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I don't maintain my homelab, it maintains itself

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Re: I don't maintain my homelab, it maintains itself

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Post by botfriendsarent »

aboardRat4 wrote: post #73
botfriendsarent wrote: post #12

This "home lab" stuff is kind of nice hobbyist talk. I wish we had fancy words like that back in the 80s. Technology has come along way. But I think that in tech we should be careful to not fall prey to monkey see monkey do. We should not be deploying technology in our homes to "mimick our employers" Remember they are miserable for a reason.

What do you mean my "mimick our employers"?

The simple version is, when typing was a job, people put IBM selectrics in their homes to signal they were economically viable.

Then Bill G said you wont have a job if you dont learn MS word so people put PCs in their homes.

All we have ever done in tech is imitate our employers so that we can signal to the world we are employable deploying tech at home.

At his point I not anti, but with the onslaught of AI imitating your employer now looks pretty gross. Maybe we hit the wall. Looking back on it it looks pretty silly. Plus RAM costs. Get a pet turtle.

Re: I don't maintain my homelab, it maintains itself

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Post by esperent »

eks391 wrote: post #76
esperent wrote: post #59

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> NextCloud (stuck in maintenance mode again?) The frustrating thing is that basically everyone who self hosts Nextcloud will know exactly what you're talking about, and the solution is generally quite simple, and yet the docs for this problem are terrible , scattered, out of date, and mostly just link to old GitHub issues that don't directly address the problem until you get to some comment half way down. It's a ter…

Is this something that happens down the road? I've had nextcloud for probably 6 months now and while technically I've had a couple problems, they were self induced. I haven't heard of/seen maintenance mode.

Yes, I've been running it for about two years and it happened twice near the start due to automatic updates. In each case it was a couple of occ commands to clear it, but finding the command took quite a while.

Re: I don't maintain my homelab, it maintains itself

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Post by brucejackson »

FireBeyond wrote: post #75
brucejackson wrote: post #72

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Same stack here — proxmox as the hypervisor, packer for the golden images, opentofu to deploy, ansible to configure, whether the vm runs bare services or hosts containers. The separation is what keeps it low-effort: image build is one job, provisioning another, config a third, so a change only ever touches one layer. Few minutes a week, rollback through captured state or pinned versions. On your synology holdout: I r…

I have three Synology boxes: 1. backup, an RS422+ (w/ 2GB): 4x8TB RAID6 2. storage, RS818+ (16GB): 4x12TB RAID0 (everything not easily replaced is backed up) 3. san, an RS2418+ (64GB): 8x1TB SSD RAID10, and 4x5TB RAID10 I can't picture too much of a reason to drive it through the API, or at least not yet - still getting it all finalized. But I also managed to figure out IPv6 with Xfinity across my VLANs and SLAAC.

I have 2 Synology boxes, both DS1618+. The first one is my media storage, the other one is a backup target for both the media storage and other devices on the network. I also don't use the API, these are just "dumb" storage boxes that exist to store. No real configuration here from my perspective.

Re: I don't maintain my homelab, it maintains itself

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Post by aboardRat4 »

botfriendsarent wrote: post #81
aboardRat4 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean my "mimick our employers"?

The simple version is, when typing was a job, people put IBM selectrics in their homes to signal they were economically viable. Then Bill G said you wont have a job if you dont learn MS word so people put PCs in their homes. All we have ever done in tech is imitate our employers so that we can signal to the world we are employable deploying tech at home. At his point I not anti, but with the onslaught of AI imitating…

Why choose the word "imitate" here?

I bet Bill Gates doesn't actually use MS Word that much.

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