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Almost forgot before going to bed but I feel bi-weekly is a good rhythm for this.

Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.

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[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My pihole exploded yesterday, all my fault. A couple of years ago, I created a script called via cron to update pihole's services every other week. This was great, until now when it updated to v6 at 4am. To make matters worse, I neglected to automate raspian updates, meaning it was very out of date, and was no longer compatible with pihole-FTL (thinking back, I thought I automated it too, but I guess not).

I took an image after creating a pihole "teleporter" backup, and began formatting. In my lack of caffeine and focus, I missed that my teleporter file was corrupt after I had successfully wiped the SD card. Thankfully I had that image as I was able to mount it and retrieve my blocklists via sqlite, otherwise I would have had to start from scratch.

One good thing that came out of it (for my taste, anyway) was that I swapped the OS on the pi to fedora. No more debian around here!

Tomorrow, I plan on setting up some backup automation for my pi, as it's the only machine missing backups at this point.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why so hostile sounding against debian?
What does fedora better?

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago

I don't mean to sound hostile, that's probably my past demons coming out. Like I said in my last comment, it's really apt that I hate. It would constantly break or put me into dependency hell and I haven't had to deal with that (yet) with Fedora.

I haven't put my finger on it, but Fedora, for whatever reason, also just feels faster.

[–] dragnucs@social.touha.me 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@AmbiguousProps @tofuwabohu why would you privilege fedora over Debian? Asking because I am trying to do the reverse.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago

It's mostly personal preference, but I have grown to hate apt in general. I used it for over a decade and constantly got in dependency hell. I've yet to have anything like that happen on Fedora, especially Silverblue and CoreOS.