A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I’m usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn’t always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.

I’m into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things, too.

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  • I think you should have printed a cowboy hat and glued that on. I’ve seen people do it, and it hides the line very well 😆

    I’m not sure if there is an easy fix if you want to continue. My prints often come with a slight warp underneath (from the bed). That leads to the exact same result as in your picture. Maybe that’s fixable on better printers. Or you’d need to print just the hollow outline that gets glued on. Not any middle part that could be warped slightly…

    Or some postprocessing. Fill the gap with filler from the hardware store before painting. But that won’t be possible with multicolor prints.


  • Thanks. And good call, seems we’re doing similar things. I also had 100 more Free Software apps from F-Droid that sounded useful, or I wanted to try them and never did… These were easy to “clean up”.

    The app for my password manager (pass) isn’t being developed any longer. Guess I have to tackle a few more things.

    Btw, do you happen to know how I’m supposed to move apps which are paired to Bluetooth devices? I got a body weight scale and a fitness tracker, and I’m not sure if I can just copy it to the new phone and it’ll continue to work with the paired device…



  • I did the same thing a few days ago. Just that I switched from an old Pixel with GrapheneOS to the 8a. It’s really come a long way and it’s ridiculously easy to flash GrapheneOS with their “web installer”. Took a few minutes of clicking on the next button. I’m always excited and eager to replace some firmware or operating system with a more free counterpart… But I still need to move a lot of stuff. I decided to clean up and not to move all my mess… Guess it’ll take a few more days until I’m done with that.




  • I think I get it. I mean in that situation you’d essentially pay to get some SATA ports and the space to put the harddrives. The money doesn’t really get you anything else that’d be fundamentally different from the current setup.

    Idk, I’m fine with 48GB of RAM to run a lot of services and containers. And I don’t use a separate machine for storage, the hypervisor does that and I either share the filesystems via NFS or pass them through into some VM. And I don’t think a fast machine with lots of RAM is needed for storage, unless you’re using ZFS.






  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.detoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldHelp me decide?!
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    The HDDs alone should be roughly ~1,000€. The rest of the build sounds pretty much like your other machine, just with a different processor.

    I run my YunoHost in a VM with like ~8GB of RAM allocated. You can move everything to one single machine if you set up some reverse proxy for all the web frontends.

    36TB of storage and 64GB of RAM should be plenty.


  • I’d say it’s good if it’s easy to use, well written with maintainability in mind, offers good functionality, is reliable and follows current best practices.

    It’s easy to selfhost if it’s packaged. Because then I can just apt install gitlab edit a few config files and I’m done. Or click on it in Yunohost, or maybe run the Docker container.

    But just “easy” isn’t the whole story. It needs to be maintainable, still around in a few years, integrate into the rest of my ecosystem…


  • I meant the other side. If you use 200GB of your Proxmox, you don’t need to transfer it to the NAS. Which is the question here. I don’t do it, because it’s mostly calendars, contacts and like 10GB of data on Nextcloud, which I’m currently working on, or sharing with friends. And the “NAS” is sleeping most of the day. But if OP wants all their data stored on a NAS, they might very well configure Nextcloud to use NFS and do it that way.


  • Sure. That’d be a valid use-case. I don’t think I can recommended anything, here. Both should work fine. And you can always run into some unforeseen consequences in a few years. Especially once you decide to change something about your setup. But these things are hard to factor in. I often tend to prefer the easier solution over the more complex one. That helps with maintainability. But that approach doesn’t always apply.

    Edit: If you want everything stored on the NAS, just do it.




  • Is the storage shared with other software, or are the NAS and Proxmox two different machines? Or why bother to set up NFS at all?

    I keep most of my usual data local. But I’ve also added some external storage to Nextcloud, that’d be a large harddisk that contains some music and TV recordings, Linux ISOs and rarely used stuff. It’s mounted read-only most of the times and spins down unless I need to access my achived stuff. That’s the main reason why I keep it separate.