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My fellow homelabbers: which sultion would you recommend if you would like to build a Spotify like Streaming Service for youre family with music you have in a local library?
Important would be that there is an App for at least iPhone/iPad and that things like smart playlists, multiuser etc ist supported so everybody could use the same big catalog but with its own playlists, favourits etc.
If have already found three projects which could be okay: Navidrome, Funkwhale and Koel.
Any thoughts about this? Which route would you go?
#homelab #selfhosting #spotify #navidrome #funkwhale #koel @homelab @homelab_de
#funkwhale #spotify #homelab #selfhosting #navidrome #koel @Run your own homelab @Homelab Deutschland

🚨 NEW VIDEO: The Windows Exodus Has Begun.

2025 was the breaking point. Forced hardware retirement and intrusive AI have sparked a mass migration to GNU/Linux. In this video, I explore:

📈 The data behind the 3.20% Steam high.

🇪🇺 How the EU is saving millions by ditching Microsoft.

🛡️ Why 2026 is the year of Digital Sovereignty.

Stop fighting your OS. Start owning it.

🔴 Full Video: youtube.com/watch?v=dLzdTgCXyR…

#TerminalTilt #WindowsExodus #Windows10 #Windows11 #Microsoft #WindowsEOL #Recall #Copilot #DigitalSovereignty #Privacy #DigitalPrivacy #NoAI #HumanMade #DeGoogle #EthicalTech #Autonomy #DataSovereignty #AntiSpyware #Telemetry #SurveillanceCapitalism #RightToPrivacy #Encryption #SoftwareFreedom #ExitWindows #Migration #LinuxGaming #GamingOnLinux #SteamDeck #Valve #Proton #Bazzite #SteamOS #HandheldGaming #PCGaming #ROGAlly #LegionGo #GamingCommunity #SteamHardwareSurvey #EWaste #Sustainability #RightToRepair #PlannedObsolescence #CircularEconomy #GreenTech #SaveThePC #Hardware #Environment #EUtech #PublicMoneyPublicCode #OpenStandards #SchleswigHolstein #GermanyTech #GovernmentIT #DigitalRights #Linux #GNUlinux #Debian #Trixie #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #LibreOffice #Thunderbird #Nextcloud #SelfHosted #HomeLab #CLI #CommandLine #Terminal #Bash #FishShell #Dotfiles #SysAdmin #QueerTech #TransInTech #DisabledInTech #Accessibility #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBT #HumanContent #ContentCreator #SmallYouTuber #SmallStreamer #YouTube #IndieCreator #SupportIndependent #LinuxUser #Tech #TechNews #OperatingSystems


The Windows Exodus Has Begun. (And the Data Proves It)

For decades, “The Year of the Linux Desktop” was treated as a tech world punchline. But as we enter 2026, the data shows the laughter has stopped. Between th...
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#Accessibility #linux #foss #opensource #privacy #debian #floss #encryption #sustainability #nextcloud #Windows11 #libreoffice #youtube #thunderbird #microsoft #bash #softwarefreedom #surveillancecapitalism #publicmoneypubliccode #homelab #tech #lgbt #lgbtqia #queer #environment #hardware #terminal #CLI #selfhosted #righttorepair #digitalsovereignty #degoogle #openstandards #Autonomy #fishshell #linuxgaming #digitalrights #proton #copilot #SteamDeck #dotfiles #migration #sysadmin #plannedobsolescence #windows10 #technews #trixie #contentcreator #noAI #eWaste #valve #steamos #commandline #digitalprivacy #humanmade #gnulinux #bazzite #recall #pcgaming #datasovereignty #schleswigholstein #eutech #greentech #ethicaltech #gamingonlinux #operatingsystems #terminaltilt #windowsexodus #windowseol #antispyware #telemetry #righttoprivacy #exitwindows #handheldgaming #rogally #legiongo #gamingcommunity #steamhardwaresurvey #CircularEconomy #savethepc #germanytech #governmentit #queertech #transintech #disabledintech #humancontent #smallyoutuber #smallstreamer #indiecreator #supportindependent #linuxuser

Hello fellow homelabbers. I want to use domains instead of the raw IP adresses in my home
network. First thought was that using Adguard Home as local DNS Server for that. Good idea or are the any caveats using that software? Or is there any better DNS solution with a gui?
#homelab @homelab @homelab_de
#homelab @Run your own homelab @Homelab Deutschland

​:ablobcatwave:​ #Introduction for my (recreated) solo instance
〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️Hello! I go by Leora online, late-20s, pronouns she/her ​:QueerCat_Trans:​
❥ I am happily married! ​:lesbian_heart:​
❥ I am a 🐈 #cat mom to 3 and a 🐶 #doggo mom to 1 very crazy #whippet. I will likely be posting a lot of pictures of my #cats Saria, Majora, and Link, along with the occasional Mabel picture.

❥ I am a Linux Server Administrator. ​:debian_logo:​ ​:ubuntu:​ ​:rocky_logo:​ ​:redhat:​
❥ I currently live in Arkansas in the US, but I'm trying my hardest to relocate out of the South for obvious reasons. ​:blobcatsweat:​
❥ My memory is absolutely terrible, can't really recall a majority of my past. ​:neocat_confused:​
❥ I’m reasonably confident in my programming ability; my projects are often less so. ​:golang:​ ​:python:​ ​:bash:​
❥ Took a 🇯🇵 #Japanese language course in high school only to forget it all the next year. Currently working on relearning what I've forgotten.

❥ Use to be super involved with 🎭 #theatre. I was in a mime troupe in high school; I learned mime stuff, stilt & ball walking, small bit of 🤸 acrobatic stuff, diabolo stuff. I was active on stage and behind the curtains for several shows throughout high school and college. My social anxiety has mostly put an end to that chapter of my life, though.

❥ In my free time I'm either tinkering with my ​:r_homelab:​ #homelab, watching ​:jellyfin:​ #jellyfin or youtube, ​:blobcat_comfy_reading:​ reading #manga or #webtoons, ​:blobcatgamer:​ playing video games (sometimes on #Twitch), or taking 📸 pictures of my cats.

Feel free to add me, I enjoy meeting new people! ​:QueerCatHeart_Trans:​

Other various interests & relevant tags: #intro #trans #lgbt #linux #cyberSecurity #programming #yuri #videoGames #zelda #rimworld #dog

Mabel, a white and blue(? yeah, I don't get it either) whippet, chilling on top of a purple bed with purple bed sheets and a purple duvet, with Tuna the Blåhaj hanging out on the bed frame behind her. Her ears are flopped forward as she stares inquisitively past the camera.
Two cats hanging out together on a white wall mounted cat fixture against a dark purple wall. The fixture has two levels. On the top, flat level is Majora, a black and white short-hair, and on the bottom, cradle shaped level is Link, an orange short-hair. Majora is hanging his front paws off the right side of the fixture, staring towards the camera. Link is staring blankly off towards the left. They are good cats.
A close-up of Saria, a long-hair brown tabby cat, staring upwards with her green eyes. She is very focused.
Two cats cuddled together in front of a bright window. On the left is Majora, a black and white short-hair, and the right Link, an orange short-hair. Majora is spooning Linky with his front right paw wrapped around Link's neck (in a loving way, not like a choking kind of way). They are on top of a white, cushy cat bed that is level with the window sill, and there are brown wooden blinds coming down to just about their head height.
#linux #Twitch #cat #manga #programming #cats #homelab #introduction #Jellyfin #lgbt #trans #videogames #théâtre #intro #cybersecurity #dog #zelda #doggo #japanese #whippet #webtoons #yuri #rimworld

Falls ihr #Watchtower (automatisches Updaten von Docker Container) von containrrr eingesetzt habt: Das Projekt ist jetzt nach langer Zeit offiziell archiviert und bekommt keine Pflege mehr

github.com/containrrr/watchtow…

Als Nachfolger könnte man diesen verwenden. Ich habe ihn nicht getestet, wird aber häufig empfohlen:

github.com/nicholas-fedor/watc…

#docker #homelab #selfhosted


Goodbye containrrr/watchtower! · containrrr watchtower · Discussion #2135

It is with a heavy heart, and some sense of relief, that I'd like to announce that we are looking to archive containrrr/watchtower. Neither @piksel, nor I, are big users of docker anymore, and fran...
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#homelab #docker #selfhosted #watchtower

I'm going to admit that I am doing something immature in my #homelab and I'm looking for opinions. I've got multiple #XCPng hosts, all using local storage. I have no NFS or iSCSI storage. That's kinda silly. Shared storage is super useful and I'm literally not using it.

Unless I go to some serious effort to make a high-performance SAN, I expect network storage performance to be so-so for VM storage, but maybe I'm too pessimistic. I currently only have copper gigabit in the rack. No fiber, no 2.5G copper or anything like that. I'm not sure if that's going to be viable for NFS or iSCSI.

I could dedicate a host to running TrueNAS Core with a bunch of storage. But what has always bugged me about this is that my storage host becomes a single point of failure for all the compute nodes. #TrueNAS is super reliable but everything has to reboot once in a while, and these stupid enterprise-grade servers take anywhere from 4-8 minutes to boot. If I had a single storage node, and I needed to reboot it for an OS upgrade, everything would hang for a while. That's no good. Not updating the OS on the storage system is also not good.

So what am I supposed to be doing for shared storage on a #Xen cluster? How do I avoid a storage host becoming a single point of failure? How do you update and reboot a storage node, without disrupting everything that depends on it?

#selfhosting #san #storage

#homelab #selfhosting #truenas #Storage #xcpng #xen #san

The best way to test the resilience of your service is: reboot the server. I mean it. Don't just restart the service, reboot the server. A story in two parts:

Part 1: a while ago I configured ZFS under my Talos Kubernetes cluster, and everything was fine, until I decided to reboot. When it came back, nothing was working, because I forgot to properly configure a way for Talos to read the ZFS volume encryption key.

Part 2: at some point I configured Audiobookshelf to store data on top of said ZFS volume. Everything was working fine for a few weeks, until I had to reboot the server again (for reasons). When it came back, I lost all my downloaded podcasts, because I had a typo on my configuration that was pointing to a directory outside of the PVC, so it mounted as an emptyDir volume.

Honestly, I should have known better. I had issues in the past when some servers went down because of power failures (battery didn't last) and they did not come back properly.

You gotta do a reboot/power test every once in a while, just like you have to test your backups on a regular basis.

#HomeLab #TalosLinux #ZFS #SRE #DevOps @homelab

#homelab #devops #sre #zfs #TalosLinux @Run your own homelab

#homelab #selfhosted #komodo #gitops @Homelab Deutschland

The self hoster's paradox...

Everything working well: "I'm bored, there's nothing to play with 🥱"

Something breaks: "This is not how I want to spend my Sunday night, why do I do this 😭"
#selfhosting #fediadmin #homelab

#homelab #selfhosting #fediadmin

In early September, The Matrix Foundation homeserver went down.

I'm extremely proud of our SRE team. They had a Disaster Recovery Plan and monthly exercises to apply it, resulting in no data loss despite a 24h outage.

I've learned a lot about how to properly backup/restore a Postgres database when writing this post with SREs. We also learned how to better prevent and be resilient to human error.

Thanks all for the hugops during the outage!

matrix.org/blog/2025/10/post-m…

#homelab #selfHosting #sre


Post-mortem of the September 2 outage

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Matthew Hodgson (matrix.org)
#homelab #selfhosting #sre

Any #ZFS folks want to offer me an opinion on the following? I have 2 ZFS pool of raidz2 with 7 2TB SAS drives each (about 11.5T). I want to add a LOG drive. I have a single SAS SSD that's 300G. When I suggested using a 1TB LOG drive earlier, someone said that was way too much. (which is why I picked up a used 300G SSD)

My question is whether it makes sense (is possible) to partition that drive into 2 partitions and have one pool use 1 partition as a log drive (e.g., 150G) and the other pool use the other partition as a log drive on the same physical device.

Is this going to be worse because it's just too much IO on one device? Is it reasonable? Any other ideas?

Thanks
#homelab #linux #selfhost

#linux #selfhost #homelab #zfs

I've been on the hunt for some accessible, easily self-hosted (on prem or datacenter) chat solution for a while now, and I've been looking very closely at deltachat/chatmail.

Not gonna lie, the fact that just uses mature SMTP facilities for transport is making me weirdly aroused.

If anyone has experience running their own chatmail server or just using deltachat in general, I'd be glad to hear from you.

#DeltaChat #ChatMail #SelfHosted #HomeLab

#homelab #selfhosted #deltachat #chatmail

I keep plugging the drive sled into the server and the lights never come on and the server doesn’t recognise the drive.

PEBCAS - Problem exists between chair and screwdriver.
#homelab #diy #server

Photo of a 2.5 inch hard drive in a drive sled for sliding into servers. The drive’s gold contacts are clearly backwards so they won’t make contact when it slides into the server chassis. Some idiot named yours truly did that. 😜
#server #homelab #diy

I use mattermost as a free, open source Slack replacement. I like it a lot. I also use authentik as my SSO provider for my #homelab / #selfhosted stuff.

If you don't pay for the enterprise version of Mattermost, you don't get the SSO features. You can fake that by using their free GitLab integration. But you also don't get the capability to switch users from one form of authentication (email/password) to SSO after you set it up.

This is pretty obscure, and it involves a bunch of raw Postgres queries. But I figured it out and wrote a blog on converting Mattermost users from email/password to SSO


Mattermost Converting Users from Email to Gitlab authentication | Paco Hope

If you start your Mattermost Team Edition using email and password for users, but then you change your mind and switch to GitLab authentication, it’s not at all obvious or easy how to convert the existing users.
blog.paco.to
#homelab #selfhosted

#homelab #homeserver #nas

#selfhost #homelab #selfhosting #selfhosted

This Week in Self-Hosted (19 January 2024)

The latest news (ft. @matrix and @plex), software updates and launches (ft. @doncow #Immich, #Paperless, #PiAlert, and others), a spotlight on #wgeasy, upcoming events, and more in this week's self-hosted recap!

selfh.st/newsletter/2024-01-19…

#selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab #homeserver #opensource #newsletter


This Week in Self-Hosted (19 January 2024)

Self-hosted news, software updates, launches, and a spotlight on wg-easy, a WireGuard management container with a web interface
Ethan Sholly (selfh.st)
#opensource #selfhost #homelab #selfhosting #newsletter #selfhosted #homeserver #immich #paperless #pialert #wgeasy @The Matrix.org Foundation @mailcow ✅ @Plex

#facebook #telegram #synapse #homelab #postgresql #traefik #matrixorg #dockercompose #maubot #mautrix #elementio

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