Marduk

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” ― George Orwell, 1984

ran into some weirdness after updating my private instance via ansible. Was getting lots of json errors and bad gateway errors along with occasional timeouts. Reverted to pre-upgrade snapshot for now.

Thanks for relating your experiences. I did kinda get that cheap vibe when I was perusing the site. For now I’ll continue driving my pixel 4a until the wheels fall off.

Synology is good. I upgraded the RAM in it to 8GB and populated it with 3x8TB Ironwolf drives. It’s the backup target for all other machines on my network as well as running just under 40 docker containers. It’s just not beefy enough to run VM’s tho. The Optiplex machine just runs blue iris since it’s a windows app. This one I added a 500GB SSD and left it at stock 4GB RAM. It works well with blueiris so long as you turn on intel native encoding and don’t try to reencode anything onto the stream like date/time stamps. Don’t have any issues with resources on it.

Free is good, and admittedly you have much more headroom to do fun things on your hardware :)

Unihertz, interesting, thanks!

Gave up running old server hardware. Way too loud and way too much power draw.

Now running a Synology DS918+ for most things and an old Dell Optiplex 3020 for blue iris. It no longer sounds like somebody is vacuuming in the basement all of the time and my power draw went from over 200W down to about 40W.

It’s been said here that accessing content from the large servers via a federation connection is less taxing on the servers than accessing them directly, so there’s that.

Giggity.

Yeah I don’t see any harm in being a clearly labeled fan community. May also want to take the same hard line here that they do about illegal activity/messing with stuff you don’t own.