Geoffman05

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Black Friday Homelab Projects in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] Geoffman05@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago

I only lost $100 last weekend. I realized recently that the NVMe that I thought was in my server was actually a 2.5” SSD. Not sure how I forgot about that…. Then I upped my Ram from 16 to 32 (maxed out) to allow room for additional VMs.

If you had to start your homelab from scratch... in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] Geoffman05@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

UDM-PRO, USW-Aggregation, USW-Enterprise-24-POE, U6-LR… build a server with i5/32GB NVMe boot drive, then some RAID drives… I took out a loan in this scenario as $1,000 wouldn’t cover my entire rack getting blown up.

Couldn’t say no to 2x 300GB 10K VelociRaptor with IcePacks for $5! in c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum
[–] Geoffman05@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

What a blast from the past! I still have my 74GB floating around somewhere.

Running home server applications on daily driver machine? in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] Geoffman05@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I doubt you would notice much a performance hit if any. What you’re losing out on is reliability. You playing games and downloading/executing stuff causes extra processes to run that normally wouldn’t on a server. The more processes running the more chances for a glitch in the matrix to crash the machine. You could also do an update that breaks compatibility with other programs (not so much an issue with Docker). The biggest point of a dedicated sever at home is the fact that you set it then don’t fuck with it - This leads to higher reliability.

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LinkStation SMTP (alien.top)
 

Hey everyone,

I figured this may be a good sub to post in given the connection between data hoarding and NAS's.

I have a Buffalo LinkStation LS220DE (LS220DE3F5) Version 1.78-0.03 and am running into issues getting SMTP to work. I go to send a test email and get a very generic error "Because of an error, the following process did not complete: Sending test email notification."

  • SMTP Server Address: smtp-mail.outlook.com
  • SMTP Port: 587
  • Authentication Type: LOGIN (SMTP-AUTH)
  • SSL/TLS: STARTTLS
  • Username: user@outlook.com
  • Password: App & Normal both tried (MFA enabled / disabled, respectively)
  • Subject: This has text as it is marked required
  • Recipient(s): I've tried both an Outlook and Gmail email

I'm not sure what I'm missing or if it's the simple fact that this NAS is out-dated as hell where it's a no longer supported feature. Also, at my wife's request, I tried turning it off then back on again.

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Favorite ad blocking setup? in c/homelab@selfhosted.forum
[–] Geoffman05@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I have multiple layers of ad blocking.

  • Pihole for DNS
  • Firefox w/uBlock Origin & SponsorBlock (YouTube) on every PC
  • Brave browser on iPhones.
  • SmartTubeNext (YouTube) on Chromecast
  • All of my mobile devices are connected by VPN to utilize Pihole when I’m not home