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Q: Is there any benefit to contacting your Senator or Representative about Democratic leadership if that person is a Republican? in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] 6 points 18 hours ago

not about leadership, since politically the opposite party is supposed to stay out of the other parties leadership choices.

But I would write to them (without saying you're x party) to tell them you care about accountability, affordablility and in general what you're in support of or against. like someone else mentioned you'll get a canned response but that tally tells them a bit more about what their constituents want (whether they listen is dependent on how threatened they feel when it comes to re-election).

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    Democrats are already hiring lawyers to investigate DHS in c/politics@lemmy.world
    Finally upgraded my home server in c/linux@programming.dev
    [–] 1 point 6 days ago

    Some mini PCs have pcie cards so you can use a HBA card but if not there's adapters from m.2 to pcie.

    I have something between a mini and normal desktop tower that has the half height PCIe. it has room internally for 2 drives but I bought a hard drive cage (like the ones that go inside a big desktop tower and just mounted it to the outside of the case.

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    • Let us end the stovetop war with the real champ in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
    Any DDNS recommendations? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
    Every line of code is a politial statement in c/linux@programming.dev
    Refurbished hard drive retailers in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
    Can you run multiple servers on one machine (e.g. Raspberry Pi)? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
    [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Based on those specs it sounds like it's going to be more than capable in a homelab environment. If you're streaming to ~5+ devices at the same time id assume it may start to struggle if it's transcoding all of those so if you can pick or convert your media to something that doesn't need transcoding that would be ideal.

    but that looks like a solid buy. For reference I run on an old office potato and an external GPU from 2013 that I picked up for nothing a few years ago and have no problems. eventually I'll have to upgrade when the drivers stop being supported but until then 2-3 streams max is fine for me.

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    • Can you run multiple servers on one machine (e.g. Raspberry Pi)? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
    OpenAI hit with landmark lawsuit following Hugging Face hack in c/technology@lemmy.world
    Can you run multiple servers on one machine (e.g. Raspberry Pi)? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
    [–] 1 point 1 month ago (5 children)

    Official Recommendations for low power: Intel 12th gen or above N series platforms Apple M Series Mac mini Rockchip RK3588 / RK3588S SBC (Advanced Users Only)

    Note 10th gen and older integrated graphics are losing support in Linux due to Intel dropping SDK support or something. Don't buy a nuc or small PC with Intel 10 or older but if you have one it's fine for now.

    Another option would be an old laptop with dedicated graphics (e.g. e waste/recyclers). then you can get away with older than 10gen Intel since you'd be using the external graphics. Just research how to limit battery charging in the bios since it's always going to be plugged in.

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    • Self-Hosting Survey 2026: What are your favorite self-hosted apps? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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    Setting up a backup and redundancy for my expanding homelab by (lemmy.world)
     

    So I've gotten to the point where my homelab has moved to a fun way to mess around with tech to starting to replace things like google photos and OneDrive. So as my next project I plan to add resiliency and backup solutions as low-cost/efficiently as I can. I'm thinking that 3 physical machines is a good and safe next step.

    I purchased 7 used 4TB SAS drives for my planned storage as I was able to get them for a pretty good deal.

    I plan to have a second machine in another state with family that I can setup to run as an off-site backup while the third can run at home or encrypted and put in the cloud (existing OneDrive or b2/S3 glacier) but cloud is obviously a long term cost/subscription.

    Ente, a encrypted Google photos replacement, wants three S3 buckets in a production environment, I currently have 1. Until now I've been mirroring photos to Google photos and I have manual exports on my PC/external drives.

    So my questions are:

    1. What's the most cost effective way to backup proxmox VMs and the trueNAS storage while at the same time being able to move ente from "development" single S3 to the recommended S3 buckets?
    2. Hardware is expensive, inefficient and/or loud. What can I get away with that's sub $100 and will be quiet enough to exist in living spaces?
    3. Should I add resiliency for networking/DNS/etc on another device or just focus on making these devices just backups?
    4. Automation and deployment of additional software. I'm comfortable with docker-compose and see recommendations for kubernetes/Ansible/k3s but I'm not sure if those are worth doing vs just unattended upgrades for security and manual upgrades that I've been doing.
    5. Exposing and linking the devices. I have a consumer router w/o layer 3 and ipv6 still scares me with big numbers. So far, I've just exposed wireguard but eventually I need to start exposing ente and other services... For now, and the backups should I create a separate wireguard VPN service as a site-to-site or is there a better option?
    6. If I host an S3 bucket at another location, ente needs it to be exposed to the internet as the app communicates directly with the S3 buckets: https://ente.com/help/self-hosting/administration/object-storage?

    For hardware: Last I checked arm has some catching up when it comes to proxmox and trueNAS so I'm thinking an old tiny/mini office PC however there's the added complexity of getting SAS drives connected to them and looking decent. If I can source a midsized office PC locally I can probably recreate my existing setup with the off-site backup. I do have a 8GB CM4 thats underutilized since all it's doing is making my ancient printer work wirelessly via cupsd.

    My current setup is a single ancient optiplex running proxmox. Within proxmox I have a debian VM running my docker stack and trueNAS with my "large" storage pool

    • Dell optiplex 7010
      • Proxmox
        • Debian - docker/portainer - smb mounted TrueNAS
          • Ente Photos w/ S3 object storage via Garage
          • network stack (Adguard, nginx proxy manager, wireguard easy)
          • other services with mounted DB or media stored on trueNAS
        • TrueNAS - 2x4TB HDD via pcie passthrough/HBA card
          • SMB fileshare
          • Garage S3 bucket
        • Windows sever/AD (mostly for learning and managing windows devices)

    TL;DR how do I securely/cheaply implement backups and S3 redundancy across multiple locations now that my homelab has important stuff.

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