should I do

Read. For example the tutorials in the openwrt wiki. I found them quite helpful.

before flashing Openwrt

Nothing… except the exact prerequisites for the flashing itself.

Your network config comes afterwards.

generates an infinitely deep tree

Wouldn’t the bot simply limit the depth of it’s seek?

Yes, you can easily do it.

You want to look at 2 things: 1. Noise 2. Ratio of performance / power usage.

1. Noise

When your PC runs 24/7 then it might be annoying to hear it’s noise sometimes. Real server cases are usually even much louder than former PC’s because they are built for super strong air flow inside.

Think carefully what you need. In my situation it is just one light wooden door away from my bed, so I wanted it impossible to hear. I optimized it so, and it ended up being so quiet that I cannot hear any fans, but I hear the clicking of the harddisks all the time. Well, I got used to that, mostly. For my next home server I want to build my own case that absolutely blocks this noise.

2. Ratio of performance / power usage

People are frequently asking what if I turn this old Pentium etc. into a server?

Well, these old CPU’s have very low performance compared to new ones, but it might just be sufficient. But then you recognize that the old veterans burn 100 Watts for the same performance where a modern (low performance) CPU burns only 5 Watts, and now it will do that 24/7. Think about your yearly costs. Many times it turns out that buying a new one saves your money very easily.

Thinking the same here.

“Android 15” but this was QPR2 specifically

How can we bring that to a real world (read: cheap Chinese) phone?

statutes that protect […] people trying to cooperate with law enforcement,

I don’t know exactly about France, but such a concept is rare in Europe in general (except England), and even more so when it comes to possession of such materials.

In Germany, I know the tolerance is absolutely ZERO, and the excuses too. You can carry the material to the police to deliver it, and with that you have proven that you were in possession one second before (it is very different with illegal weapons btw.). Private investigators or journalists have tried to do reports about the topic, seriously and neutrally without any doubt, but got punished for possession then.

That doesn’t count for this kind of crime.

It’s not even certain whether or not it applies at all for fediverse systems.

Better delete it in the same minute when you found it.

Probably should have given all of the evidence to the police instead of deleting some of it.

Or maybe not. …

In most western jurisdictions platform operators are not liable for user content

Around here, OP would then automatically be a suspect for possession of the material. Possession is a crime. And that is far from funny. Better have a very good lawyer from minute 1.

Is this different than pihole?

6 years old and running perfectly fine.

I have 5 WD RED disks in a RAIDZ1 config. In the first year I was experimenting with the sleep or spindown options. Then I have read that drives live longer if they run constantly. Now they are spinning 24/7.

The additional SSD has broken and been replaced 2x during these years.

Mods don’t communicate with common earthlings.

Great answer! 😃

How do you insert/eject the discs from a webui?

I want to build a whole new server, starting with a wooden case that makes it perfectly silent (but allows for good air flow).

Btw: does anybody know what bad things actually happen if there is no metal cage that blocks all the radio?

ip 10.0.0.1.1/8

This one was created by AI, right? 😉

I can not get my host node (the one that is 10.0.0.1/8 in vmbr1) to communicate with that NFS share.

Go through the usual debugging steps like:

Can they ping each other? Is the NFS access restricted to certain hosts? Is your NFS mount command correct? Is the service really running when you try the mount?

As I understand it, OP just wants to hide (=remove) the subdomains from the public URLs.

You do not keep the pool, but the data set = file system.

man zfs send

What did you do?

What did you expect?

What did you observe?

It’s an old desktop PC

One (or more) of the electrolytic capacitors in your PSU has died.

Remove the power cord, wait for 2 hours, open the PSU and look carefully for the candidate(s) with the domed head. Healthy ones are perfectly flat on the head.

Order a new one and replace it.

Can I go to my public sites

I would not recommend. Remember, wherever you step, your feet are leaving traces. Your public sites may be a little too publicly well-known afterwards.

and/or VPN into my servers?

VPN’s might not work from there, or the use may be considered a crime.

In that case, your phone needs to “see” at least 4 satellites at the same time (more is even better) to get the first GPS lock, and that’s probably why you need to wait for so long.

It could help to walk to a spot with no buildings, trees etc.

Once there was an app called “GPS essentials” to help with that.

In the other reply, you said something about GPS.

Well, location services aren’t really GPS anymore.

The phone looks at all of it’s radio environment (cell and WiFi and whatnot) and from that it calculates it’s location. GPS may help a little, too, but it’s not important.

It needs Apple’s own databases to do that: collections of all antennas in the world, and their known locations.

True, somewhat… but on the iPhone, many functions that seem like basic things are tied to Apple’s services and cannot easily replaced by selfhosted services. This phone would not work properly anymore.

Yes. Firewalls.

With an iPhone, however, you are screwed. Apple won’t let you do what you are looking for.

You say it is mounted. Then you can share it in all the same ways as you would share any other of the VM’s folders.

I am using SMB shares for that (but that is not always the best way ofc).

recover data from unfunctioned remaining RAID disks due to RAID controller failure

In this case, you need a new RAID controller of similar type.

Can I even simply attach one of the RAID 1 disk to the desktop system

No. One disk out of a RAID array is different from a normal disk.

Recovery becomes easy if you do not use a hardware RAID controller, but a ZFS software RAID instead. It does nearly all automatically. But you need to do a little more reading tutorials for the first setup.

The SD card is broken, but not totally dead yet.

So, decide now if you want to try and rescue some files from it, then DO NOT USE IT anymore until the real data recovery operation starts. No further tries to boot, no fsck etc.

better to pass the individual disks through to the VM and manage the zpool from there?

That’s what I do.

I like it better this way, because less dependencies.

Proxmox boots from it’s own SSD, the VM that provides the NAS lives there, too.

The zpool (consisting of 5 good old harddisks) can be easily plugged somewhere else if needed, and it carries the data of the NAS, but nothing else. I can rebuild the proxmox base, I can reinstall that VM, they all do not affect each other.

Tl;dr but:

If you simply want the best UX, then you need to stay with the real Facebook etc.

They spend millions and millions and millions only for UX. Free software can never compete, period.

I have 3 separate machines:

1. That fat home server with NAS and VM’s etc.

2. A Pi serving my smart home.

3. A plastic router with OpenWrt doing DNS and (I like to believe) some security, and giving WiFi to many small devices.

They all run 24/7 but I just don’t want everything to be dead and dark when one machine is down for whatever reason.

This will be the spec for my next server. The current one is smaller, and several years old

I have several different requirements for my server, for example, my son does video editing and needs lots of storage. I want to experiment with more VM’s and containers, therefore RAM and threads.

Do you think people just beginning could get buy on 4 cores and 8 GB RAM for a while?

For most people I think they just want to have some NAS and a reliable machine. But please grant them 16 GB, otherwise they would ask why their laptop has so much more than their server :-)

I would absolutely want the extra router because most people have one from their service provider. For self hosting, you want an additional router with your own software.

The hypothesis is that $150 of equipment to avoid dozens of hours of software configuration

OK fair try, but you also need to sell me 20-25 TB of disk space on 5 spindles (plus a SSD for the bootdisk), 64 GB RAM (with a chance to go up to 128) and the CPU must have 16 threads or more.

we can have 5~10 photos which are basically duplicates

Have any of you guys handled a similar situation?

I decide which one is the best and then delete the others. Sometimes I keep 2, but that’s an exception. I do that as early as possible.

I don’t mind about storage space at all (still many TB free), but keeping (near-)duplicates costs valuable time of my life. Therefore I avoid it.

even allowed in Germany?

Yes.

works well on my LAN network, but when I try to make the server accessible via a DynDNS service

I guess your Fritzbox does NAT for your LAN. Then the dyndns address works only when the client is outside.

all that data would become inaccessible to my OMV.

Why?

Nothing gets destroyed unless your OMV actively destroys things (which is very unlikely)

A zpool is easily portable to a new machine/VM.

enforce tagging at the switch level (i.e. don’t trust the cameras to maintain their own VLAN) settings.

Very smart solution!

I guess you need to “zpool import -f” because your system has crashed before and did not shutdown properly.

After reading again, I understand that your pool is alive and well. It is just not mounted anywhere.

Look into /etc/fstab if you find the correct mountpoint there. Then tell it to your ZFS with "zfs set mountpoint= "

Measure the time after the reboot of the AP until the next failure.

If it is always the same duration, then that excludes the memory problem. If it is a variable time, then that excludes the DHCP problem and probably also DNS.