.
additionally, truenas scale was using kubernetes instead of docker until a year ago i’d guess. so what im trying to say is that whatever info you may find online could be very irrelevant if it’s for truenas core or truenas scale back in the kubernetes days.
besides the ui, if you have a compose yaml and just wanna use that for setup, you can go to apps -> discover apps -> three dots next to custom app -> install via yaml. now this is a pain to find, but it is there an it works pretty well. if you hate how that editor works, you can just paste a stub there that imports a specific other yaml file and then you put all the relevant config into that one. this extra file can then be edited via the cli, copied, moved, and version controlled, which can be very convenient.
regarding storage, using ixVolumes is perfectly fine. i prefer to have a generic dataset called apps that then contains specific datasets for each app i’m running. those specific datasets i set to the apps preset.
beyond that, i’ve got more diverse setups too. for example audiobookshelf. the config and metadata storage live in an audiobookshelf dataset in the apps dataset, as described before. this apps dataset is on a small ssd pool.
the podcasts and audiobooks themselves are stored on a larger HDD mirror. basically i have a media dataset there that uses the share preset and then within that i got an audiobooks dataset that uses the apps preset. that way audiobookshelf can use the books and i can easily access the directory via smb. additionally i run a cloud sync task from the data protection tab once a week that syncs all my audiobooks to pcloud.
now all of that isn’t necessarily easy, but i find it easier and more intuitive than doing it all via the cli on debian. then again i’ve never used debian with some specialised nas ui as others have recommended.
imma give you another opinion and start out with the unhelpful statement of „what’s best for you is gonna depend on what you need“
I‘ve never used debian as my personal NAS, but did manage a debian cluster at work. Compared to TrueNAS and later TrueNAS in a proxmox VM, debian is a lot more effort and in that sense „a hobby“.
Things that TrueNAS just handles for me without much work:
there probably is lots more, but i can’t think of anything else as of right now. I’ve used „plain“ Truenas scale for over a year and then switched to proxmox with a truenas VM when i built a new nas. the transition went pretty smoothly and i really like it. it does however add a layer of complexity you must be willing to deal with.
all things considered, i would like some things about truenas to work differently, but i would never wanna trade it. proxmox is very cool, and i like using it with a truenas VM, but i wouldn’t wanna use it without truenas i think. also i absolutely love debian and use it in many places. if i was running services on one machine and storage on another, id have the services on debian(or proxmox mby) and the storage on truenas, but as long as its just one device, its truenas.
additional thoughts:
btw, i tried to add two HDDs today and sata passthrough didn’t allow me to create a new pool despite them showing up in truenas. something about duplicate serial numbers and such. i then decided to pass through my cpus sata controller (proxmox and the truenas virtual boot drive run off nvme). rebooted proxmox and it worked. all drives detected and functional (after removing their individual passthrough because proxmox couldn’t find them as it didn’t have access to the sata controller anymore)
I’ve used truenas scale on an old xeon with 32gb ram and then moved it over to proxmox on an i5-12600 with 64gb ddr5. truenas is installed to a virtual drive provided by proxmox, but all the other drives are sata passthrough and truenas handles the bare metal. the truenas vm has eight cores, 32gb ram and is running scale 25.10.0.1. so far i’ve got four sata ssds attached to it and am running 20+ apps without issues.
i know this doesn’t help you much besides ensuring that it does actually work within proxmox 9.0.11
good luck!
i honestly don’t know, but there’s a slim chance i may run into him again at 39c3. in that case i’ll ask
i actually ran into the dude who made this design and he gave me a lot of these stickers. so, while it could’ve been made with AI, i can tell you that it was done in 2024 and i met him in an AI critical setting and he was very proud of having made this. since i don’t remember him having mentioned AI at all, i find it likely for this to be done without AI
yes, please be mindful when using cloudflare. with them you’re possibly inviting in a much much bigger problem
I used Manjaro for a while, recommended it a bunch of people because it was all so very pretty. even the grub screen looked nice. for me it did however break on three separate updates, each requiring a lot of fiddling and manual intervention, despite my system being rather vanilla at the time. the last time it broke i just installed fedora instead and never looked back. all the friends i’ve recommended it to also switched at some point, because of it either being unstable/ dying or not having the features one wants. i generally recommend against manjaro, not just because of my bad experiences, but also because better distros exist.
one where i mess up the breadboard and fry my cables/ microcontroller i guess
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i‘ve first used jellyfin for movies and series for a while and then decided i also wanted to add music streaming to my nas, so i put it into jellyfin. there were a couple of things that bugged me though, and so i also installed navidrome. jellyfin and navidrome have access to the same directory with all the music i own, and i have both finamp as well as amperfy on my iphone, and i really quite prefer navidrome with amperfy. so i would say that if you already got jellyfin for movies/ series and you don’t need a lot for a music streaming platform, it’s perfectly fine. however, if you need some more music streaming specific stuff, like a nice workflow for creating playlists, you may prefer to add navidrome.
i love codeberg, though i haven’t had a chance to test the collaboration features all that much