I ran a Linux VM and just had Mullvad app installed and always on, and that was all I needed
I ran a Linux VM and just had Mullvad app installed and always on, and that was all I needed
Plex was easy enough to set up. I use plexamp on my phone but can access the Plex server via a browser, which includes my music
Yeah I mean I get it because I was also thinking about self hosting for a long time and had a bunch of questions myself.
The problem is that a lot of the questions were not needed, and a bunch of the other questions I answered myself by just tooling around with the stuff.
Great comment btw, it’s a good idea to have a list of the services you’d like to run, in order of importance z then work through it.
I did that then found ways to combine a bunch of services, to the point where I had multiple stand alone VMs that are now just one for Home Assistant and second for Plex and Docker
I see a lot of posts like this and it’s always people overthinking something they haven’t tried to do yet.
So my advice is to just do it.
You may lose everything at some point in the future, Satan knows I have a few times, but because you’ve actually done it, you can do it again.
Now, because you’re just thinking about doing it, it seems like a massive deal because you’ve not gone out and done it yet.
As for recommendations, I use a Proxmox VM with Debian and Docker. My Proxmox does backups, but my Docker compose is also a text document on my PC so I can recreate it all from scratch from that. I also have an idea what I did when I was learning how to do it, and have retained a good bit of that info so I could probably do it without either the backups or the Docker Compose, it would just take longer.
Just do it
Commenting just to add “nofail” to the fstab.
I didn’t do this in Proxmox and then the drive stopped working and so did Proxmox. As a noob I ended up starting fresh and losing lots.
After adding nofail the services start up, just without the NAS attached. Without nofail it just doesn’t boot.
Nofail for the win
Guybrush Threepwood. Still got the new one to go at
I get “Can I talk like a pirate” from Jake and the Neverland Pirates appear in my mind.
“I’ve been talking this way, since my birthdays began”
Then I artistically move my brain on to something I prefer. Alestorm
Just Google “Booting a pi from an SSD” and follow the steps
I can’t remember the steps (they were simple though) but when my Home Assistant raspi SD card died, I bought a 128gb SSD from AliExpress and a usb-sata cable.
I then did something to the pi that meant it can boot from the SSD, and flashed the SSD using Balenetcher or RUFUS or whatever (same program I was using to flash my SD cards basically).
Then it was just a case of plugging in and turning it on.
Runs exactly the same as with an SD card with less dying because SD cards aren’t meant for a lot of read/write but SSDs do.
Follow the Left Hand Path
Love it. I bought a sign saying “Beware of the Leopard” for my toilet door yesterday
If you notice this notice you will notice that the notice is not worth noticing, so why did you notice it?
I remember seeing this when I was a kid, I’m old as fuck now
Me too, except it’s Adguard for me.
Came in handy yesterday actually. I have a friend who works for a University which was recycling some Chromebooks.
He managed to grab 3 for me, one for myself and one for my kids.
Problem is that one of my kids is being supervised through Google Family Link which means for some reason the Play Store won’t work.
So he is now unsupervised in Family Link just to get the Chromebook working.
So I’ve just given both my kids static IPs and pointed their Chromebooks at Adguard, then turned on Safe Search and adult content blocking.
Now I’m fairly confident they’re protected from a lot of the bad shit on the internet.
Is that a kind of yellow?
Listen to the song, see how it sounds to.you, it’s doggy do, and they were all BEIGE
When I die my friends will miss me like usual. Then the Plex server will go down and they’ll miss me all over again.
I’ve passed my display through to a VM in Proxmox for transcoding and now I can’t get the GUI for that VM.
Is this something that would allow me to connect to that VM on another PC and use a virtual desktop?
If so, I may have to have a play with it. I mean I’m happy away using SSH but why not have UI if I can?
Good to know, I’ll turn it off when I get home from work, thanks
I got a top of the range one from 7 years ago for £25 on eBay.
How much are pis nowadays?
Yeah I know, I use Gluetun now, I was just answering OPs question.