Someohow rewiring my drives and removing two cables have stopped all zfs errors and it’s running 200% quieter.

I finally figured out it was a bad stick of RAM in my server that has been causing random freezes and not some stupid mistake on my part. Thankfully it’s DDR3 so I can keep both of my kidneys and still afford the replacement.

Got hit with this recently

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/15148

Just restored an old backup. Everything is behind a vpn and is working so ill give it a while and see if it gets sorted before resorting to swapping out the sqlite version for each update.

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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I’ve been hinking about infrastructure as code tools. Skimmed the very surface of opentofu, looked at the list of alternatives.

I’m in need of something that is both, deployment automation and (implicit) documentation of the thing that I call “the zoo”. Namely:

• network definition
• machine definitions (VMs, containers) and their configuration
• inventory: keeping track of third party resources

Now I think about which tool would be the right one for the job while I’m still not 100% sure what the job is. I don’t like added complexity, it is quite possible this could become a dead end for me, if I spend more time wrangling the tool than I gain in the end.

PS: If you haven’t already, please take a look at your openssl packages. Since this week there are two new CVEs rated as high: https://openssl-library.org/news/vulnerabilities/index.html

Recently obtained a free circa-2017 mac mini which I installed Linux on, to create a docker hosting environment. Current have Jellyfin, SearXNG, and Forgejo.

My much older NAS serves as the NFS drive for the Jellyfin media (formerly, I ran Plex directly on the NAS, but this was slow/unreliable as the NAS has only dual 1Ghz ARM cores).

One of the drives in the NAS died Thursday night, but no serious issue as its RAID 1. I wonder if the new load on it pushed it over the edge. (Also, I wonder if I could use the mac minis SSD as a sort of cache in front of the NAS, to reduce wear on it, if that would even help…)

Luckily I had some gift cards from recycling old tablets and phones, so I could get a replacement drive at minimal cost. I went with a cheap WD Blue drive instead of the 2.5x more expensive Seagate IronWolf drives I had used in the past. We will see how that fares over the next few years.

Upon replacing the drive yesterday, I found the one that failed was a 2017 mfg date, so its life was 8 years (from when I initially populated the NAS). The other drive was replaced in 2021 (but it actually failed in 2020, I just left the NAS unused for a year at that time, so it had a life of 3 years). Some insight into the life span of the Iron Wolf drives.

Things I’d like to add soon:

• kiwix instance
• normalize my ebook/magazine collection
• setup to download my youtube subscriptions to Jellyfin’s media directory so I can avoid the youtube app/website
• something for music to ditch that subscription

Finally killed my Discord account and moved my monitoring notifications to a self-hosted ntfy server. Works well.

Some of the things in my house were set up so long ago, and running so smoothly, i havent looked at them in years (other than auto updates) now i’m afraid i’ve accidentally left some security hole without realizing it

For example, i set up cerbot 10 years ago and back then there was no DNS challenge, so i had to open my webserver to port 80 to renew… well since everything was running from https/443, i decided to block port 80

so i edited the systemctl unit for certbot to temporarily open port 80 for the renewal, and close it right after…

It was only 5 years later i realized i made a mistake and port 80 had been open for 5 years to the open internet

Probably no harm since its a public server anyway… defense in depth is the key

Wait I don’t understand how changing your CNAME to A records resolved your problem. Did your wife’s computer simply not resolve the CNAME records?

At home, smooth sailing. At “work/uni”, migrating everything to ceph, and been a pain in the arse installing OpenSuse with software raid for some reason

So much has been going on

I moved recently and had to change ISPs. I went from 2 Gbps symmetrical fiber to 90/3 Mbps satellite behind CGNAT.

Fastest place to get the WAN cable into the house was through the attic and into my guest room / office. But that caused some serious heat and noise issues.

Ran some structural Cat6, installed new electrical outlet, put in some keystone jacks, wired a new patch panel, then moved the rack to the basement.

Bought and installed a UPS which has already saved me twice in a month.

Up speeds were too slow and the high latency to the satellite constellation was causing issues, so I spun up a small VPS. But that means I have to sync content back to my local.

I’ve been wrestling with rsync for over a month… fiddling with flags to get the best results. I think I finally settled on a config yesterday and the service and timer are working well

CGNAT is messing with remote access, so I set up cloudflare tunnels. But the tunneling is not well suited for streaming. I was only getting ~100 Kbps on remote connections. Ran some iperf3 testing over tailscale and was slightly better.

My preferred audiobook app Prologue released a major update to v4.0 which broke Plex libraries on launch, so I had to quickly pivot to AudioBookShelf.

To achieve remote streaming and access for Prologue, I had to explain Tailscale set up and create new user accounts. Only halfway through my user base. Not looking forward to explaining it to my parents

Finally, I’m trying to set up Claude to run on my server rather than my locked down enterprise laptop. That’ll allow more tooling access like git rather than before when I was spending a lot of time downloading and uploading files manually. I need to figure out how to keep my session open. I’ll probably run tmux inside a docker container then run claude inside the tmux window. Hopefully that works

Currently dealing with extraordinarily slow network interface speeds on my NAS. Did a quick IO test with dd, and the results were great. I’d troubleshot this before to no avail, let the device power cycle and network speeds were fine afterwards. No dice this time, so I’m just replacing most of the hardware aside from the drive pool since I’d planned to anyways. Will troubleshoot my router’s network card as well for sanity’s sake.

I got zfs-zed working again after hours spent on vanishing notifications that worked before a kernel update that replaced a config file.

Turns out I missed a $ in a bash function call.

I finally installed my wife

Man…technology has come a long way.

Nothing here to write home about. A couple of minor tweaks to the network, and blocking even more unnecessary traffic. I’ve been on a mission to reduce costs in consumables such as electricity. I have a cron that shuts everything down at a certain time in the evening, and am working on a WOL routine fired by a cron from my stand alone pfsense box, to the server, to crank it back up in the morning just before I get up. It seemed to be the lowest hanging fruit so I have it on priority. It just didn’t make sense to run the server for 10 - 12 hours on idle I don’t have any midnight mass downloads of Linux iso’s nor do I make services available to other users so, it seemed to be a good place to start. I guess, by purist’s standards, it’s not a server anymore but an intermittent service, but it seems to be working for me. Will check consumption totals at the end of the month.

Other than that, I haven’t added anything new to the lineup, and I am just enjoying the benefits.

Moved all my Unraid ‘apps’ to Dockhand, and linked my Pangolin VPS with the Hawser agent. I had Dockge for a while on newer container deployments, but wanted something a bit more playful, Dockhand is it.

I degoogled my GMail last year to Infomaniak, which was OK, but moved to Fastmail last week, which I now love! Setting the custom domain pulled in the sites favicon for the Fastmail account header, which made me smile too much for such a simple thing. Think I’ll be on Fastmail for the future. (Background syncing with the new Bichon email archiver).