spckls

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[–] spckls@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Alright, yeah, i tend to overthink stuff to the point of not actually doing the thing i wanted. Thanks for the push!

[–] spckls@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m using 2GB RAM at this moment, not accounting for Jellyfin and Nextcloud, and i don’t have info about their load because they’re on a windows server. That’s all running bare metal.

The offsite NAS is at my office, and is serving my office needs daily, i just added a backup of my home server to it.

Do you have any idea how much cores/ram should i leave to Proxmox?

[–] spckls@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Alright, i’ll check it out, thanks!

[–] spckls@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Thanks for the input. Do you think i will be running out of RAM in that configuration, like other commenters noted?

The reason I’d like to have two separate VMs is easier backups/restores, that way i don’t have to care about the phisycal machine, if i want to move to something else i only have to restore the VM.

As for the backups, i have one local backup on a separate machine (NAS) that gets backed up to an external drive, then another dedicated backup NAS that backups the first NAS and is otherwise disconnected from the internet, local network and power (turns on only once a week to backup), then another backup that backups the backup NAS to an off-site NAS, that also has an external drive making daily backups. Is that ok?

 

I have a server configuration to what i though would be best, and that is running a Debian, then installing a service i most frequently use, and use containers for other services. But, now i think that’s not a good solution and i’m looking for advice.

I thought of something like this:

Proxmox install Spin up a VM for this service that is currently running on Debian (can’t be in a container) Spin up a second VM, install Debian and Docker and install all other services as containers.

That would enable me to: a) backup the 1st VM to be able to deploy it if needed (backups) b) backup containers in the second VM so i can have them ready to be restored if needed

However, i’m not sure about setting it up like this. I’m worried if Jellyfin will work good as a container on a VM. Also, i’m worried about setting up nginx in a container on a VM, like, will it work as if installed on bare metal.

Other services i’m planning to run in containers on that 2nd VM are BookStack, Joplin, Mosquitto broker, Grafana, MariaDB, Influx DB, Studio Code, JellyFin, NectCloud etc.

The machine is a i3 1315U, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD.

For the first VM i would allocate 2 cores and 4GB of RAM (that’s enough for what it does) and for the second VM (with all the containers) i would allocate the rest of the CPU and RAM.

Any advice is very welcome! Is proxmox still the best choice? Are there any other (better) choices? Is something obviously wrong with this setup?

[–] spckls@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Newpipe doesn’t have a version for iOS, the newpipe team decided it won’t support the os because it heavily relies on android api. Not to mention that you probably couldn’t easily install it even if it exists. Youtube without ads is available via safari though.

Nothing wrong with differences. I just wanted to point out that many of the things i thought i would be missing, i’m not, either because there is an alternative or because it’s in the os by default.

To answer your last question, an example, i paid more money to get less enjoyment from one of the computers i use in the “home lab”. I could’ve spun up yet another VM for some services, for free, but i decided to purchase a dedicated machine. It had to be small tho, so the only real option i had was the Intel NUC.

It costs triple of the DIY version, not to mention infinitely more than a “free” VM, but it was the right choice. CPU is soldered, you have to buy M.2 storage because no sata ports, and it takes SO-DIMM. I “could” buy a cheap AMD CPU and motherboard and reuse multiple sticks of RAM and SSDs laying around in the lab, but the power consumption and form factor were more important for the use case.

[–] spckls@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Slowly but surely i’m getting on the same boat. If i lost my phone tomorrow and couldn’t afford a new one, i would much rather get a second-hand iphone from a year or three ago than a cheap android

[–] spckls@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I guess you should look into nextcloud and/or synology drive, because they do exactly that.

You can use it as a “cloud”, where the files you are using are downloaded locally and then updated if you made changes, or you can just sync everything.

For me, i have some folders i need always available, internet or no internet, and some that i don’t care about as much. And that’s how it’s configured, it syncs the stuff i need, it leaves the stuff i don’t.

[–] spckls@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess what i wanted to ask by creating the post is exactly what you are saying.

Why would you want to jailbreak a phone or sideload apps? Maybe you don’t have to? I was blown away by the amount of apps and features baked into the iOS and macOS, i had no idea that was the case.

And you can’t even know if you don’t try. Look at the amount of people saying, for example, you can’t have adblock on safari (you can), or that there are no automations on ios (there are).

I’m not trying to preach or to convert anyone, i’m just saying that i’ve been living under a rock and didn’t know about any features the ios/macos offer.

Also, apple products work just fine, sometimes better, with non-apple hardware and software.

Bluetooth devices especially.

[–] spckls@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Good for you. I switched to libre or at least alternative software which is (almost all) cross-platform compatible. I replaced almost everything apart from some niche software that only works on windows.

The day i can game on linux is the day windows goes to the VM just for that few pieces of software required for my business.

That said, mac comes with most of the every-day items preinstalled. Mail, spreadsheets and the likes. Windows on the other hand - not so much. Windows mail app can’t hold a candle to the mac app or even the ios app.

You need to pay for office for that. Same on android. I can do 99% of stuff without installing any app from the app store.

[–] spckls@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I tried. Don’t get me wrong, but if a couple of people can make a better software than a huge company then why am i giving the company my money in the first place. Unfortunately, i don’t have much free time anymore, not as much i would like, and certainly a lot less than i used to have 5-10 years ago.

I would love if the guys who make custom roms could make a phone, but sadly, that probably won’t happen. And i hate that all the phones are locked in. I wish a phone could be like a pc, where you can install whatever OS you like.

Hardware manufacturers make that impossible. The company that makes snapdragon is responsible for all the drivers and compatibility. Samsung certainly won’t open up their chips and drivers as well. Apple is the same.

Until we get something like a linux phone, everyone will fight tooth and nail for their slice of pie.

Hell, look at linux drivers on the x64/86 (nvidia).

Look at microsoft ditching 99% of CPUs on win11 launch.

Look at apple with their “macOS is for macs only”.

Software manufacturers are to blame as well. Why no office on linux but they support macos? Why no adobe products on linux? Why not games on linux? (I know it’s better now but still, very few big players) Banking software? Windows only. Manufacturing software? Almost all windows only.

OS choice has to be on the person using the computer, not some company.

It’s time for standardized computing.

I understand that you can’t write all the software that has been written again, but you can at least make the new software compatible.

[–] spckls@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think there’s a good reason behind the sales numbers, to be honest.

 

I am dissapointed in my peers. For years I have always been told to stay away from Apple devices and the company in general. However, no one who said that actually used their devices, or used them but not recently (some had like iPhone 4s in the past). Their knowledge was always based on some 3rd hand impressions or internet related peer pressure.

I am in the EU, and Apple devices aren’t as popular as in the US, mostly everyone uses an Android phone and a Windows machine. That also led me using Android and Windows in my daily activities, for the last 15 years. After many phones, starting with HTC Wildfire, i have continously been let down by my phone every 1 to 3 years after purchase.

First i was buying flagships, then mid-high, then back to non-pro flagship variants. I was also trying diffenent brands; HTC, LG, Sony, Samsung, Xiaomi, Nokia, OnePlus. When my last phone died, and i had to buy a new one, i had no idea what to get.

Everything seemed bad, i had them, they look the same, software looks the same, i was afraid of picking a “wrong” phone again. Every single one of them had some issue i couldn’t get over. Either notification problems, bad battery life, slow performance on camera, issues with sharing stuff, fingerprint annoyances, restarts…

Mind you, not everything was on a single device. One had great battery life but i wouldn’t get messages sometimes, other was great but battery life was poor, and on most of them the camera was laggy or buggy.

1 year ago, maybe a bit more, it dawned on me that the only brand i haven’t used anything from is Apple, so i got a basic iPhone 13 to “check it out”, planning on using it for a week or two just to see what the fuss is about. I was using my Android device as the main phone, and the iPhone as a second phone, I wasn’t ready for the jump.

After a week i found myself doing everything on the iPhone apart from voice calls, so then i finally took the SIM and retired my Android phone. 6 months later, my Windows laptop battery died and the repair would cost more than what the laptop is worth. So i decided to purchase a thin and portable laptop with intention to install Debian on it, as i was done with Win11 bugs and “features”.

After looking for 2-3 weeks, comparing different laptops, i was set on a HP 14inch laptop with a price tag of about €1300. Then i remembered that i am still thinking with my peers in mind. They were enraged on how i “betrayed” them by switching to iPhone.

I decided to look up Mac laptops and found out that they are actually very similary priced as the one i wanted to buy. I got out and purchased a M2 Air, basic configuration. I had no idea about the iPhone-Mac compatibility and integrations. Found out about AirDrop and other features. I was in love with this new combo that, cliche, “just works”.

My “friends” literally went 180 on me just for the dumb reason of using one brand instead of the other. None of them has actually tried to use Apple hardware. They were mocking me about being “locked in”, “fallen for their marketing”, and other stuff. “How do you like your iCloud subscription?”, things like that.

I have to tell you, i do not use any paid service from Apple. I succesfully conected my Apple devices to my home server where i keep my files, photos, calendar and all the other applications on it. I am not locked in, i feel like i have even more freedom because some services work better than on Android or Windows.

Syncing works flawlessly, something that was always janky on Android.

Sorry for the long post.

I guess what i am trying to ask is, why so much hate? Why can’t a person decide for themselves? Why is macOS/iOS looked down upon regarding connectivity with other devices and services when that’s clearly not the case?

Why do people that have no first hand experience so vocal and opposed to the brand? Shouldn’t you at least try and then be the judge?

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