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I found this open source, self-hosted alternative to Trakt/Letterboxd /etc.
Due to the impending Letterboxd sale https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/2197146-letterboxd-a24-new-york-times-acquisition-report I went looking to see if I could potentially find any open source alternatives to LB. And I found one. It's called NeoDB: https://neodb.net/ It's decentralized, open s…
3 weeks with a Minisforum N5 Max (Strix Halo, 128 GB) as an all-in-one Proxmox NAS + media + SSO + local AI box — full write-up, gotchas, mistakes, and a 2026 value comparison
I built my household server on a **Minisforum N5 Max** (Ryzen AI Max+ 395, Radeon 8060S, 128 GB unified RAM, 5 bays) running **Proxmox VE**, and documented everything — including the mistakes: https://github.com/Mensra/n5-max-homelab **What it runs:** ZFS raidz2 (5×14 TB) with SMB shares and Time Ma…
I spent 7 years building a game engine using C
I've been working on a puzzle game for the last 7 years, and over time I ended up writing almost the entire technology stack myself. The code is written in a C style, using a C++ compiler mainly because I like operator overloading for math. Other than that, I try to keep the code close to how I woul…
Homelab eGPU swap
I can’t stop. Ordered 2 of the last remaining 12gb 3060 for a reasonable price, good time to show the swap. I get asked about the setup. This is just to test a used card, perfect in the end, ~ 34 - 36 tgs. 16k on Qwen 3.5 whatever quant. The replaced card will go into a new dial 3060 setup because I…
Testing Files Generator - offline test files generator with pre-made presets, manifest and recipe system, GUI/CLI, 26+ formats, boundary and name testing.
Hello, Testing Files Generator has just got V0.4 update :-) I'm developer of the tool. Full GUI/CLI program for creating test files, want to create simple png, jpg xl csv xlsx pdf? Maybe 500gb file? Maybe 10k files? No problem Why this is different than other files generator? - CLI mode with recipe …
Found The Tiny Server Gochas at Taipei City Mall!
If the price of memory doesn't get you, these surely will (the conversion is roughly $3 a pop). Believe it or not, nobody with me understood my excitement, so I'm sharing here. (Not offering to buy or sell) to r/selfhosted
This is my first Tablet
This my first Tablet What i can do with it Battery died Touchscreen died to r/homelab
setxkbmap command in .xsession makes me unable to log in xenodm
I am running into a strange situation. On a fresh OpenBSD install running -current, I have a US keyboard with which I wish to use an international layout in order to be able to type French/latin accents using dead keys. Typing setxkbmap us intl on the go in the command line works. But putting it (or…
Question about climbing up the ladder from Helpdesk/IT Support to sysadmin and the job market goes bad
Hi everyone, there’s something that I’m curious about. If you have built up 2 years of helpdesk experience and 1 year of system administration experience, and then you get laid off in a pretty bad job market like the one we’re dealing with currently, how realistic is it to successfully land another …
which advice will you give to people who wants to come into this field?
very much interested to know what will you all say! to r/embedded
Debian 14 (Forky) Artwork Proposals Extended to Nov 26th
If you are interested in wanting to have your artwork potentially enter the next release of Debian, an error regarding the news not entering debian-devel-announce before deadline extensions has left the project with only one submission for now. Click the mailing list embed for more information about…
where to learn cpp for embedded systems
please suggest any free platform or a playlist to learn cpp for embedded systems,learning cpp from the cherno ,but difficulty in transitioning from modern cpp to embedded cpp and how it can be used efficiently instaed of c. to r/embedded
LocalSend appreciation post
I am loving it like I use an android phone like from 2021 and a potato laptop running linux lite (ubuntu-xfce) for studies like watching lectures and all. Before I knew about localsend it was a hassle to transfer like even normal images, I used to put those in google keepnotes and then copy it from …
My Homelab after one year into my IT apprenticeship
Hi everyone! I thought I'd share my homelab journey after roughly one year of getting into IT. I'd love to get some feedback, suggestions and maybe some ideas for where to take it next. A little bit about me About 1.5 years ago, I quit my job as a Sales Manager and started an apprenticeship in IT. B…
tips for a newly network admin-help desk
Hi all, I just started a hybrid network admin / help desk role at a new company. I actually come from a front-end dev background, but after getting laid off, I picked up my Network+, Security+, and CCNA, which luckily helped me land this job. The team here is super friendly, and the seniors have alr…
How to prevent Ubuntu 24.04 server from crashing completely when it runs out of RAM? Why OOM killer doesn't just nuke the container that takes memory?
Hello, I admin some servers and recently we updated one long forgotten server from Centos7 to Ubuntu 24.04. I have a question regarding the differences in OOM Killer between these two OS. I'm used to handling CentOS servers and always loved, that CentOS just straight up kills any misbehaving process…
AwardWallet alternative to track credit card points and miles?
Is there a self hosted alternative for AwardWallet? Even something that's fairly manual (like a glorified spreadsheet) would be something lol to r/selfhosted
Made a thingie (with help from Claude)
UPS to ESP32 connector to monitor all you various power supplies NOT near a computer. AI Disclaimer: Yes I used AI for some of the more tedious parts of this and it did help a lot, the board design, some of the trace routing, placement and such was done by me and finished with AI. Software side is a…
FPGA board
Hi , I am going to use FPGA PROTOTYPING BY SYSTEMVERILOG EXAMPLES XILINX MICROBLAZE MCS SOC EDITION book for learning. Please suggest which FPGA board will be useful for me and get maximum out of this book . to r/embedded
Cursed Build
The more you look the worse it gets to r/homelab
Optimizing a Lock-Free Ring Buffer
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I need your genuien feedback!!
Im currectly 19 , Btech CS student. I have learnt python programming language also with that I started with Django framework in future Ill be learing SQL and React too. As a part of my academic I have DSA in c++ , Im doing that and looking forward to continue DSA too. But now im confused about Is do…
My 34-byte STM32 LED blink routine in pure Assembly (with some dirty hardware hacks)
Hi everyone, I’ve been diving deep into bare-metal ARM Assembly lately, and I wanted to see how low I could actually go with a fully working, hardware-validated LED blink program on the STM32. No HAL, no bloated startup files, just absolute control over the silicon. I ended up with two versions: * *…
Useful tool for solar nodes
I found this tool when waiting for the Solar eclipse this year to find a good view, as it was late in the day. But I also think if you are sighting a solar node, especially in a city may be useful. https://shademap.app/@52.14487,0.23318,15.386z,1795782497361t,-50.51842b,0p,0m!1795765161341!179579491…
Following up on my 3DMark post: GOG Support confirms "GOG GALAXY for Linux is in development"
After the positive reception to my post about UL Solutions developing a native Linux port of 3DMark, I wanted to share another update from a different support ticket I sent recently—this time regarding GOG. When I emailed GOG support to ask about a native Linux version of GOG Galaxy (and highlighte…
Very cool-running Raspberry Pi case for €25
Hi everyone, Today I'm showing you my Raspberry Pi case, which cost only €25 and keeps it really cool! First, I started by looking for a dead 3-slot graphics card, with only two important criteria: it had to look clean, and above all the fans had to work. I came across a really clean HD 7970 DCU II …
My homelab
Waiting for case to arrive, but this is my temporary homelab setup, which runs plain debian 13 with zfs installed to manage the two hard drives in a mirror configuration. Also got docker installed to manage few containers such as dockhand, jellyfin, nginx proxy manager, samba, and a nginx container …
A 3D Cube Running on Badgeware Tufty 2350 written in TypeScript
More code examples are here: https://github.com/geastack/examples For quick start: https://geastack.com/one-pager to r/embedded
HP Elite Slice G2
Found this little one on local classifieds and couldn’t resist. It looks beautiful, has a decent built-in speaker (they even put B&O logo on it lol). Put Fedora server and made some sort of a smart speaker (well, still some Wyoming tuning is needed, although all RU-voices suck there imo) + acts as A…
Any Extra Resources when beginning to write Device drivers?
I've been experimenting a bit with the pi pico & pwm audio to try to write a tracker for microcontrollers. I'm getting to the point where I'm relatively comfortable with programming in C & with the architecture of the RP2040. So I think soon, I want to be able to start writing drivers to communicate…
Luthor: A novel DFA regex/lexer matcher table generator suitable for embedded matching
https://preview.redd.it/e18x5ez5ptrh1.png?width=695&format=png&auto=webp&s=a7cb1f57c366a20390ea6fe671c5e184c2e65886 https://github.com/codewitch-honey-crisis/Luthor Luthor is a fast, compact lexer generator that produces simple integer arrays for efficient text matching in any programming language. …
Why can't I see any other nodes anymore?
I got my first meshtastic node yesterday. It's the M5Stack C6L. After first setting it up, I immediately saw a bunch of nodes, some way far away. I'm 99% sure that it was set to long fast by default. I then got to researching, and here in Switzerland, people seem to use medium fast. That would expla…
Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles
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Did anyone here use VRTX in the 1980s? Why did equal-priority scheduling change to FIFO?
I'm looking for people who used VRTX, or were familiar with its design, in the 1980s or early 1990s. I'm currently revisiting an RTOS that I wrote in 1986 for a Motorola 68000-based embedded system. While reviewing its scheduler, I found a behavior whose original rationale I could no longer remember…
Stay at job or take new job
4 years at a national MSP, 2 of them as a senior engineer. I'm the only senior technical resource for my region..the sole escalation point for network, endpoint, identity, cloud, email, and vuln management, plus a couple of platforms nobody else on my team is certified in. I've been lucky to stack c…
vAuth - Virtual FIDO2 authenticator for Linux-based PCs and laptops. First public beta release for Debian 13.
Hey, r/linux I have been working on this project for the last half a year, and now it is finally ready to be released as a public beta. vAuth is a virtual FIDO2.0 authenticator for PCs, laptops, and other devices running Linux-based operating systems. For those who don't know - FIDO authenticators a…
What’s your personal motivation for building a homelab?
I know I’ve got my own reasons for starting; digital independence, trying not to subject myself to the whims of cloud service and storage providers, crawling out of subscription hell, just generally enjoy tinkering, etc. I’m curious how/why others here wanted to get started? to r/homelab
I added tty support on my file manager
You can now do mouse features like drag and drop, left and right click, rubber band selections and other modern file manager features straight on the tty on tfm. tty only supports limited colors and characters so its kinda ugly and hard to theme, to solve this I just copied old bios classic blue and…
New Repeater Case
So, the last car repeater I built finally sprang a leak. I happened to check the enviro data and it was 90% humidity in there. I have no clue where it's leaking, but there was indeed a lil water inside from the recent rain we got here. So I picked up a new junction box and transplanted all the parts…
Not a fan of these Amazon fans
That feeling when you go to replace stock fans and two of four boxes from Amazon are return scams. Edit: Just noticed that the one on the right has two LPN stickers stacked. So someone else was a victim and returned it too. to r/homelab
I have finally joined the club! Just got her today. Nothing too fancy yet, but parts are on the way!
Dell PowerEdge R730 (8-bay 2.5" SFF) Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4 (10C/20T @ 2.4GHz / 3.4GHz turbo) 32GB DDR4 ECC RDIMM (1x 32GB, 2133MHz) PERC H730 Mini 2x 750W redundant PSUs iDRAC8 Enterprise Proxmox VE installing as we speak Paid: C $389 delivered Incoming: 2x E5-2697A v4 (32C/64T total) RTX 3060 12GB …
Saturday Daily Thread: Resource Request and Sharing! Daily Thread
Weekly Thread: Resource Request and Sharing 📚 Stumbled upon a useful Python resource? Or are you looking for a guide on a specific topic? Welcome to the Resource Request and Sharing thread! How it Works: Request: Can't find a resource on a particular topic? Ask here! Share: Found something useful? S…
Open sourced my Raspberry Pi 5 home cloud today — the whole OS plus the image, free
Hey everyone, got something I've been waiting to share. Keephaven is a home cloud box I've been building on a Raspberry Pi 5. As of today the whole OS is open source, and the exact image the boxes run is a free download. Flash it to an NVMe drive and your Pi becomes the same box. What you get on fir…
I hate it, I hate it, I hate it
1 dead RAM slot and 3 different brands of RAM adding up to 36864MB 😭 I hate this hardware crisis to r/homelab
A Lean Proof Printing Python Union Find
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All the versions of my homelab
Spent the last 5 years working on my homelab Moving everything to a proper rack in the garage was the right move Any advice is appreciated Here’s the docs: https://network.leox.me Summary specs: Hypervisor: Proxmox VE Cluster: 2 nodes Total CPU: 24 logical CPUs Total RAM: ~152 GiB Storage: ~6.75 TB …
Self-hosting made me more paranoid, not less :c
I started self-hosting to have more control over my stuff. Now I’m constantly thinking about backups, updates, exposed services, drives dying, getting hacked, etc. Before I just used cloud services and barely thought about any of that... More control, sure. Less peace of mind too :/ to r/selfhosted
Unpopular opinion: homelabbing is closer to collecting than learning, and I love it
Four years into homelabbing and I love it, but I think we tell ourselves a comfortable story. We justify every purchase as "learning". In practice, most of us learned the bulk of what we know in the first year. After that, it's mostly acquisition: another node for a cluster that doesn't need it, a 1…
Microservices are organizational debt disguised as architecture.
Every time I’ve seen microservices pitched, it sounds great on paper. Independent teams, clean ownership, scale only what you need. Then a year later you’ve got dozens of services, three different deployment patterns, tracing everywhere, and nobody really understands the whole thing anymore. Maybe I…
Guys, surely this is how your supposed to do this, right?
cheap seeed studio esp32 with power supply taped to the end of a pool brush handle, stabbed into the ground. I didnt see any improvement 😅 to r/meshtastic
Ported desktop Ubuntu with GPU acceleration to a GE Profile smart fridge display
I got desktop Ubuntu running on a Mediatek-based display board in a GE fridge. A combination of no secure-boot, vibe coding, device tree/U-Boot fiddling, and pure ridiculousness got me here lol. I was able to get most hardware functions to work minus WiFi and touch. Fixes are already being worked on…
Image upload file type verification on FastAPI
I have an ecommerce chat widget that allows users to send photos of products they’ve looking for. I would like to make sure the files being uploaded are true images (jpeg, png, webp). So far I have come up with two levels of checks on the files. First, checking the content-type mime in the request h…
What is the funniest/dumbest support call you ever got?
I've been an IT consultant for about 25 years now and I originally started out at an IT consulting firm in Santa Barbara Ca that was big at the time. The company had a lot of departments mostly in the defense sector, but they had an IT consulting division that I worked in. The owner was an old man w…
RMM for internal IT Department
Wanted to get an outside opinion on replacing our current ticket system (Solarwinds) and remote access software (LogMeIn Resolve) for a Non MSP based IT team. Almost all of the RMM solutions I can find seem geared towards MSP's so I thought Id ask for opinions on here. We have a pretty small team (3…
Domain vs local
So, I didn’t realize when I took this new IT job that I was the company’s new sysadmin, and not just regular IT. Shipping was just shut down for 3 hours because I didn’t know that to log in to the server to restart WorldShip, I had to use the format: domain-name/administrator and not just administra…
Weirdest IT AI story so far - disaster ticket came in on a Friday
I'm calling it right now. This story is the hands down winner so far for weird AI crap turning into a train wreck. We're an MSP. A customer just put in a ticket, saying, "Someone's recording all of our phone calls and emailing them to us. Can you figure out what this is and turn it off." They attach…
Humble little home-lab made with a Pi that was just sitting around.
Had a Orange Pi just sitting around with a HDD we already used to store movies, photos, etc. Made this with it. Works with a wireguard tunnel into nginx proxy manager. None of my docker containers have any ports open (besides the necessary ones like pihole 53 and nginx 80 and 443 etc.) and I can acc…
BluRay Player UART NAND Dumping
Hi guys! You may know me already, 14y/o self-taught embedded firmware dev. I just wanted to show a quick insight into a project I'm working on. As you can see in the video, I'm currently dumping my Philips BDP3280 BD player's whole flash through serial. It took around 20 minutes, and at the end I go…
Got tired of manually updating my homelab map, so I automated it
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Anyone use these permanently?
These smaller UPSes last 1-2 hours and need battery replacements every 3-5 years. These jackeries were on sale for $800 at Costco with solar panels and being by the coast, felt it was better then buying a generator and dealing with maintenance. My fear is reliability and fire hazard with these thing…
Multiple, brand new HP ProBooks crash during first Windows Update
My organization purchases HP equipment for our users. Haven't had any issues until now. We just purchased multiple HP ProBook 4 G1a 16 laptops model BP7Y7UA. The first thing we do to all incoming equipment is format and reinstall Windows to get rid of all pre-installed anything. Just a basic Windows…
Jeff Geerling has organized a HomelabFest
It's happening on September 12 - 14, 2027 in St. Louis, MO. HomelabFest is a celebration of self-hosting and homelabs of all sizes! If you’re interested in home networking, tinkering with hardware, digital privacy, or building your own mini (or full-size) rack, this event is for you. More details he…
Fun weekend project with OpenBSD?
I’d like to tinker and explore with OpenBSD, but I’m not really sure where to start. I’m seeking ideas for something that would be educational to me. What’s something I could do in a relatively small time box that will let me experience some of OpenBSD’s strengths? The only idea I’ve come up with so…
Got this bad boy..
LoRa with LR series to r/meshtastic
status.cloud.microsoft is 429ing and Teams is serving an NXDOMAIN
Somebody touched something. Happy read-only Friday, everyone! to r/sysadmin
Behold the Unobtainium: the Optane that got away, the 3DXPoint that never was, the Micron X100
I only tested it on a x4 slot and ran the 3dm once to make sure it works but if you wanna know more about the actual performance and you understand Chinese there are some videos on bilibili that cover the actual heights of its performance https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1irt66yEFF https://www.bilib…
PSA: Kiteworks coordinated shutdown
Kiteworks sent all their clients an email urging to shutdown and network isolate their instances from a credible tip from the police. Interestingly enough, they closed their bug bounty running since 2020 a few days ago.. https://bugcrowd.com/engagements/kiteworks-public to r/sysadmin
I'm starting HomelabFest, and you're invited!
For a while, I've wondered why there wasn't an event for the homelab community. There are plenty of software and hardware-focused conferences that touch on areas of homelabbing (like HPC, or IoT, or software, or PC hardware, etc.), but nothing specifically for homelab as a concept. So I'm starting o…
I built a macropad to help my girlfriend doomscroll
I've been working on a macropad for a while now. I actually started this project about a year ago, when I first discovered custom keyboards. It took roughly a year of procrastination, failed ideas, and putting it off, but I finally got around to actually making it. Originally, I wanted to make a wir…
I picked this up from Goodwill out of a Dish Hopper receiver for $8
I'll probably use it in my NVR or make some streaming service with it like Plex. Or would there be something better to use it for? to r/homelab
I no longer understand what I'm doing
This is more of a rant, than a true question or comment, so if it breaks the rules, I'm sorry. As stated on the title, I no longer understand what I am doing on my job. I won't say that I was amazing at work, or fast, or anything like that, I consider myself average AT BEST. I'm smart, capable, and …
People who left VMWare, what did you end up going with?
Our renewal is coming up soon, and we're looking into options. We're technically a corporation, but overall not that large. ~400 employees. 40-50 VMs total across all locations. What did you all end up going with? Pros/Cons? to r/sysadmin
I ported James Lambert's N64 Megatextures to the ESP32 S3 (with source!)
I suspected this might be possible, and - it is. Running at between 35 and 60FPS interlaced at 480x320 on a standard ESP32 S3 (albeit one with 16MB of flash instead of 8 which is needed to store texture data) Megatextures are a technique where the entire scene uses just 1 shared texture atlas, which…
Building a modular, hot-swappable macro pad: tackling I2C auto-discovery and state handshaking over magnetic pogo pins (ESP32 S3)
I'm currently developing Magnode, a custom modular macro pad. The main engineering challenge I wanted to tackle was achieving true hot-swappable modularity without software re-flashing or manual configuration resets. In this clip, I’m testing the expansion mechanism. Architecture & Firmware Breakd…
Why do safety-critical systems still use old 4-bit or 8-bit microcontrollers(Educational purpose s)?
We have powerful modern MCUs with Wi-Fi, 32-bit processors, RTOS, high-level languages, etc. But many safety systems still use very simple, old-school hardware. Why? Is it because the old design is already proven and its failure behavior is well known? Or is it mainly legacy code and certification? …
Roadmap moved?
Until recently, the CE roadmap was found here https://redmine.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense/roadmap#2.9.0 but now that page requires credentials. Is it moved elsewhere or is it only for account holders? to r/PFSENSE
What’s your most unhinged work habit?
For example when I need to RDP into a Windows server, I double click the recycle bin before the rest of Explorer has loaded so I can fire off a few commands from the address bar to launch what I need. I’m sure it looks utterly deranged to anyone else. to r/sysadmin
What's the biggest bonehead mistake you have every made in IT support?
I will start. I am an IT consultant and about 10 years ago, a few days before Christmas break, I went to a client’s office to add some new hard drives to a Dell ESXi server and create a new datastore. Their two junior IT guys always liked asking me questions when I visited, which I understood—I reme…
Now Dutch government developing a sovereign Linux desktop on top of NixOS after France plans to replace Windows with a hardened configuration built on NixOS.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1wp80ip/dutch_government_developing_a_sovereign_linux/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1sifb7t/france_plans_to_replace_windows_with_a_hardened/ https://discourse.nixos.org/t/danish-road-traffic-authority-switches-from-microsoft-to-linux/74117 to r/…
Yoo... https://subprocess.run actually redirects to the Python docs for subprocess.run()
Apparently, subprocess.run is an actual domain, and it redirects to https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.run Was this some kind of Easter egg? to r/Python
Issues reinstalling software with PFsense SG-1100
Good afternoon, To preface, I am not very experienced with FWs and this is my first time working with this product. I am having serious issues regarding my SG-1100 in the way that I cannot flash the reinstall software via USB with the provided NetGate software that was sent by them over email. I use…