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Latest addition to my #TrueNAS box: #freshRSS

It took a little fiddling; I had to create and specify directories for data, database, and extensions prior to installation, but then it worked properly. Going through my preferred news sources and seeing how much I can get out of my email inbox and into my web-based #RSS reader instead.

freshrss.org

www.freshrss.orgFreshRSS, a free, self-hostable feeds aggregatorFreshRSS is lightweight, easy to work with, powerful, and customizable.

Having retired my firstborn's old 2018 Dell Win10 desktop, we are down to one (1) Windows laptop in our house. Except for the Mac Mini (for Pro Tools) and my wife's laptop, everything in the house is on Linux--#Debian for our PCs, and #TrueNas for the server.

Booted new $250 mini PC, wiped Windows 11, installed #Debian and now YOLOing into Trixie.

This was to replace my desktop (now a #TrueNAS server)

except that I'm probably going to just give it my older kid to finally let his 2018 Dell retire. He has a Steamdeck for gaming, but his desktop is elderly (1st gen Ryzen 7 CPU, 8 gigs of RAM) so it's probably to retire to "a nice (server) farm in upstate New York."

I can live on my laptop for now.

My #immich install broke after I updated it on #truenas and now I think I will move it out and just deploy as a docker composer that I maintain myself. As much as truenas is handy, its company/community change too much on its decisions, not great for stability, and such core changes do not always provide easy or safe path forward

Dell T440 with 12x2tB drives is being readied for pickup. #TrueNAS here we come.

(I will size Noctua replacement fans but wait until its all up and running. )

Oh and LAGP means I'll have 2g bandwidth. Thank the imaginary gods for old Cisco switches. Fanless ones, even!

Server guy has a Dell T440 (16 2.5" drives) or an HP DL380 Gen 9 (12 3.5" drives.)

I think I'm going to go with the Dell T440 because the PERC 730 card can be worked around.

The HP's P440ar card is a pain to get working in HBA.

Any #TrueNAS -ers wanna weigh in on the choice? Otherwise I think I'll go with the T440 because it's single E5-2630 V3 CPU will pull less power than the DL380's 2xE5-2600 V4s.

Replied to my local tech recycler's server guy. Let's see what he can do with my goals.

I've stated clearly that if this seems like a waste of time, or is not FUN, he should drop me like 1st period French.

I can always cobble up a NAS from a used server and drives from eBay.

Looking forward to playing with #TrueNAS.

I've finally completed most of the guides I was planning on adding to my #Homelab Wiki - now it's got guides on setting up #Portainer, #Immich, #Jellyfin, #ErsatzTV, #OpenMediaVault (#OMV), and even #HomeAssistant - all of these (besides Jellyfin and ErsatzTV, those are on #Proxmox) are hosted on my #RaspberryPi in my homelab.

Most importantly though, I've organised the wiki a lil better - into different
courses. The first course details the type of hardware you're going to want to assemble - a beefy server (with only consumer parts) or a mini server (i.e. an #SBC), or whether you'd like to deploy a #NAS, followed by a course to setting up and managing a hypervisor (including #ESXi, but really, use Proxmox - which is #FOSS and plain better).

There's also a whole course on all sorts of 'host deployment environments' (i.e. where your application is hosted on, like
#VM, #Docker, #Kubernetes, and #LXC) you could have in your homelab. (One of the) Most importantly, a course on networking - which covers valuable topics like setting up a domain, free or paid, and setting up a reverse proxy for serving your hosted applications publicly, securely.

There's still some stuffs I gotta add, like a complete guide on setting up
#TrueNAS (which I've set up for many years at this point, without much documentation on how I did it - so I gotta find an opp to replicate it, when I have extra hardware maybe), but I'm pretty happy with it at this point. If you're planning to get into homelabbing, or even if you're already in it - maybe check it out ​:blobfoxcat:

🔗 https://github.com/irfanhakim-as/homelab-wiki

RE: https://sakurajima.social/notes/a9so79m6ze

My #homelab wiki is getting really complicated to organise and write for haha, but it's definitely getting more interesting topics like more #RaspberryPi stuffs, #Docker, and some cool stuffs like #OpenMediaVault and #HomeAssistant. I'm taking my sweet time to update them 'properly' and hope it'll all link/piece together sensibly in the end.

Very strange behavior from #TrueNAS Scale tonight. First time this particular thing has ever happened. It has completely stopped responding on it's main IP address. I have 4 different VMs all running on it (each has its own IP address). All the VMs are fine. They're running normally, they're reachable, they're running fine. But I can't get to the main IP for the main system via SSH, HTTPS, nothing.

So the physical box and an awful lot of the networking is running just fine. DHCP server says it renewed its IP address less than 24 hours ago. So I will have to go drag a monitor and keyboard into the garage to reboot it. Weird.