skwyckl

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I am upgrading my Mac mini, so I will be using my old one as an addition to my HAN. Should I keep using the same Apple ID or create a new one? in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] skwyckl@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

This isn't always the answer. There are people who need to use macOS because, e.g., they need to build macOS apps. Even simple building tools such as Python's setuptools or py2app requires you to be on Mac in order to build for Mac.

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I am upgrading my Mac mini, so I will be using my old one as an addition to my HAN. Should I keep using the same Apple ID or create a new one? (alien.top)
What's the best way to self host a library? in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[–] skwyckl@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

What are your devices? If you have Apple only, Books already does everything you need, and you need no self-hosting.

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What kind of hardware/software combo do I need to get a notification whenever somebody rings the doorbell? (alien.top)
 

I am aware of the existence of smart doorbells with camera and all, but I only need my doorbell to tell me somebody is currently ringing, I don't need all the other functions. My idea is a setup where somebody rings and I get a notification on my Mac, iPad and Android phone. For context, the network I currently have in place is just over Wi-Fi.

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How do you pass LAN cables from a room to another? (alien.top)
 

Disclaimer: I live in Europe, so my house's walls are made of bricks and mortar, no plasterboard to easily cut / patch up.

I have a room that is generally cooler than the rest of my home and it's also far away from my bedroom, so I setup my home lab there. Until now, I managed with WiFi, but I switched operators due to soaring prices and I got screwed since the download / upload speed on this one is kinda shitty. Hence, I want to pass LAN cables from my home lab to my home office, which would mean going through two rooms or, correspondingly, two doors. Since it's my property, I thought of cutting a couple of centimeters from the door frame and then lead the cables through a skirting board and then through the space cut up from the door frame. What do you think? Any other idea?

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A couple of weeks ago, my homemade NAS hardware failed – How should I upgrade? (alien.top)
 

Some of you may remember a poll about NASs I recently opened here on the sub. The background was that my HP ProDesk 600 G1 SFF turned into NAS finally failed. Now, I did some diagnostics and it seems to be a motherboard problem. However, I don't really want to repair it, so I will gut it for usable parts and recycle the rest. The reason behind it is that it was a power-hungry mofo, idleing at 20-25w. Hence, now that I have the chance I'd like to upgrade to something much more energy efficient, idleing at < 10w. I am currently looking into tiny HPs and Dells, since they are cheap to get off Amazon as refurbished machines (< 150€) and seem to idle in that watt range. What do you think? TY in advance.

What are your must-haves when choosing where to live as a DN? in c/digitalnomad@expats.zone
[–] skwyckl@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

completely free, not self promotion

For the future: The first doesn't imply the second. In some countries, if I donate to you based on your "free" work, if it's in the same line of work you do for your main job (e.g. developer) it still counts as income.

But still, tools like these are very useful and I thank you for sharing your efforts!

How did you market yourself as a freelance tech worker? in c/digitalnomad@expats.zone
[–] skwyckl@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I second networking. Otherwise, specialize yourself in certain fields and market yourself with respect to them. I specialized myself in some obscure GIS subfield and it brought in a couple of sweet gigs over the course of the years.

How AI can impact Smart Home industry? Or may be not? in c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum
[–] skwyckl@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

AI has been impacting the smart home industry at least since AI-powered face recognition in surveillance cameras. I think another interesting field of application is sentiment analysis, i.e. based on how you feel to automatically adjust room climate, lighting, etc. to "lighten the mood". Otherwise, the AI inside both vac and mop bots can only improve, I feel they are unimpressive right now.

When does it stop being homelab and become homeserver? in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] skwyckl@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I feel like this is much more than many people on here are ready to undertake.

Also, homelab is a kinda vague designation, so it stops being one when you say so. I know people who call homelabs their NAS running a couple of containers, so go crazy.